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advised that you may encounter non-working links - Bill
McKee - Editor
The
local overnight low temperature last night was
+47F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was
+95F. No measurable precipitation has been
recorded at our location in 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
The
local overnight low temperature last night was
+47F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +89F.
No measurable precipitation has been recorded at
our location in 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
Logger
Daze Free
speech can't protect fired worker
Court
rules mill did nothing wrong in firing employee
who opposed company forest project at public
meeting
[better hold your tongue if you work for a timber
company! - Ed.]
Helena
before the sprawl Helena was a
closely packed place at the peak of its historic
boom, in the years around 1890. Fifteen thousand
people lived and worked in an urbanized area of
about three square miles. Everything had to be
kept within walking distance
The
local overnight low temperature last night was
+47F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +75F.
0.125" of precipitation has been recorded at
our location in 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
Saturday,
26-July-2003
broadband
users - best fire information link (MODIS)
The
DNRC adjusted outflow at Painted Rocks dam from
286.6 cfs to 337.7 cfs on Thursday, 24-July, as
delivery of contract water for this year began
being released this week.
How warm has it been in Alta?
Since July 1st, we've recorded 11 days with high
temps in the 90's. Last summer, we recorded
5 days with daytime highs in the 90's for all of
July AND August. - Ed.
The
local overnight low temperature last night was
+52F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +83F.
0.25" of precipitation has been recorded at
our location in 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
[the new rules are about ‘empowering’ the very folks whose decades
long mismanagement has brought the nation’s
forests to their present sad and shabby condition
– the FS timber “managers” (idiots, by any
reasonable examination of what’s been done to
the forests over the years).
So why doesn’t the FS want to consider public
input or environmental challenge
of "it's" timber sales? Quite simply because most of their actions are
preserving and protecting forests, rather, it’s all a big bureaucratic
jobs program for the overstaffed
FS itself
and a welfare program for logging
'industry' – the extractive FS timber crowd (Mark Rey, Dale
Boz, et.al.) is as unfit a group of persons to holdpublic trust as you will ever meet – it
is a national disgrace.- Ed.]
The
local overnight low temperature last night was
+52F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +95F.
No precipitation has been recorded at our location
in 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
The
local overnight low temperature last night was
+50F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +96F.
No precipitation has been recorded at our location
in 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
Today is the deadline for comments on the Draft
EIS about the proposed Level 4 BioLab at Rocky
Mountain Labs in Hamilton - if you email your
comments - do it no later than today
an optimized link in pdf, 'only' 1.68 megabytes:
http://www.citizensedproject.org/deis_rocky_mtn_labs2_opt.pdf
In addition to the single PDF, we now also have it
available in four separate PDFs
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/biodefense/public/envimpactstate.htm
The guy who has "ultimate authority"
and is the "decisionmaker" about the BL4
going in is:
Steve Ficca (Assoc. Director of Research Services)
NIH "Decisionmaker" re EIS at RML
sf9j@nih.gov will be forwarded to ficcas@ors.od.nih.gov
Comments about the
proposed BL4 need to be mailed to:
By mail:
Valerie Nottingham
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Bldg. 13, Room 2W64
Bethesda, MD 20892-5746
By email: Orsrmleis-r@mail.nih.gov
301-496-7775.
If you have any other questions, locally you may
contact:
Mary Wulff
Coalition for a Safe Lab
P.O. Box 1803
Hamilton MT 59840
http://www.oiruco.com
The
local overnight low temperature last night was
+47F and yesterday's afternoon high temp was +96F.
No precipitation has been recorded at our location
in 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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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.
