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NFC: Projects.lies.conservation and NFC politics

This is my single greatest frustration in the NFC. In our 3 plus years of
exsistance do you know how many unsolicited reports of conservation
efforts like these I have recieved  ? The answer is less than 5 !

I  have pleaded begged, traded for and manipulated for grassroots reports
to put in the flier. Nothing we have supported from those people or
projects has produced much of anything  except for the odd AAT report.
Never even a word on the crystal darter project ($400 NFC Bucks) , Or the
School teacher in Washington state ($300 in equipment plus a 100 fish or
so) who promised  life histories (instead he never returned our emails)
or the dozens of folks who took fish for the breeders program only to
dissapear off the face of the earth. You remember the NFC provides fish
you provide life histories HAHAHA. Instead the NFC provides fish and they
provide a vapor trail.

We as an organization have been taken in by those who promise to be on
the NFC team when in fact the only team they are on is their own. How
about the NFC fishing page 2 plus years and the only conservation fishing
story I can Find is mine the original one. 

That is like a shot on the gut ! Like I said commentators are plenty
fighters are few!


SO The question really is not why wont the mainstream press tell our
storys. Instead it is why we wont tell our stories in our own publication
?

Answer that and you win a door prize !


Robert Rice 
NFC President  www.nativefish.org 
check out our email list at nfc-owner at actwin_com
Visit out Adopt A Tank , Exotics Removal, and Breeders Club Programs at
the website


> 
> The late Bob Love, a local rancher, did more to save Ash Meadows 
> than the
> entire USF&WL and Death Valley Natl. Monument combined, when he got 
> Nature
> Conservancy on the job, at a crucial time, and helped work out big 
> land
> swaps that saved the springs. Of course that doesn't make very good 
> copy for
> the LA Times.
> 
> View a few snapshots of a trip last summer to Preston NV at:
> 
> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=972804&a=7152836&f=0
> 
> Lew Crips, a lifetime local rancher, devoted a whole day and threw 
> his home
> open to our motley crew. He detailed the water history of the area 
> and
> guided us to the local springs, with great tales about each. He 
> cares about
> the springfish and dace, and thanked us for what we are doing. 
> 
> Locals rigged the copper sulfate dispenser you see in Preston (Big) 
> Spring
> to limit algae that clogged the irrigation equipment. It was an 
> answer to
> the earlier problem that just dumping in dry CuSO4 apparently killed 
> the
> native fish. No EPA, no cops. I think they just preferred to respect 
> their
> home environment and worked out a way to do it right.
> 
> By pre-dissolving it, and allowing a slow controlled drip from the 
> barrel,
> they got their algae reduced at much less than lethal levels for the 
> fish.
> It's more trouble and effort, but it works for those "greedy" 
> landowners.
> Probably dramatically reduces the copper in their alfalfa, at the 
> same time.
> :-)
> 
> It's a pity we are so often given only one side of these stories.
> 
> Wright
> 
> -- 
> Wright Huntley, Fremont CA, USA, 510 494-8679  huntley1 at home_com
> 
>        "Strike any key to continue..."
>             How? My stupid keyboard doesn't even have an "any" key!
> 


Robert Rice 
NFC President  www.nativefish.org 
check out our email list at nfc-owner at actwin_com
Visit out Adopt A Tank , Exotics Removal, and Breeders Club Programs at
the website
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