Endangered Humans [IBD Editorial on the ESA vs. Klamath farmers and four dead firefighters]

Investor's Business Daily | January 19, 2005 | IBD staff

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A judge has ruled that coho salmon have been illegally listed as an endangered species, a victory that comes too late for the farmers of the Klamath River Basin and the families of four young firefighters.

In the spring of 2001, the government ordered irrigation water cut off to 1,400 farms in southern Oregon and northern California to save suckerfish and salmon...

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Last week, federal judge Michael Hogan agreed with the Pacific Legal Foundation that the government violated the ESA when it failed to include hatchery fish in its assessment of the coho’s status.

...the Klamath community was practically destroyed because of environmentalism run amok.

...no sound scientific basis...

Salmon protection could justifiably be listed as the cause of death for four firefighters who perished July 10, 2001 fighting what started as a 25-acre fire near Washington’s Chewuch River

...a stealth constitutional amendment that could deprived us of our property rights, our livelihoods and even our lives.

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When I read the following thread, I get so angry I could spit: Firefighters who were there tell the story of the deadly Thirty Mile blaze: 'It's snowing fire' Lest we forget what the liberals did to these brave young kids:

Karen FitzPatrick, 18, had graduated from West Valley High School just a month before her life ended July 10. After graduation, she went through a week of firefighting training, which entailed camping and putting out a controlled burn. She'd been a firefighter for less than three weeks, but knew she wanted to make it her career. She set her sights on firefighting in 1998, after helping put out a blaze that threatened the FitzPatrick home. In her bedroom hangs a framed picture of Jesus. Next to her light switch is the handwritten note, "Jesus, help me to love you with my life."

Devin Weaver had turned 21 days before his death July 10. Although an outdoorsman by nature, he had planned to leave Yakima in the fall to pursue an engineering degree from the University of Washington. Since eighth grade, Devin Weaver had worked for his father's silk-flower manufacturing business in Moxee City, Yakima County. But he longed to be where the action was, and he took a firefighting job three weeks before his death — getting paid to be outdoors. "It points out how fragile your existence really is," said his father, Ken Weaver. "We all think we have everything under control. But the moment something like this happens, your whole life is turned on its end."

Jessica Johnson, 19, got hooked on firefighting in 1998, when she joined a rookies' firefighting program taught by veteran firefighters from Central and Eastern Washington. "She was wild and outgoing and if she disagreed with you, you knew it," said Holly Dunham-Wheeler, Johnson's former swim coach at Yakima's West Valley High School. "But then she started firefighting, and she really grew up. She found herself, she found confidence, and it made her feel good." After graduating from West Valley in 1999, Johnson enrolled in Central Washington University. While she was still a teenager at the time of her death in the July 10 blaze, she was no rookie. With three years' experience fighting wildfires, Johnson was "prepared and good and safe enough to fight any wildfire," said Dave Leitch, deputy chief at the West Valley Fire Department. "She was physically strong, she could spin circles around the guys."

Tom Craven, 30, was the eldest and most experienced of the firefighters who died July 10 in Okanogan County. Craven had been a firefighter for more than a decade, joining the U.S. Forest Service full time after graduating from college and working his way up to crew chief. Craven was one of four brothers battling blazes this summer. The Ellensburg resident graduated from Cle Elum High School in 1990, where he earned 11 athletic letters — four in football, four in track and three in basketball. He went to the College of the Redwoods in Eureka, Calif., where he played football and is remembered for breaking O.J. Simpson's junior-college yardage record, before moving on to Central Washington University. He earned a sociology degree from CWU in 1997. His father, William Craven, speculated that his son died in the fire because "he stayed with his crew. He stayed with the younger people. He probably could have gotten out by himself. He could run like hell."

And a special thanks to the Seattle Times for keeping these images hosted.

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I forgot to this the "This is an Excerpt" box, but obviously it is.

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[Dog Gone]

You've confused me. Your link is for a fire in Washington.

[muawiyah]

Patty Murray and Barbara Boxer are personally responsible for these deaths.

The PACNW is a regular death cult.

Time to disestablish the place and revert it to the status of federal territory. Then "W" can move in the troops to do what needs to be done.

[blackie]

Protect humans, now!

[hattend]

BTTT

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The four firefighters in Washington died due to the fraudulent listing of the coho salmon as endangered. Same fraudulent listing that destroyed the Klamath farmers.

That's the link between the two events.

[Just Lori]

...the Klamath community was practically destroyed because of environmentalism run amok.


I am continually amazed at these morons. They'd rather let all the forests burn down, than allow the dead wood and forest floor to be cleaned up. They'd rather bankrupt thousands of family farms (who feed 10's of thousands of people) than see their precious suckerfish (not an indigenous species, by the way) lose a drop of water. These people are just plain nuts! Here in Washington, in King County (now infamous for fraudulent elections) they stole land from landowners, telling the land owners they can't touch something like 60% of their own land, but they still get to pay taxes on it. NOW, they want to make us get a PERMIT just to have a RAIN BARREL on our own property! The insanity rages on....and on....and on. Common sense has been lost.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[snopercod]

These people are just plain nuts!

IMO, it's much worse than insanity: These people are pure evil. They are motivated by death (yours).

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!

[SunkenCiv]

"A judge has ruled that coho salmon have been illegally listed as an endangered species."

Give that man a raise.

[The Westerner]

And their own. They're true nihilists.

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Yes.

[skinkinthegrass]

thanks, for the ping. :)