Words from a Senior Fellow at the Ocean Foundation on this......

Richard Charter is a Senior Fellow with The Ocean Foundation and Vice Chair of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. He submitted a powerful 5 page letter to USFWS focusing around 19 key reasons why the EIS is inadequate. I would like to share with you just one. "The revised Draft EIS is in adequate in reflecting a casual and dismissive attitude throughout the document regarding the inevitable mortality of public trust living resources, such as numerous non-target species, including birds and marine life, in a manner which hardly represents a fairly considered cost-benefit analysis. Throughout the draft EIS the document instead attempts to rationalize the unnecessary killing of a lot of innocuous wildlife in the process of eradication of one species--the mice--but the document provides no conclusive evidence that the Ashy Storm Petrel will benefit over the long term from all of this collateral damage throughout the overall ecosystem."