Reply #18: This group embodies the myopic, disastrous focus of most "environmental" groups [View All]

[txlibdem]

Each of these groups seems to have their own little niche, a singular focus on one tiny corner or one species, and will fight with all their might to "win" for their cause no matter the consequences for the rest of the world.

This group casts a wider net than most:

The mission of Western Watersheds Project is to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation.

Western Watersheds Project is a non-profit conservation group founded in 1993 with 1600 members and with field offices in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and California. WWP�s headquarters is located in Hailey, Idaho and the group works to influence and improve public lands management in 8 western states with a primary focus on the negative impacts of livestock grazing on 250,000,000 acres of western public lands. WWP has an annual budget in 2007 of $650,000.

WWP works in partnership with the Oregon Natural Desert Association in Oregon, Forest Guardians in New Mexico, the Center for Biological Diversity in Arizona, the American Lands Alliance in Washington, D.C; and the Larch Company in Ashland, Oregon. With these groups WWP co-founded the National Public Lands Grazing Campaign that supports federal legislation for a generous and voluntary federal grazing permit buyout program to compensate ranchers and restore public lands. Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona sponsors that legislation.

WWP�s long-term partner in our efforts to bring the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service into compliance with national environmental laws is the non-profit environmental law firm Advocates For The West in Boise, Idaho.

http://www.westernwatersheds.org/wwpinfo/aboutwwp.html

They seem to be in earnest about protecting their turf from any and all activities of man including grazing, thinning the predator populations, etc. The problem is, if these type groups succeed in blocking the massive expansion of solar power in the southwest that we need to avoid most of the catastrophic effects of global climate change, the death toll to other species will be incalculable. Ocean acidification will cause extinctions of massive numbers of sea creatures. Rising seas will destroy wetland habitats in several states, causing extinction of some of the unique species there. Desertification will endanger or cause extinction for incalculable numbers of species that are now living in other parts of the southwest.

So by saving their target species they are, in effect, the executioner for thousands more species elsewhere. Who elected them God?!?