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

[jbkramer@afn.org (Bryan Kramer)]

Rafe intended this to be private and I didn't notice so I extend an
apology to him on that.

Bryan

 
> 
> 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.
> > 
> 
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