FEDS CLEANING, PRUNING NEAR UA TELESCOPES

THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR ^ | July 3, 2002 | By Mitch Tobin

[madfly]

Someone doesn't want us reading this story!

It has been pulled from the AZ Daily Star's site. The story appears on Yahoo for the moment. Maybe the author knows something about it.

Contact reporter Mitch Tobin at 573-4185 or mtobin@azstarnet.com.

Also, link on Phxnews.com today for same story is dead.

http://www.phxnews.com/new/fullstory.php?article=599

[madfly]

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[Free the USA]

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[Rebelbase]

Being temoparily inconvenienced is a much better alternative for the squirrels than is being toasted, roasted and flambe'd.

[dtel]

'One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

Could the worm be turning?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

How the hell do they know that a tree squirrel has a low enough population to be endangered? I don't believe a word of it because squirrels live frickin' everywhere!

[StriperSniper]

by cutting down trees that surround the telescopes, which lie within Southern Arizona's only old-growth spruce-fir forest.

Cut them down and build a work camp for the environazis and officials that are responsible for these idiotic policies. ;-)

[CedarDave]

Thanks for the ping...

Notice how the FS is so scared of these enviro-Nazis that they specifically say that no trees of any size will be cut. And even clearing the deadwood is abhorrent to these nutcases.

BTW, the Az Daily Star/Yahoo link is active as of the time and date of the post.

[VOA]

Someone doesn't want us reading this story!

Looks like the press censors must have either left early on Wednesday to get a start
on their four-day do-nothing July 4th vacation...or they were knocking back Rum and Cokes
before noon on Wednesday.

Reminds me of how the story about the Russians finally revealed that they executed
Raoul Wallenberg because they didn't know what to make of a man who was risking his
life to save innocent civilians...and Jews at that.
To the Soviets, this was either a dangerous or psychotic personality, might as well shot him.

I don't remember the exact date, but it was quietly pushed out the door during a holiday...
at Thanksgiving or Xmas time...when the regular press censors are either drunk,
stoned and/or on vacation.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!

[VOA]

Someone doesn't want us reading this story!

The anointed at the universities don't want full exposure of their values system.
(although it's clear to anyone with half-a-brain)

Removing overgrowth to protect some pin-head astronomers government-supported
telescope...GOOD...even if it endangers a life-form.

Removing overgrowth to protect the homes of the citizens that paid for the Anointed Ones'
telescope and sabbaticals to quaint university towns in Germany, France and the like...BAD...BAD...VERY BAD!!!

[Calvin Locke]

Vaguely recall an article about farms somewhere in California. Some legal immigrant went in to farming.

EPA or somebody put up a stink in the area when farmers/home owners were clearing inflammable scrub.

Seems some "species" of mouse (I pretty sure it was mouse) made its home in the tinderbox.

Well the immigrant did the clearing/paid the fine. After the inevitable fire season hit, his property was still
mostly intact. Not so the rest of the people, whose environment the EPA so draconianly protects in their
interest.

[blackie]

The worm is slowly turning...

Stop the attacks by the wacko, extreme left-wing, enviro-nazis terrorist's on our Freedoms !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

[B4Ranch]

"the animal is not known to live there now, probably because the forest has been decimated by an insect infestation, according to a Forest Service memo authorizing the work."

[Vince Ferrer]

The work, within critical habitat for an endangered squirrel ...

How the hell do they know that a tree squirrel has a low enough population to be endangered? I don't believe a word of it because squirrels live frickin' everywhere!

Good question, and if I remeber correctly, here is the answer. The environmentalists were losing the battle to stop the telescope from being built, until suddenly and conveniently they discovered a new subspecies of squirrel on the mountain, the "Mount Graham red squirrel". The most interesting feature of the Mount Graham red squirrel is that it is genetically indistinguishable from the common squirrel in the rest of the forest. Not even the environmentalists, when confronted at a meeting with different captured squirrels, could tell which was common and which was this new subspecies. The squirrel has nothing to do with scientific classification, it was created on paper to stop the telescope from being built.

[CyberAnt]

These environmental idiots successfully challenged a building development here in San Diego, where we are desperate for housing, and all because of a tiny butterfly. It seems the butterfly was native to this habitat and was "endangered".

My suggestion was to take the butterfly and give it to the San Diego Zoo - where everyone could enjoy it in the butterfly exhibit.

Instead, they have kept homes from being built which were needed. It's so stupid!

[madfly]

The most interesting feature of the Mount Graham red squirrel is that it is genetically indistinguishable from the common squirrel in the rest of the forest.

Insanity. This description, I'm sure is on page 599 of a lengthy junk-science report to the EPA.

[snopercod]

the forest has been decimated by an insect infestation

Thanks, Sierra Clubbers.

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