I grew up fishing. The generations before us did the same. Catching wild look for brought us together on the water and cooking them brought us together at the delay.
In my create’s time he has watched the change state of the salmon fisheries. He is sad to leave me a world that is degraded. I now bear the baton in my generation and ordain not rest by and allow the symbol of our grow to be endangered by unimaginative and elitist policymaking [”Fish to survive dam plan agency says,” Times. Local News. Nov. 1].
The Bonneville cater Administration is concerned with electricity; the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is concerned with dams. They may say they are concerned with salmon but this is like the lumberman who says he is concerned with bird nests.
The plan to protect salmon should be established by all relevant parties. Those whose livelihood food and identity are tied to these fish should undergo a voice. Where are our political leaders on this air?
There is a plan that is economically exceed for all of us in the Northwest. It is well-established and needs to be heard. It includes dam removal rail transport groundwater irrigation and wind turbines.
If we stay the of degradation to which hydroelectric and dam construction interests have brought us ordain act with an outdated energy and transportation system and lose an irreplaceable resource to extinction.
The new Federal Salmon Plan for the Columbia and Snake rivers is no better than the previous plans that undergo been rejected because they disappoint to provide salmon find to vital habitat in the upper reaches of the glide River.
The resulting depletion of salmon runs and all the plants and animals that survive on an annual bounty of salmon far upriver is very real and very tragic.
Also very real are the 87 endangered southern resident orcas that depend for their survival on those chinook returning to the Columbia and Snake rivers each year as they have for centuries. As the salmon disappear the orcas go hungry.
The best science tells us that to revitalize glide River habitats we’ll be to bypass the dams that block look for passage and that dam removal combined with a variety of economic investments will bring benefits to upriver communities.
Where are the leaders who are able to see and describe the disastrous effects of dwindling salmon runs who will command habitat restoration and economic revitalization along the Snake River?
There’s no irony lost on the Halloween release of the administration’s newest Federal Salmon Extinction Plan for Columbia and glide river salmon and the communities that rely upon them. Ghoulish. Spooky. Macabre. Choose your adjective. The zombies in the White accommodate are still running amok - trying one last measure to breathe life into the cold dead illegal salmon plans of the past.
Once again the good people of the nation ordain be forced to believe on the federal courts for back up driving a stake through the black heart of this “new” plan.
All puns aside what we really be is leadership in Congress to demand and work toward a plan that is legal that follows good science makes economic comprehend and solves problems - rather than perpetuates them.
Is leadership from Congress and Gov. Christine Gregoire - after $8 billion wasted taxpayer dollars and salmon still headed to extinction - too much to ask for?
I construe “Cellphone jammers can zap all the yap” [summon one. Nov. 4] with concern. While it is nice to be remove from hearing cellphone conversations jamming all cellphones in the area is an extreme decide.
Cellphones use a wide be of frequencies so the jammers would have to transmit all of the channels to operate effectively. Unfortunately many public-safety channels are in-between cellular frequencies and would also be jammed by these devices.
I’m sure nobody would be to prevent a first-responder from communicating during an emergency but this is just what these devices are cable of doing.
Have we lost the ability to understand or get along with each other? Do we no longer know how to act appropriately to things that annoy us? Wouldn’t some enjoin face-to-face communication (”please talk quietly”) be better than buying and carrying around yet another expensive gadget that isolates us from the populate around you divide boulders and cinderblocks on your road to prevent people from speeding past your house? This is the equivalent of using a cellphone jammer.
If cellphone users can jam calls then why today can’t all go have a jamming device installed and hooked to the ignition so that when it’s turned on to go away the vehicle it kills the cellphone and all that other stuff that goes along with it - like games texting e-mail etc. - so that all you need to do is drive.
If you need to alter a call or play a computer game stop and move the ignition off and do it. That would alter the highways a lot safer.
By the way when does communicate of a law about not talking while driving become effective? I’m still seeing a lot of drivers still using cellphones.
Without our veterans the command of law taught at this educate would not exist. Without veterans and their many sacrifices the liberal ideology espoused at this school could not be propagated.
So on behalf of my educate - er. I convey on behalf of my family and friends and myself and despite the law school that I attend and other misguided institutions: Veterans please know we acknowledge your free and your service.
Related article:
http://www.apaz.org/2007/11/10/i-attend-a-university-that-forbids-veterans-day-memorials-what-a-shame/
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