Palin v. Belugas
Beluga whale photo from NOAA
While Palin’s lawsuit against the Federal Government to keep the polar bear from protection as a threatened species is still pending, another pesky white northern critter has reared its rubbery head to plague our “Damn the animals” governor. The federal government has now placed the population of beluga whales that inhabit Cook Inlet under the protection of the endangered species act.
When I first came to Alaska, I would often visit a beautiful little pull-out on the Seward Highway in a spot known as Beluga Point. Beluga Point is an aptly named, rocky outcropping dotted with windblown, sculpted trees, that looks over the wide expanse of Cook Inlet, the body of water that hugs the coastline around Anchorage and its environs. It used to be fairly common, when looking out over the Inlet from this spot to see what at first looked like white-caps, but on closer inspection, turned out to be the bobbing white heads of Cook Inlet’s beluga whale pod. I remember one fourth of July, picnicking on a beach across the Inlet in a lovely spot called Point Posession, when the pod came by. They swam back and forth, no more than 20 feet away, rubbing their long shiny bodies on the gravel bed along the shore for a good scrub. The babies were plentiful, human-sized and grey. The belugas stayed for almost half an hour, looking at us periodically with large shiny eyes, while we ate sandwiches. This is why I love Alaska.
But since 1995, the beluga population in Cook Inlet began to take a turn for the worse. In the following years, their numbers began to decline noticeably and people started to worry. It became more and more rare to see the belugas at Beluga Point. Some hunting of the whales had been allowed for traditional subsistence hunters. The practice was halted by Native villages. Laws were enacted to keep boat traffic from “harassing” the whales. The numbers declined. Studies were done. The numbers continued to decline. Questions began to be asked about the effects on the whale population of sewage disposal, toxic runoff, and oil and gas exploration in the Inlet.
Uh-oh. Alarm bells. As soon as anyone mentions oil and gas, you can bet the hackles of the governor stand straight up. This is why Palin is so opposed to admitting that polar bears are in trouble. They have the audacity to be living on the North Slope of Alaska, and the oil was there first. The fact that the arctic ice the polar bears need to hunt is melting at an alarming and unprecedented rate, the fact that animals are drowning because the ice is disappearing, the fact that males are attacking denning females and eating young polar bears to survive, is met by Palin’s administration stuffing their fingers in their ears, denying the scientific evidence, and litigation. The governor has her priorities. Nobody is getting rich off polar bear powered vehicles. Nobody is heating their homes with polar bears (a risky plan for sure). So, there was only one logical course of action. Deny the facts, and sue the government.
And apparently the Palin administration has grown quite fond of the “deny the facts, and sue the government” strategy. Because, guess what? They’re at it again. The Governor’s office released a statement Wednesday, saying that they plan to sue the federal government, in an attempt to rescind the listing of the Cook Inlet beluga as “endangered.”
There are now only 375 beluga whales left in Cook Inlet. The whales are not recovering despite protections enacted over the last 10 years. If you plot the line on the beluga population graph, it’s easy to see where it’s going, and why they are now under federal protection.
The listing means any federal agency that funds or authorizes activities that may affect the whales in the area must first consult with NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service to determine the potential effects on the whales, the agency said. A federal action must not jeopardize the continued existence of a listed species.
What impact the ruling may have on oil and gas extraction in Cook Inlet, the proposed Knik Arm bridge or even municipal sewage disposal is still an open question.
Palin, of course, has questioned the scientific evidence that determined the whale population is in decline. She wants no part of giving the whales federal protection, especially at the dawn of oil exploration projects scheduled to begin in Cook Inlet in the next few years. She has previously urged that the whale not be listed, and not receive federal protection, citing concerns over what this might do to the Cook Inlet economy. The whale has become a big white inconvenient speed bump in the road.
The listing has the potential to affect major Alaska projects including an expansion of the Port of Anchorage, additional offshore oil and gas drilling, a proposed $600 million bridge connecting Anchorage to Palin’s hometown of Wasilla and a massive coal mine 45 miles south of Anchorage.
The state does have serious concerns about the low population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet and has had those concerns for many years, Palin said in a statement. “However, we believe that this endangered listing is premature,” she said. Palin in April successfully lobbied for a six-month delay in a listing decision until a count of the whales this summer could be included in deliberations. That count showed no increase over 2007 numbers.
Part of the reasoning behind the endangered listing rests with the fact that the Cook Inlet belugas are a distinct and separate population of whales.
In a nine-page “notice of intent to file a lawsuit” — which the state attorney general’s office delivered Tuesday to outgoing Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and NMFS officials — [Attorney General Talis] Colberg also questioned whether the Cook Inlet belugas should be distinguished from four other beluga populations that thrive off the coastline of western and northern Alaska.
Federal scientists say the answer is yes — that Cook Inlet is home to the only beluga population south of the Alaska Peninsula, and its glacial fjord and tidal estuary setting in particular provides a unique whale habitat.
Says Colberg: “These two determinations are inadequately documented.”
Perhaps Talis Colberg had an adventurous summer where he headed out to sea, and discovered some other heretofore undiscovered population of beluga whales living south of the Alaska Peninsula in a glacial fjord and tidal estuary setting, which makes him doubt all the federal scientists. He’d impress the heck out of me if he did. But until we discover this is true, we wonder what kind of additional “documentation” he may be looking for?
While polar bears are beloved by all, and their protection has been covered extensively by conservation groups, and to some extent by the mainstream media, Cook Inlet belugas are hardly the animal rock stars of the arctic. However, the national spotlight is now focused on Alaska as never before. Palin’s notoriety may actually be a blessing in disguise for these animals who otherwise might have declined in obscurity, fighting a lawsuit that might have gone unnoticed by the humans in the Lower 48.
(This post is updated and re-edited from a previous post on Mudflats – Palin’s War on Wildlife Takes to the Sea originally posted on 10-17-08, and cross-posted on The Huffington Post)
So glad to hear Sarah has her priorities right as usual. Beluga whales? Uh?
They just take up space in the sea, don’t they?
Dear God in heaven, if she runs in 2012 I will jump in the Cook Inlet.
Without wetsuit.
Without waterwings.
It will be interesting to see how the present Supreme Court case is decided. It appears the whales may not have friends in Scalia and Roberts.
http://ithink.mining.com/2009/01/13/supreme-court-justices-differ-on-the-impact-of-mine-tailings-into-alaskan-lakes/
“Dear God in heaven, if she runs in 2012 I will jump in the Cook Inlet.
Without wetsuit.
Without waterwings.”
Well, at least wait to see if she wins! If you give up that fast, who is going to help the whales?
She don´t care for people, go figure if she would care about any animal (=h, but wait there was something about flies… why she like those then? Oil made from crushed fly?)
She’s on a holy war for oil.
The little lady is a perfect example of the devolution of the human species. “She has delusions of adequacy”. “She has no enemies, but her friends dislike her intensely”. These old sayings sure do seem to apply to this social reject of an intelligent woman.
With sadness today I read of the death of the Eagle lady in Homer Alaska.I guess Sarah doesn’t even know that Jean Keen existed. I believe we are stewards of the earth and all that dwell there in. Wish some of the people in power believed the same.
Yes…a swift and gentle flight to the “Eagle Lady”. She will be missed. AKM
I hope Alaskan’s fight the good fight for their wildlife……… I do believe you have to have an ounce of mothering and compassion to love and honor mother nature. I applaud those of you that do. Shame the hell out of Sarah will yah!
Now this ought to tickle you a little:
Palin Won’t Be At Obama Dinner In McCain’s Honor
Palin’s notoriety may actually be a blessing in disguise for the B List animals of Alaska? That settles it. God does work in mysterious ways. God doesn’t want Palin in the White House; God is trying to save the planet’s wildlife!
I am speechless. I truly am. This woman HAS got to be stopped!! Morals??? Does she have any?? AKM, I hope you send your articles to the media. Please do!! I hvent seen this except here and adn.
For those of you in Alaska I thought I saw the new mayor who is a dem also say he was against having them listed too or is that someone else. And do you think she can be defeated in 2010???? Any chance for impeachment???? Hope you will fight her and how can the rest of us help. Palin disgusts me!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I hate to have to say it, but newly elected Senator Mark Begich is also against the listing. I gave one of his “people” a huge earful when it first came up…his ear is probably still ringing. AKM
I am wondering who is telling Palin what to do, who is advising her? She doesn’t seem to have the intellectual power to think of a scheming lawsuit designed to manipulate federal funding and suck up to oil. . . . I can believe she’ll go along with this . . . but who is behind her?
Does she have a Karl Rove? is there a cabal of powerbrokers feeding her lines? Like, you know, George W?
I have seen nothing in Sarah Palin that persuades me that she could think up stuff like this on her own.
Did anyone catch this comment by Maureen Dowd where she was discussing Hilary’s appearance before the Foreign Relations Committee? “She was on top of all the issues, no matter how obscure. She batted around our “stale” arctic policy — who knew? — with Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, who doesn’t seem to realize we’re sick of Alaska.” This last part is what has sickened me about what Stevens and particularly Palin have done to the public’s perception of our state. It has been outside senators and Congresspersons who have fought to preserve the National Wildlife Preserve and now it is outside politicians and organizations who are fighting to preserve the polar bear and hopefully the Beluga whale. What will happen if they all stop caring?
Dee (18:19:20) :
With sadness today I read of the death of the Eagle lady in Homer Alaska.I guess Sarah doesn’t even know that Jean Keen existed. I believe we are stewards of the earth and all that dwell there in. Wish some of the people in power believed the same.
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Stewards of the earth Yes we are! Protecting the plants and animals here, but Barbie/Bush are Domminists! they believe anything plants, animals, oil are here for use of man, only.They care not for protected species. RFK jr. has a great book, as Shrub leaves office it may become dated, but in it he tells how Shrub, manupliulated scienctists and such to subvert envoirmental protects. Barbie is the same. Do you notice she has no pets? I heard she can’t stand “cats”. These people have no use for animals, It makes the “mama wolf” in me rise up! I want to rip her to pieces! She cares only about herself, first family, oil (because she is feathering her nest with underhanded doings) polar bears, beluga whales, wolves be damned!
She and her Dark christian ilk make me sick, Sick!!!!!!!!
People are dying in the bush and she is whining, Bristol and Levi aren’t dropouts, bloggers reports become hard news…. YOU BETCHA! WHITE WITCH! ASLAN IS COMING!!!!!!
I oh I hit enter before finishing. I was saddened to hear of Eagle lady’s passing…I had seen news footage and it was surreal, how many eagles would come there? I wonder what will happen to all her charges?
RiP Eagle lady….
I can see how it must grate on some in Alaska that the rest of the country gets to weigh in on how the land up north is plundered.
And I can appreciate, to a certain extent, how the promise of riches under the ground — to wit, oil and natural gas — could whet the whistles of public officials in their eternal quest for more money, more money, more money.
It’s my sorrowful opinion that despite certain attempts to balance progress, growth and prosperity with conservation and environmental preservation we have already gone so far in abusing, denuding, and destroying Mother Earth that even a relatively conscientious new administration can’t get back what is lost forever. Would that we were happy, as the native peoples were, to hunt only for food, and to do so with utmost respect for that which we kill so that we may eat and live.
I fear that our greed and our population size has already fore-doomed this planet. Efforts to stem the utter defoliation and deforestation and de-fauna-estration (sorry, made up word there) can at this point be only half or quarter or eighth measures. Today the belugas. Tomorrow’s endangered species will be of the human variety.
IMHO Maureen Dowd is the only “stale” part of that incident.
Last I knew, Alaska is part of the US, and the humans and the wildlife and the
earth there is important to us in the “lower 48;
tree fitz(18:40:18) :
I am wondering who is telling Palin what to do, who is advising her? She doesn’t seem to have the intellectual power to think of a scheming lawsuit designed to manipulate federal funding and suck up to oil. . . . I can believe she’ll go along with this . . . but who is behind her?
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One word….Dud.
tree fitz posted: “I am wondering who is telling Palin what to do, who is advising her? She doesn’t seem to have the intellectual power to think of a scheming lawsuit …. . but who is behind her?”
AIP?
Anyone also see the death penalty article at ADN? Palin is all in favor of reinstating it. She males me sick and I see she makes others furious too!!!!! How can anyone care more about developement and oil over polar bears and belugas? She makes me sick!!!!!!!!!
tree fitz…could it be the first dude? he seems to always be with his hand up her back.
and I don’t get how ‘the religious’ can bible thump and not care about ALL living things!
This is OT, but several of you all were commenting on her treatment of little Trig in some earlier posts and I found this suggestion (it was under 10 ways you can make a difference) at the blog: http://specialneeds08.blogspot.com
3. Thank Gov. Sarah Palin for raising awareness of special needs issues during her campaign. Encourage her to fulfill her pledge to be an advocate for people with special needs – and set an example for other governors — by eliminating Alaska’s waiting list for people who need disability services. Ask her to continue to advocate for full funding for IDEA.
I figured if we hammer her with all these things maybe her head will explode! If the rumors of breakdowns are anywhere close to true we can just hammer away at all these things:Emmonak, Belugas, Polar Bears, Special Needs children and Waivers and Waitlists, OH MY!
She’ll click her ruby red Manolo Blahniks’ and cry “I want to go home! I want to go Home!”
I’ve signed every impeachment petition that I could find for GWB for the past two years or more… and he still gets to leave office without so much as a scratch! I hope they string him up for all the war crimes he’s commited. Maybe, Palin knows that these things take forever and this gives her the green light to do whatever she wants until she’s stopped…her words, too, I believe. greedy, seedy woman
This has gained notice too from The Center for Biological Diversity and The Union for Concerned Scientists. In just the last 24 hours, I’ve received several communiques regarding the belugas and Palin’s intent to face off with the feds regarding their protection. From what I’ve heard, Greenpeace and Whale Watch are heading up that way.
IMO, Sarah Palin is interested in only one thing–becoming President. She will do anything necessary, including manufacturing “issues,” to get herself into the media spotlight. Unfortunately, the MSM is only too willing to oblige her.
Thanks, Greytdog, and you other pups, who commented on Margaret and Helens regarding Emmonak, et. al. I hope she’ll pick up this story, too.
tree fitz(18:40:18) :
I agree: I can’t follow her reasoning. The Prom Queen has played chicken with the oil companies on tax issues, snubbed them but needs them for the pipeline and then she wants oil drilling projects in Cook Inlet.
Oh wait…thought processes by the Prom Queen? Never mind-
Greytdog(19:19:55) :
This has gained notice too from The Center for Biological Diversity and The Union for Concerned Scientists. In just the last 24 hours, I’ve received several communiques regarding the belugas and Palin’s intent to face off with the feds regarding their protection. From what I’ve heard, Greenpeace and Whale Watch are heading up that way.
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Thanks for the information. I wish there would be a rush toward Emmonak, but perhaps this will shine a glaring spotlight on SP and her poor management.
BTW- AK mudpups: I don’t know much about the proposed projects for Cook Inlet. I do know Alaskan fields are declining, but aren’t there other places to drill/mine that aren’t so damaging?
What happened to people like Palin as a little child? Did they not get enough love? Why are they so greedy? Why is being a good steward of the earth so foreign to them? Where is there compassion? Why is it all about them?
There are people hungry and cold in Alaska tonight.
I think this means we ought to give some rich, white bankers some money.
Sarah “The Gash” Palin, needs some new clothes and some press time so we should probably toss her some money too and insist that to offset everything, we MUST demand that unions renegotiate (cave) and offer up a few more bucks an hour and make the auto industry admit everything is their fault. We should then deny gays and lesbians the same titles: Man and Wife, as straights so they don’t get some big idea to hurt the bankers by showing them up on **circle snap** everything they do honey and every way they do it!
argg… Their* instead of there.
Thanks for helping keep me informed again AKM….
Sue (19:23:40) : IMO, Sarah Palin is interested in only one thing–becoming President.
I forgot where I read this recently: Does SP know what all of the Presidents of the United States (including Obama) have in common? Not a single one of them ever sued their country.
@NMJ if that is true about never suing their country, no governor of Alaska will ever become President. It is practically a prerequisite of the job here. Since statehood, Alaska has been battling the Feds. Usually about land, fish & game, and minerals (especially oil).
One of the things I love most about Alaska is the variety of sea life. It is also one of the things I love about my small island home in Puget Sound.
Our killer whales are deminishing in population. We are not quite sure why. You may have the same problem with the beluga, and I urge you to keep fighting to keep them on the endangered list. We must respect mother earth and all her creatures. If they go, we go.
CRFlats (20:45:33) : @NMJ if that is true about never suing their country, no governor of Alaska will ever become President. It is practically a prerequisite of the job here.
Hmmm…well, maybe Poe will be the first AK gov to find ways of dealing with problems to AK’s satisfaction that will not be adversarial or combative. It’s not out of the realm of possibility, you know.
When you go in fighting, you’re demanding your adversary come out fighting, too.
I would think that according to GOP ideology, suing the USA is unpatriotic. Speaking out against a GOP President’s ideas or deeds was considered unpatriotic under the Bush admin, so wouldn’t it naturally follow that suing your own country is also? Doesn’t the GOP believe that “if you are not for us, you are against us”?
Sue (19:23:40) :
IMO, Sarah Palin is interested in only one thing–becoming President. She will do anything necessary, including manufacturing “issues,” to get herself into the media spotlight. Unfortunately, the MSM is only too willing to oblige her.
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I will forecast that if this ‘Cheney-in-drag’ and her ‘First Dud’ do succeed to the White House, the United States will be over as a country to be taken seriously.
@crystalwolf a.k.a. caligrl(19:00:54) :
I oh I hit enter before finishing. I was saddened to hear of Eagle lady’s passing…I had seen news footage and it was surreal, how many eagles would come there? I wonder what will happen to all her charges?
RiP Eagle lady….
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Jean was a cool old gal, but the eagles that come in from Prince William Sound, Kodiak, all over the place, because of her feeding is an unnatural gathering of predatory birds. All of the ranchers here lose calves and lambs to eagles every year and we believe it’s because Jean was attracting way more birds than this area would support naturally. It’s a big economic hit to all of us every year. Caligirl — I think her birds will disperse back to their home ranges when they aren’t fed here any longer.
Back in about1993, when I interviewed US Fish & Wildlife and SOA Fish & Game biologists about Jean feeding the eagles for a college paper, none of them had any objections to it. She wasn’t drawing so many birds yet. I think juvenile recruitment (young birds coming with their parents) has increased the population that’s being fed over the years. The biologists did talk Jean into not starting to feed until January, to allow natural die-off of weak birds. But over the years, the biologists all changed their minds and decided that it wasn’t good to attract that many predatory birds to one area. The City of Homer outlawed feeding eagles, but gave Jean grandfather rights for her lifetime.
Jean’s health had been failing for awhile. She was a tough old gal. She’s gonna be missed around the Cosmic Hamlet.
Trivia: Jean dyed her hair the same color that she dyed the mane & tail on the Palamino horse that she rode when she was a rodeo trick rider as a young girl. That’s the story behind that awful electric pinkish-orange hair color. I’ll bet she was a caution when she was a kid. She certainly was when she was an elder : )
Sue (21:03:09) : I would think that according to GOP ideology, suing the USA is unpatriotic. Speaking out against a GOP President’s ideas or deeds was considered unpatriotic under the Bush admin, so wouldn’t it naturally follow that suing your own country is also? Doesn’t the GOP believe that “if you are not for us, you are against us”?
Yes, they’re quick with the talking points, but remember how SP loved to compare “real” America and “patriotic” Americans with the “rest” of America? They’re quick to redefine those terms when it suits them. That’s why SP is completely without qualms when lying, cheating, stealing and, as a Governor, suing her country. She would pretend to be shocked if she heard the barest whisper that she wasn’t patriotic.
And it would never occur to her to find a different resolution; if it’s not something she can shoot, she’ll poison, trap, or attack it with the law.
tree fitz(18:40:18) :
I am wondering who is telling Palin what to do, who is advising her? She doesn’t seem to have the intellectual power to think of a scheming lawsuit designed to manipulate federal funding and suck up to oil. . . . I can believe she’ll go along with this . . . but who is behind her?
The answer is always to follow the money. Who benefits from not having to operate to protect endangered species? Mining and petrochemicals! Sarah surely has her hands in those pockets.
Not to worry outside of Alaska. Sarah is shunned and will stay shunned. If she had one ounce of cred, she would be in DC involved in the politics of her party. She isn’t and doesn’t have credible surrogates. Whomever is advising her is clueless … also, too
why don’t you mention the groups that have fought so hard to get the beluga listed in the first place? this piece makes it sound like the feds just woke up one morning and decided to do the right thing.
I know of one deputy commissioner who has far more power than his position would have in a normal administration. And I can think of one person in Oil & Gas who’s opinion probably carries a hell of a lot of weight. Those are the folks making policy, not our gov.
I respectfully submit that my governor either needs to lead or get the hell out of the way.
Bob Poe threw his hat into the ring at an unintentionally fortuitous moment.
But I don’t think he’ll be running against Sarah. She’s got her sites set on a higher office.
One of the real champions of the little white whale is writer, teacher, commercial fisherperson and environmental activist, Nancy Lord. She’s been hollering about the belugas for a looong time. You can read her most excellent book about the little whales:
“Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale’s Truths.” Counterpoint Press, 2004.
By Nancy Lord, longtime denizen of Homer, Alaska.
I am so happy to see you report on the plight of the Beluga Whales…. This information needs to be broadcast In national news sources so that the entire US is made aware of Palin’s outright attack on Alaska’s natural wildlife. With the Beluga population at only 375, how in the world can this woman think that she can win this lawsuit to remove this species from the endangered wildlife list??? If anything, she should be protecting their habitat. She has no regard for animals and will forfeit anything in order to pursue her greedy oil agenda. To me she is a MONSTER, that has to be stopped from ever again attaining public office. Hopefully, Alaskan’s will come to their senses and do away with her in the future…. America as well.
AKM – just a suggestion: your story provides a “link” to the 9-page notice of intent but that link only goes to the ADN article (which does not appear to link to the actual document which was presented/filed). Is that 9-page document available online? Perhaps it is on that ADN site but I just cannot find it. It’s under my nose here somewhere, I am sure, but I do have a prominent probiscus. …
I love Alaska. It is so incredibly beautiful! I fell in love with it and I was ready to move! The first time I visited I was lucky enough to see the Beluga whales in the inlet and Dahl sheep on the mountains on the other side at the same time. How anyone could care so little about something so miraculous is heinous. Of course, we are talking about Sarah here. She’s also got freezing, starving children and elderly she is ignoring. Good lord, Sarah! Take your blinders off and look around you!
Let’s hope the rep of the Governess in the rest of the US (and her statements regarding the uselessness of any critter other than oil and gas wells) will wake up people who think being “green” is a good idea but don’t do much about it. I must admit, until I heard some of her “ideas” I was far more concerned about what went on in my own backyard than what happened 5,ooo miles to the north.
I live on a tidal river in SE Florida–we have a pretty fair population of pelicans, other marine birds, manatees and yes, even a nesting pair of bald eagles nearby. NO ONE would call this area rural or deprived of any the goodies of modern life. By CAREFULLY regulating development, we’ve managed to balance the two needs. The counties to the north and south, not so much. As such, we enjoy higher property values, better schools, and a nicer quality of life. It CAN be done. It’s win-win if done correctly.
You Alaskans better get SP out of office soon before she turns the entire state into a strip mine. The only animals she likes are the ones stuffed and mounted on her wall, draped over her couch, or made into coats and weird fur collars with beads on them
. This is a woman who thought it was “fun” to do an interview in front of a turkey head grind-o-matic.
She needs Beluga Whales to die so she can have her bridge. The Bridge to Wasilly is just bait for more pork handouts that she’ll divert to her buddies, in my opinion. I predict The Palinistas will get the money in their hands and then cite the US Geological survey results, will be re-interpreted to show that the faults running through the area are too likely to generate powerful earhtquakes and detroy the bridge as a rationalization for keeping the money and funding the gasline project.
SP doesn’t like CATS? Well cats totally dis her. They can tell she’s an evil witch. I hope some male cats spray on her front door when it warms up. Maybe one can sneak inside and spray on the heating system so when winter comes and she can’t open the windows, all she can smell is cat pee when the heater is on. Cats Against Palin’s Mistreatment of Anmials aka CAPMA. Piss on her.
For those interested, here’s the State of Alaska’s notice of intent to sue NMFS for the Cook Inlet beluga listing: http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/protectedresources/whales/beluga/ci_state_suit/60day_intenttosue011209.pdf
Here’s our press release: http://www.inletkeeper.org/
And here’s Palin’s media release: http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php?id=1602
On the day after Palin’s press release, here’s what happened in the heart of beluga whale habitat in Cook Inlet – the US Coast Guard called it a “drop in the bucket and not a serious concern.” http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/655303.html
nswfm CA — you are so right. Cats can tell. My mother in law hates them too.
She has a very similar frequency signature to that of Sarah’s. It is a very ancient and powerful vibe. And insane. Also.