GWB really screwed the pooch when he allowed the Polar Bear to be listed as “threatened” based soley on the possibility that they might be endangered by possible global warming some time in the future.
I understand their numbers are doing just fine.
No more appeasing the greenies. Tossing the bully a bone only makes him more aggressive.
The Director of the US Fish & Wildlife Service died Saturday of an apparent heart attack. I wonder what bearing that will have on any of these issues?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455843/posts
This thread has information on the proliferation of nuisance appeals and litigation by environmentalists to through a monkey wrench into any development/management of natural resources on public lands. They sue because they get paid big bucks from the taxpayer to do so.
Many of the northern California counties, chambers of commerce and business are joining together in a coalition to seek legislative reform, offering of more timber sales to approach the levels promised in the Allowable Sales Quantities of the Northwest Forest Plan and fuel reduction relief on the National Forests.
Small rural and frontier counties are seeing their mills close and are experienceing a loss of infrastructure and capacity for any forest management. Unemployment is nearing 20% with attendant social pressures.
***the pika is a rabbit-like mammal that has been considered symbolic of the impact of global warming because it can overheat and die at temperatures above 78 degrees. ***
LOOK! LOOK! See the tears in my eyes over the Pika! Another cute and fuzzy animal sure to go extinct if we don’t enact Cap and Trade!
But then if it gets above 78 degrees wouldn’t the Pika just go underground where it is about 56 degrees??