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Superbelt · 05-05-2005, 01:56 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science...er.found.reut/

Many people have heard of this story by now. A woodpecker that has been though of as extinct for 60 years has been "rediscovered". It has the nickname of "Lord God Bird" Because people who saw it would exclaim "Lord God, what a bird!"
The bird was discovered in a protected forest in Arkansas.
This bird requires large tracts of old growth forest for it's habitat to survive.
Gale Norton was on the tube last night talking about how huge this find was.

Today they come out with this
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...w100120D84.DTL
Basically a retraction of a last minute Clinton era rule that kept roads out of national park lands.
Bush, Industry and some states want the roads opened up for "resource recovery" and the building of attractions that would support a local tax base.

Reading the article you see that most of the areas opened up are in the west, though this rule change does make it easier for the other 2/3 of national forest lands to be invaded as well, eventually.

Why do some place greater value on a short term and temporary source of money at the expense of a permanent degradation of our last natural areas?

05-05-2005, 01:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
Superbelt This vexes me. I am terribly vexed. Location: Grantville, Pa	Ivory-Billed Woodpecker not extinct! Let's celebrate by logging more of its habitat. http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science...er.found.reut/ Many people have heard of this story by now. A woodpecker that has been though of as extinct for 60 years has been "rediscovered". It has the nickname of "Lord God Bird" Because people who saw it would exclaim "Lord God, what a bird!" The bird was discovered in a protected forest in Arkansas. This bird requires large tracts of old growth forest for it's habitat to survive. Gale Norton was on the tube last night talking about how huge this find was. Today they come out with this http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...w100120D84.DTL Basically a retraction of a last minute Clinton era rule that kept roads out of national park lands. Bush, Industry and some states want the roads opened up for "resource recovery" and the building of attractions that would support a local tax base. Reading the article you see that most of the areas opened up are in the west, though this rule change does make it easier for the other 2/3 of national forest lands to be invaded as well, eventually. Why do some place greater value on a short term and temporary source of money at the expense of a permanent degradation of our last natural areas?