One of the worst decisions was to grant these groups standing to sue on the basis that they represented the interests of the plants and animals or the public interest. How altruistic of them.
There is a coffee table book that was circulating in the early 1990s. I believe it was put together, in part, by the Sierra Club. It gave pictures of burned areas on Mt. Shasta and called them clear cuts. It also had a picture of serpentine soils with sparse trees (which is natural) and called it a clear cut.
It is the same as a recent story on the poor fishermen allocating chinook for next year and blaming it on the old fish die off. Heck, they way over-fished last year and they didn't come close to the minimum Magnusson Stevens Act threshold return numbers for the Klamath chinook. How the heck are we supposed to produce them if they never get here to spawn? But it is the irrigators fault.
Likewise, it has been determined that a huge number of juvenile salmon being produced in the Klamath tributaries are dying from disease (C-Shasta, columnaris and parvacapsula) when they hit the Klamath mainstem. But, no, it is the irrigators fault. -----phooey
Lets not forget the pictures of ANWAR they keep showing, full of trees, flowers and wildlife. In truth, those pictures were taken 300 miles away from the proposed drilling sites.