Bush only Listens to Welfare Ranchers

[JoseCuervo]

Here is an interesting comment from the Western Watersheds website. Here you find a Middle of the Road organziation that acknowledges Bush won't listen to its members. It must be fun to be the President, living in an Ivory Oil Derrick.

Don't Bother Bush, He will ignore you.....

Bureau of Land Management Proposes New Grazing Regulations and Publishes A Draft Environmental Impact statement To Go With Them

In mid-December 2003, the Bush administration's Department of the Interior issued draft grazing regulations for 170,000,000 acres of public lands administered by the BLM which change and amend BLM grazing regulations approved in 1995 by the Clinton administration.
The proposed new rules drastically alter and reduce public involvement, give title to installations and water rights on public lands to private ranchers, and ensure that necessary management changes are delayed almost indefinitely if the BLM determines that livestock grazing is causing a failure to comply with minimum standards for uplands and riparian areas on public lands across the West.

All in all these proposed rules represent an enormous roll back of environmental protection of our public lands, and are to be expected in the context of President Bush's environmental record.

Interested readers can review the proposed rules and the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) at these two URLs:
http://www.blm.gov/nhp/news/releases/pages/2003/pr031205_grazing.htm
http://www.blm.gov/nhp/news/releases/pages/2004/pr040102_grazing.htm

WWP will be providing extensive comments on these proposed rules and the DEIS by the March 2, 2004 deadline for comments, but at this time WWP does not recommend that readers send in comments to the BLM.

There are two reasons for not responding to these proposed rules: 1. WWP anticipates litigating these rules when they are finalized later this year, and 2. the Bush administration listens only to ranchers and their allies when it comes to public comment.

WWP suggests readers contact their Congressional Representatives and their Senators (instead of the BLM) to object to these rule changes and to the Bush administration's general attack on the environment and environmental law and regulations put into place over the last 35 years by non-partisan agreement.

 

[pawclaws]

Maybe they should have bitched to Clinton about Clinton's rules rather than to Bush about Clinton's rules!

 

[JoseCuervo]

I don't think anybody is bitching about Clinton's rules to Bush. Just so you can keep up, the problem is Bush's roll back of Clinton's rules that protected our rights to hunt on public lands.

 

[pawclaws]

Well gee whiz he shouldn't do that; expecially if it's a right and more especially if it's your right. But you know I could have sworn it was Clinton's administration that enacted the controls.