These are what the logging industry does. It doesn't care if Old Growth Forest is to be protected due to species endangerment, they want profits and they intend to get them at the cost of generational heritage of Americans.
..."The Bush administration's draft regulations gutting the Endangered Species Act haven't even been publicly proposed yet, but the timber industry is already trying to strip the nation's wildlife of protection." said Kristen Boyles, an attorney with Earthjustice. "Once again, the Bush administration is undermining protection of our nation's endangered species to benefit their friends and campaign contributors in the timber industry."...
The lawsuit the timber industry filed was drafted by a former Bush White House official that went to work for the timber industry. The lawsuit has not basis in status. There is no law to back it up. The lawsuit was followed by the demands of a Secretary of the Interior to declassify Endangered Species to allow exploitation of Old Growth Forest in the Northwest USA including Oregon, Washington State and California.
This link (click here) will take you to a video by The New York Times which appeared today whereby 'influenced' scientists are appearing to consent to assist timber companies to stay in business when in fact the scientists are so intimadated in fear of habitat destruction and species demise they are working as hard as they can to PREVENT species from disappearing through desperate management strategies.
If lands are endangered due to exploitation of development of any kind, there is no reason to turn out backs on these lands even outside the parks to insure the protections needed are extended to those required to protect species from demise. What the scientists in the USA are facing today is a choice between two chronic evils rather than the best of all worlds. If development has to be contained it should proceed but NOT at the expense of those lands already protected within the laws of the people of the USA, but, expanded to even further measures. This is what extraordinary personal wealth has brought the citizens of the USA and it's scientists, HEARTACHE !Page 4
Nancy E. Cowden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology, Lynchburg College
Lynchburg, VA
Johannes Foufopoulos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Conservation Biology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Carolyn Mollie Bigger, Ph.D. Forestry
El Cajon, CA
Elizabeth Wright Smith, M.S.
Cape Coral, FL
Gretchen North
Associate Professor, Biology
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Craig R. Kuchel, M.S. Wildlife Biology
Florence-Carlton School
Florence, MT
Ronnie Schenkein, DVM
Member, Audubon Society, Sapsucker Woods Ornithology Laboratory and
Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas, Coudersport, PA
Jo Anna Hebberger, Ph.D. Plant Ecologist
Manheim, PA
Martin Hilovsky, M.S.
Senior Scientist / President
EnviroScience, Inc., Stow, OH
Matthew Rubino, M.S. Zoology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Stephen B. Hager, Ph.D.
Co-Chair Department of Biology
Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
Kefyn M. Catley Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
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Sheila Ward, Ph.D. Ecology
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Jack Lyon, Ph.D.
Scientist Emeritus, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Ft. Collins, CO
John O. Whitaker, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of Ecology and Organismal Biology,
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
Melissa Lee, M.S. Plant Ecology
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Ronald M. Lanner, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Forestry
Utah State University, Logan, UT
David M. Armstrong, Ph.D.
Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Colorado-Boulder
Rachel Shelton, M.S.
Fisheries and Wildlife Management
Michigan State University, Lansing
Maria Laura Fernandez-Medina, M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Davis
Nanci J. Ross, M.S. Tropical Ecology/Ethnobotany
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Tina Rhea, M.S. Wildlife Biology
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
John Schoen, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Audubon Alaska, Anchorage
A. Christy Wyckoff, M.S. Wildlife Disease Biologist
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Larry Kline, M.S. Range Management
Lakewood, CO
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Ray C. Telfair II, Ph.D.
Certified Wildlife Biologist (The Wildlife Society)
Whitehouse, TX
Edward J. Laurent, Ph.D. Wildlife Habitat Modeling
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Stephen Zitzer, Ph.D. Ecologist
Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV
Stephen B. Malcolm, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Bob Deacy, M.S.
Department of Environmental Resources Management
Palm Beach County, FL
Dan F. Ippolito, Prof. of Biology
AuSable Institute of Environmental Studies
Grand Rapids, MI
David S. Lee, Curator of Birds
North Carolina State Museum
Raleigh, NC
Melissa Child, M.A. Conservation Biology
Columbia University, NY
Laurie J. Vitt, Ph.D.
George Lynn Cross Research Professor and
Curator of Reptiles, Norman, OK
Tim Patton, Ph.D.
Ecology and Wildlife Science
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Durant, OK
Marcel van Tuinen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Department of Biology & Marine Biology
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Stephen P. Ellner, Ph.D.
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
