[Imc-newsroom] Enviro. newsletter

[Peter Miller]

For those of you who are interested, the GREENLines newsletter comes out 
weekly and some of you may want to subscribe.  It may provide leads for 
future environmental stories, and it's useful for keeping atop enviromental 
news nationwide.
-Peter


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>Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:04:29 -0600
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>From: Endangered Species Coalition <actgreen at reply.net> (by way of Angelo 
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>Subject: GREENLines 1-25-02  Issue #1549
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>           GREENLines, Friday, January 25, 2002, Issue #1549
>                 From The Endangered Species Coalition
>       A daily news digest about endangered species, biodiversity
>        related issues and the people working to stop extinction.
>                         www.stopextinction.org
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>   BITTERROOT SALVAGE SALE TO BE APPEALED: The USFS announced that it will
>   appeal a preliminary injunction that temporarily stopped salvage
>   logging on 44,000 acres of Montana's Bitterroot N.F. says the
>   Missoulian 1/24. At the same time the Forest Service asked for a
>   "partial stay" on the injunction so that 5 logging sales can be
>   completed in time to decommission the roads by March 1, "thereby
>   assuring the survival of the bull trout." Environmental groups vowed to
>   fight the appeal and charged that the "controversy has become a pawn in
>   a larger political agenda by the Bush administration to reduce public
>   involvement in these decisions and weaken our environmental laws."
>
>   EPA PERMIT CHALLENGED: The EPA may land in court over a permit  issued
>   to an Arizona builder for construction of a housing development in what
>   was formerly pygmy owl habitat says the Tucson Citizen 1/15. The agency
>   admits the permit was approved without a "proper review of the project"
>   and without USFWS consultation. Defenders of Wildlife is threatening to
>   sue unless the EPA immediately suspends the permit for the project
>   which they say "threatens the protected pygmy owl."
>
>   FLORIDA SLATES WOODPECKER FOR EXTINCTION:  Despite opposition from
>   ornithologists and environmentalists, Florida's Fish and Wildlife
>   Commission has approved a plan to downlist the red-cockaded woodpecker
>   from "threatened" to a species of "special concern."  The bird has been
>   on federal endangered species list for 30 years and biologists "warn"
>   that the state's action "may doom the woodpecker to extinction."  A
>   final decision will be made in April, according to the St. Petersburg
>   Times, 1/24.
>
>   HUMPBACK CHUB IN SERIOUS DECLINE: The Grand Canyon Monitoring and
>   Research Center has determined that humpback chub in the Little
>   Colorado River, "the largest and only known successfully reproducing
>   population of their species" are in a "steeply declining trend" says
>   ENS 12/11. Conservation group Living Rivers has warned the USFWS of the
>   "plummeting humpback chub populations" and called for "major revisions"
>   in draft recovery goals for the chub and 3 other species of endangered
>   Colorado River fish, charging that recovery goals were designed to
>   "please water and power interests" and are not based on sound science.
>
>   ESA LISTING NEEDED TO SAVE BELUGA STURGEON: A survey by the Caspian
>   Environment Programme "presents significant evidence of the beluga
>   sturgeon's accelerating decline toward extinction," finding "only 28
>   beluga sturgeon in the entire survey region, of which 85% were
>   immature," says  SeaWeb 1/23. Caviar Emptor ( www.caviaremptor.org ), a
>   campaign by NRDC, Wildlife Conservation Society, and SeaWeb to
>   immediately halt all international trade in caviar, has petitioned to
>   list the sturgeon under the ESA as  the quickest way to ban imports of
>   caviar into the U.S., the world's second largest importer of beluga
>   caviar.
>
>                                 (C) ESC