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    Nature/Wildlife in the News

    There have been a couple of articles in the news this past week that I thought the N/W forum regulars might find interesting. I think it would be nice if we could keep adding to N/W newsworthy articles to this thread as the come up.

    Last week one of the most popular arches in Arches National Park collapsed. It was a natural result of time and erosion. It's a good reminder that we should make the time to enjoy our natural world while we can.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/10/arc...ref=newssearch

    In another story I just saw this morning, Bush is trying to bypass congress and independent reviews for projects that could affect endangered species. Basically the fox will be guarding the hen house...

    From the AP story:
    The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.

    New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft first obtained by The Associated Press.

    Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said late Monday the changes were needed to ensure that the Endangered Species Act would not be used as a "back door" to regulate the gases blamed for global warming. In May, the polar bear became the first species declared as threatened because of climate change. Warming temperatures are expected to melt the sea ice the bear depends on for survival.


    You can find the full article here.
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    Re: Nature/Wildlife in the News

    Well.... Bush is a oil guy, need I say more.
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    Damn breaks in Grand Canyon

    Have you been following the story of the dam that broke in the Grand Canyon this weekend?

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/0...dam/index.html

    I found this interesting because just this weekend, I was reading the new issue of Outdoor Photographer. The cover photo is an image of Havasu Falls. In the short write up on the cover photo, they mention how there are dams on the river above the falls to keep it from washing away the emerald pools below the falls.
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    "Extinct" frogs discovered alive

    A student doing research in Australia found some frogs that were believed to be extinct.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science....ap/index.html
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    Re: Nature/Wildlife in the News

    check out my photography website
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    Gray wolf back on the endangered species list.

    From CNN.com

    TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (AP) -- A federal court Monday overturned the Bush administration's decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list.

    U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington sided with environmental groups that accused the government of misreading the law last year when it lifted protections for about 4,000 wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

    It was the second setback in a week for the administration's campaign to return management authority to state officials in the two regions where the wolf has rebounded after being driven to the brink of extinction in the lower 48 states.

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on September 23 asked a judge in Montana to return gray wolves in the Northern Rockies to the endangered list, reversing a proposal to drop them earlier this year. That followed the judge's order in July barring plans for public wolf hunts in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.

    "The Bush administration's repeated attempts to push the limits of the Endangered Species Act have been decidedly rejected by the courts," said Amy Atwood, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.

    The biggest practical effect of Friedman's ruling is to nullify newly established state policies allowing people in the Great Lakes area to kill wolves attacking livestock or pets. It also bars the states from permitting hunting or trapping of wolves, although none had done so.


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    http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/30/wol....ap/index.html
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    Re: Nature/Wildlife in the News

    I don't remember which country this was in, but I heard on the news that there was going to be a vote somewhere in which it would be decided whether or not to grant the environment human rights. Has anybody heard anything more about this?

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