Slacker that I am, and working to keep the wolf from the door, I have not diaried on any of the environment stories that are BREAKING!!!!!
In truthiness, things are so broken that I hear the click of the dominoes like automatic weapon fire. Everything is under attack. Even Wilderness Areas.
This in from
PEER
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. They're the ones who see it up close and personal.
The U.S. Forest Service slyly released a new proposal on predator control two months ago, buried deep in the Federal Register and not announced on their website. The 60-day public comment period expires August 7, and we need you to take action today opposing the proposed anti-wildlife and wilderness rule.
SYFPH, and get in the chopper. We're gonna hunt what's left of the big cats. Clean up the Wolves while we're at it.
The controversial rule would:
§ reverse the prohibition on "M-44" guns, sodium-cyanide traps and poison baits
§ allow motorized hunting inside federally designated wilderness and natural research areas
§ permit killing the "local population" of animals instead of just the "offending individual"
§ transfer predator control management from the federal agency to interested "collaborative groups"
Mountain lions, bears, coyotes, wolves, and other animals seen as threats to the livestock industry are all at risk under this predator control proposal. Please sign a petition today urging the Forest Service to stop waging a war on wildlife and return to being the stewards of American wilderness.
Some of us are all too familiar with Bu$hCo's enviromnental terrorism. If you are not, click a few links on that google.
Lots of people are working hard to fight it all. Please show your support for a healthy future by taking some kind of action. NRDC action page.
I prefer in most cases to work locally, but with the fed showing such little support for state's rights, am no longer sure that there is much hope for stopping any of this carnage.
I had intended to post a short alert in the ot. There will probably be a fresh one as soon as I get this posted, forcing me to become a whore. Oh well. Worse things have happened, and are happening.
Good day to you all.