[countrydummy]

I doubt the salmon will suffer!

[countrydummy]

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[LarryLied]

When gold was $600 an ounce, I counted over 50 dredges on a ten miles length of the north fork of the Yuba River. They didn't hurt the environment one iota. The pockets they make on the riverbanks are good feeding and spawning areas for fish. The forests and streams recovered nicely from the massive hydraulic mining of the 1800s. People out with 4" dredges will do no harm. Besides, it is the people's land.

[Enterprise]

"drawing the ire of environmentalists"

Bush to Goofball Enviros: "Thpfffffffffft."

[firewalk]

Bttt

[gridlock]

I long for the day that Bush goes to the Escalante National Monument and looks out at the desert in front of a bunch of reporters and says "Where's the monument? Can you see a monument anywhere? This is a park! The creation of the so-called Escalante National Monument, as well as the other so-called monuments on this list are hereby rescinded!"

[John O]

"This is not a good day for salmon,'' he said. "This is a marginal area for mining. A few flecks of gold is not worth more than the irreplaceable natural resources or salmon in the Siskiyou wild rivers.''

That totally depends on who's getting the gold. I'd take the gold over the salmon anyday. There are millions of salmon. they are not endangered in any way. You can even go to the grocery store and buy them already canned!

The only problem with this is that Bush, while he has made a good start by reopening the lands, needs to continue the whole program and sell the lands off to private landholders

God Save America (Please)

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks more good news.

The salmon and steelhead population in that area is doing great.

The area covers about 90 percent of the 1.2 million acres of Siskiyou National Forest and 152,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management land. In the waning days of the Clinton administration, then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt had imposed a two-year moratorium on new mining claims on the land; the Bush administration canceled that ban Tuesday.

Removing all vile humans from this 1.2 million + acres has been the ultimate goal of all of the Elite Enviral Nazis. It would be the corner stone of their Druid Cathedral in America. Only the elite could live in it and go there to fish, hike, ride their enviro friendly kayaks down stream and to take pictures.

Then, they would have extended it down into Kali just above Eureka and east into the Klamath Falls area. Then, they would go north to the Bandon Area and east on both sides of the Umpqua River to Crater Lake and then to Klamath Falls.

They started working on Rural Cleansing of this area decades ago with the spotted owl enviral nazi rural cleansing movement. The latest actions were the aborted Rural Cleansing of the Klamath Falls Basin and recently the Klamath and Trinity riversheds down west to the Pacific Ocean.

These vile elite enviral Nazis want no humans in these areas except their elite and their illegal alien grunt workers. Ashland, Or. would be where most of the elites enviral nazis would live with Andy Kerr, their High Druid Priest. Medford, Or. would become an urban hellhole center for illegal alien grunt labor. They need the illegal alien grunt labor to clean their homes, tend their gardens and help fight forest fires.

Only the Enviral Elites would be allowed to fish for their religious Icons, salmon and steelhead.

[RightWhale]

Coming right after the decision on the Tongass, it seems this administration is actually working to return the country to normality following the actions of the disastrous Carter administration and subsequent federal momentum.

[Charlotte Corday]

I've been pretty negative about the Bush administration lately, but this is certainly a piece of cheering news.

Thank you, Mr. President, and keep up the good work. There are plenty of other idiotic Clinton rulings out there to be reversed.

[dixiechick2000]

WOW! GREAT news breaking out everywhere today!
Again, thanks for the post, countrydummy, and thanks for the ping, madfly! ;o)

[Jay W]

There are too many National Monuments now in the US anyway. Clinton exacerbated the problem by decreeing (Yeltsin style) more national monuments of what is otherwise wasteland (but which has valuable natural resources).

[WhiteyAppleseed]

Two hundred years ago, the founding fathers intended a separation of Church and State; John Adams wrote, “religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.” Today the Tree of Liberty is plagued with a disease in the form of a regulatory troika of activist NGOs (non-governmental organizations), industry, and government agencies, many with the combined powers of the three original branches of government. It is the same as if the Church were given free reign to govern, though the religious nature of this Conglomerate Branch seeks power to control private property and our lives through the use of subjective Science.

Before, it was religion. John Adams wrote, “The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. And ever since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY?” Our country was established with the knowledge that it would be an error to give men free reign to use religion to coerce individuals. Today, regulatory agencies use subjective science to monopolize learning, to sustain their power, and to coerce individuals. The inquiry isn’t free, or objective, while strategizing in the courtroom; the inquiry would be free, and objective, if it was free market environmental management.

We need to fire the State and Federal government from the environmental management business. Science and Government will exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together. We need an amendment to separate Science and State.