LAT: Governors Seek Easing of Endangered Species Act

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Any San Diego DU'ers have more info on this meeting?

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The leaders of Western states meet in La Jolla to discuss how to lessen the federal law's effects on commerce and landowners.

Governors Seek Easing of Endangered Species Act

By Julie Cart and Kenneth R. Weiss, Times Staff Writers

LA JOLLA — Western governors gathered here Friday to plan with the Bush administration and members of Congress how to change the Endangered Species Act, the 31-year-old law they say has imposed costly hardships on the energy industry, developers, loggers and property owners.

Moreover, they contend, the act has failed in its core mission. Though it has saved a number of plant and animal species from extinction, it has helped restore only a few of them to healthy populations.

"Just about everybody agrees the Endangered Species Act is broken," said Rep. Richard Pombo, a Tracy, Calif., cattleman turned chairman of the House Resources Committee. "The only way you are going fix it is with legislative change."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-species4dec04,1,989974.story

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Wonder how Arnie will fall on this one. The article portrayed him as non-commital. However, I think his decision to allow Clinton's roadless rule to die probably doesn't bode well. You'd think Maria would keep him in line re: environmental protection. Actually, the environment is one area I held some hope Arnold would be more liberal.

[sd_UDO]

1. Here they are massacreing thousands of prairie dogs

In South Dakota, the State and the Feds are poisoning public and private lands to kill the prairie dogs. But when they poison the prairie dogs, they also end up killing ferrets and other animals in the food chain.

In 2004 the Auschwitz for Prairie Dogs is in Western South Dakota!

These ranchers, most of them Republican, are about as rugged and individualistic as a 3 dollar bill! A lot of them lease Federal land, one county in South Dakota has about 10% of its acres in school lands that are leased out every year for $2 or $3 an acre.

Yupp, they get subsidized with cheap land big time, and then they ask for (and get) the state and federal government to posion their acres!

It's time for a change--here's my idea--->

My message is--elect Democrats every 2 months---

Here's how we can paint ALL of California and South Dakota Ultra-Blue! This will work for any state in the USA--do this in your state- start an UDO group!

After the election, I decided to change things. I decided we needed to have our own elections-- 6 times a year!

Check out UDO!

Wanna OutBLUE people in a Red County? Check out my Yahoo Group--

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sd_democrats_UDO /

Let's start a state wide UDO (Ultra Democratic organization)--

first elections December 2004!

(Anyone can join the Yahoo group)

Thanks!