FRONT PAGE msnbc: Grizzlies to be taken off endangered list

[montana500]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9996768/

MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 10:57 a.m. ET Nov. 15, 2005
WASHINGTON - Noting that the grizzly bear population in the Yellowstone area has thrived in recent years, the Bush administration on Tuesday announced that it plans to remove federal protections for the animals in the areas around the national park.

“A population that was once plummeting towards extinction is now recovered,” Interior Secretary Gale Norton said in making the announcement. “These bears are now no longer endangered” and should be removed from the Endangered Species Act listing.

The Interior Department, through the Fish and Wildlife Service, implements the Endangered Species Act.


“We are sure that these bears will have the habitat that they need,” Norton added.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I hope the bears move in with Norton and she doesn't feel endangered!

I will fight this. Too bad MSNBC doesn't provide the link for public comment.

[Botany]

2. 600 hundred of them in yellowstone .......

...... and most of then follow natural migration patterns out of
the park ..... so some rich white guy can shoot them

[electropop]

3. So, Cheney's going on a hunting trip?

Too bad his hunting buddy passed away. Perhaps there are 8 more SCOTUS people who'd enjoy some gourmet vittles and Smoky-blasting. There's an impeachment coming up and he's gonna need all the help he can get.

[texpatriot2004]

4. Thanks Montana500 I can always count on you to help the Earth

and its creatures.

[montana500]

5. no problem.

My only question is, why does stuff Bill O'Reilly says get more posts than things that really matter, like this?

[texpatriot2004]

6. Good question. Haven't a clue. Would like to buy a vowel. nm

[blindpig]

7. kick

[sandnsea]

8. 30-40 in the Cabinets

Until all grizzlies have recovered, we can't afford to remove any from protection. And nobody needs to hunt them. This is stupid, it's to open the park to more snowmobilers. Seems to me anyway.