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Steve Pitts wrote:I am not surprised at all. The logic for these folks is like this: Cavers may be spreading WNS, maybe they are not, whatever the case, they are generally bad for the cave ecosystem. For an outsider, this *might* seem to make sense. For me, this sort of thinking is completely illogical, because I know that 95% of the people making these kinds of decisions know absolutely nothing about caves. This is the sort of logic employed by
bureaucrats that sit behind a desk and study charts all day.
This is the reason you need to write your US legislators to tell them to support the Government Savings Litigation Act. This is a proposal to limit the funds
that organizations like the CBD can rake in from our US Treasury due to not supporting their petitions. This is extremely important and every caver
in the US should be writing their US legislators to vote FOR this bill that is being proposed by legislators from Wyoming. If we can stop the CBD from
raking in millions of dollars from the US Treasury then we can stop their efforts to close every cave in the US by proclaiming ALL bats to be endangered.
THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!!!!!
wyandottecaver wrote:Teresa,
I'm in no way saying the 5 yr cycle is the reason, but while 1 yr closures are flexible, you have to go through the review (often involving public comment) and the standard FS paperwork every year.
I will run counter to the prevailing opinion here and say that it actually makes good sense from their standpoint. MO is on the leading edge of WNS. Therefore it will almost certainly be at least 5 yrs before things "stabilize" there. Not a good choice based on science or serving the public...but reasonable from an administrative standpoint.
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