May 10, 2007

  • Today in Congress the House Natural Resources Committee held an oversight hearing on the administration of the Endangered Species Act. They found what everyone has suspected and feared. Decisions on endangered species have become completely politicized. The findings of scientists are ignored and even rewritten to favor development and agricultural interests. Story. Interior Dept. ripped…

  • As was recently reported, the Bush Administration has refused to list the fluvial form of the arctic grayling in Montana, but the fish is already functionally extinct there. So I guess DOI can say “mission accomplished.” George Wuerthner, writing in New West, points the finger for the on-the-ground conditions that felled the grayling to stream…

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