this way, we can put in a ferris wheel next to the oil derrick, bison like oil

[Guest guest]

The Bush administration has asked the United Nations to remove

Yellowstone National Park from a list of endangered World Heritage

sites. "Yellowstone is no longer in danger," wrote the Interior

Department's Paul Hoffman in a letter to the World Heritage

Committee. There's just one snag: The park staff disagree with

Hoffman, saying Yellowstone still faces the kinds of problems --

threats to water quality, bison, and trout populations, among others

-- that put it on the endangered list in the first place, back in

1995. But in its recent report to the U.N. committee, the Bush

administration diluted or deleted those problems, in a move critics

say is emblematic of White House efforts to water down, sugarcoat, or

deny environmental problems across the board. "Tinkering with

scientific information, either striking it from reports or altering

it, is becoming a pattern of behavior," said former National Park

Service Director Roger Kennedy.

 

straight to the source: Los Angeles Times, Elizabeth Shogren, 26 Jun 2003

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