| Tribe banking on grant money to save chinook run
Chris Gregoire recently awarded, most of it tagged for habitat restoration in the Puget Sound region. The Stillaguamish River effort is expected to get $3.7 million, to be spent over two years, including $1.3 million for the south fork alone. The money comes from the state's Salmon Recovery Funding Board and an appropriation from the Legislature. So far, Snohomish County has received nearly $326,000 in grant money to build shelters made of giant stumps and logs to help the fish survive what can be a tough journey to sea. The county will use an additional $200,000 grant to figure out what more can be done to preserve chinook. Key needs include reducing the amount of sediment that flows into the river, which robs it of oxygen that the salmon and eggs need to survive.
Botulism takes fatal toll on thousands of Great Lakes birds
The bird die-off was obvious as soon as Gary Rentrop and his English setter turned onto the Lake Michigan shore. The sugar-white sand, long buried in the crushed gray shells of invasive mussels and mats of rotting algae was now, suddenly, littered with dead birds.
"It was almost like a war zone of birds," said Rentrop, a Michigan lawyer who recalled his November stroll along a Michigan beach.
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Chris Rose: Debate snub has him singing the Oxford blues
When I'm not tuned into the more compelling contest of who will win the Super Bowl this year, I occasionally dial into the presidential race, generally to recoil in horror at the spectacle of it all. It's freakish almost, given the broad palette of players and personalities still in the race, that the most entertaining -- and frightening -- character currently in this drama is not one of the candidates, but a spouse who also happens to be a former president. Bill Clinton looks so wild-eyed, ticked off and sleep-deprived on the campaign trail -- he fell asleep at the head table at a Martin Luther King tribute Monday -- that he seems to be putting his own legacy on the line in a bloody battle to put his wife into the White House. Even Ted Kennedy told him to shut up.
Your Comments : Let's do it, Chaudhry tells Bainimarama
Franky has finally told the People of the Nation what his Treasonous plans were all along. He Conned you! Buck Naked Lies, all of them! He has planned this Treasonous Thuggery for years! This Common Thugg has decided to destroy every Fijian Institution and re-make the whole nation according to His Third World Gangster Fantasy. (“What does the President say?") He and Chaundry the Cheat, have used the People of the Nation, Both Indo and Indigenous, to further this Criminal Dream by Promising them Reconciliation and an end to Corruption and Nepotism. Yet the TRUTH has become apparent over the last few days, as I said it would! By his “own admissions" he has Lied about the reason for This Failed Coup. This Treason was never about a So-Called Clean Up, It was about Franky the Thugg and Chaundry the Cheat saving themselves from Prison for Murder, Corruption and Nepotism! Now with Overwhelming Evidence of Chaundries Corruption, becoming public, Franky the Thuggs Says “He will not do anything about it"? Hypocrite Thugg! He Stole/Self- Appointed the GCC Chairmanship based upon an Illegal and Immoral Thugg Decree?He is a Common Thief! Finally he says that, “He has no opposition because he is unelected." And that he will do what HE wants because he has the Traitor Army backing him up against their own people! This is an Admission of His Thuggery and Arrogant Corruption! Hey Franky, the “Thugg of Fiji", I have a Newsflash for you Waiter Boy! The People of the nation have awakened to see you for the Common Criminal Thugg that you have revealed yourself to be! They are your Opposition Thugg, and so is Jonny Democracy.
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