MAN vs NATURE "Here goes lumber from the Maine woods ... pine, spruce, cedar, - first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou..." - Henry David Thoreau, 1845. Washington, DC (March, 2010) In a decision long anticipated by sportsmen and conservationists alike, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the greater sage grouse will be designated a candidate species for listing under the Endangered Species Act. “The loss of native shrub-steppe rangelands means the loss of wildlife populations; unstable watersheds and degraded water quality; reduced livestock grazing; and more costly fire fighting. If measures are not taken to reverse the downward trend in sage- grouse populations, which are now near the threshold of being listed as an endangered or threatened species, they will continue to decline, as will other shrub-steppe obligate species.”
MAN vs NATURE. "Here goes lumber from the Maine woods ... pine, spruce, cedar, - first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou..." - Henry David Thoreau, 1845. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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MAN vs NATURE"Here goes lumber from the Maine woods ... pine, spruce, cedar, - first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou..."
- Henry David Thoreau, 1845.Washington, DC (March, 2010) In a decision long anticipated by sportsmen and conservationists alike, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the greater sage grouse will be designated a candidate species for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
“The loss of native shrub-steppe rangelands means the loss of wildlife populations; unstable watersheds and degraded water quality; reduced livestock grazing; and more costly fire fighting. If measures are not taken to reverse the downward trend in sage-grouse populations, which are now near the threshold of being listed as an endangered or threatened species, they will continue to decline, as will other shrub-steppe obligate species.”
MAN vs NATURE" Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day”
- Gifford Pinchot
Emergency Federal listing of the Columbia Basin distinct population segment of the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) occurred in 2001. The population subsequently appears to have been extirpated from the wild by 2004 and there are no known pygmy rabbits remaining in the wild in Washington at this time.
“Shrub-steppe is grassland that has a conspicuous brush layer, normally sagebrush. There's a whole suite of species that evolved in shrub-steppe and depend on it, sage grouse, sharp-tail grouse, pygmy rabbit, burrowing owl, jackrabbit and several species of song birds. Some of these are threatened or endangered, or candidates for it.“
- Don Larsen, wildlife biologist for the Lands Division of Fish and Wildlife
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has a new initiative for eligible producers to receive up to three years of payments for retaining sage-grouse habitat In addition, practices to improve sage-grouse habitat may be applied with funding through the federal Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP), which typically pays up to 75 percent of the costs."Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught.
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.“
" All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster”
-Barack Obama
“The loss of native shrub-steppe rangelands means the loss of wildlife populations; unstable watersheds and degraded water quality; reduced livestock grazing; and more costly fire fighting. If measures are not taken to reverse the downward trend in sage-grouse populations, which are now near the threshold of being listed as an endangered or threatened species, they will continue to decline, as will other shrub-steppe obligate species.”