Has anyone heard about the grant O**** passed for creating new wetlands in the gulf coast states?
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$20 million dollar grant
Has anyone heard about the grant O**** passed for creating new wetlands in the gulf coast states?
Last edited by Birdfinder; 08-03-2010 at 02:31 PM.
Plant it they will come.
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Please don't let this pittance of an allocation of other people's money towards a cause we all support fool you into thinking less harshly of Nobama. It's ain't his money. It's not like he made a personal donation. And if you do the math, the amount is such a minuscule vapor of what he has squandered to buy votes and hide his background.
Last edited by Palmetto Bug; 08-03-2010 at 08:25 PM.
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PB, Ima buy you a beer should we grace the same beer hall together.
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no it could not sway my opinion of the bastard I heard this on Neal Bortz and i wanted to know more about it.
Plant it they will come.
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with everything that needs to be done, $20 million is a drop in the bucket.
"A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is conservation's greatest asset."-Nash Buckingham
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It might have been 20 Billion. Hell I dont know, that is why I was thinking someone else may have heard about it.
Last edited by Birdfinder; 08-07-2010 at 02:08 PM.
Plant it they will come.
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It's going to pay farmers to flood fallow rice fields I believe. Some farmers are already getting stuff worked on(i.e. pumps, dikes, etc) from what I've heard.
Man and other animals were first vegetarians; then Noah and his sons were given permission to eat meat: “every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you” Genesis 9:3
"A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him." Aldo Leopold
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From my local paper.
I didn't know that it was in states other than LA. I wonder if these farmers are going to be selling leases for these fields(or if they lawfully can).
Man and other animals were first vegetarians; then Noah and his sons were given permission to eat meat: “every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you” Genesis 9:3
"A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him." Aldo Leopold
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Quackaddict,
You from MAMOU?????
"The federal government hasn't funded anything like this $20 million project before, but farmers and scientists are hopeful the program in the five Gulf states and Arkansas, Georgia and Missouri could work. They note that Gulf-bound birds often stop anyway at their farms, where rice and crawfish fields are already flooded for parts of each season.........The program is so popular that Texas and Louisiana exhausted their initial funding within weeks and lobbied for more. Texas has now received nearly $6 million under the program and hopes to have all its contracts funded by Aug. 1."
So....why spend 20 million when "Gulf-bound birds often stop anyway at their farms, where rice and crawfish fields are already flooded for parts of each season" ? NObama ROCKS!!! Sounds like a welfare for waterfowl program. I can bet funding was exhausted in weeks and will be in minutes if more coin is thrown at it. I guarantee you this program was "popular", if I was growing rice and crawfish I'd go after the added money too, especially to do what I'd be doing any way....flooding my fields in winter. Obama = clueless. If BP is footing the bill I don't think 200 million / year is going to change what ducks / geese will do naturally.
My biggest fear is the short and longterm affect on Cans, Redheads, Scaup, etc after diver species ngest toxins from the spill. Flooding rice ain't gonna stop them from hitting the Gulf. I can only hope these oil eating micro-organisms I hear about are tearing that oil up down there.
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Thanks for the info
Plant it they will come.
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CW, the paper is from Bryan-College Station, TX. The grant is to keep fields flooded that HAVEN'T been flooded in recent years, and to keep the normally flooded fields, flooded longer. I'm sure plenty of folks are abusing that system, but the idea behind it, like I(and the paper said) is to flood previously fallow fields, not planted rice fields. Seeing as how the habitat down on the coast has taken a humongous shot to the testes, I don't really have any problems with this grant(not too mention that it will legitimately help out the farmers who aren't abusing the system, which I am all for).
Last edited by quackaddict; 08-07-2010 at 04:10 PM.
Man and other animals were first vegetarians; then Noah and his sons were given permission to eat meat: “every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you” Genesis 9:3
"A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him." Aldo Leopold
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