Re[2]: [at-l] Respect For AT Wildness Values

[jbkramer@afn.org (Bryan Kramer)]

LOL, how odd the judge disagrees with you:

"For the reasons stated, the Court holds that Forest Service's
cancellation of the Bald Mountain timber sale was arbitrary, capricious
and without rational basis, "

http://www.contracts.ogc.doc.gov/fedcl/opinions/98opin/94-411C.html

The USFS fabricated data just like the Lynx study. The judge awarded the
lumber company 9.5 million and they have already paid out 15 million on
other claims. Just another case of the ESA run amuck.

Bryan

> 
> 
> At 06:24 PM 5/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >Its not the ESA that is the problem but rather the 
> unjustified use of 
> >the ESA by environmental radicals that is at stake. Just to bring up 
> >another example, the ESA was used to block logging in California 
> >because a FS employee looked at some aerial photos and thought that 
> >that looked like a place that owls would like.
> 
> 
> 
> Bingo.  That is exactly the point of the ESA, if in fact 
> there were spotted owls on that tract of land.
> 
> That's not environmental radicalism.  That is precisely what 
> the ESA was designed to do.  What did you think it was for? A 
> bunch of words on a piece of paper, to look pretty?
> 
> It is not (and should never have been) the decision of one FS 
> employee to block logging.  I suspect that part is pure 
> fiction or imagination on your part.
> 
> Were there spotted owls there?  You don't say.  Was any 
> research done to determine that?  And if not, why not?  And 
> if there is doubt, who gets the benefit of the doubt?  The 
> owls or the loggers?
> 
> When a species goes extinct, you've erased God's blueprint 
> for one form of life.  Does that mean anything to you?
> 
> 
> rafe b.
>