"Larry Cable" wrote in message
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Hey, Myron,

I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me specifically any
action
taken by President Bush or his administration that has threatened our
wildernesses.

Robin

Socemdog


http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=1857


Op ed pieces about reports from "green" organizations are hardly hard
evidence
of Bush's "Assault" on the environment. The simple fact is that many of
the
actions taken during the current Administration
have either been overblown or misinterpeted, often on purpose to raise
funds
for organization like Sierra Club that has not be real successful with
membership in the past years. I'm not claiming that Bush is the best
environmental steward, but he is no worse that the Clinton Administration.


Well, who do you EXPECT to write critical reviews about Bush's environmental
poilicies? The White House? You can reject any messenger you want, but first
check their claims. Although the op-ed pieces are not the evidence
themselves, the legislation and rulings they refer to are public record.
I'm a bit overwhelmed at trying to find a few indicitive 'specific issues',
as every link I follow is loaded with them. Follow any of the news stories
here;
http://www.cspo.org/home/news/ The one about the clean air degredation in
the Grand Canyon is from the Salt Lake Tribune....hardly the Sierra Club.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...0/MN161026.DTL links
to an article in the SanFran Chronicle about Bush's relaxation of the laws
creating roadless areas in National Forests. This opened up millions of
acres of forestland to timber industries, that had previously been off
limits, including hundreds of thousands of acres of old growth in the
Tongass in Alaska.

In Feb of this year, there was a consortium of scientists and Nobel
laureates, 63 in all, who condemned Bush's environmental policies as being
partisian, and of "systematically and deliberately distorting" the
scientific research to further political gain. I'm sure not all of those
guys were in the pay of the National Wildlife Resources Council.
http://www.washingtonfax.com/samples/2004/20040219.html

Last year, Bush instructed the Dept of Interior to stop barring drilling for
petroresources or mining on land proposed for wilderness protection. In
fact, he has put the least amount of land into wilderness status of any
presiden since the Wilderness Act was first proposed.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5898203/

This is just the tip of the iceberg, and I've tried avoiding the more
'Green' organizations and their rapsheets. However, I challenge others to
do their own research into this, and come up with any way that they can
show that Bush has been a friend to wilderness!

While you're at it, look up "Wise Use" and look at the connections between
Bush environmental (and wilderness policy) and this organization.

--riverman