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Jim Beers, retired Refuge Manager, Special Agent, & Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Introductory note from Jim Beers: Dr. Val Geist is a retired Canadian University Professor now living in British Columbia. While his title is “Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science” his field of expertise for which he is internationally recognized is the biology […]
A new effort to regulate grazing and its potential impacts on water quality has California ranchers concerned new rules could limit their food production activities and yield little environmental benefits. State water regulators launched a series of public listening sessions around the state during January to solicit public comments before developing a new “Grazing Regulatory […]
Just before Christmas, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) published revised draft guidance intended to direct federal agencies on when and how to consider the effects of greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions and climate change when evaluating the environmental effects of proposed agency actions under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). Consideration of climate change is […]
From: 21st Century, Fall 1992 Who pulls the strings of environmental groups? The establishment figures who fund and control it — from England’s Prince Phillip and the Netherlands’ Prince Bernhard, to U.S. corporate funders like Robert O. Anderson. Far from a grass roots movement, environmentalism is a big business, funded and directed by the leading families […]
Flat-tailed horned lizardPhoto courtesy Arizona Game & Fish The California Fish and Wildlife Commission is set to consider whether the flat-tailed horned lizard, whose habitat includes the Algodones and Imperial sand dunes west of Yuma, should be listed as endangered. The Center for Biological Diversity’s petition to the state seeking endangered status was accepted by the […]
Judge Grillo’s tentative ruling is against local autonomy, however, the Judge is in possession of the information he requested at the hearing and has not yet made a final ruling. Anticipation builds as to what the Superior Court will do… On Friday November 7, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo issued a tentative ruling denying […]
An advocacy group has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce grizzly bears into the Selway-Bitterroot area of Idaho and Montana. The Center for Biological Diversity said Thursday that it hopes to revive a stalled recovery plan for the animals that was finalized in 2000. The group says having bears in the Selway-Bitterroot would […]
Timothy V. Kassouni Plan Bay Area is a monumental land use document prepared by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), for the ostensible purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by the year 2035, as required by former Governor Schwarzenegger’s Senate Bill 375. Kassouni Law is currently litigating […]
Frank DuBois, past NM Sec. of Agriculture, former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior. It’s the end of the line for Drake’s Bay Oyster Co. On Dec. 31, after a long battle with the National Park Service, the California Coastal Commission, the Department of the Interior and wilderness […]
William Perry Pendley, President, Mountain States Legal Foundation ANALYSIS/OPINION In November, comments closed on a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to redefine “waters of the United States,” as set forth in the Clean Water Act of 1977. While Sen. Edmund Muskie, Maine Democrat, author of the 1977 […]
Virginia Department of Natural ResourcesLAND WAR: Conservation credits designed to protect Virginia lands from development are coming under increasing fire in Richmond. RICHMOND, Va. – Conservation easements that supposedly protect Virginia lands from development are coming under increasing fire for abusive practices. One lawmaker calls the situation at a Fauquier County farm “a travesty.” Others […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Natural Resources Committee majority staff released a report today that questions the independence and accountability of the peer review process in recent Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing decisions. The report entitled, “Under the Microscope: An examination of the questionable science and lack of independent peer review in Endangered Species Act listing […]
With an area of 1212 square miles, Rhode Island is the smallest of the fifty states, but is about to take one of the biggest leaps in the nation. The RI Division of Planning is advancing a HUD supported sustainable development plan that creates a single region out of every county, city and community in […]
‘Transfer of Public Lands Act’ demands Washington relinquish 31.2 million acres by Dec. 31 In three weeks, Utah intends to seize control of 31.2 million acres of its own land now under the control of the federal government. At least, that’s the plan. In an unprecedented challenge to federal dominance of Western state lands, Utah Gov. Gary […]
Insatiable – that would seem to be the word that best describes the appetite of some in Congress and their friends in the environmental community. Congress has added over 450 pages to the defense authorization bill to designate wilderness, create new parks, designate Wild and Scenic Rivers and fund National Heritage areas – things that have […]
Jim Beers is a retired Refuge Manager, Special Agent, & Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Excerpts from a recent news article from McClatchy Newspapers: Rise in trade spurs U.S. to protect turtles 1. “The U.S. government is proposing a new level of protection for certain freshwater turtles, concerned that a massive increase in […]
Seventh in a series on a new ESA listing. We will publish additions to the series if/as they are written. Unsupported claims in obscure essays from 1942, 1944, and 1960 have hurt a lot of people in south Thurston County, Washington. Oppressive laws are based on them—including the 2014 Endangered Species Act micro-listing of four Mazama […]
FA Note: The international treaties and agreements cited in the ESA, which authorize the Act, were all negotiated to protect each nation’s agricultural economies and the communities dependent on them. Simple logic, and basic economics, both dictate — if a “market” exists/develops for any species, their numbers will grow. This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our […]
Dr. Kate Vandemoer Dr. Kate Vandemoer outlines the Federal grab for control of water out West. One does not need to achieve a very high level of education to realize that water is the biological basis for all of mankind, and our most valuable and necessary resource. In fact, very few people reading this would survive […]
Our local media has been dropping broad, confusing hints about something big, something imminent, coming to the greater Bay Area. A front page article in the San Francisco Chronicle in March 2013, titled “Hard Choices for a growing S.F.” begins, “San Francisco residents will be getting thousands of new neighbors in the next 30 years, and […]
Peer-reviewed research shows Yellowstone wolves pick their prey based on pack size FA Note: Both wolves and grizzly bears are “Keystone” species, introduced and/or “managed” to establish and maintain “healthy” ecosystems and populations; populations that kill and eat bison. Also, the Yellowstone bison herd was enlarged with private herd stock introduced by the U.S. Army in 1902. Buffalo Field Campaign and […]
Stephen L. Wilmeth Tyranny of the Crown The matter of Psychological Warfare Perverted Laws Two years ago we watched with alarm and dread as the EPA case played out against the Idaho couple attempting to build their dream house on the Priest Lake shore. Unilaterally, the EPA determined the lot the couple had purchased was a wetland. […]
FA note: Listing the Monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act would have a significant impact over much of the United States, especially considering their fall migration pattern. Monarch Butterfly Fall Migration Patterns. Base map source: USGS National Atlas. Broad Coalition Supports Petition to Protect Monarch Butterflies as Threatened under Endangered Species Act WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2014. […]
Gunnison sage grouse, (AP Photo/Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Dave Showalter) Federal officials granted protection to the Gunnison sage grouse on Wednesday, a move that could bring restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other activity to preserve the bird’s habitat in parts of Colorado and Utah. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper immediately renewed the state’s threat to […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
