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The feds are starting a massive logging project - cue the "activists!" - in, of all places, Yosemite. The problem, they've determined, is that all the years of promptly extinguishing fires there has had some undesirable effects: a whole lot of trees have shot up, and they're obscuring the views that were the very reason behind the establishment of the park in the first place. Who could have known?
In other news, there's a little problem over in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: back in the 1940's, federal experts seeded the lake with carp, figuring they'd be great for sport-fishing. Sometime thereafter, another group of federal experts decided that, since the place is a wildlife refuge, sport-fishing shouldn't be allowed. The result: carp populations exploded, destroying the habitat of the very birds that the refuge was established to protect. Today, there are millions of pounds of carp in the lake, ranging up to as much as 35 pounds for the larger fish. This presents a problem. They've tried rotenone to kill them, but a lot of the fish just swim up into tributaries. Federal management has created a real conundrum. The experts are still scratching their heads.
