Posted on 01/31/2002 3:55:41 AM PST by brityank
Solutions that Value People’s Lives, Not Extremist Hype, Must Dominate Klamath Water Planning Process
Sierra Times 01.30.02SACRAMENTO, California; January 29, 2001 — A noted Endangered Species Act attorney with the Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation, which has been actively litigating on behalf of Klamath Basin farmers, Wednesday issued the following comments in response to the Bureau of Reclamation’s Draft Biological Assessment for the Klamath Project Operation.
"It is important that we proceed with caution. The document we have in our hands today does not guarantee water deliveries, it does not guarantee a return to common sense, and it certainly does not guarantee solutions that value people’s lives," said Rob Rivett, Principal Environmental Attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation.
"Good policy and good law start with people. During the last year, we saw what ESA really means — species protection at all costs, no matter the cost, and at any cost. People were left defenseless against oppressive government action and federal bureaucrats were given license to destroy the homes, livelihoods, and way of life of hardworking Americans with little or no accountability," said Rivett.
"It is time for solutions that place people first. It is time for Americans to say ‘no’ to those who would hold our freedom hostage by demanding every drop of water and every acre of land to advance an environmentally extreme agenda through the use of politicized science," said Rivett.
"As we proceed with the public comment period, it is important to remember that the word ‘compromise’ is not part of the environmental extremists’ vocabulary," said Rivett.
Pacific Legal Foundation has actively represented farmers’ interests in the Klamath Basin during the last year. PLF will soon be filing a lawsuit to remove ESA protection of the Northern California/Southern Oregon coho living in the Klamath River. The threatened status of this variety of salmon was a significant factor in the government’s decision to shut down water deliveries to Basin farmers in the Spring of 2001.
PLF scored a major victory in Oregon Federal Court last year in a similar challenge. In that case, PLF challenged the listing of the Oregon Coast coho. Judge Hogan concluded that the government had created the unusual circumstance of two genetically identical salmon swimming side by side in the same stream, while one receives ESA protection and the other does not. While the government agreed not to appeal and was moving forward with a reevaluation of salmon listings, a coalition of environmental groups petitioned to intervene and the matter now sits with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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EX-AX ACTLY the problem.
If we win this important cultural war for the survival of America/Americans, it will be a daily battle against 3 decades of lies/bad science to justify Rural cleansing by the enviral terrorists.
We know that the governmental agencies are staffed by at least 99.999% card carrying DemonicRat/enviral rats. They hate Americans who dare to farm, ranch, log, fish, hunt or just walk in their Druid Cathedrals.
Now we know about the planting of lynx hairs by these professional enviral civil service terrorists paid with our tax $'s. We have seen with the Coho in Oregon and California massive lying and poor science to facilitate rural cleansing to go with the rural cleansing of loggers and their families via the Spotted Owl.
These people are not dumb. They are well educated, intelligent and ruthless enemies of America/Americans who work 24/7 to rural cleanse Americans and to destroy America!
These enviral terrorist on federal paycheck and in the enviral organizations are far more dangerous than the al_Queerdos. These enviral terrorists work 24/7 to use enviral terrorism on America/Americans.
USFWS ADMINISTRATOR CONFIRMED BY SENATE
WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2002 (ENS) - The U.S. Senate has confirmed Steven Williams, the Bush administration's choice to head the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).
Williams, secretary of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, was nominated last July to head the USFWS, an agency overseen by the Department of Interior. By law, the USFWS director must have a scientific education and experience in the principles of fisheries and wildlife management.
"Steve Williams is an avid outdoorsman whose professional experience and leadership skills make him an excellent candidate for Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service," said Interior Secretary Gale Norton. "In his current position Steve has demonstrated a strong ability to bring together groups of various interests to create opportunities as well as to resolve natural resource issues."
Do any of you Freepers know any more about him, and if he would have the gumption to slap the greenies under him upside the head and control them.Ed Hubel
Having said that, I would doubt if GW would be recommending a left wing enviral maggot for this critical position.
This idea that the river in which a fish swims makes it a different species has to end totally!
Federal Plan for Water in Klamath Basin Is Accused of Favoring Farmers Over Fish
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000007372jan29.story Dispute: The proposal, environmentalists say, will hurt fishermen, tribes and endangered species. Officials counter that it would alleviate tension in the region.
By ERIC BAILEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
SACRAMENTO -- A proposal heralded as a first step by the Bush administration to cure the Klamath Basin's heated water war came under criticism Monday from environmentalists who say it favors farmers over endangered fish.
Foes say the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's draft blueprint for the next 10 years seems motivated by a desire to test the limits of the federal Endangered Species Act, not to help revive sagging fish populations in Upper Klamath Lake and the river downstream.
Federal Plan for Water in Klamath Basin Is Accused of Favoring Farmers Over Fish
If the Green Nazis are agin' it, it must be the right thing to do...Gee what a novel concept...putting people first...
If the enviral nazis are against this plan, it must be good for the farmers, ranchers, land owners and those who work on farms, ranchers and in the forests.
This is good news.
The lynx hair planters, the liars re coho, sucker fish, red legged frogs and other enviral liars were inherited by Norton. Hell, we can't even fire the lynx hair planters and their bosses. This is how protected and embedden these enviral demonicRat/enviralRats are imbedden in the civil service system.
99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of all civil service personnel are card carrying demonicrats and donators to the rat party. When you get into the departments of Interior, you have to add one more evil factor, 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% are card carrying, contributing liars of the enviral organizations. They have been enviral nazis since their college days, and they have gotten worse since they went to work in their dual careers with the government and to champion rural cleansing.
This is why we need to grab control of the senate and pass a simple law. That law would state, "Four weeks before any president is sworn in, all civil service employees must submit letters of resignation that are valid for two years. Every four years the president will have the opportunity to clean out the rats embedded in civil service.
99.99% of what Norton supposedly was for or against last year were nothing but the agendas of the inherited evil ones. Then Norton was blamed for what these rats said that she was for their agendas. When these agendas were pushed aside, we never read about that.
This from a cranky and mean old grampa who knows how dangerous these embedden life long rats are to America/Americans. They are in the CIA, FBI, Interior, Justice and every federal department known by man and those not known!
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