First the ivory-billed woodpecker reappeared in Arkansas, then it turned out the pink wildflower, Mount Diablo buckwheat wasn't extinct after all and now the least Bell's vireo is making a come back
Rare bird found in San Joaquin ValleyWhat does it mean?... examples of the power of remote prayer? a sign of the end times?... Not hardly! Thirty years of environmental regulations and conservation efforts have paid off. Proof that those things work and that it's worth fighting to keep the Right-wing Free-marketist from undoing it all.
The Associated Press
FRESNO, Calif. — A chatty songbird thought to have disappeared from the Central Valley 60 years ago has been spotted nesting in a patch of restored habitat along the San Joaquin River. ...
As these pay-offs of environmental regulations are hitting the news (on the back pages), the Rabidly pro-pillage Republicans are moving to undo the progress and to equate support for environmental protection with support for terrorism.
FBI: Radical-activist groups are major threat
By John Heilprin - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Environmental and animal-rights activists who have turned to arson and explosives are the nation's top domestic-terrorism threat, an FBI official told a Senate committee yesterday. ...
...Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the panel's chairman, said he hoped to examine more closely how the groups might be getting assistance in fund-raising and communications from "mainstream activists" in tax-exempt organizations.
"Just like al-Qaida or any other terrorist organization, ELF and ALF cannot accomplish their goals without money, membership and the media," Inhofe said. ...
