It can be guaranteed 90% of our lawmakers have not seen these pics and maps. It is merely enough for them just to sit around a circle, toking on a giant bong, and nodding in agreement with Peta, the Sierra Club and other "Earth First"-ers whom we just know are recycling their own urine, solid waste, and miscellaneous regurgitations.
Or perhaps the 'lawmakers' are reasonably assured that 'WE, the people' have not seen these maps and pictures. Possibly the lawmakers/evironmentalists feel they can control the agenda, because they can control the information. Thanls to the internet and specifically this forum, this control of the truth is being wrentched from their hands.