Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:47:18 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jerry and Laura Tarbell Subject: Re: A Naturalist's View MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Denise, Couldn't agree with you more. I used the abbreviation simply to save space. I don't like to sound defeatist about things but I think the timing of the fate of the Refuge is simply a matter of history. The U.S. is desperate to grasp at straws that will rid it of the middle-eastern menace we are under. Every educated person knows that there isn't much oil there to be had, but W needs to make it look like he's solving problems. His needs will most likely be the downfall of a nice peice of our global environment. I hope you are right. It needs to be stopped. I have solutions to the problem of Alaskan politics, but nobody would put up with it. It has to do with extending the refuge south a few thousand miles. 49 states and a refuge sound nice? Jerry ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================