Proposed Eureka Gravel Mine

[MOFishwater]

6 minutes ago, bfishn said:

I hate to say it, but get used to it, at least for the foreseeable future. The folks in charge of such things at the moment are erasing existing protections as fast as they can, all in the name of business $$$$.

Yeah, we're spiraling backwards at an alarming rate. Who could have predicted this?  sad state of affairs all around right now.

Take this morning for example:

Majority Of National Park Service Board Resigns, Citing Administration Indifference

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/17/578525840/majority-of-national-park-service-board-resigns-citing-administration-indifferen

 

 

 

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

^^^ That is pretty alarming.  That should be front page news. 

[MoCarp]

2 hours ago, MOFishwater said:

Yeah, we're spiraling backwards at an alarming rate. Who could have predicted this?  sad state of affairs all around right now.

Take this morning for example:

Majority Of National Park Service Board Resigns, Citing Administration Indifference

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/17/578525840/majority-of-national-park-service-board-resigns-citing-administration-indifferen

 

 

 

nah its just cleaning house from the past admin... in the past cushy gov posts are divided out as reward to donors, or political support etc....it was one reason Missouri set up its commission the way that it did...still not perfect but its what we have

 

 

[MOFishwater]

1 hour ago, MoCarp said:

nah its just cleaning house from the past admin... in the past cushy gov posts are divided out as reward to donors, or political support etc....it was one reason Missouri set up its commission the way that it did...still not perfect but its what we have

 

 

Perhaps in other assignments, but the Nat Park Advisory board is a bipartisan group of academics, not just a buffoon with donor money being tossed in a position of extreme importance  who has no right to be seated (see Secretary of Education). These are all highly educated, experienced, qualified people who were volunteering their expertise. They've been ignored by Zinke since day 1. If you think this is 'draining the swamp' I think you're off-base...

 

 

[MoCarp]

which person who resigned are you saying is an "academic" 

[Smalliebigs]

sorry but the Feds don't have anything to do with the Winter's land near the Meramec in Eureka.......come on man!!!!Trump and his appointments have nothing to do with this

[mreed81]

This is happening all over the country, too. One of the best smallmouth streams in the country up North is one permit away from being ruined by an open pit metallic sulfide mine. It's one of those rivers that the average smallmouth that is caught is 16-17". 

[MOFishwater]

17 hours ago, MoCarp said:

which person who resigned are you saying is an "academic" 

 

As stated by Smallie, this local issue has absolutely nothing to do with the administration. But since you asked, here's a few of the NONPAID VOLUNTEERS that are bailing out because they've not been spoken to since the new admin arrived.

"Nearly all of the seats on the U.S. National Park Service advisory board are vacant following a mass resignation Monday night, with ex-members citing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's unwillingness to meet with them."

The board had repeatedly tried and failed to secure a meeting with the new interior secretary."[Our] requests to engage have been ignored and the matters on which we wanted to brief the new Department team are clearly not part of the agenda," the letter reads.Alaska Public Radio quoted Knowles as saying that the Department of the Interior "showed no interest in learning about or continuing to use the forward-thinking agenda of science, the effect of climate change, protections of the ecosystems, education.""And it has rescinded NPS regulations of resource stewardship concerning those very things: biodiversity loss, pollution and climate change," he added.

 

 

DR. RITA R. COLWELL

College Park, Maryland

Terms of appointment: 5/05/2014 - 5/05/2018; 4/08/2010 - 4/08/2014
Qualifications for selection: MARINE SCIENCE

Dr. Rita R. Colwell is Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; Senior Advisor and Chair Emerita, Canon U.S. Life Sciences; and President, CosmosID, Inc. She was the 11th Director of the National Science Foundation and co-chair of its Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council. She also has been President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received numerous awards, including the Stockholm Water Prize awarded by the King of Sweden, 2010, and the 2006 National Medal of Science award. Colwell has a BS and MS from Purdue University, and a PhD in oceanography from the University of Washington. As a nationally respected scientist and educator, Colwell currently is developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues.*

 

PROFESSOR LINDA BILMES

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Terms of appointment: 5/05/2014 - 5/05/2018; 4/08/2010 - 4/08/2014
Qualifications for selection: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Professor Linda Bilmes is widely considered one of the leading experts in U.S. budgeting and public finance. She has held several senior positions in government, including Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and U.S. Representative to several high-ranking commissions, including an international audit of the Inter-American Investment Corporation. Bilmes holds a BA, MA, and MBA from Harvard University, and is a full-time faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she teaches budgeting and public finance. She also conducts Harvard's budgeting workshops for newly-elected mayors and Members of Congress. Bilmes has written extensively on financial and budgetary issues and has appeared on many national broadcasts

 

DR. MILTON CHEN

San Francisco, California

Terms of appointment: 5/05/2014 - 5/05/2018; 4/08/2010 - 4/08/2014
Qualifications for selection: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Dr. Milton Chen is Senior Fellow and Executive Director Emeritus of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, a non-profit operating foundation that utilizes its multimedia website (edutopia.org), and documentary films to communicate what works in public education. Edutopia media emphasize authentic learning experiences for children, such as connecting with nature and environmental and historical issues through the national parks. Prior to joining GLEF, Chen was the founding director of the KQED Center for Education (PBS) in San Francisco, director of research at Sesame Workshop in New York, and an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a trustee of Sesame Workshop and chairman of the Panasonic Foundation of New Jersey, which supports school district reform. Chen received an AB in social studies from Harvard College and a PhD in communication research from Stanford.*

 

 

DR. CAROLYN FINNEY

Lexington, Kentucky

Terms of appointment: 5/05/2014 - 5/05/2018; 4/08/2010 - 4/08/2014
Qualifications for selection: CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, NATIONAL PARKS VISITATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Dr. Carolyn Finney is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky. She was a member of the National Parks Second Century Commission. In her previous position at the University of California, Berkeley, Finney explored how difference, identity, representation, and power play a significant role in determining how people negotiate their daily lives in relation to the environment. By engaging art, science and popular culture, she works to create new frameworks of engagement where diverse communities and individuals, environmental organizations, government agencies and academic institutions can establish and nurture healthy human/environment relationships. Finney holds a B.A. and M.A. in international development, and completed her Ph.D. in geography at Clark University. She is a Canon National Parks Science Scholarship recipient; and, as a Fulbright fellow, she has also researched the impacts of tourism and modernization on Nepalese women and the environment. She has written a number of essays, her most recent entitled "Brave New World? Ruminations on Race in the 21st Century," published in the journal Antipode. Finney's first book manuscript, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors, was published in June 2014 (UNC Press)

 

 

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HONORABLE CAROLYN "CARRIE" HESSLER RADELET

Falls Church, Virginia

Term of appointment: 1/04/2017 - 1/04/2021
Qualifications for selection: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Ms. Radelet is the President and CEO of Project Concern International, a global development organization working to enhance health, end hunger, and overcome hardship in 16 countries. She is a highly experienced leader of government, non-profit and for-profit international operations. She served from June 2014 to January 2017 as Director of the Peace Corps, where she had previously served as Acting Director (September 2012 to June 2014), and as Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer (April 2010 to December 2015), providing executive direction by overseeing the programs and activities in more than 70 countries around the world. She served as Vice President and Director of the John Snow, Inc./JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) from September 2000 to April 2010 where she led global programs and directed operations of John Snow, Inc. (for-profit) and JSI (non-profit) in the Washington, D.C. area, and managed administrative and financial support to JSI's long- and short-term global contracts and budgets in excess of $800 million. From 1996 to 2000, Ms. Radelet was Director of JSI/Boston International Group, John Snow, Inc., where she managed operations of JSI's international programs in Boston and 20 bilateral field project offices throughout the world. She has served as HIV/AIDS Advisor at the Health and Child Survival Fellows Program, USAID, Jakarta, Indonesia (1994-95); Information, Education and Communications (IEC) Advisor at MotherCare Project, John Snow, Inc., Jakarta, Indonesia (1991-94); Director (acting) at Boston International Group, John Snow, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts (1989-91); Founder and Executive Director, Special Olympics/The Gambia, Banjul, The Gambia (1986-88); Consultant at Gambia Family Planning Association, Kanifing, The Gambia (1986-88); Public Affairs Manager, Peace Corps Regional Office, Boston, Massachusetts (1984-86); and Peace Corps Volunteer Secondary School Teacher, Apia, Western Samoa (1981-84), Radelet holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University School of Public Health (1990), a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Boston University College of Liberal Arts (1979), and numerous honorary doctorate degrees and other honors and awards from NGOs and international organizations.

 

Add the complete disdain for Parks to our current leadership's  "concern" for environment and you have a group of people erasing decades of progress which I would think someone who cares about fishing and nature would be worried about. EPA head Scott Pruitt was just asked on CBS if the EPA was supposed to protect the environment or business interests: "Neither" was his reply. 

 

Anyway, back on topic, Steam Powered Aero Plain is my favorite John Hartford song. 

 

 

[Bushbeater]

The Golden Globe awards last week made me think of John Hartford.

[MoCarp]