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NFC: Re: Projects.lies.conservation and NFC politics
Are any of them from Texas? I've been waiting since High School for a good
reason to turf someone's yard :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "robert a rice" <robertrice at juno_com>
To: <nfc at actwin_com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 7:35 PM
Subject: 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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