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Author Message   Robert Livingston Citizen Username: Rob_livingston Post Number: 850 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 1:57 pm:        Wildlife scientists feeling heat Species-protection data suppressed, many report Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau Thursday, February 10, 2005 Washington -- Scientists in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say they've been forced to alter or withhold findings that would have led to greater protections for endangered species, according to a survey released Wednesday by two environmental groups. The scientists charge that top regional and national officials in the agency suppressed scientific information to avoid confrontations with industry groups or to follow the Bush administration's political policies. Full Story   notehead Supporter Username: Notehead Post Number: 2040 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 2:17 pm:        This is par for the course. Bush is the worst president in history on environmental issues -- he will take the side of industry every time, with a very few exceptions. The plan they are following now is to dismantle the Endangered Species Act. They claim that it is not effective since very few species have made it off the list. As usual, conservatives fail to see the point. The species on the list are in imminent danger of extinction, and the point of the Act is to prevent them from vanishing entirely. Only about 1% of species on the list have gone extinct after being protected by the Act. I'd call a 99% success rate pretty damn good -- a helluva lot better than the vast majority of federal programs.   notehead Supporter Username: Notehead Post Number: 2041 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 2:20 pm:        Story on the same subject from the L.A.Times... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scientists10feb10,0,4954654 .story?coll=la-home-nation   notehead Supporter Username: Notehead Post Number: 2092 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 9:14 am:        More reports of scientists being stifled by the administration: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/02/21/bush.science.ap/index.html This is a serious problem, folks.