Bush to Save Ocean Sanctuary, Huh?

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LAST EDITED ON Jan-06-09 AT 11:55AM (MST)[p]"there's something scwewy going-on awoud here."

Please Sir, Samoa
Bush to create huge ocean sanctuary in Pacific
Posted at 5:46 PM on 05 Jan 2009
WASHINGTON, Jan 5, 2009 (AFP) - President George W. Bush is to announce the creation of the world's largest marine protection area spanning some 195,000 square miles (505,000 sq km) in the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman said Monday.

The three areas to be designated as "marine national monuments" include the Mariana Trench and northern Mariana Islands, the Rose Atoll located in American Samoa and a chain of remote islands in the Central Pacific.

Establishing marine national monuments aims to ensure that certain resources are protected, such as rare fish and bird species, coral reefs and underwater active volcanoes, said a top Bush aide on the environment.

"This is very, very big," James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality Issues, told reporters ahead of Bush's announcement on Tuesday.

"In the last several years, it's on par with what we've been able to accomplish on land over the course of the last 100 years," he said, noting that the total area would "comprise the largest areas of ocean or ocean seabed set aside as marine protected areas in the world."

Collectively, the three areas will nudge out the Phoenix Island Protected Area, established in 2008 by the South Pacific nation of Kiribati as the world's largest protected area.

They also top Bush's last such announcement of a marine protection area in 2006 -- the 140,000 square miles (363,000 square kilometers) of Pacific Ocean near the northwestern Hawaiian islands.

Among the protected areas are the 1,500 mile-long (2,400-kilometer) Marianas Trench, including submerged active volcanoes and hydrothermal vents that run along the Marianas Island chain, an area that contains the deepest point on Earth.

The Pacific Remote Islands National Monument will comprise areas with coral reef ecosystems that are home to sharks, endangered turtles and millions of seabirds off seven areas: Kingman Reef; Palmyra Atoll; Howland, Baker, and Jarvis Islands; and Johnston Atoll; and Wake Island.

Finally, the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument will be named around a small but dense coral reef known for its pink shade at Rose Atoll, a remote area around American Samoa.

For scientists, the designations are "wonderful opportunities. You don't get a better natural laboratory than we have in these places," said Roger McManus, vice president for global marine programs at the environmental group Conservation International.

"What we have in these islands is a natural laboratory to understand how humans affect coral reefs," said McManus.

Naming them as marine monuments "will do a lot to protect the coral reefs and also do a lot restore fish populations in the regions," McManus said.

source: Agence France-Presse
 
I'm going to check and see if he sold Yellowstone, maybe this is a distraction. out of charactar for sure.
 
LAST EDITED ON Jan-06-09 AT 10:28PM (MST)[p]funny how Bush adds reserves federal reserves by removing more geography from "use" the right thinks it's a good thing, but when a dem sets aside anything for the future or wants to protect land or water it's a taking and it's socialism. Even 02 flip flops on his public vs private position. telling aint it?
 
Not me Tmoneyshot...I hate it when both sides do it....I can't wait till the federal government is completely broke....I'm gonna unilaterally reopen some good 2 tracks.

great post/pic, thanks for sharing

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No flip flop here Tmoneyshot. You see its not like land. A man can not go out and say I would like to purchase 7,000 acres of the ocean. It just does not work that way. So personally I could give two turds about how much ocean is protected. However I do like to remind you just what a good President Bush is.
 
D13er - "I hate it when both sides do it" -- I totally agree

"I can't wait till the federal government is completely broke" -- We won't be waiting much longer !!

-- Bob
 
so maxxbob1 and d13er if I understand your thinking, wild places and the animals that live there should not be protected from the ravages of human behaviour and their technology, people that think like you two, man, what a shallow uncaring sad couple, all I can say, thank god we had people like Teddy Roosevelt that thought just the opposite
 
Cant go wrong with a president that likes the outdoors and our way of life as much as we do!!
 

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