At 10:19 PM 8/18/2004 -0400, Cindy Hildebrand wrote:
>Apparently a number of people are arguing that because the Arctic Refuge
>doesn't have forests, it's fine to drill there.  A letter to that effect
>appeared in the Ames paper a few weeks ago.
>
>The myth that only forested land has natural resource value is one of the
>biggest reasons we've lost almost all of the tallgrass prairie in North
>America.  For a congressman from the Loess Hills region to be perpetuating
>that myth is maddeningly ironic, especially since many of his farmer
>constituents are being paid to plant native grasses and flowers through
>the Farm Bill.
>
Rep King has been to the Arctic Refuge and to Iraq. Does nay know who paid
for the  trips.

Glenn Pollock

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