And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: link provided by Martha Short-Changing Indians; It's a Gold Mine; ORVs Proliferate http://www.greenjournal.com/articles.html?article_id=41962712 For decades the Bureau of Indian Affairs has been collecting money from farmers, ranchers, and others who lease Indian land. With its own affairs an accountant's nightmare, the Bureau hasn't known where to send the money, to which of the 123 tribes and individual owners of land on Indian reservations. Recently it announced a million-dollar computerized Trust Asset Accounting Management System. The General Accounting Office says it won't work. It's a Gold Mine In every recent session of Congress, friends of taxpayers have sought to repeal or amend the 1872 mining law, a notorious giveaway of America's assets. This March, after a close reading of the old law, the Department of the Interior rejected the claim of the Crown Jewell company to a fabulous gold mine site in north central Washington. Celebration was short-lived. Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA) attached a rider to the emergency spending bill that provided funds for the war in Kosovo and Honduran hurricane relief. The rider nullified Interior's rejection. President Clinton deplored the many nasty riders on the bill but said he had to sign it. ORVs Proliferate Hikers, backpackers, campers, hunters, fishermen, bird-watchers, and horse riders are dismayed when off-road vehicles come roaring across the quiet landscape, damaging vegetation, scaring off wildlife, and causing soil erosion. The Bureau of Land Management and many National Forest supervisors have been tolerant. ORV users and manufacturers have strongly opposed restrictions. In Montana, BLM and the Forest Service are preparing an Environmental Impact Statement on an ORV management plan. Environmentalists who have seen it say it's far too loose and would set a bad precedent. The National Park Service is preparing regulations to cope with the 70,000 snowmobiles that speed throughout Yellowstone National Park in winter. It will be controversial. Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
