On Wednesday, May 9, Mark Baird will be interviewed on a San Francisco radio station.

Mark is vice-president of Scott Valley Protect Our Water

and with his wife, Cyndi, owns Wild Rose Frisian Horse Ranch

and also run buffalo in Quartz Valley.

Time for the interview is: 9:30 a.m.

Discussion will be on WOLVES in SISKIYOU COUNTY!

Why are the wolf-lovers, Greenies and government agencies trying to introduce wolves native to Canada to much warmer, drier California climate?

These wolves are much too large.

There is not enough natural prey in California for these large wolves.  The State Dept. of Fish and Game said so over 10 years ago. They will be eating our pets and livestock.

These a some Canadian wolves:

PNP comment: Come “walk a mile in our shoes” and watch your pets and livestock slaughtered. These wolves were never “native” to Siskiyou. These are CANADIAN huge wolves. The SF Gate is so insensitive in telling us how we should live, without living here! — Editor Liz Bowen

Fear of the big bad wolf has taken hold of a few politicians in Siskiyou County, who have introduced an ordinance to ban the predators.

The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider a proposed law Tuesday that would “prohibit the presents of wolves in Siskiyou County.”

The misspelled ordinance, written by Leo Bergeron, the president of the Siskiyou County Water Users Association, was not referring to wolf welcome gifts, but the presence of wolves in the county.

The law would declare wolves, wolf hybrids and wolf dogs to be “injurious, detrimental and damaging to the county and its inhabitants” and an “imminent danger to individuals, families and the lives of others.”

It would also presumably allow ranchers to shoot California’s only wolf, the first of his species in the state in almost 90 years.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/07/BAI51OELDV.DTL#ixzz1uLXPyL42

Needed:    Concerned citizens to attend

Trial

of

Siskiyou Co. Farm Bureau

Vs

CA. Dept. of Fish and Game

Over the 1602   Streambed  Alteration Permit

9 a.m.

Wednesday — May 9, 2012

Siskiyou Co. Courthouse

Basement court room

IN THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA—- DOUG LAMALFA WILL MAKE THE BEST REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS TO SERVE ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE DISTRICT

Posted on May 8, 2012

By:  Fred Kelly Grant        May 8, 2012

http://fkgpoliticsatrandom.com/

NOTE:  This post replaces the LaMalfa endorsement posted a few minutes earlier.  Why?  Because the author still has not developed any digital talent or skill; so he “copied and pasted” the wrong way.  PLEASE BELIEVE ME THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE AS ENDORSEMENT FOR DOUG LAMALFA!!

SPECIAL NOTE:  I was not asked to endorse Senator LaMalfa by him or anyone supporting him.  This is a race that is very important to me because of the decades of work that I have put in to help local governments protect their citizens, and to help landowners throughout the nation.  California is special; I have worked with some special people there; they deserve good, sound Tenth Amendment type representation in Congress.  And, frankly, I deserve to have Congressmen who truly believe in the Tenth Amendment, and SO DO YOU.   Doug LaMalfa is one candidate that I have met and firmly believe will be “one of us” in the next session of Congress, which may be the most critical session since World War II.

Doug LaMalfa for Congressman of California’s First Congressional District—that’s my advice to California voters.  I make this endorsement and urge my friends to vote for LaMalfa so that we can add a Congressman who stresses the importance of private property rights—-a Congressman who understands and will protect the Constitutional authority of local governments to meaningfully engage federal agencies to protect citizens’ rights—-a Congressman who believes in a limited federal government and will work to achieve sensible oversight of federal regulatory authority.  LaMalfa’s record in the California state senate proves he will be that kind of Congressman.

During the past two years I have spent much time in California’s north state, and have made many friends there.  My friends and their neighbors need a strong voice in Congress who will steadfastly work to protect their water rights, to protect them from further regulatory encroachment of their property rights, and to restore the natural resource production that federal agencies have shut down.   I have studied LaMalfa’s record in the California state senate, I have talked to him personally and to people he has helped.  I have no doubt that he is the only candidate who can  AND WILL make the fight and stick with it.

In the state senate he has proven that he understands the full scope and danger of Agenda 21—and the tentacles of that agenda that reach to every property right that our Founders secured for us in the Constitution.  Now that Agenda 21 is on citizens’ radars, the real struggle is against the secret spread of its strangulation of the free market system, of individual rights.  LaMalfa has proven to have a thorough knowledge of Agenda 21 and how it can be sneaked into federal legislation and agency actions and regulations.  That understanding will be critical in this next session of Congress when once again we can expect attacks on individual water rights and on local natural resource economies.

LaMalfa’s knowledge and fortitude come not just from experience in public service—he is an actual farmer, a fourth generation farmer, who knows first-hand how to use money and resources wisely.  He knows that as a legislator he must guard against over-spending and over-regulating, because, as a farmer himself, he has felt the impact of legislation.  It is important that we have Congressmen who “get it” about the struggle for survival by rural Americans, who is “one of us” in trying to preserve the traditions and culture that have made this nation strong.  A real farmer himself, LaMalfa does “get it” and will work hard to return the rural north state to a progressive economy.

His senate record also shows that he is not just an “office legislator”; he gets his hands dirty in his efforts to help constituents in their battle with bureaucrats.  He took action to require meetings with the Director of the Department of Fish and Game to resolve issues like the Carver diversion that is well known to north staters.  He personally went with Fish and Game personnel to inspect the site in his efforts to resolve the issues.  That kind of Congressman we can count on for personal involvement with agencies to resolve issues as to use of water and land rights.

LaMalfa was known for his “open door” policy in the state senate, where he was ready to meet with constituents and discuss their problems—while other legislators’ doors along the halls were closed.  His policy was in place because he understands the nature of the issues and is not afraid to discuss them and to act on them.  That’s the kind of Congressman we need in DC.

One of the major issues facing the north state is the proposed destruction of the dams on the Klamath River—destruction that makes no common sense, no energy sense, no financial sense.  Destruction will not restore the salmon; the destruction of the dams on the Rogue River and the fish deaths resulting from release of heavy metal-filled silt prove that.  The government’s studies, paid for by tax dollars, admit that.

Destruction of the dams will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in decades of projects that will try to restore the salmon habitat.  One wonders about the sense of that.  If the dams are to be destroyed in order to “return the salmon”, at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, then why is it necessary to spend hundreds more millions of dollars for projects to “restore the salmon”?  To paraphrase the words of a famous U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter used in pointing out the futility of a government proposal, the government will march the troops up the hill in order to march them down again:  We will destroy the dams so that we can give hundreds of millions of dollars to select, special interest groups, to use to try to restore what we lose when the dams are destroyed.  And, one wonders “why are in a federal debt situation so drastic”?

Doug LaMalfa sees the fundamental flaw in this proposal, and always has!!  So does the Secretary of Interior, but it is about the money—this is an opportunity to reward special interest groups for their political support.  That’s the kind of extra, superfluous expense that the Congress should stop.  LaMalfa, I believe, will be the kind of Congressman who works diligently to stop such costly useless spending!

One of the dams proposed for destruction generates electric power that lights Siskiyou County and much of the north state.  It makes no sense to destroy that clean power generator, at a time when the nation desires freedom from middle-eastern oil.  It makes no common, energy or fiscal sense.  Destruction of the dams is just another example of a federal government run rampant, making decisions for special interests rather than for hard working citizens.  Every government study, paid for by tax dollars, now shows that destruction makes no sense.

From day one of the issue, LaMalfa has opposed the destruction.   He has neither waivered nor wriggled from that position. As a working farmer, he knows the importance of the dams and the storage of water to late summer farm production; he understands the waste of land that will result from silt devastation.  He understands the water rights problems that will result from destruction regardless of what proponents of the “Agreement” say.  So, he has steadfastly opposed destruction.

On the other hand, one of his opponents, Sam Aanestad, advocated for destruction.  A newspaper article published on September 6, 2009 reported that Aanestad supported a state water bond and intended for it to include enough money to support destruction of the dams, including the hydroelectric generator.  Since that time, he has tried to circle the barn and make his support of destruction less obvious.    That is a stark contrast between candidates.  LaMalfa opposes destruction openly, and has from the very beginning of the discussion.

The dam destruction issue is of pre-eminent importance because Congress has the authority to prevent the destruction, and the First District can help create a House that will vote to block destruction.  If LaMalfa is nominated, and then elected, the House will have one more vote to prevent dam destruction.

As a farmer, LaMalfa knows how unnecessarily severe environmental regulations can force a farm owner out of business; he knows that a farm can lose its viability if legislation does not include protection of water and other private property rights.   The California Farm Bureau Federation has endorsed him because as a state legislator he fought for property rights and for an increase of the water supply to be available to all Californians.  The Farm Bureau President Paul Wengert says:   “In these tough economic times and in a contentious political environment, Doug stands up for what he believes in and knows how to get things done. Washington, D.C., could use a dose of clear thinking and solid work ethic from this California farmer.”  Amen!!

The Farm Bureau closely watches all members of the state legislature and their work ethic; its endorsement demonstrates that the Federation believes that of the state legislators running for this Congressional seat, LaMalfa is the best candidate.  That is a very telling endorsement.

Those who know me, know that I have spent decades working to help local governments implement their authority under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.  In my personal meeting with LaMalfa, he assured me that he recognizes and will work for strengthening the authority of local government and officials, and for limiting the authority of the federal government to interfere in local issues.  I looked at him eye to eye, and believed him.  That belief is corroborated by his endorsement by the ten north state sheriffs.  I well know Sheriffs Dean Wilson of Del Norte and Jon Lopey of Siskiyou, and am proud that I can call them friends.  I know OF the other Sheriffs and know that all of them are dedicated to implementing the local law enforcement authority reserved to the counties by the Tenth Amendment.  The fact that these men, all of whom know LaMalfa and his opponents, endorsed LaMalfa shows me that they are certain that he will support their efforts and will work to limit the federal government in order to strengthen local government.  My belief is also corroborated by the endorsements he has received from elected officials from 14 counties, including Jim Cook and Mike Kobseff of Siskiyou who I know and respect for their hard work in combatting bureaucracy.

From the law enforcement standpoint, LaMalfa has also been endorsed by Crime Victims United because of his dedication as a legislator to assisting law enforcement officers and the victims of crimes.  This endorsement together with that of the Sheriffs demonstrates that LaMalfa will be a strong voice for law enforcement and the victims of crime in the House of Representatives.   With my background in criminal law, I obviously will endorse a candidate who has the will to stand for good, sound law enforcement—not bowing to the politically correct demands for more consideration for violators.

And, perhaps most important of all, LaMalfa attracts support from young people.  For example, the Placer County Young Republicans have endorsed him.  The future of this nation is in the hands of  youth; only they can return the United States of America to the robust, vital bastion of liberty that it has always been.  LaMalfa will be a Congressman with whom young voters and citizens can relate.  It is important that we have members of the House who understand youth and their issues, and who can serve to motivate youth to participate in the election and governmental process.   The endorsement by young voters demonstrates to me that LaMalfa will indeed be a moving influence on youth.

I recognize that Congressman McClintock has endorsed LaMalfa’s opponent Sam Aanestad.  I must confess I do not understand that decision.  In fact, I am mystified by the endorsement.  I respect Congressman McClintock and appreciate his support for local government and delight in the trouble he causes for federal regulatory agencies.

He obviously wants someone from the 1^st District to fight the same fight he does.  I don’t blame him.  But, in my opinion, and in the opinion of the California Farm Bureau, the north state Sheriffs, Crime Victims United, a prominent young republican organization,  taxpayer organizations and elected officials from 14 counties, Doug LaMalfa is that man!  I agree with them all!

I firmly believe that Doug LaMalfa will be a determined fighter in the battle to stop the loss of rights through Agenda 21 and the Federal Government’s takeover of Rural America.  LaMalfa has stood on the front lines in the state senate and unwaveringly fought to protect rural Californians water and property rights.  Who could better move that fight to the United States House of Representatives?  As a farmer he knows the value of hard work and resource stewardship. As a legislator he knows the value of telling the truth, and avoiding tax and regulatory over-reach—those are virtues we need more of in DC. There is no doubt in my mind that Doug LaMalfa is the best choice for Northern Californians in the 1^stCongressional District.  I look forward to working with him, for rural Californians and all of rural America for many years to come!

SISKIYOU COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE DAILY REPORT

May 8, 2012

On May 7, 2012 at about 7:30 p.m. the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) received a call of a missing 82 year-old male adult.  According to his family, the man suffers from a medical condition and is at risk.  He  reportedly walked away from his residence on Miners Creek, just outside Etna. The elderly male is approximately 5’8’’ and 150 pounds with grey hair and hazel eyes. He was last seen wearing a long-sleeve gray Henley-type shirt, dark grey sweatpants, and brown shoes with Velcro straps.

The Sheriff’s Office dispatched patrol deputies to Miners Creek to begin a ground search and shortly thereafter, the Sheriff’s Search and  Rescue (SAR) Team was activated and supplemented the search efforts along with the Fort Jones Fire Department. The search continued throughout the night.  New SAR  members assumed the search in the morning and additional support was obtained from other law enforcement agencies. 

At this time, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Posse, searching on horseback, Sheriff’s Dive Team, searching local waterways and reservoirs, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office SAR, the Klamath County Sheriff’s Office SAR, and the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office SAR are actively participating in the comprehensive search effort with the SCSO SAR team. 

Canine teams and the California Highway Patrol H-14 helicopter crew also joined the search on Tuesday afternoon.  According to Sheriff Jon Lopey, “I want to thank the many law enforcement, fire, SAR, and Posse volunteers participating in this extensive search effort. 

As of late afternoon today (Tuesday) the lost man has not been found but we are doing everything we can to find him and return him safely to his family.  Please call the SCSO Dispatch at 841-2900,  if you have information or observe someone matching his description.”

PNP comment: So this was President Carter’s doing! — Editor Liz Bowen

By Joshua Rhett Miller

Published May 08, 2012

FoxNews.com

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/08/environmental-groups-paid-millions-by-federal-agencies-sue-studies-show/?test=latestnews#ixzz1uKaMgGcR

PNP comment: This Russian has it right! — Editor Liz Bowen

Inspectors $lap bagel shop for seeds

By KEVIN FASICK and DAVID SEIFMAN

Last Updated: 2:11 PM, May 8, 2012

Posted: 2:27 AM, May 7, 2012

Any way you slice it, this is one seedy dispute.

A Health Department inspector bizarrely slapped a Brooklyn bagel shop with $1,650 in fines — because sesame and poppy seeds fell to the floor while the bagels were being made during working hours.

The owner of B&B Empire Bagel Cafe — who appealed the violations and lost at two separate hearings — says the inspectors must have holes in their heads.

How is he supposed to make seeded bagels without some of the tiny goods spilling onto the ground?

“It is impossible to clean up after each and every bagel,” declared Alex Gormakh, 59, who manages the Clinton Sreet. shop. “It is impossible. It is a process.”

Gabriella Bass

A ‘FINE’ MESS: Seed spillage is just part of making bagels, says B&B Empire Cafe owner Alex Gormakh, who has been fined $1,650 by the city for incidental infractions like fallen sesames.

Gabriella Bass

A ‘FINE’ MESS: Seed spillage is just part of making bagels, says B&B Empire Cafe manager Alex Gormakh, who has been fined $1,650 by the city for incidental infractions like fallen sesames.

To demonstrate, Gormakh placed two poppy and sesame bagels on a table near his $60,000 wood-burning oven, where they are baked “Montreal style” — smaller and chewier than their New York cousins.

“Look,” explained Gormakh, “a few seeds are always going to be dropped when you are dipping the bagel in the seeds. They don’t all stick like glue.”

“Now imagine the seeds from 100 bagels. Any place where bagels are produced will have these problems.”

Still, city regulators were unsympathetic.

A Health Department spokeswoman said the bagel shop was cited on Oct. 23, 2011, for “a heavy accumulation of seeds in the same area that many mouse droppings were found.”

No mice were detected in an earlier inspection on Aug. 1, 2011, and none were found in the latest inspection on April 5, when B&B was awarded the highest cleanliness grade of “A.”

Now, Gormakh and his son, Max, 34, have invested close to $900,000 in larger stainless steel preparation tables — in hopes of containing seed fallout — and an expensive water-filter vacuum to suck up the seeds from the floor.

“It is still not profitable, but it is close,” said Gormakh, who moved his family here from Russia in 1995 and opened his store last June.

The money to settle the violations “would be better spent on further developing the restaurant,” he argued.

Gormakh appears resigned to the higher cost of doing business in this city.

“If you want to work you have to pay,” he concluded. “In Russia, they call it corruption. Here they call it something else. Either way, you have to pay.”

kfasick@nypost.com

Read more:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/hole_lotta_woe_ZiMZI5vmYZu7KP98sCewkL#ixzz1uKZVehKC

PNP comment: Flawed science is being used to promote dam removal. Outrageous. — Editor Liz Bowen

Environmentalists have persuaded the Department of the Interior to remove four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River. These dams not only provide clean, green energy to the Klamath community, they sustain area ranches and farms with continual access to water. An environmentalist’s dream, right?

But the fish! We must always put fish ahead of people!

It seems that once upon a time, salmon would migrate upstream the Klamath River to spawn, a process that has become interrupted by the dams. For several decades, ranching and farming families have relied upon the steady stream of not only water, but also renewable energy provided by the dams. Destroying the dams would destroy these people’s livelihoods.

Grace Bennett, the board chair for the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors, says:

“With the dams gone, it will impact our area … because there won’t be enough water in our river. It will not be a matter of when you irrigate, or how much you irrigate; it’ll be a matter of can you irrigate? Can you do these things? And if we don’t have the dams in, to give the water for the fish that return, and we’re taking that water from our farmers and ranchers, we won’t have any farmers and ranchers.”

What is the government’s obsession with prioritizing fish over people? This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this sort of thing in California. The Delta Smelt has destroyed much of the farming community in central California, because the ugly bugger ended up on the endangered species list and politicians decided to cut off the water from the San Joaquin Valley to the farmlands in order to ‘save’ it.

Now the salmon need saving too. Except maybe they don’t. It’s hard to tell, with all the twisted ‘evidence’ going into the decision-making process over the removal of the dams. Professor Paul Houser was a science advisor to the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation before he was fired for alleging “that the Obama administration intentionally falsified scientific fact in a proposal for dam removal in the Klamath River.”

Debbie Bacigalupi, a 5th generation rancher whose family depends on the dams to sustain their ranch, says, “The reason they want to take out the dams, the Klamath River dams, is because they claim, the government and special interest groups claim that the Coho salmon is an endangered species and that it’s indigenous, even though we have Department of Fish and Game records saying that the fish is non-native. It doesn’t even belong here.”

So much for progress.

PNP comment: Obama administration is finally seeing the writing-on-the-wall? — Editor Liz Bowen

By Paul Foy

Associated Press

Oil drilling in the Red Wash area near Vernal Utah.

Deseret News archives

SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday announced the approval of a major natural gas drilling project in Utah that the Obama administration says will support more than 4,000 jobs during its development while safeguarding critical wildlife habitat and air quality.

During an appearance outside Salt Lake City, Salazar said Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. would be allowed to develop up to 3,675 new gas wells over the next decade in eastern Utah.

“It will help power the American economy,” Salazar said.

The move comes at a time when the Obama administration is under fire from critics who say his energy plan falls short and is hurting job growth and the economy with undue opposition to new drilling. The administration says the attacks are political rhetoric.

Natural gas production in the U.S. grew by more than 7 percent in 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The agency says that’s the largest year-to-year increase in history, surpassing a previous production record set in 1973.

One of the five top producers of natural gas in the U.S., Anadarko is set to work in an area about 170 miles southeast of Salt Lake City near the Colorado border that has thousands of other wells. It’s taking over some existing drill pads, with plans to use directional drilling to reach farther for gas pockets.

Anadarko agreed not to drill along the high cliffs of the White River, the last major free-flowing river on the Colorado Plateau. It also agreed to buy 640 acres of private land along the river for conservation, said Steve Bloch, staff attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, which worked with the Interior Department, along with the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, to reduce the project’s impact.

Salazar and U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey praised Anadarko for working to protect the environment.

“Anadarko is one of those companies that get it,” Abbey said.

Read more:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765574499/Salazar-approves-Utah-gas-wells.html