Mdc Director Robert Ziehmer

[Tim Smith]

Check their record.

Now wait a minute...

...you're carrying one side of this discussion. If you think it's important to point out deficiencies I'm willing to respect that and might agree, but you can't just wave generalities.

Public officials have complex jobs that can be spun a lot of ways. How do YOU think this man not support conservation?

[Chief Grey Bear]

Remember Jerry Conley??? He gets these super sweet deals for some timber companies to harvest millions of board feet of lumber from MDC land. I don't think the ink was dry before he left the MDC to take a lobbying posistion with the timber industry.

That is not very conservation minded in my mind.

[Tim Smith]

Remember Jerry Conley??? He gets these super sweet deals for some timber companies to harvest millions of board feet of lumber from MDC land. I don't think the ink was dry before he left the MDC to take a lobbying posistion with the timber industry.

That is not very conservation minded in my mind.

Ok. But that's a different guy.

How's this one coming short?

[Chief Grey Bear]

Chief Grey Bear, on 03 November 2011 - 03:15 PM, said:

I think it would be great too. But I am afraid what we are gonning to get is a career politician. Just going on scuttle butt from inside the Jeff City beltway. The last few directors in the MDC have not been what you would call conservation minded. And it sounds like more of the same with Robert.

Maybe it would help those of us not on the inside to evaluate all this if we knew what "not conservation minded" meant.

My mistake Tim, I thought I was answering your question.

I am not going to get into specifics about Robert. As I said in the first post, we'll see. I sincerely hope that I am wrong on this.

But just to toss a softball out there, there was to be new regulations put into place to offer more protection to the Mt. Lion. They were to be written to be more in line with the bear regs. Department heads were actually writing them. Until it was stopped.