Polar Bears and... Big Lie
January 7, 2008 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working diligently to reach a final decision on the proposal to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
We expect to provide a final recommendation to the Secretary of the Interior and finalize the decision within the next month.
When the polar bear was proposed for listing in January 2007, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne directed the Service to work with the U.S. Geological Survey, the public and the scientific community to broaden our understanding of what is happening with the polar bear and to gather additional information to inform the final decision on whether the species warrants Federal protection under the ESA.
In September 2007, USGS scientists supplied new research findings to the Service updating population information on the Southern Bering Sea polar bear and providing additional data on sea ice trends and effects on polar bear populations throughout the species? range.
As a result of the new USGS research findings, the Service reopened and later extended a second comment period to allow the public time to review the information and respond. We received numerous comments on the USGS reports and have been working to analyze and respond to the information provided during the comment period.
At the time we made the decision to reopen and to extend the comment period, the Director of the Service alerted the Department that the Service might need extra time to adequately evaluate and incorporate results from the comments received.
If you have further questions or would like to be included on the media distribution list when the final decision is announced, please email Valerie Fellows, Office of Public Affairs at valerie_fellows@fws.gov ".
BIG LIE
Reponse from Jim Beers - January 7, 2008
There are approximately 4 times as many polar bears (20,000+) as when they passed the Marine Mammal Protection Act in the early 1970's. The real reason is that they greatly underestimated the numbers as they whined about the "need" to "protect" (i.e. seize management authority from the state of Alaska and outlaw ANY hunting for polar bear by ANY US citizen ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD by forbidding import of any part) but even setting that aside.. They can now "List" (as in proclaim under the Endangered Species Act) a species because they think it will be "X" average degrees next year? Ten years from now? That the icepack that changes constantly will look like "A-B-C" in 29 years and this means X-Y-Z for polar bears? They can "List" because a lot of "comments" (from we-know-who's) indicate it is a good idea?
Unmanaged killer whales are decimating sea otters (you remember the "cute" ones that float on their back and crack shellfish with a rock) and now seals so we will put an even greater level of "No-managemenmt/No-touch" federal control on polar bears? If that was Exxon or Peabody Coal decimating those sea otters we would all join a lynch mob and riot with torches at night demanding revenge.
Goebbels was right. Tell a BIG LIE often enough and soon everybody will believe it!
Jim Beers
7 January 2007
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