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
Monday
The local overnight low temperature last night was
+25F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +37F.
No measurable precipitation was recorded at our
location during the last 24 hour period ending at
6AM this morning. Daily local min-max
temp & precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Grazing
fee drops seven cents The
fee for grazing on federal lands in the West has
been lowered seven cents to $1.35, as low as it is
legally allowed to fall.
Logging
company to grow redwoods in New Zealand A
timber company, fed up with environmental battles,
has decided to produce genetically engineered
redwoods and ship them to New Zealand where
they'll be grown for lumber [we suggest sending
the Forest (dis)Service 'resource managers' with
them! - Ed.]
Sunday
The local overnight low temperature last night was
+24F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +36F.
No measurable precipitation was recorded at our
location during the last 24 hour period ending at
6AM this morning. Daily local min-max
temp & precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Saturday
The local overnight low temperature last night was
+13F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +33F.
No measurable precipitation was recorded at our
location during the last 24 hour period ending at
6AM this morning. Daily local min-max
temp & precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Friday,
07-Feb-2003
Betrayal
of trust?
Year after salvage decision, some complain restoration
work lacking
[who could be surprised? - Ed.]
Bosworth
hopes for 'better way' in future
[there will
very likely only be a 'better way' when the Forest
disService is disbanded or perhaps drastically
reorganized - there can be very little hope for
the agency with the resource managers they have
now and the politicians we have now - timber
welfare and bureaucratic self-interest is job one
with this outfit, not forest protection and
stewardship. It's truly a very disgraceful
situation. -
Ed.]
Among
the other large contributors to the Public
Broadcasting System are the Department of
Education, the Department of Energy and,
strangely, the Department of the Army. All three
of these departments are funded by taxpayers. So
we must ask: Do these government departments have
excess funds available that allow them to make
contributions to other organizations? Are these
proposed contributions included in their budget
requests? Approved by Congress?
The
National Park Service is another generous
contributor to PBS. Like the departments listed
above, this government agency also apparently
receives more funding than it needs for day to day
operations, so it gives money away in the form of
donations.
Friday
The local overnight low temperature last night was
+4F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +32F.
No measurable precipitation was recorded at our
location during the last 24 hour period ending at
6AM this morning. Daily local min-max
temp & precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Upstream
battle Wild
salmon underpins British Columbia's coastal
culture and economy. The rapid growth of salmon
farms threatens to alter the region's identity.
Thursday
The local overnight low temperature last night was
+14F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +31F.
There was a just trace amount of snowfall during
the last 24 hour period ending at 6AM this
morning. Daily local min-max temp
& precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Snowmobilin'
News Demolition-derby
snowmobilers busted Five men are
facing federal charges for what rangers describe
as a drunken demolition derby on snowmobiles in
Yellowstone National Park during a snowstorm
[Why do you suppose some people want to ban
snowmobiles from Yellowstone? - Ed.]
Wednesday
The local overnight low temperature last night was
+16F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +36F.
There was a just trace amount of snowfall during
the last 24 hour period ending at 6AM this
morning. Daily local min-max temp
& precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Tuesday
The local overnight low temperature last night was
+20F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +39F.
There were several brief periods of light blowing
snow but accumulation was only between a trace up
to 1/2" locally during the last 24 hour
period ending at 6AM this morning.
Daily local min-max temp & precip charts
may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Monday
The local overnight low temperature last night was
+25F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +38F.
There was no measurable precipitation at our
location during the last 24 hour period ending at
6AM this morning. Daily local min-max
temp & precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
Saturday
The local overnight low temperature last night was
+36F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +49F.
Rainfall accumulation locally totaled 0.1875"
during the last 24 hour period ending at 6AM this
morning. Daily local min-max temp
& precip charts may be seen on our PR
Temp & Precip Data page
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About
the Painted Rocks Guardian's News, Links, & Commentary Section
It is
a daily look at environmentally related stories from around the country,
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.
