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Meanwhile, it’s high time for a new slogan. Call it, ‘Save the Environment…from ‘environmental’ protesters and the U.S. Army Corps Engineers In yesteryears Hollywood got it right when it portrayed native people as being on to government authorities whom they described as: “two-faced” and wont to “speak with a forked tongue”. The governments of later generations may have fooled the masses with their doublespeak and campaign promises that melt like the snow in spring, but it’s all but impossible to fool a people who routinely faced the elements and followed herds to keep their families fed.

Bismarck, N.D. (AP) -- Armed with a tractor or a backhoe, Alvin Peterson moves dirt to drain prairie potholes on his land, saying he's putting the land back to the way God intended. The 78-year-old retired farmer from Lawton, in northeastern North Dakota, has been in hot water with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over wetlands for more than 40 years. The agency had an easement contract with his father for the potholes to house and feed wildlife. Federal authorities, after dealing for decades with Peterson's pothole-emptying antics, began cracking down on him. Last month — and for the...

The first strike this summer in a much-anticipated “carpet-bombing” campaign to restore native oysters in the Chesapeake Bay has turned out to be a big dud. One million baby oysters, costing about $78,000, were scattered on an artificial reef in June in the Great Wicomico River , near the Virginia-Maryland border, and almost all of the transplants were devoured in one day by a school of cow-nosed rays. The kite-shaped cousins of sting rays, also known as skates or bullfish, are found commonly in the Bay during summer months. “We didn’t really know anything about the cow-nosed ray,” said Doug...

<p>WASHINGTON - Army Assistant Secretary John Paul Woodley was only joking when asked why it took the Army Corps of Engineers so long to complete its new Master Manual for Missouri River management.</p> <p>The corps motto, he remarked, is: "We're expensive, but we're slow."</p>

Army launches assault on Ramona lot owner Keith Hansen 05.MAR.04 Ramona fire officials sent a letter to a Ramona commercial lot owner last fall demanding that she remove weeds from her lot in an effort to cut down on the fire hazard represented by the overgrowth. This demand, which was punishable by fines from the California Department of Forestry, came shortly after the Cedar Fire burned up nearly 300,000 acres of the county. Of course, Katherine Clayton, owner of the lot situated on Main Street at Julian Street just east of Denny’s restaurant, complied with the CDF’s demand to...

(Editor's Note: The following is the 75th of 100 stories regarding government regulation from the book Shattered Dreams, written by the National Center for Public Policy Research. CNSNews.com will publish an additional story each day.) In 1994 and 1995, state and federal agencies - including the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife - put $3.2 million worth of logs in a cree upstream from Leonard Zylstra's ranch near Medford, Ore., for the purpose of enhancing fish habitat. Waters in the creek reached a 20-year high point in 1997. This tore the logs...