Welcome to the Abundant Species Act Campaign guestbook!
If you could change the ESA/MMPA today, what would you recommend?
You are the stewards, the caretakers, the resource providers, the owners of productive property! We are soliciting your comments on the wording you'd like included in the Noah's Ark for the 21st Century, the Abundant Species Act Campaign.
01/15/03
From: Blacksea man, USA vit@1-800-caviar.com Occupation: http://www.1-800-caviar.com
Your site is great work! Thank you!
01/06/03
From: Dick Short, Etna, CA, USA rightauk@sisqtel.net Occupation: none.
It's time to make the ESA more flexible and less restrictive and end the lawsuit provision which does nothing but make those rich enviromentalists even more rich and arroganr.
02/12/02
From: John Ardila, Austin, TX, USA ardila_john@hotmail.com Occupation: Software Engineer
Humans are not causing the devastaion to our environment. Humans are not the ones destroying 200 species a day worldwide in our seas, rain-forests, jungles, wetlands, etc. Humans are not the cause for human over-population. But clearly, these things are happening. What is the cause? Humans existed for about 3 million years with thousands of diverse cultures with little or no impact on the world, but about 10,000 years ago, one culture prevailed. One culture that has, at its core, a vision that denies its role as a biological species in a world of biological species. One culture whose vision sees the world as humanity's domain and that it is its God-blessed sacred duty to convert all of the bio-mass on this planet into human biomass (humans and food for humans). This one culture has decided to eliminate its competitors for food, has decided to deny access of food to its competitors and refuses to see the relationship between its disastrous vision with human over-population and the steady decline in eco-systems all over the world. Our planet's ecology is like a tower where people of this destructive culture-of-consumption live in the penthouse. Every day, these people go downstairs to remove 200 bricks from the lower floors in order to make the penthouse bigger and grander. Granted, the tower IS huge, but eventually, that tower will become weakened. Which of the 200 bricks will be the brick that unlooses a million bricks and with them, the tower? Who knows? The people of the destructive culture of which I speak apparently don't care. What good will all of these people's personal rights be when their habitat is eventually poisoned, cut down, damned up, plowed up, dried up, fenced off or turned into a shopping mall? Unless this culture changes its vision of humanity's role in the world, nature's biological laws will work on us exactly the way it works on all other failed strategies for living on this planet: extinction.
01/09/02
From: Robert Moss, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The United States of America. Occupation: Contract Administrator.
"In the poverty of the masses lies the destruction of the Prince..."
01/03/02
From: Connie Dale, McCall Idaho, USA. Occupation: Rancher
Just found this site. Thanks. The TRUTH about the "endangered" salmon should be sought. Coho decision in Oregon is a big start. How can salmon be endangered when only part of them are allowed to be counted and thousands of returning fish are killed and not allowed to spawn? (Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife for example) The biggest returns in the Columbia Basin recorded this year!! Does the Nation know this?
01/03/02
From: LaVelle Holmes, Long Creek, Ore. 97856, USA. Occupation: Rancher
Our little rural Eastern Oregon County is starting to try to "fight back". The forces that invaded the Klamath Basin are here and it is very difficult to oppose the huge amounts of public monies that pour into their coffers. This year we have the biggest return of salmon recorded and yet more land taking regulations are being forced on private property. (Thanks to Gov. Kitzhaber)
Hopefully, the NATION is waking up to the devastation caused by such farces as the "spotted owl". Thanks.
12/09/01
From: Judy Keeler, Animas, New Mexico, USA. jfkeeler@vtc.net Occupation: Rancher/conservationalist
Great site, I'll be sure to let others know about it!! Keep up the good work.
11/27/01
From: Kevin Schreier, Stevensville,Mt, USA. kts@in-tch.com Occupation: A County Dept. Administrator.
I am a professinal Anthropologist/Archaeologist specializing in Natural Resources and Community Values issues. I am a conservative republican candidate for County Commissioner (6/6/02), and I am especially involved in projects dealing with the Forested Counties and Schools coalition, resource access, forest health.
We are struggling against the enviros to access the hazardous fuels on the Bitterroot National Forest, for Biomass utilization for Co-gen applications. I have been in the struggle throughout the PNW with the various groups long before the Spotted Owl, Marbled Murrlet, and salamanders. Very interested in your efforts against the Citizen Suit clause in the ESA.
1) Repeal the clause, Citizen suits are nothing more than money machines.
2) make the litigating enviros post a bond equal to or greater than the economic impact of the project in the event they lose,
3) make them post a bond in the event they win to mitigate the taking of lively hoods etc,
4) eliminate either the USFW or the states equivilant, this is redundant
5) make the agency accountable for their proposals/listings to outside peer review and scrutiny
6) make them publish the data with maps and verifiable information by third party scientists
7) Before a species is listed as threatened or endangered, the identification of total population must be included, yes make em count.
8) Identify preferred, critical, suitable habitats in the matrix for review, and since the spotted owl and other species was the issue before (FEMAT) and the data proved false, delist those that have recovered, are recovering and can find suitable numbers in other ranges where they can flourish, followed with strict outside peer review.
I have seen first hand the erosion of personal freedoms, the decimation of local economies and the death of communities because of a 20 cent postcard campaign, designed to play on the aesthetic consciousness and emotionalism of the average citizen. It is terrorism, and by any other name is socialism and mob rule. How can I help....
Sorry for the rant.
10/22/01
From: Susan Davies, San Diego California. suekev123@aol.com Occupation: Hotel Accountant.
Its time for a change. I'm tired of these enviro extremist twisting the ESA for their own personal gain. Since when are HUMANs UN-Natural? What about our habitat? PUBLIC LANDS FOR PEOPLE!
Lets use fact, truth, science and common sense.
10/22/01
From: karen carpenter, eagle point or, usa. Occupation: self employed.
Finally some common sense, thank you!!
10/22/01
From: Larry Moss, Marina del Rey, CA, USA. Occupation: Tow Truck Operator.
It is high time humans and their needs come before animals and eco-extremists! I'm sick and tired of it.
10/22/01
From: Rudy Hiley, Tulelake, CA, siskiyou. gis@cot.net Occupation: insurance agent.
Common sense has been too long left out of the ESA war against Americans. The lives of many in Tulelake and Klamath Basins (as well as too many points around the nation to mention) have been brought to ruin by unanticipated and dark manipulation of the Endangered Species Act. For some of us it may be too late to wrestle our lives and futures back from the grubby clutches of the unwashed, unshaven, alternate living, arrogant and uncaring (the green movement). For the sake of our future generations though, I encourage you all to support the Abundant Species Act Campaign and thus be counted in the uprising against the green-red and red-green factions which threatens the very future of our great nation!
Further, if you want to determine which political party is voting greenly against American, check out THE LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION web site. If your Senator or Representative gains their approval, vote them out of office next time around. They are BAD for America! Even if they are not be knowingly pursuing the limitation of rights of American citizens; they still might just fall within Justice Louis Brandeis statement in a 1928 Supreme court decision: "The greater danger to liberty lurks in insidious encroachment of men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Either way, they are dangerous and unfit to represent Americans.
10/20/01
From: George Assaf, Vancouver BC, Canada bfd58@hotmail.com Occupation: firefighter.
I'll be sending this link to all my politicians... local, provincial and federal. I think they all need to see the way that your organization thinks.
10/20/01
From: Jeff Chase, Eugene, OR, US of A! jeffroau34@hotmail.com Occupation: mechanical engineer
As a concerned citizen, I feel that the takings brought about by the ESA are unconstitutional and unfair. Environmental groups are stabbing America in the back with inane conjecture and frivolous lawsuits, designed to weaken our great country.
10/19/01
From: Danny Dructor, Cleveland, Texas, USA. Occupation: Logger.
It is time for the American people to wake up and realize the abuse of legislation such as the endangered species act allows a handful of people (special interest groups) to dictate policies which can be detrimental to our national security. We are here, and we have to use those resources which God has given us to be the good stewards of the land that He commanded us to be.
10/18/01
From: Jim Steitz, Logan, Utah, USA jim.steitz@usu.edu Occupation: Student
It is very important that we have this kind of hubris floating about the web, so that elected leaders and the public can see how ill-informed the enemies of environmentalism are. Biology 101 should be a required class for every high school student -- the better part of the "wise use" movement would cease to exist.
10/18/01
From: Joe Thompson, Grass Valley, CA, USA Occupation: Retired - grape grower
The ESA seems to be at the root of most of the environmental problems encountered by rural Americans. The most endangered species is homo sapiens ruralis. Radically amending or eliminating the ESA is the only way I see out of this disaster.
10/17/01
From: Laura Schneberger, Winston, New Mexico, USA gnfpa@gilanet.com gnfpa@gilanet.com Occupation: Rancher
An idea that is long overdue and hopefully not too late. thanks.
08/21/01
From: J. L. (Jim) Tenney, Willcox, Arizona, Cochise jt_assist@vtc.net Occupation: Real Estate State Pres. FOF-PFUSA
THE IDEA OF MANAGING FOR A SPECIFIC SPECIES MEANS YOU INTEND TO HARM OTHER SPECIES TO BENEFIT THE ONE. THIS IS COMPLETELY COUNTER TO THE CONCEPT OF THE ESA.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONCEPTS THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED UPON MUST BE APPLIED. INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES MUST BE RESPECTED!
08/19/01
From: Patricia A. Bradburn, Catharpin, VA, USA pbradburn@erols.com Occupation: Property Rights Patriot.
People first and private property. Animals are part of nature and too often a nuisance and threat to humans. They pay no taxes, often eat more of property and damage more property than nature and other humans. Roam where they will in areas to not affect people is fine, but when their lives take precedence over humans, regulations have gone too far. The Act needs to balance humans and nature and put animals "in their place".
That's why they're called animals!