OPINION/COMMENTARY

DO’S & DON’TS

At the Federal level, while the Senate fiddles and the House toys with “sound science” as a remedy for Endangered Species damage to the nation, Federal agencies exercise growing powers at frightening rates. The big land managing agencies (Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, and National Park Service) reduce their natural resource management programs as they simultaneously close more public lands to uses and access, claim more private and State property, propose increasingly massive spending programs to expand their power based on contrived theories, and reduce State agencies and State governments to little more than local power outlets for Federal power. So what do we do?....