----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000
12:03 PM
Subject: RC: Fw: NO WAY!!!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 12:54 PM
Subject: NO WAY!!!
ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS SENT ME THIS. TOO
MUCH!!!
Christina
THESE
PEOPLE ARE RUNNING THE COUNTRY??
For those who have never traveled to the great West, cattle
guards
are
horizontal steel rails placed at
fence openings on highways
to
prevent
cattle from crossing.
For some reason the bovines will not step
on
the
guards, probably because they
fear getting their feet
caught
between
the rails. We need
to make that clear in order for everyone
to
appreciate
the following TRUE
story.
President Clinton
received a report that there were over
100,000
cattle
guards in
Colorado. Because Colorado ranchers protested
his
proposed
changes in grazing
policies, he ordered Secretary of
Interior
Bruce
Babbitt to fire
half of the guards immediately.
Before Babbitt could respond, and presumably straighten him
out,
Colorado's congresswoman Pat
Schroeder intervened with a
request
that
before any were
fired they be given six months of
retraining.
LCDR Mary E.
Brown, D.V.M., M.P.H.
US
EPA/National Center for Environmental
Assessment
26 M.L.K. DR. MS
190
Cincinnati, OH
45268
voice:
513-569-7974
fax:
513-569-7916
brown.mary@epa.gov
(Although generally good ones, usual caveats regarding
opinions)