Comment from Mark Baird on NOAA Fisheries Coho Salmon Recovery Plan

Klamath – Siskiyou Counties:

The Coho Recovery plan is the latest coercion tactic trotted out by NOAA and the USFWS.  According to Julie Weeder, the plan is strictly voluntary, however Ms Weeder went on to say that regulations may follow.  USFWS was treated harshly at a recent Board of Supervisors meeting as the service explained the plan to the BOS.  All five supervisors had some extremely negative comments for Ms Weeder and the USFWS.

The USFWS wants 8000 returning spawners in the Scott and 9000 returning spawners in the Shasta every single year for the next twenty years before it would consider de-listing the Coho.  Fish and Game Bulletin number 34, available on the Internet, has the fish counts back to the late 1920s. There have NEVER been that many Coho in either river.

Coho Salmon are not considered commercially viable fish.  No one really wants them.

The “Native Americans” did not like them as they were not oily enough.

King or Chinook are the commercially desirable fish.

Coho is just another environmental tool to destroy agriculture in Siskiyou County.  Ms Weeder admitted that the data which all of this hoax is based upon came, supposedly from some unnamed cannery on the Central Oregon coast.  This cannery supposedly caught 210,000 Salmon once.  She did not say the fish this imaginary cannery caught were Coho.

Then the service took satellite pictures and measured the creeks and tributaries, and to make a long story short, divided the lengths of the creeks into 210,000 fish and came up with 8000 a year for the Scott River.

They did not even know that a lot of the creeks mentioned are naturally dry most of the year and have no fish in them much less Coho.  The shade criteria for some the habitat came from the rain forest of the Olympic Peninsula.  Not the semi-arid mountains of California.

Yes, its true.  They made it all up as they went along.

We are going to pay for this hoax with our tax dollars and if Ms Weeder is telling the truth about anything it is that REGULATIONS WILL FOLLOW.

I  took the liberty of speaking for POW at this meeting and also at the Board of Supervisors Meeting.  I do not remember exactly what I said but it was some thing like this.

We will not submit, we will not comply. We will not sign our property or our Liberty over to anyone.

We will fight to protect our Constitutional rights to Property and the Liberty to use that property to better the lives of our families.

I asked Ms Weeder whether she thought the USFWS had any hope of success without landowner cooperation?

I then told her that the USFWS DID NOT HAVE OUR COOPERATION AND PROBABLY NEVER WOULD HAVE UNLESS AND UNTIL HER AGENCY DRAMATICALLY CHANGED THE WAY IT CONDUCTED THE PEOPLES’ BUSINESS.

Mark Baird
Vice President Scott Valley Protect Our Water

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April 2012

OVERVIEW

HIGHLIGHT:

Public Lands Council Holds Legislative Conference

Legislative Update

Senators Write Appropriators Opposing BLM “Administrative” Grazing Fee

House Takes Steps to Prevent CWA Guidance

House Bill Would Give States Oversight on Monument Designations

House Holds Hearing on Bill to Prevent Federal Land Acquisition

Congress Takes up Farm Bill

NEPA Streamlining Bill Heard in House Judiciary Committee

Congress Takes Actions to Prevent National Ocean Policy

Wildlife Services Sees Increase in Senate Agriculture Appropriations Bill

Administration Update

BLM Directs State Offices in Response to 2012 Appropriations Act

BLM, USFS Partnership with Environmentalists Raises Questions

Child Labor Proposed Rule Withdrawn

BLM Announces “Landscape Approach” Management Initiative

BLM Accepts Wild Horse Advisory Board Recommendation on Fertility Vaccine Research

BLM Considers Pickens’ “Ecosanctuary” Proposal

BLM Considers Wild Horse “Bait Trapping” Bids While Drought Portends More Gathers

Forest Service to Use LWCF to Purchase Lands in 15 States

Judiciary Update

Court Rules WWP Attorney Fees Too High

Activists Challenge Bighorn Rider to Protect Domestic Sheep Grazing

Court Rules against Categorical Exclusions on California Grazing Allotments Case

More News

PLC Staff Attends Constitutional Sheriffs Meeting

PLC Staff Attends Heritage Foundation Natural Resources Meeting

PNP comment: The governor of California through executive order has decided to give the keys to the State to the native population.  Natural Resources Director Laird in 100 percent behind the idea.  Native Americans have always claimed to have some advantage over the rest of us when it comes to the environment.  The “we have been here since before time” argument. 

We disagree with the notion that one group has some secret knowledge based upon seniority. 

For example, plains Indians would run ten thousand Buffalo off a cliff in order to butcher the ten or twenty they could carry back to the village.  They would leave the rest to rot.  There is evidence that native people hunted the original North American Horse to extinction.  Native American people were constantly at war with one another.
 The Federal Government deals with treaty tribes not the State of California.  This is yet another attempt by the State of California to comply with the environmental socialist agenda.  The concept of the stakeholder is not found anywhere in the Constitution.  Craig Tucker and Felice Pace, and the felon Leaf Hillman are constantly included in the stakeholders, yet property owners, taxpayers, water right owners, and voters are left out. 

The fight is still heating up and this is another shot fired at the Bill of Rights and Article One of the California Constitution.  Don’t let the lack of news fool you.  The enemy is still there and they are very active. 

Observe, Record and Report.

We will not submit! — Mark Baird  Vice President Scott Valley Protect Our Water 

SECRETARY FOR NATURAL RESOURCES DIRECTS AGENCY DEPARTMENTS TO INCREASE COLLABORATION WITH NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES

Urges Using Creative Approaches and Solutions Based on Science, and Respect for all Communities and Interests Involved

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird today issued a draft policy directing the resources agency and it’s departments to increase communication and collaboration with California’s Native American tribes. This will help further the mission of the California Natural Resources Agency and provide meaningful input into the development of regulations, rules and policies that may affect tribal communities.

“Native American tribes have a unique relationship with the state’s natural resources,” said Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird. “It is only by engaging in open, inclusive and regular communication that the interests of California’s tribes will be recognized and understood.”

On Sept. 19, 2011, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. issued Executive Order B-10-11, which states that it is the policy of the administration that every state agency and department subject to executive control is to encourage communication and consultation with California Native American tribes.

All California native tribes have distinct cultural, environmental, economic, and public health interests. The Natural Resources Agency and its departments interact frequently with tribal communities and are already working closely with them in many of these areas. The secretary’s direction is intended to build on those existing relationships, and encourage further outreach and collaboration.

“Historically, state government and California’s tribes have experienced conflict,” Laird said. “I intend to improve the relationships between the agency responsible for the state’s wild places and the communities that have watched over them for centuries.”

Secretary Laird’s direction aims to create informed decision making where all parties involved share a goal and can reach decisions together. All parties involved should encourage respect, shared responsibility, and an open and free exchange of information.

The policy is intended as guidance for employees of the Natural Resources Agency and its departments only, and does not extend to other government entities. The policy will be circulated for comment, with a comment deadline of July 15,2012. A public meeting will be held on June 26 at 1:30 pm, at Thunder Valley Resort, 1200 Athens Avenue, Lincoln, California  95648.

For more information on the policy please visit the Natural Resources Agency website

 From:     MonkeyWrenchingAmerica.com

Fishy Business in Northern California

In Klamath River Clash, Dam Extremists Endanger Human Inhabitants

By David Spady | On May 3, 2012

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Willing Seller, A Myth, Stop The LWCF Land Acquisition Fund

—–Urgent Action By You Is Necessary

—–CORRECTED: This message includes BOTH the House and Senate LWCF Highway Bill Conferees including their e-mails and fax numbers updated.

—–Congress is considering spending 1.4 billion dollars extra for land acquisition through the LWCF (Land and Water Conservation Fund).

The Greens want to use this as a precedent for spending every year.

When does Congress start considering the debt and deficit?

These funds are taken right from the taxpayer. Some have the impression that the funds come from the Gulf Oil Spill penalty money.

Not so. The 1.4 billion dollars comes right out of your pocket.

—–That is 1.4 billion on top of their normal appropriations. If you don’t want the Park Service, Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and BLM to run crazy buying private land, you better stand up now. You must be all over them’

—–Please forward this message to at least 10 people. Your whole list if possible.

—–Willing Seller? “Although the LWCF provision in the Highway bill supposedly protects unwilling sellers from the new money, Cushman said, “Everyone knows that when Federal agencies get a big block of money there is no such thing as an unwilling seller.”

“That’s because the government always can find away to pressure and force the landowner to sell, Cushman said. And even though Condemnation and Eminent Domain cannot be used with the new LWCF money, the Park Service and other agencies can use old money to threaten and carry out eminent domain (condemnation). The bottom line is that Condemnation is threatened by the Park Service and other land agencies in every conversation with a landowner. The key to stopping these abuses is to cut off the money.”

—–Willing Seller A Myth

 ”John Jones is a willing seller. He didn’t want to sell and held out as long as he could. First the Park Service came in and purchased the homes, farms and timberlands of his neighbors who did want to sell.

There will always be some.

 Then the agency began to search out those families who were in some kind of financial distress such as from a death, divorce, loss of job and other reason.

 ”Jones watched as his community was checkerboarded by the Park Service. He remembered being told when the park was created that he would not be forced out. But a huge Trust Fund passed Congress which gave the Park Service money automatically every year without going through the appropriations process. The Park Service had more money than it knew what to do with. Eminent domain and condemnation were now commonplace.

 Jones remembered that the Trust Fund has been slipped in to a bill dealing with the Gulf Oil Spill in by Senator Harry Reid of Nevada.

He could not explain what buying billions of dollars of private property had to do with an oil spill. Or why Reid and the Congress had acted so quickly before their own investigations and Commissions were complete.

 Now the Park Service was targeting local businesses and the county itself. Many small businesses were purchased and put out of business.

Others just withered and died due to lack of business. The Park Service purchased the holdings of several large timberland companies and large farms.

 There were always hints of eminent domain, and some were already in court. People were told they would have to sell eventually, so they might as well do it now as “willing sellers” while the Park Service was spending money here and before the infrastructure deteriorated.

 Smaller timber owners and farmers began to sell as they saw that the logging and agriculture infrastructure might eventually not be there.

The mill eventually had to close because it could not get enough wood. Like a natural ecosystem, the economic s ecosystem of a community can become increasingly fragile, but all the government and the environmentalists talked about were the fragility of the ecosystem while pretending they were improving the economy.

 ”As more timberland and farms were purchased, more homes and then more farms began to disappear. The Park Service began to focus on the farmers and ranchers. Many residents wanted to hold out but with fewer jobs in the county, the value of their homes and property began to go down. As the Park Service purchased them, they lay empty for months or even years because the agency said they it did not have the funds to clear them out. They became havens for vandals and drug houses, and targets for mysterious fires.

 It is hard to understand how the Park Service and other agencies have the money to buy out local communities but according to reports we have seen, they are over $10 billion behind in deferred maintenance.

 ”The Nature Conservancy and other land trusts began to circle like buzzards. They would buy from financially distressed landowners, and then turn the land over to the Federal government.

 Time after time this happened, quietly, secretly and silently they helped undercut the community gradually eliminating the tax base, the economic base, and the population. Yet nicer homes with nice views seemed to be selectively occupied by strangers with connections, who were frequently heard touting the Park Service. Some of them were park officials.

To learn more, go to:

Land Rights Network

American Land Rights Association

PO Box 400 – Battle Ground, WA 98604

Phone: 360-687-3087 – Fax: 360-687-2973

E-mail: alra@pacifier.com

Web Address: http://www.landrights.org

Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE – Washington, DC 20003

PNP comment: Greenie groups behind Agenda 21 are targeting the federal wildlife agency, which is necessary to manage wildlife. No other government agency does its job in managing wildlife that affect or threaten humans. BE CAREFUL both of these articles are full of lies meant to cause emotional outrage, which will play into THEIR hands. Do not get caught in their traps. — Editor Liz Bowen

Environmental group sues to halt killing practices of federal wildlife agency – Environment – The Sacramento Bee

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/02/4458430/environmental-group-sues-to-halt.html

Environmental group sues to halt killing practices of federal wildlife agency
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By Tom Knudson

The Sacramento Bee
May 2, 2012

The federal government’s wildlife damage control program is based on outdated science and indiscriminate tools that kill many non-target animals, including protected species, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by WildEarth Guardians, a Colorado-based environmental group.
The focus of the lawsuit is a little-known arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture called Wildlife Services that has long specialized in killing animals that are deemed to pose a threat to agriculture, the public and – more recently – the environment.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, asks that the agency’s activities be halted until it prepares a new, more comprehensive environmental impact statement. The suit also calls for a halt to its aerial gunning of predators in federally designated wilderness areas.
“It’s high time for the federal court to take a hard look at Wildlife Services’ slaughter of the nation’s wildlife on public and private land with our tax dollars,” said Wendy Keefover, director of carnivore protection for the group.
Wildlife Services spokeswoman Carol Bannerman told the Associated Press on Tuesday that agency officials had not had an opportunity to review the suit and had no comment.
But she added that WildEarth Guardians had misrepresented the agency’s overall mission.

PNP comment: This article isn’t worth the paper or the air it is printed on. Normally, I am not in favor of a government agency doing its job, but this agency protects rural residents. Wild animals must be managed and no other agency will do it correctly. There may be abuses, but this article is meant to TOTALLY discredit the need for trapper-type services.

And I no longer believe statistics by the Sac Bee, Greenie groups or government agencies. We must now question the motives behind these type of articles. Who wants a mt. lion, bear, wolf, coyote, skunk prowling in their neighborhood? City dwellers use this agency as much as rural.

We have proof that a state agency, with the OK from a federal agency, is maiming thousands of coho fingerlings by cutting out part of their jaw just before they are released from the Irongate Fish Hatchery. We have complained. This minimizes the fish’s ability to survive in the Klamath River and ocean, but this horrific situation is viewed as acceptable by the governments.

Hypocrisy is a huge beast and lies are rampant!  I am totally disgusted. Sacramento Bee, you did a YELLOW journalism biased story and should be ashamed of yourselves. Guess you must have an ulterior motive! Oh and the Green windmill farms are killing golden eagles, but that seems to be ignored!  — Editor Liz Bowen

The killing agency: Wildlife Services’ brutal methods leave a trail of animal death – Investigations – The Sacramento Bee

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/28/4450678/the-killing-agency-wildlife-services.html?storylink=lingospot_related_articles

The killing agency: Wildlife Services’ brutal methods leave a trail of animal death

By Tom Knudson
tknudson@sacbee.com
May. 2, 2012

First of three parts

The day began with a drive across the desert, checking the snares he had placed in the sagebrush to catch coyotes.

Gary Strader, an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, stepped out of his truck near a ravine in Nevada and found something he hadn’t intended to kill.

There, strangled in a neck snare, was one of the most majestic birds in America, a federally protected golden eagle.

“I called my supervisor and said, ‘I just caught a golden eagle and it’s dead,’ ” said Strader. “He said, ‘Did anybody see it?’ I said, ‘Geez, I don’t think so.’
“He said, ‘If you think nobody saw it, go get a shovel and bury it and don’t say nothing to anybody.’ ”
“That bothered me,” said Strader, whose job was terminated in 2009. “It wasn’t right.”
Strader’s employer, a branch of the federal Department of Agriculture called Wildlife Services, has long specialized in killing animals that are deemed a threat to agriculture, the public and – more recently – the environment.
Since 2000, its employees have killed nearly a million coyotes, mostly in the West. They have destroyed millions of birds, from nonnative starlings to migratory shorebirds, along with a colorful menagerie of more than 300 other species, including black bears, beavers, porcupines, river otters, mountain lions and wolves.

http://pioneer.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/HeraldandNews/

Water report   

Herald and New

May 3, 2012

   The Klamath Reclamation Project, which annually draws about 400,000 acre feet of irrigation water, is expected to face a shortage of 50,000 acre-feet of water this year, officials with the Klamath Water and Power Agency said.

   There are plans to mitigate the shortage with groundwater pumping and land-idling.

   Local water officials say they are concerned that snowpack is melting too quickly and insufficient water will remain in the Upper Klamath Basin for irrigation late in the summer.

   Snowpack in the Basin was 89 percent of historical average Wednesday. The elevation of Upper Klamath Lake Tuesday was 4,143.01 feet, 2.5 feet higher than on the same date during a 2010 drought.

   Outflows from Upper Klamath Lake Tuesday were 3,080 cubic feet per second.

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Wind Farms Cause Localized Warming At Night, But It Is Nice Eco Warming

From TORY AARDVARK.COM

Study shows that wind farms increase night time temperatures by .72 C, but do not worry because experts say this type of warming would be beneficial.

Apart from turning birds of prey into raptor mince, bursting the lungs of bats flying nearby, destroying the environment where they are manufactured, producing an unreliable electricity supply, pushing up energy costs with their lifeline of Green subsidy, wind farms now cause localised warming at night and very  large wind farms have the potential to alter weather systems as well.

A study by the University of Illinois shows that wind farms decrease day time temperatures slightly and increase night time temperatures:

Read it:

http://toryaardvark.com/2012/04/30/wind-farms-cause-localised-warming-at-night-but-it-is-nice-eco-warming/