Dale Hall Director of US Fish & Wildlife Speaks Out Against the OLF
March 19, 2007
Photo Courtesy of US Fish & Wildlife
Well those who work for him maybe gagged when it comes to the US Navy and the OLF but the director speaks out.
Dale Hall, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said the Navy’s preferred landing strip would endanger the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge under his care.
“We appreciate that (the Navy) came to us on this project, but we must respectfully disagree with their conclusions,” Hall said. “We think we have been fairly clear with our concerns and the risk involved both to wildlife and Navy pilots but we don’t think the Navy has concluded well regarding our concerns.”
Hall said the Navy hasn’t yet explored all viable alternatives to the proposed outlying landing field in Washington and Beaufort counties. Hall and environmental groups have questioned whether the landing strip would threaten the nearly 100,000 snow geese and tundra swan that visit annually.
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I wonder if our Senators will take notice now that a Federal Official has weighed in his opposition to this project because they so far could care less what we the voters think or what the Governor thinks. Let’s hope we see some action.
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