Obama To Redirect FWS Resources Toward Climate Research And Land Acquisition

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It appears Barack Obama’s promise to return science to its rightful place in dealing with conservation and environmental issues isn’t the science most of us hoped it would be. As a matter of fact, one has to question whether his decision to restructure the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service resources away from existing programs and funnel them into new programs geared toward climate research and land acquisition, has anything at all to do with science. From the New York Times:

“The budget does reflect a switch in our priorities,” said Chris Nolin, head of the service’s budget division. “Our primary focus is reorienting the agency so we can address climate change. We need to start looking at climate change in everything we do. That was really the focus of this budget.”

What a frightfully disturbing statement! The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now going to make their primary focus climate change, even to the point of saying, and I’ll repeat, “We need to start looking at climate change in everything we do.” (my emphasis) What total disregard for wildlife management!

I would assume then that a name change should be in order here as the present one no longer reflects the mission of the department. Perhaps something like U.S. Climate Change and Land Acquisition Department or maybe we can just shorten that up to BHO Land Grabbers.

The heart of the effort is a new program, “landscape conservation cooperatives,” which is aimed at uniting federal agencies, states, nonprofits and universities to advise on the service’s regional management decisions. Theirs will be the “daunting task,” Hamilton said, of helping design strategic regional conservation plans that consider the impact of rising temperatures, water scarcity, disease and invasive species on plants and animals.

What could possibly go wrong?

Unfortunately for readers of the Times’ article, they only get a biased one-sided story because the authors talked with only the Federal Government’s own little environmental puppet regimes, the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife. The biggest complaint the Center for Biological Diversity had about the shift of monies was a threat their sugar daddy stream of income from lawsuits might dry up.

This is all quite ridiculous as there is no wildlife management science in any of this, which tells us Obama is sticking his slimy hands into USFWS resources to further promote his power grab by forcing a global warming agenda into wildlife management industry.

While intelligent people of the world are finally coming to grips with the truth behind the fraud of man-made global warming, the Obama administration plows ahead, aimed at the destruction of another federal agency.

Disguised as a “cooperative” of willing and eager players in finding and purchasing lands that will rescue wildlife and habitat, this becomes nothing more than another means of a federal land grab foisted onto the people through the half studied theories of climate change bolstered by fear mongering.

A sound wildlife management plan takes into account the changing habitat for wildlife, whether that change comes naturally or conditions generated by the presence of humans. USFWS’ focus should be further drawn away from politics and private agendas and forced into real wildlife management as devoid of politics as possible. Obama’s plan will play right into the hands of environmentalists whose focus is far from conserving wildlife.

Tom Remington