Bush adminsitration moves to end most salmon habitat protections

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com


"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."

[aquart]

1. Has BushCo done one thing that was NOT insane?

[yorkiemommie1]

4. Nope!

BushWorld = BizarroWorld

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Are you kidding? This is probably the most sane course of action

he has available to him. He owes his very survival to the folks who will keep him in the lifestyle he's grown accustom to. The only thing that's standing between him and us, is, um, "them." "Them" being the farmers who would benefit from the weakened Salmon protections.

Bush needs a lot of "Thems" to keep him safe from public accountability.

[Jim Sagle]

2. The world is w's toilet.

[AussieDave]

3. Yes but has he actually gone out and MET the salmon ???

[tavalon]

10. No, he needs to get on with his life.

Didn't you hear? :eyes:

[mike_c]

5. those pig fuckers....

Excuse my insult to pigs, but I am livid about this. Wild salmon are not even hanging on anymore in the PNW. They're declining precipitously. Those habitat protections were the last hope for maintaining their populations while real solutions are sought. Unfortunately, the real solutions will likely conflict with the "anything to make a buck" land ethic even more than the habitat protections. Make no mistake-- this ruling will doom salmon runs in many western rivers within our lifetimes.

[KT2000]

6. Effect of drought

the drought is drying up their rivers as it is. Are they trying to kill off all the wild salmon so some ass can patent the farmed fish and force that on us?

[montana500]

7. they are also trying to pass off hatchery fish.....

as *wild* fish, lol.

[KT2000]

8. We should leave

the next generations books and pictures that describe all those things becoming extinct in our lifetime.

[tavalon]

9. Well, color me fucking shocked!

Not.

[Old and In the Way]

11. Did the salmon contribute to the RNC or Bush re-election?

Well, it's a no-brainer then..

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

13. What happened...

...to all of his talk about peaceful coexistence between fish and humans?

[montana500]

15. interesting. nm

nm

[Ian David]

14. That's because tuna has more Mercury. Mercury lowers I.Q...

and less-educated people are more likely to vote Republican.

Lower the populations of Cod and Salmon, people will eat more tuna.

Why do you think Bush keeps doing everything he can to put more Mercury into the environment? Especially when most of the Mercury from coal-powered generators falls on the "Blue States?"

It may be crazy and far-fetched...


Yes, I know...



There's my tinfoil.

[donkeyotay]

18. It may be crazy and far-fetched... but then what isn't ?

We've all gone collectively insane, so might as well stupefy (or stupidify us if you're the president) us with as much mercury as possible before we have to adapt to being a third world banana republic with strongman Boosh leading the rich republican survivors on their journey to their lovely new gated community on Mars.

Love the tinfoiling. No, I don't think it's too much. I'm gonna stock up on a few more rolls myself.

[KoKo]

16. Well....he's been told it's good business for "Salmon Farmers."

Why do we need those "wild fish" when we can just raise 'em on our own.

It's good for business and the economy. :eyes:

[Ian David]

19. And salmon farming dumps quantities of anti-biotics into the water...

also great for the pharmaceutical industry.

[Gloria]

17. So, I assume those toxic fish farms are Bush supporters....

why else would Bush work so hard to wipe out natural salmon areas???