Saturday, May 03, 2008

04/25/2008 TO Enviro-news

> Watered Down: The Collapse in Pacific Salmon
> http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042508EA.shtml
> Dan Bacher writes for The Sacramento News & Review that for the first time in California's state history, salmon fishing is closed in ocean waters and [...] "while state and federal regulators openly suspect poor ocean conditions as causing the dramatic and 'mysterious' drop-off in the salmon population in California and Oregon waters, a coalition of recreational and commercial fishermen, Indian tribes, environmental groups and some prominent scientists don't see the collapse as a mystery at all. And they point to a different culprit: other state and federal regulators."
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> Warming Shifts Gardeners' Maps
> http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042508EB.shtml
> Elizabeth Weise reports for USA Today, "Climate change is reshaping how people garden. Across the agricultural industry, the issue is driving a dispute over climate maps that involves economics, politics and meteorological standards."
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