BLM ignoring wildlife, focus on drilling

[montana500]

public lands news like this updated daily at www.wilderness-sportsman.com (news section)


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11488575

"PINEDALE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management, caretaker of more land and wildlife than any federal agency, routinely restricts the ability of its own biologists to monitor wildlife damage caused by surging energy drilling on federal land, according to BLM officials and bureau documents.

The officials and documents say that by keeping many wildlife biologists out of the field doing paperwork on new drilling permits and that by diverting agency money intended for wildlife conservation to energy programs, the BLM has compromised its ability to deal with the environmental consequences of the drilling boom it is encouraging on public lands.

Here on the high sage plains of western Wyoming, often called the Serengeti of the West because of large migratory herds of deer and antelope, the Pinedale region has become one of the most productive and profitable natural gas fields on federal land in the Rockies. With the aggressive backing of the Bush administration, many members of Congress and the energy industry, at least a sixfold expansion in drilling is likely here in the coming decade."

[ThomCat]

1. Damn. No surprise. But still, Damn.

x( @$#%@^ :mad:

:grr::banghead:

[acmejack]

2. Of course, Silly, they're the Bureau of LAND Management

Now if they were the Bureau of Wildlife Management Creatures and such would fall within their purview, but as it is, obviously the founding fathers in their wisdom, knew the Creator, in all his beneficence had adequately provided for their needs.

[mitchtv]

3. Sad really, sad

But you understand scientists might say the wrong thing.
They got what they voted for. They thought it would only hurt blue states.