Post 998
The amount is so small it is a total insult, but they even break it down into sub-categories to try to impress us. 😡
Story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. Cash to offset boom? Critics say it’s not enough to alleviate drilling damage. By Cory Hatch
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
This is a joke. Reminds me of mitigating wetlands lost to a shopping center development by installing a detention basin.
The part of this I find most irritating is that the funds are coming from the feds (us taxpayers), not from the companies trashing the place…
Yep, sure 402k for the offset energy impack on the wildlife. Are you sure that is not a Joke, Cuz if it is you just got my hopes up and that was not funny.
Well 402K is about all that will be left in the US Treasury after funding this stupid damn war.
Here is the story in the Casper Star Tribune.
They play it straight like it was $4 billion.
“Feds Accelerate Wildlife Work.”