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I knew everything you said was a joke. "Do less with more"???? Bush did that from 2003-2007. Yes, it took Obama a few years to dig us out of it. The debt? I didn't hear complaints about his adding 8.2 trillion (With a T) to it in his 1st time at bat. Nor his million-dollar photoshoots at Superbowl or NSCAR. Nor his 30 golf days, in 100 days, on the taxpayer's dime. I haven't heard what the DOJ defense fund is for defending stupidity, nor anything more about his not paying taxes. Lord don't put the white house on an austerity budget! The little guy will always pay for it one way or another. Whether one has to pay higher house insurance premiums because his FEMA no longer covers natural disasters such as major snowstorms; whether one has to pay higher state taxes because states now have to cover things once covered by Feds or whether the little guy has to pay more for basic necessities. Whether one has to pay more taxes because he fired the people going after tax cheats. Sell public land to oil companies then don't collect any taxes because they invested in development. Don't close tax loopholes. Don't prohibit "cost-reimbursements projects. I guess those don't matter to some people. Wholesale cuts to fishing...well there won't be that many on the bank or in boats emulating the administration. I.E. whipping their flies and/or pulling their plugs. BTW: Feds set the interest rates! Declare a national emergency and suspend/lower interest payments.

You can't change history. There was a recession and very high unemployment in 1982. 1979-1982 is when companies really began moving offshore with drastic cuts in US capital spending and layoffs. Reluctantly, I had to assist training manufacturing people in Ireland in '79 and assist moving an operation to Mexico in '81. Clinton's monetary policy & gov't spending ('83-'01) pulled us out of that jam just as FRD's policy in '33 did. No business or government survives by intentionally cutting their dependable sources of income. The G-Lakes industry represents $5 billion. Blindly cutting support of it is pure mismanagement. It has nothing to do with efficiency. It's downright stupid! Maybe you got a surplus of money, the rest of us don't. The only thing left in the swamp will be the alligators who will turn on each other, just like they are beginning to do now.

Both the House and Senate have bipartisan Great Lakes Task Forces. The NY members are Kennedy, Langworthy, Mannion, Morelli, Tenney, Gillibrand and Schumer. The email address follows the format: "morelli.house. gov". The following is my letter to Morelli. Feel free to copy/paste and send to your representative. Dear Congressman, I am writing to voice my concern and opposition any proposed cuts to the USGS Scientific Center budget. The USGS studies plants, animals, bacteria and the interactions with humans and the landscape. They actively support effective management of species, lands and ecosystems and mitigating costly impacts of invasive species, pollution and wildlife diseases which impact every state. They also have outreach/education programs for the public. Tunison National Lab (Cortland NY) and Hammond Bay (Michigan) have been instrumental in our area by supporting the health of the Great lakes and Lake Ontario via research and monitoring of the water and fisheries. They have worked to identify Zebra Mussels, Sea Lampreys and Bird-flu as well as mitigate their harmful affects to our ecosystem. They have also developed control measures to keep the Asian carp out of the Great Lakes. Over 180 invasive species have been identified in Lake Ontario alone! USGS has been the "top of the list" resource for agencies of all the states to maintain healthy wildlife. In our fishery, they actively support the restoration of native species such as the Cisco, Bloater, Lake Trout and Salmon which at one time had abundant populations in Lake Ontario. Successful restoration and protection requires constant monitoring of the environment so that future generations can enjoy the great outdoors. It is far better to have a dedicated body of experienced scientists proactively committed and "at the ready" to solve environmental issues than have states seek out the lowest bidder of educational institutions that would have to start from scratch well after environment catastrophes strike. I urge you to vote against and convince your colleagues in congress to defeat any budget cuts to the USGS Science Center. Thank you EDIT: Sometimes that email format won't go thru. So just google their name and on their site will be a form to copy/paste the letter in. (also misspelled morelle. (e not i at end of name)

For anyone who doesn't know, if this goes thru, it will affect Tunison National Lab in Cortland NY, which operates the Oswego station. They operate the Kaho research boat which conducts the preyfish assessment as well as monitors Big-O eco/food web/invasive systems in Lake Ontario. Tunison is also the lab that investigated/"cured" the Thiamine issue as well as the VHS issue. When something affects the fish in Lake Ontario, Tunison is at the top of the list to investigate and cure. Tunison has also been "big time" involved with restoring/monitoring the Lake Trout fishery in Lake Ontario. Tunison has also been working to restore the Cisco and Bloater populations in Lake Ontario. The Ciscoes, which were once as abundant as the Atlantic Salmon in Lake Ontario are sought as an alternative food fish for the Salmons (Pacific & Atlantic) and Lakers. If we want abundant lakers, increased stocking, and larger Kings, we need to convince our congress men to oppose any funding cuts to the USGS biological programs.

YAY! Lamprey control back on! https://www.glfc.org/pubs/pressrel/2025_PR_TreatmentSchedule.pdf 11 Big O creeks/streams to be treated. https://www.glfc.org/temp/2025 Treatment Schedule.pdf

Spell checker turned off?...(muck).

THIS SUCKS!

This will be interesting in the courts. Administration is proposing to restrict/redefine the word "Harm" in the Endangered Species Act. Historically "Harm" meant you couldn't directly harm the specie (hunt, kill, wound, harass, etc.) or do anything to its habitat that could adversely affect it. Their proposal is only to have it mean you can't directly harm the specie itself. Currently if a particular bird nests in a particular specie tree, then they can't harm the bird AND they can't cut down the same specie tree in the surrounding area. Under the proposal they could cut all those other trees down. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/trump-administration-moves-to-cut-endangered-species-protections https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/trump-administration-proposing-do-away-harm-definition-endangered-species I'm curious how they would apply this to fish. (2nd article mentions salmon) One less hurdle for any project that could affect the water? (quality, quantity, structure?) What about food chain, thermal regime, pH, turbidity, aquatic plants? Should be interesting in the courts.

Areas they're talking about are a long ways from where housings is needed. They'll probably wake up to that fact after they start the projects and end up putting in oil wells or mining operations.

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