Please note that all
links to the news stories below were accurate and working at the
time of posting and archiving, however, the Guardian
has no control on the length of time that a respective news
source will continue to maintain any story in its own archives,
so be advised that you may encounter non-working links - Bill
McKee - Editor.
Forest
Service says suits delay thinning [FS claims
its not their fault - but, perhaps the FS could
stop disguising commercial logging as thinning
and then there wouldn't be so many suits.- Ed.]
The
market may do more for sick forests
than regulation [market
forces are necessary for change as it is certain
that the needless jobs/grants/welfare
programs/etc. of the bloated and inept USFS
bureaucracy will never develop significant
positive change in forestry practices from within.
As Callahan has observed "bureaucrats must
swim in the sea of special-interest-group
politics when a change in their guiding rules is
needed, and the change ultimately will be made
based on its political popularity rather than
its adequacy to the task at hand". - Ed.]
Wednesday
The local overnight low temperature last night
was +39F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was
+83F. No measurable amount of
precipitation was recorded in the Painted Rocks
area during the last 24 hour period ending at
6AM. Daily local min-max temp & precip
charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Waste
dumper gets 17 years
A California businessman has been sentenced to
17 years in Colorado prison and fined $100,000
for illegally disposing of hazardous
dry-cleaning waste collected from more than 240
cleaners in Colorado for at least five years
Earth
'will expire by 2050' Our planet is
running out of room and resources. Modern man
has plundered so much, a damning report claims
this week, that outer space will have to be
Tuesday
The local overnight low temperature last night
was +39F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was
+77F. No measurable precipitation was
recorded in the Painted Rocks area during the
last 24 hour period ending at 6AM. Daily local
min-max temp & precip charts may be
seen on our PR Temp
& Precip Data page
Game, Fish considers elk hunt fee increase The Wyoming
Game and Fish Department is considering a $10
increase for elk licenses for western Wyoming
hunt areas near state elk feedgrounds
Floods
damage 48,000 homes From the air
Sunday, Gov. Rick Perry saw the devastation days
of torrential rain have brought to Central and
South Texas: houses surrounded by a sea of
roiling, muddy water, uprooted trees and
overturned vehicles
[Better log & burn that Texas 'hill country'
- Ed.]
From
the official Texas Department of
Licensing and Regulation website HARVESTING
THE TEXAS SKIES in 2002 A
Summary of Ongoing Cloud-Seeding Operations in
Texas
[you don't suppose this has anything to do with
what's happening, do you? - Ed.]
Monday
The local overnight low temperature last night
was +48F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was
+86F. 0.1875" (3/16") of
precipitation in the form of rain was recorded
in the Painted Rocks area during the last 24
hour period ending at 6AM. Daily local min-max
temp & precip charts may be seen on
our PR Temp &
Precip Data page
Sunday
The local overnight low temperature last night
was +54F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was
+87F. 0.05" of precipitation in the
form of rainfall was recorded in the Painted
Rocks area during the last 24 hour period ending
at 6AM. Daily local min-max temp &
precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Shielding mountain home may cost Gilbert fire
chief Gilbert
Fire Chief Collin Dewitt used town fire
vehicles, equipment and 13 off-duty Gilbert
firefighters to protect his second home near
Show Low from the "Rodeo-Chediski"
fire
[another
'quality' person in the 'firefighting' industry
- Ed.]
Wolf pack doubles in size The Teton
Pack of wolves more than doubled in size in
recent months, growing to about 20 animals
Saturday
The local overnight low temperature last night
was +42F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was
+81F. No measurable precipitation was
recorded in the Painted Rocks area during the
last 24 hour period ending at 6AM. Daily local
min-max temp & precip charts may be
seen on our PR Temp
& Precip Data page
Interior:
Indian royalties accounting to cost billions It
will take 10 years and at least $2.4 billion to
sort out more than a century's worth of
transactions from a mismanaged trust fund system
handling royalties from Indian-owned land,
Interior Department officials said Wednesday.
Friday
The local overnight low temperature last night
was +39F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was
+78F. No measurable precipitation was
recorded in the Painted Rocks area during the
last 24 hour period ending at 6AM. Daily local
min-max temp & precip charts may be
seen on our PR Temp
& Precip Data page
Thursday,
04-Jul-2002
"We
hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all
Men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the
Pursuit of Happiness — That to secure these
Rights, Governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just Powers from the Consent of
the Governed, that whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it
is the Right of the People to alter or abolish
it. …”
Wake-up
signals from Wall Street "Today,
Washington is focused on wasting resources on
wars and on reducing the property rights of
income earners by boosting medical welfare
benefits to immigrants, foreigners and Medicare
recipients.
A cut in the
capital gains tax would save Washington's bacon.
But ignorant Democrats prefer to demagogue
"the rich," and Republicans fear the
charge of "favoring the rich" more
than they fear war with the Muslim world.
There are enough
fools in Washington to destroy the country
without any help from Islamic terrorists."
"There
will not be any construction over the long
holiday weekend from Wednesday evening July 3rd
to Monday morning July 8th.Our FHWA office will be closed also from
July 4th-7th.
The
Slate Creek bay land area (on the lake side west
of the road) will be open starting Wednesday
July 3rd until further notice.In the very near future when earthwork
starts in the Slate Creek bay area, the area
will most likely be closed until work is
completed.This
closure will be published as work proceeds.The Slate Creek bay land area will
eventually be extended to make up for some
lakeside land lost to road widening.The box culvert under the road for Slate
Creek will be extended west, and fish passage
baffles will be added.The Slate Creek Campground on the east
side of the road will remain open.
Pumco
contractors plan to bring in more heavy
equipment as early as Wednesday July 10th.This means that the road will likely be
fully closed during the two-hour block road
closure times.The flaggers have been able to let
vehicles through even during closure times, but
this will probably not be possible or safe once
earthmoving operations begin.Pumco does plan on burning some wood
debris sometime next week, but they have to get
their state burn permit renewed before they
determine a burn date and time.
As
a reminder, road closures are to be expected:
8am-10am, 12pm-2pm, and 4pm-5:30pm weekdays
(except Friday has only 8am-10am and 12pm-2pm
closure periods).During all other times between
7am-5:30pm, flaggers will let cars through as
much as they can, but expect up to 15-minute
delays.
Other news of note:
The
Forest Service confirmed (and I saw through
their spotting scope today) that there is a
peregrine falcon nest with at least three
fledglings west of painted rocks dam.Since the peregrine falcon is a
threatened species, we limit some construction
work in order to make sure we do not disrupt the
eyrie."
Thursday
The local overnight low temperature last night
was +48F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was
+86F. No measurable precipitation was
recorded in the Painted Rocks area during the
last 24 hour period ending at 6AM. Daily local
min-max temp & precip charts may be
seen on our PR Temp
& Precip Data page
Wednesday
The local overnight low temperature last night was +47F and
yesterday's afternoon high temp was +85F. No measurable
precipitation was recorded in the Painted Rocks area during the
last 24 hour period ending at 6AM. Daily local min-max temp
& precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Tuesday,
02-Jul-2002
Timber
clearing moved to the Slate Creek campground area yesterday
(Monday). Road closures continue to be relatively brief and
should likely remain so for today and Wednesday. No road
construction related work is scheduled for 4-7 July. Full
length scheduled closures may occur beginning on 8-July.
Fly
Much? 2
AmWest pilots taken off airplane A taxiing America
West Airlines flight was recalled to its Miami gate Monday and
its two pilots arrested on charges of operating an airplane
while intoxicated.
Tuesday
The local overnight low temperature last night was +38F and
yesterday's afternoon high temp was +73F. No measurable
precipitation was recorded in the Painted Rocks area during the
last 24 hour period ending at 6AM. Daily local min-max temp
& precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Monday,
01-Jul-2002
Firefighter charged in Arizona wildfire A part-time
firefighter charged Sunday with starting one of the two
wildfires that merged into the largest in Arizona's history told
an investigator he set it to make money battling it, according
to court documents.
[Fire dollars are at the root of a lot of greed, deceit, and
theft by some so-called 'fire-fighters' as we know firsthand
in Painted Rocks - Ed.]
We're
not making this up .. ! Scientist
estimating cougar population
A University of Idaho scientist is using catnip and cooperative
hunters to estimate the size of the mountain lion population in
the Clearwater River Basin
Moving
nuclear waste Nuclear
waste is routinely transported around the US. But shipments are
expected to climb rapidly, raising questions about safety.
Monday
The local overnight low temperature last night was +40F and
yesterday's afternoon high temp was +76F. No measurable
precititation was recorded in the Painted Rocks area during the
last 24 hour period ending at 6AM. Daily local min-max temp
& precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
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many of which are illustrative of the high level of incompetence (and
worse) existing within most of the government entities currently charged
with administering our nation's parks, forests, other public lands,
waterways, and airsheds. As you read these news stories from many
different sources, you will note that almost all environmental
protection/preservation efforts and programs to save our nation's public
treasures originate from private environmental organizations, often
times via court order, and NOT through the respective governmental
agencies with primary administration responsibilities. Most of these
governmental entities (e.g., the Forest Service) have become top heavy
with many levels of career bureaucrats who, instead of protecting and
preserving the nation's priceless resources, are 'busy' catering to
consumptive/extractive industry interests in the course of administering
politically designed social welfare employment programs and wealth
redistributionist grant programs. While the current system is almost
hopelessly corrupt at many levels, it is being increasingly understood
as such by the general public. Increased general public awareness of the
problem is necessary to trigger environmentally informed political
actions that will eventually save the nation's public treasures.
Effective solutions to the current situation will most likely involve
the deconstruction of several bureaucratic agencies as they exist today
with a functional redesign that will shift major policy development and
administrative direction authority into the hands of environmental
groups/organizations (as contrasted with agency hand-picked and selected
'citizen groups' dominated by consumptionists) and out of the hands of
self-interested bureaucrats and extractive industry interests.
- Bill McKee - Editor.
