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Elko Daily Free Press 3/4/2002 No evidence to list bull trout By JEFFRY MULLINS, Daily Free Press Associate Editor ELKO -- A fish inventory conducted for the U.S. Forest Service last fall vindicates Elko County's position in the Jarbidge road dispute, Assemblyman John Carpenter said Friday. "I think it just proves what we've been saying all along, that these fish should have never been listed. They have absolutely no scientific evidence to list this fish," said Carpenter, R-Elko. "The repairing of that road had absolutely no effect on them," Carpenter said of the county's attempt to rebuild South Canyon Road, ...

New York City cancelled a concert in Central Park on Monday night for fear of the West Nile virus, a dangerous mosquito-borne disease. New York immediately forgot its fear of pesticides and began spraying to control mosquitoes. But DDT, the most effective mosquito control agent known, will not be used. In fact, if environmental activists have their way, DDT will soon be banned from the planet. This is a mistake that could cost millions of lives across the globe. For nearly 30 years, DDT has been banned from America's arsenal of pesticides because of concern for the environment. The United ...

<p>The proposed Sierra Nevada framework is regularly characterized as a dispute between pro- and anti-logging interests. However, because the plan would restrict human activity more than any previous forest plan, recreational interests, including cabin owners, would be adversely affected if this framework is upheld. Members of the National Forest Homeowners are deeply alarmed.</p>

<p>An investigation of federal scientists who submitted inauthentic samples to a national lynx survey found a lack of scientific rigor and poor judgment but no criminal intent, said a report by Inspector General Earl E. Devaney, released by the Interior Department last night.</p>

At the same time the lynx and grizzly bear scandals were being uncovered, the U.S. Forest Service was forced to admit still another instance of providing false information. The Forest Service is charged with keeping track of the number of annual visitors to national forests. When the number of visitors is large, the Forest Service and environmental activist groups cite this as evidence the federal government should take more land from the private domain to add to national forests. The argument goes that high visitor numbers indicate a public approval and public demand for far-reaching preservation programs. High visitor numbers ...

The federal government must consider withdrawing Endangered Species Act protection for the northern spotted owl or face a lawsuit, a coalition of timber companies say in a petition filed recently with Interior Secretary Gale Norton. The American Forest Resource Council issued a similar threat in January regarding the marbled murrelet, a lesser-known bird that nonetheless has halted logging on hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land, just as the owl has on millions of acres of public forest. In both cases, the timber group argues on procedural grounds that the federal government has failed to follow the Endangered Species ...

<p>Here's the latest addition to the endangered species list: scientists.</p> <p>Just ask the farmers of the Oregon-California Klamath Basin. The independent National Academy of Sciences has released an explosive report saying the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service had "no sound scientific basis" for cutting off water to them last year on behalf of "endangered" sucker fish.</p>

Another mega-abusive Clinton-style national monument? Believe it or not the Bush administration is being asked to create another huge national monument in Utah. President Clinton secretively declared the immense Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in 1996 for a campaign photo-op to win environmental votes. His administration became known for abusing the Antiquities Act to create national monuments all over the West. Sadly, this time the skullduggery rests with state and local Republican leaders. Utahns and especially residents of Emery County, Utah were surprised to hear Governor Leavitt call for creation of a San Rafael Swell National Monument of over 620,000 ...

<p>It's a trick that Yogi Bear would have been proud of — a scientist attempted to fake evidence of the presence of a threatened bear. It follows hot on the heels of revelations that government scientists planted hairs from a Canadian lynx in Washington state national parks as evidence of the presence of an endangered species. What on earth is going on? Had these cases of fraud not been exposed, they would have given rabid environmentalists a free lunch of closed parks and restricted recreational activities. Heaven knows what else these people have been up to.</p>

Lynx Fraud: Why are these folks not in jail? I am outraged by the fact that the American people have been subjected to fraud by officials from the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife who planted false evidence of a Canadian Lynx on three occasions in our national forests. The seven federal and state scientists were participating in a three-year survey to determine lynx habitat that would establish land-use restrictions in 16 states and 57 national forests. These criminals say they submitted the false samples to test laboratory accuracy. ...

To: President George W. Bush, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, United States Congress, Western State Governors Seven employees from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service and Washington state falsified data during a three year study of the habitat of the Canadian lynx in Washington state. They submitted hair samples from captive lynx and tried to pass them off as wild. None of the scientists were fired! They were sent to counseling and given different jobs. The lynx survey would have been used to establish land-use rules in 16 states and 57 national forests. These agencies are falsifying ...

<p>Fur is flying in Washington, and it's about time.</p> <p>In December, a scandal broke over a high-profile survey to count threatened Canada lynx. Seven employees from the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Forest Service and a state agency submitted hair samples from captive lynx and tried to pass them off as wild. When caught, the employees claimed they were testing the DNA identification process. Another explanation is that they were falsely attempting to establish the presence of lynx in places where they aren't, potentially blocking national forests to human use.</p>

The D.C. Chapter was on station at 1000 today (4 August) in front of the Northeast gate of the White House, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, District of Columbia. The Honor Roll included Sauropod (organizer of the event), Kristinn, Angelwood, tgslTakoma, Jimmy Valentine's brother, BufordP, GunsareOK, ClintonsALiar, Swedegirl, BrucefromMtVernon, NoDemocrats2000 and Dave Dilegge. Individual D.C. Freeper accounts will be added to this thread. To start if off - I was in awe of the tourist reaction to the plight of the Klamath Basin farmers. The N.E. gate is where the White House tour lets out onto Pennsylvania Avenue. Literally hundreds of ...

&nbsp; Everyday scenes depicting the devastating problem of the Klamath Irrigation District (KID) farmers at the Headgates where the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cut off the farmers' water. &nbsp; From the peaceful, calm scene overlooking Upper Klamath Lake to the haughty suckers infesting its bottom ... ... to the inanimate locks o'er which brews much trouble. &nbsp; The lake extends miles to the north. Union Jack down, the flag signals distress. This says it all. People brought water in jugs all the way from Montana for support L to R: Klamath County District Attorney (DA) Ed Caleb, Klamath ...

The Wildlands Project: No longer a Dream When the Wildlands Project was released by the radical environmentalists in 1992, most Americans ignored the effort believing it was both ridiculous and impossible. The environmentalists’ plan to "re-wild" the North American continent, forcing the entire human population to evacuate their homes and live in small, confined colonies while animals run wild over most of the continent, was never taken seriously by landowners. Today, we see the plan coming together all around us, through Presidential Executive Order, federal agency action, legislation, and environmental activism. This article traces the patterns and progress made by ...

<p>DENVER — The news that federal and state employees were caught planting Canadian lynx hairs during a three-year study of the wildcat's habitat in Washington state came as no surprise to Donna Thornton.</p> <p>A third-generation logger who runs a small family timber operation in Kalispell, Mont., Mrs. Thornton said the governments' pro-environmental bias has been obvious for years.</p>

Monday, May 3, 2004 ANOTHER VIEW: ESA scandal A Denver zoologist whose work has called into question the validity of a threatened species listing for the Preble's meadow jumping mouse testified before Congress last Wednesday. But his revelations concerning the creature's true genetic blueprint — it's indistinguishable from mice found in abundance elsewhere, raising potentially scandalous questions about the process leading to a federal listing — wasn't all that was on Rob Roy Ramey's mind. The top zoologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science offered a startlingly candid critique of the sometimes slipshod science underlying the nation's most...

Bjorn Lomborg, the author of a controversial book attacking the environment movement, was cleared yesterday of "scientific dishonesty" by the Danish science ministry. The ministry overturned a ruling in January by the Danish committee on scientific dishonesty (DCSD), part of the Danish Research Agency, that Mr Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist was "clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice". Mr Lomborg hailed yesterday's decision as "brilliant". It provided confirmation that freedom of speech extended to the environmental debate, he said. In its report, the ministry criticised the committee for failing to provide evidence either that Mr Lomborg had...

ELECTION 2004Kerry blaming Bushfor Kerry's own billBlasts president over carcinogenic fuel additive he helped promote Posted: December 10, 200310:56 a.m. Eastern By Diana Lynne© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com In a classic case of the political pot calling the kettle black, Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration over failing to be accountable for the disastrous fallout of the use of a fuel additive deemed carcinogenic, without mentioning he was behind legislation that mandated its widespread use. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., during televised debate of Democratic presidential candidates this week. (Courtesy: WMUR-TV) Trailing in the polls and eager to make friends in New...

<p>Three Maryland researchers have admitted fabricating interviews with teenagers for a study on AIDS prevention that received more than $1 million in federal funds.</p> <p>Lajuane Woodard, Sheila Blackwell and Khalilah Creek were employed by the University of Maryland at Baltimore's department of pediatrics as researchers on the study, funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).</p>