Bush alters scientific land use facts: "It's a crime" says study author

[Bluebear]

The Bush administration altered critical portions of a scientific analysis of the environmental impact of cattle grazing on public lands before announcing Thursday that it would relax regulations limiting grazing on those lands, according to scientists involved in the study.

A government biologist and a hydrologist, who both retired this year from the Bureau of Land Management, said their conclusions that the proposed new rules might adversely affect water quality and wildlife, including endangered species, were excised and replaced with language justifying less stringent regulations favored by cattle ranchers....

"This is a whitewash. They took all of our science and reversed it 180 degrees," said Erick Campbell, a former BLM state biologist in Nevada and a 30-year bureau employee who retired this year. He was the author of sections of the report pertaining to the effect on wildlife and threatened and endangered species.

"They rewrote everything," Campbell said in an interview this week. "It's a crime."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050618/ts_latimes/landstudyongrazingdenounced

[Cha]

1. bush has got his

fucking "heil hitler" salute goin' on in that pic.

[cynatnite]

2. Fixing the facts once again n/t

[jasmeel]

3. Is there anything anyone can do? This stuff makes me so angry.

Skip it. DOn't do the fucking science. Then we wouldn't have to vomit when they skew all the results to their liking! Someone should ask * or Scottie that question at a press conference. Why do you bother doing science to only proceed to change the results to fit your fucking corporate interests????

[Dudley_DUright]

8. Now you know why there was an organization of leading scientists

working against Bush before the 2004 election.

[edhopper]

4. And why

aren't these people in jail?

[achtung_circus]

5. When the grass goes

everything goes. A good rancher understands that he isn't raising beef, he's raising grass, then turning it into beef. When the bulk of your land base isn't yours, you have no incentive to act responsibly, you overgraze, with government blessing, apparently, and the ecosystem crashes.

[fooj]

6. This makes me sooo angry!

:grr:

[MasonJar]

7. I hate these people for what they are doing to our world. How

dare they? Who made them God?

[sakabatou]

9. delete

[sakabatou]

10. Has this administration done anything that isn't a crime?

Didn't think so.