{"id":195,"date":"2006-05-04T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/195"},"modified":"2006-05-04T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T13:18:27","slug":"tales-of-the-smirkcontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/195","title":{"rendered":"Tales Of The Smirk&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldandstream.com\/fieldstream\/columnists\/conservation\/article\/0,13199,1179434,00.html#\">Field and Stream<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"readhead\">The Bush Administration announced last week<\/span> that the nation is no longer losing wetlands&#8211;as long as you consider golf course water hazards to be wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>Really.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday (March 30), Interior Secretary Gale Norton called a press conference to claim our long nightmare of wetlands loss had finally come to an end due to unprecedented gains since 1997 (<a href=\"http:\/\/wetlandsfws.er.usgs.gov\/status_trends\/national_reports\/trends_2005_report.pdf\">click hear to read the report she cites<\/a>). However, she then admitted much of that gain has been in artificially created ponds, such as golf course water hazards and farm impoundments.<\/p>\n<p>The sporting community&#8211;from Ducks Unlimited to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership&#8211;reacted quickly, and not favorably.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet not.&nbsp; Next they&#8217;ll be saying that global warming is on the decline, because worldwide sales of air conditioners are up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Field and Stream&#8230; The Bush Administration announced last week that the nation is no longer losing wetlands&#8211;as long as you consider golf course water hazards to be wetlands. Really. Thursday (March 30), Interior Secretary Gale Norton called a press conference to claim our long nightmare of wetlands loss had finally come to an end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-tales-of-the-smirk","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}