Fish And Wildlife Service Announces Removal Of
Federal Protections For Yellowstone’s Grizzly Bears

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After three decades of Endangered Species Act protections, today the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced it is removing the Yellowstone grizzly bear population from its status as “threatened” on the U.S. list of threatened and endangered species.

Grizzly bears have made remarkable progress since wavering on the brink of extinction a mere 30 years ago due solely to the protections afforded by the federal government. The good work of the federal agency’s endangered species success story will not be allowed to continue, however, if the final delisting decision has not resolved on-going threats to long-term population survival.

If the decision was based on the draft plan, three issues that needed to be addressed are:

1. No hard and fast enforcement standards. The draft plan relied on enforceable habitat standards on the national forests when the U.S. Forest Service has just adopted a new forest plan rule that says there are no forest plan standards, just guidelines.

2. No formal monitoring of food sources. The draft admitted there is a long-term concern with bear food sources because of disease (white bark pine blister rust) and climate (army cutworm moth sites being lost), tournois poker en lignepoker comle poker a t�l�charger gratuitementjeu de video poker gratuitesjouer poker omaha en lignejeu au pokerune r�gle du jeu de pokereverst poker netpoker en ligne debutantmastery series texas holdemcomment bien jouer au pokerregles de jeux du pokert�l�charger gratuitement jeu de poker en lignepoker casino bonusjeux frjeu de poker pour pcdescarga juego pokercaribbean poker paginas web,caribbean poker portal web,caribbean pokerjugar poker internet,juego poker,jugar poker webpoker texas holdem gratiscaribbean poker onlinejuegos pc pokermejor juego pokerjugar poker en internetpolli poquerdescarga juego de pokertexas holdem game7 card stud gratisstrep poker on linejuegos de poker texasjuegos streep pokerjuegos flash pokerdescarga gratis juegos pokerpoker para pcbwin pokerpoquer en lineajuego del poker en lineapoquer onlinecard game pokerapuestas onlinejuego al instante portales internetpoker gratis sin dineropoker downloadrevista pokerpoker pagina internetcaribbean poker portal webjuego cartasjugar poquer webpai gow poker portal internetplay poker omaha free but has no standards for monitoring food sources or plan for what to do about them if they are lost.

3. No funding source for future monitoring. The draft acknowledges that post-delisting, federal and state agencies will need to make additional financial commitments to monitor habitat, population numbers, and other bear factors. But, there has been no commitment from any agencies to provide the money. All the monitoring promises could become hollow promises with no funding to allow action.

This approach simply will not work for a species that is the second slowest reproducing mammal in North America, and one that is very dependent on large areas of secure habitat.

We need to be particularly careful with the future of grizzly bears. While federal and state agencies have done a commendable job of recovering bears over the last 30 years, there will be a natural tendency—if delisted—to declare victory, move on to other issues, and forget about the great bear. We must have an enforceable plan, with clear standards, and secure funding. Without these three critical components, we cannot take the risk of delisting.

Notification of the delisting of the Yellowstone population of grizzly bears will be published in the Federal Register in the near future. Once we have the opportunity to analyze the final plan, we will provide you with our comments and action, if any.

More information about today’s announcement can be found at:
http://mountain-prairie.fws.gov/species/mammals/grizzly/yellowstone.htm

Background Information about the delisting the grizzly bear can be found on our website at:
http://greateryellowstone.org/issues/issue.php?threatID=7
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The Pocatello Field office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees the management of more than 600,000 acres of public lands in southeast Idaho – lands, which include critical habitat for sage grouse, Yellowstone cutthroat trout, winter range for deer and elk, and a wide variety of other wildlife species. The BLM’s proposed management of valued areas envisions more mining, leasing for oil and gas, and more motorized uses. With your help we can let the BLM know that there are better choices and a better future for the public’s land.

For more information on how you can get involved click the link below:

http://action.greateryellowstone.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7111  

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The Pocatello Field office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees the management of more than 600,000 acres of public lands in southeast Idaho – lands, which include critical habitat for sage grouse, Yellowstone cutthroat trout, winter range for deer and elk, and a wide variety of other wildlife species. The BLM’s proposed management of valued areas envisions more mining, leasing for oil and gas, and more motorized uses. With your help we can let the BLM know that there are better choices and a better future for the public’s land.

For more information on how to get involved visit the following link:

http://action.greateryellowstone.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7111

I notice that the new t.v. cop show, “Raines” as well as the new gangster show, “The Black Donnellys” premiered a couple of weeks ago. Let’s see, we have 3 versions of  “CSI” and about 6 imitators, 3 versions of  “Law and Order”,  2 or three psychic detectives,  1 funny private eye, (Andy Richter) 3 or 4 shows just about lawyers, reality shows about cops, (Cops) stupid cops (Reno 911), shows about gangsters (The Sopranos, The Wire, The Black Donnellys).  With the exception of Richter’s show, we can’t seem to get enough of crime. Or has Hollywood run out of ideas?

There are several fair choices in the field now but I am hoping for a dark horse!

The war is dragging on, but do we pull out? What could the real difference be?

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