May 21, 2012
PNP comment: This has been around the email lists, but worth laughing at it again! Sorry, Garfield’s cartoon picture didn’t copy. — Editor Liz Bowen
YOU GOTTA LOVE GARFIELD ‘S EXPLANATION — TOO CUTE & ALSO TOO TRUE!!!
A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.
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Well, there’s a very simple answer.
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Nobody bothered to check the oil.
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We just didn’t know we were getting low.
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The reason for that is purely geographical.
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Our OIL is located in:
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ALASKA
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California
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Coastal Florida
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Coastal Louisiana
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Coastal Alabama
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Coastal Mississippi
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Coastal Texas
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North Dakota
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Wyoming
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Colorado
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Kansas
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Oklahoma
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Pennsylvania
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And
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Texas
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Our dipsticks are located in DC
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Any Questions? Didn’t think So.
May 21, 2012
Reported on KSYC 103.9 FM
News in Jefferson Country
From the desk of Pie N Politics.com Editor Liz Bowen
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Aired by KSYC at 5:45 p.m. on May 21, 2012
News in Jefferson Country from Pie N Politics.com Editor Liz Bowen: It is time to post NO Trespassing signs on your property. Recently, Karuk Tribal Council Member Leaf Hillman has been spotted in Scott Valley and according to Hillman, he is looking to cause problems for farmers and ranchers.
There are 90 fish screens located on irrigation ditch diversions throughout Scott Valley. Monkey-wrenching is abusive and destructive.
If Hillman or anyone else crosses your private property, he is trespassing. Leaders of the Karuk Tribe have been accused of planting juvenile coho in the past and cried “fish kill” blaming others for the coho deaths.
This year, landowners must be especially vigilant, states Scott Valley Protect Our Water President Tom Pease. Carry a camera, document and report trespass to POW leaders and call 9-1-1 on all trespassers.
PNP comment: Correction: Leaf Hillman is not a Council member of the Karuk Tribe as reported. He is in employee of the Tribe. — Editor Liz Bowen
May 21, 2012
Meeting for Tuesday, May 22, 2012
6:30PM
Decision Life Church
Corner of Main and Oberlin. 1301 South Main St. Yreka
Program: Senator Ted Gaines, Republican, candidate for the California State Senate, District 1 and Nathan Arrowsmith, Democrat, candidate for Congress.
The public is encouraged to attend to meet and to learn more about these men who are asking you to send them to represent you in Sacramento and Washington DC.
Call Louise at 842-5443 for more information.
May 21, 2012
Capital Press
May 21, 2012
LONGVIEW, Wash. — Farmers and foresters were ready to voice their concerns in the hours before the congressional field hearing by the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands was convened May 21.
The Endangered Species Act has had a direct impact on farmers near forestlands, Jim Murphy, a small forestland owner in Chehalis, Wash., told the Capital Press before the hearing began.
The inability to harvest timber on private land and on federal land has driven elk herds to lower elevations in search of food, he said. The federal focus on old growth forests is leading more elk herds to farmland to graze.
Subcommittee chairman Doc Hastings, R-Wash., convened the hearing to examine how federal administering of the Northwest Forest Plan and Endangered Species Act has affected local economies, forest health and the Northern spotted owl.
In 1990, the Northern spotted owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and the Northwest federal forest management regime was established. The Northwest Forest Plan has proven to be been a failure, Hastings said in an earlier news release.
Now the White House has released a new critical habitat proposal for the owl. It would prohibit economic development in huge portions of Washington, Oregon and California.
“The Obama administration’s proposed Northwest recovery plan would increase burdensome regulations, cost thousands of jobs and place more public land off-limits, all while failing to address the spotted owl’s top predator — the barred owl,” Hastings said. “I look forward to hearing from expert witnesses on how we can replace this flawed plan with one that will not only protect the spotted owl, but will also protect private property and help restore active forest management so that local communities can prosper and forest health can be restored.”
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, whose district covers southwestern Washington, said, “I’m grateful to Chairman Hastings and the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee for hosting this hearing in a region that believes responsible forest management and sustainable, family-wage jobs can go together. I look forward to hearing from experts and local community stakeholders about the need for a better, more science-based approach to managing our forests.”
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This information and much more that you need to know about the ESA,
the Klamath River Basin, and private property rights can be found at The
Klamath Bucket Brigade’s web site – http://klamathbucketbrigade.org/index.html –
please visit today.
May 21, 2012
PNP comment: I wonder if the indoctrination will be worth the salary? — Editor Liz Bowen
The Times-Standard
May 21, 2012
More than 20,000 young people ages 15 to 25 have a chance for summer work in national forests, national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands, it was announced Friday.
In California, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, attended an event in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to kick off the summer work season.
USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment Harris Sherman and U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell kicked off the season at an event on the East Coast. They announced, along with Salazar and Sutley, $3.7 million in competitive grants for 20 projects across the country that will put more than 500 young people from diverse backgrounds and experiences to work on Bureau of Land Management lands and national forests and grasslands this summer work season.
This competitive grant initiative is being funded with $1.4 million from the BLM and the Forest Service, matched by $2.3 million raised by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation from private partners through the America’s Great Outdoors: Developing the Next Generation of Conservationists initiative.
”President Obama’s call to expand summer job opportunities for young people is helping us engage and train the next generation of natural resource professionals and build a workforce that represents all of America,” said Salazar, who visited a youth conservation corps that is conducting trail and habitat restoration in the Santa Monica Mountains. “These first experiences building trails, clearing out hazardous fuels or cleaning up rivers not only equip young people with skills for a new career but can also awaken a love for the outdoors that lasts a lifetime.”
Eight of the 20 projects announced Friday are in California and Oregon:
* Nick’s Interns: The Mattole Restoration Council will provide 30 paid conservation internships for high school and college-age young people on projects on the King’s Range National Conservation Area and adjacent lands. Project activities will be guided by established management plans and improve grassland, estuarine and forest habitats as well as riparian and in-stream conditions on the Mattole River and its headwaters tributaries.
* Employment and Mentorship of Urban Youth: BLM-California, in partnership with the Student Conservation Association, California Conservation Corps and Los Angeles Conservation Corps, will recruit 10 young adults ages 18 to 25 from underserved communities for employment in the Student Temporary Employment Program, potentially leading to career-conditional positions with the BLM.
* Sierra Native Youth Conservation Corps: At least 12 Sierra Native American youth will tackle conservation projects in the Forest Service’s Hope and Indian Valley meadows and the BLM’s Stocking Flat and Tribute Trail in Nevada City. Training on tribal language skills, native conservation restoration techniques and researching traditional use of resources and ceremonial significance of sites will also be provided.
* Promoting Careers in Southern California: At-risk youth from the Los Angeles Conservation Corps will learn about conservation by helping to remove invasive species and plant native species on the San Bernardino and Angeles national forests and on BLM preserves within the Coachella Valley in Southern California. This project was previously announced in December.
* Klamath Basin Stewardship Project: The Northwest Youth Corps will hire 50 local youth, at least 40 percent from the Klamath Tribe, to work on riparian fence building, invasive species removal, native plantings, survey completions and data management, and public lands access management. This project supports the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Upper Klamath Basin Keystone Initiative by implementing high priority stewardship projects near the city of Klamath Falls, the Wood and Sprague River systems and the Williamson Delta.
* Restoring the Future: Pathways to Careers in Conservation: Mt. Hood Community College will hire and train 30 urban youth and two crew leaders to complete essential restoration projects over two summers in the Sandy River Basin, just east of metropolitan Portland. Youth will work with agency professionals and Basin partners to gain job-readiness skills and hands-on experience in salmon habitat restoration, trail work, native plant restoration, project management and invasive-plant removal.
* Tillamook Coho Stream Restoration Project: The Tillamook School District will partner with the BLM to monitor Coho salmon stream restoration sites and collect data to assess the effectiveness of ongoing stream restoration on the Wilson, Nestucca and Trask rivers. A crew of one adult leader and five youth members will conduct aquatic invertebrate sampling, riparian fence monitoring, fish habitat evaluation, water quality sampling and analysis, and photo-point monitoring.
* Celebra las Playeras (Celebrate Shorebirds): Environment for the Americas will recruit eight Latino interns ages 18 to 25 to work with education and outreach and to engage in field research training and data collection at Forest Service and BLM sites in California, Colorado and Alaska where monitoring shorebirds is a priority.
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NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, any copyrighted
material herein is distributed without profit or payment to those who have
expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit
research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
This information and much more that you need to know about the ESA,
the Klamath River Basin, and private property rights can be found at The
Klamath Bucket Brigade’s web site – http://klamathbucketbrigade.org/index.html –
please visit today.
May 21, 2012
By Leo T. Bergeron
Siskiyou Daily News
Letter to the Editor
May 21. 2012
Montague, Calif. — Back on April 8, 2008, I spoke before the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors urging them to begin what is known as the “Coordination Protocols” which by federal and state laws require that the county have a seat at the table in all actions to implement plans by bureaucracies that affect Siskiyou County. I even ran an ad in the Siskiyou Daily News in May 2008 urging the use of “Coordination.”
Instead of the County Board of Supervisors implementing “Coordination” in 2008, Jim Cook didn’t even promote the process until the next election cycle, four years later, and now claims all the credit for “Coordination” in Siskiyou County. Yet no “Coordination” meetings have been held between the county and the state and federal bureaucracies about the Klamath River dams. You have to have the actual meetings to make it work.
We have a wolf that has wandered into Siskiyou County with the possibility of wolves coming down in the future. There are “Coordination Protocols” that can be used to protect Siskiyou County citizens, livestock and wildlife from these wolves. We presented such a plan on May 8, 2012 at the board of supervisors’ meeting.
No action was taken and my supervisor didn’t even speak during the hearing. How long do we have to wait for Siskiyou County to realize it has the law on its side?
It took four years and an election cycle for my supervisor to realize he could use “Coordination” to save the Klamath River Dams. Are we going to have to wait for another four years for him to realize that it can and should be used to protect us from the threats of wolves?
I want to be better off four years from now and that’s why I support Brandon Criss for county supervisor.
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NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, any copyrighted
material herein is distributed without profit or payment to those who have
expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit
research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
This information and much more that you need to know about the ESA,
the Klamath River Basin, and private property rights can be found at The
Klamath Bucket Brigade’s web site – http://klamathbucketbrigade.org/index.html –
please visit today.
May 21, 2012
By Mark Prado
Marin Independent Journal
Posted: 05/21/2012 06:05:14 PM PDT
Work to restored stream bed in Arroyo Creek in Forrest Knolls seen in this Sept. 29, 2010…
A Marin Superior Court judge has issued a tentative ruling largely backing the county in a lawsuit brought by a fish protection group, but left open the possibility of a building moratorium to protect endangered coho salmon.
A final ruling by Judge Lynn Duryee in the 2010 lawsuit filed by the Forest Knolls-based Salmon Protection and Watershed Network is expected in the coming weeks.
In its suit, SPAWN argued that a 2007 countywide plan failed to protect salmon habitat in the San Geronimo Valley in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act.
The county already has general rules prohibiting building within 100 feet of streams; SPAWN wants the county to immediately adopt a more expansive stream conservation area ordinance to set building rules to protect fish in areas such as the San Geronimo Valley.
The county has a plan to do that, but on its own timetable. In her tentative ruling issued last week, Duryee wrote that SPAWN is “essentially asking the county to move this program to the front of the legislative line, without regard to the other competing and diverse needs of the county’s residents. When to prepare and place for consideration the ordinance on the legislative calendar is the consummate discretionary decision. Petitioners have cited no legal authority on facts like these, to support their petition.”
She went on to write that SPAWN is “improperly” seeking to use the law to dictate when the Board of Supervisors should move forward with its plan.
“Petitioners have not sustained their burden to establish that the Board of Supervisors abused their discretion by not enacting the ordinance within the time frame indicated in the (countywide plan),” Duryee stated.
The judge noted, though, that “good cause exists to enjoin the county from approving any development applications for building within the (stream conservation areas) until the ordinance is adopted.”
That sets up the possibility that the court could order a building ban for property owners near streams. In 2008, supervisors enacted a two-year building ban that ended earlier this year, and supervisors subsequently approved the controversial San Geronimo Valley Salmon Enhancement Plan, a set of voluntary measures to protect coho salmon.
Todd Steiner, biologist and executive director of SPAWN, said the tentative ruling supports his organization’s assertions.
“This is a victory for the endangered coho salmon and the reason while we filed our lawsuit — to finally get the county to take action to protect streamside habitat from further degradation,” Steiner said. “The judge ruled that until the county takes action and passes an adequate ordinance to protect the salmon’s critical habitat, no new (building) permits should be issued. The citizens of Marin County should be really pleased that the legal system stepped up here and acted to protect this precious natural resource.”
Supervisor Steve Kinsey noted the judge’s ruling favored the county in almost all the allegations brought in the suit, but acknowledged a court-ordered moratorium would be “Draconian” and hard to swallow.
“This would affect every homeowner in the San Geronimo Valley,” said Kinsey, who represents the area, noting the county and other organizations have spent $17 million to improve fish habitat. “I’m convinced the fish will not be better off if people of the San Geronimo Valley are punished.”
May 21, 2012
NAME: SPENCE PALMER
DOB: 02/24/1955
PALMER IS A 57 Y/O MAN WHO LEFT THE AREA OF ETNA SUMMIT ON SATURDAY, MAY 19TH IN THE MORNING. PALMER WAS TO WALK ALONG THE RIDGE (ASSUMING PCT) AND WAS ENROUTE TO THE KIDDER CREEK AREA. PALMER ADVISED HIS SON HE WOULD BE HOME BY DINNER TIME ON SATURDAY. PALMER IS AN EXPERIENCED HIKER TO BE IN REPORTEDLY GOOD HEALTH
ANY INFORMATION TO BE FORWARDED TO SISKIYOU COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT SEARCH AND RESCUE AT 841-2900
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