From the daily archives: Monday, June 13, 2011

Group urges calls now to defund Wildlife Services

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Politicians scramble to find cuts. Now said to be chance to gut widely reviled program-

Using federal dollars to kill our native wildlife. Economic hard times would say stop that kind of funding. But will it be stopped? Predator Defense knows these federal poisoners and gunners have nine lives, unlike the bobcats and cougar they […]

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White House highlights Desert Tortoise website as ‘government waste’

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Obama willing to waste billions of dollars to destroy the natural environment, less willing to spend a pittance to conserve it

In a recent email from Vice President Joe Biden, the White House chose, among the umpteen thousand examples of government waste, a federally funded Desert Tortoise website as its whipping-boy to highlight what it […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey