Gov't Cuts Back Pacific Salmon Habitat

[Eugene]

Gov't Cuts Back Pacific Salmon Habitat


By JEFF BARNARD, Associated press Writer Sat Aug 13, 9:53 PM ET

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The federal government has cut back the critical
habitat for 19 species of threatened and endangered Pacific salmon,
arguing that an earlier designation demanded by environmentalists was
poorly executed and that voluntary habitat improvements will work
better.

The move announced Friday reduces the miles of protected river in
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California by 80 percent — from 167,700
miles to 33,300.

In those areas, activities such as logging, construction and livestock
grazing is restricted to avoid disturbing the stream beds where the
salmon migrate and spawn.

NOAA Fisheries, the federal agency responsible for bringing more than
two dozen salmon and steelhead species in the Northwest and California
back from the danger of extinction, agreed to revise the habitats
after being sued by the National Association of Home Builders for
failing to include an economic impact analysis when they were set.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050814/ap_on_sc/salmon_critical_habitat

[Jim Sagle]

1. w's regime fucks up EVERYTHING.

The world is not his oyster; it's his frog, and he's dynamiting it.

[fryguy]

2. guess wild salmon don't mean crap

when there are all those loggers to appease - not to mention by killing off all the wild ones increases the profits from all his corporate friends who grow the "farmed" franken-fish varieties.....

[nosmokes]

3. but here's where we must be dilligent

>>the federal agency responsible for bringing more than
two dozen salmon and steelhead species in the Northwest and California
back from the danger of extinction, agreed to revise the habitats
after being sued by the National Association of Home Builders for
failing to include an economic impact analysis when they were set. so now we hafta make sure that a complete and thorough economic impact analysis is done on everyone who makes a dime from the rivers and the fish, from hotels, motels b&b's to guides and restaraunts to charter boats on the coast to all the rest of the associated costs since the almighty dollar is really what these people worship. logging - don't make me laugh. people around here still dream of the days where everyone was making high end union wages in the woods or the mills, and it could have kept on like that for as long as the woods and mills were family owned. but once weyerhauser and georgia pacific and boise cascade and pacific lumber to the south of here moved in and clear cut became the order of the day and ridgeline cuts became normal and equipment came in that could do in a day what a 6 hand logging crew couldn't have done in a week, but they never factored in a healthy forest. they had bought the acreage in many cases with paper money based on junk bonds and all they were after were board feet and they din't give a damn about generations to come or what a pioneer families 8th generation was gonna do to support itself. the bottom fucking line is all that mattered, and that any space there for saving pretty fish or indigenous peoples way of life or trees that are hundreds of years old. no there's only room there for money.

[rodeodance]

4. "voluntary habitat improvements will work" sure!!!

[anitar1]

5. Thanks for the comment. I am thinking along the same lines.

This makes me sick. Everything they touch turns to dust.I am sure there is some salmon farming money involved in this. There is always a money exchange for anything that regime does.