Land Study on Grazing Denounced (Another altered report)

[cornermouse]

Surprise! More altered reports. The more you read, the worse the Bush admin. gets.

Who needs scientific based reports anyway, right?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050618/ts_latimes/landstudyongrazingdenounced

The Bush administration altered critical portions of a scientific analysis of the environmental impact of cattle grazing on public lands before announcing Thursday that it would relax regulations limiting grazing on those lands, according to scientists involved in the study.

A government biologist and a hydrologist, who both retired this year from the Bureau of Land Management, said their conclusions that the proposed new rules might adversely affect water quality and wildlife, including endangered species, were excised and replaced with language justifying less stringent regulations favored by cattle ranchers.

The original draft of the environmental analysis warned that the new rules would have a "significant adverse impact" on wildlife, but that phrase was removed. The bureau now concludes that the grazing regulations are "beneficial to animals."

[Deja Q]

1. God created the heavens and the earth. Therefore the land is as much

public to Bessie as it is to the rest of us. (the fundie fr00tl00pz never thought of that one...) Except you don't see Bessie building SUVs and running power plants... it just happily eats grass and releases methane, waiting for us to turn it into a bunch of Big Macs...

Keep the regulations. There's enough endangering Bessie already.

[bullimiami]

2. just this should be criminal enough to put them in jail.

they subvert government for the gain of the few.