A very sad sad story "A Consevationist's Suicide"

[Mountainman]

This story was in our local Bakersfield newspaper yesterday. It makes me want to kick some conservative rancher butt!

http://www.latimes.com/business/careers/work/la-me-carrizo20aug20,1,4256663.story?coll=la-headlines-business-careers

Suicide Casts a Shadow on Conservation Battle
National monument official was distraught at shift she said favored grazing over grasslands.


CARRIZO PLAIN NATIONAL MONUMENT, Calif. — First she killed her dogs, shot them in the head with a .38-caliber revolver and covered the two bodies with a quilt. Then Marlene Braun leveled the blue steel muzzle three inches above her right ear and pulled the trigger.

"I can't face what appears to be required to continue to live in my world," the meticulous 46-year-old wrote in May in a suicide note. "Most of all, I cannot leave Carrizo, a place where I finally found a home and a place I love dearly."

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About 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles, Carrizo Plain National Monument is largely unknown to the outside world. But in Braun's short tenure as monument manager, the plain had become a battleground between conservationists and the Bush administration over the fate of Western public lands.





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A 13-year veteran of the BLM, Braun was torn between the demands of a new boss who she felt favored the region's ranchers, and conservation policies adopted nearly a decade ago to protecting the austere swath of prairie she shared with pronghorn antelope and peregrine falcons, the California condor and the California jewelflower.



BLM suicide ripples across West

Perhaps a better way of pondering the circumstances of Braun’s decision is to consider this: Talk to BLM employees today and you will hear fear expressed over the way that marching orders are coming down from members of the Bush administration in Washington.


http://www.billingsnews.com/story?storyid=17959&issue=280

[Mountainman]

1. shameless self kick. I hope somebody reads this

[Mountainman]

4. another shameless self kick

[Wickerman]

2. worth reading

thanks for posting.

[redqueen]

3. God, that's sad.

:cry:

[newswolf56]

5. Marlene Braun: another victim of George Bush and...

the George Bush mentality, another casualty of the eco-wars. (For which see The Environmental Wars by David Day.)

Goddess heal her soul.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. The bastards won't be happy until they ruin the entire country.

That is, a sad story Mountainman. Five years ago I'd have looked down on someone who would take his or her own life. Now it's easier to see how someone could do that! It's hard to watch the GOPers destroy the country that you love. I myself, want to live forever, just to spite the greedy sons of bushes...

Hope your mountain and all your critters are doing okay. * GTSY!

[Mountainman]

7. Hubert, doing well here in my part of the world

I got a new horse and a couple more dogs and we are doing OK..How you doing back there?

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Watching the river rise!

It's been raining here for two days and tomorrow the weather service is talking about 4 to 8 inches of rain from the hurricane. 8 inches of rain here is a disaster in dry weather. The rivers and streams are all filled in by sediment, from mountain top removal strip mining and timbering all over the state. The flood water has nowhere to go, but out of it's banks and into people's homes.

My old hound dog Howdy died in January and I was really sad for awhile. He really was my best friend. I went to the pound and adopted two pups and they run the place now.

Seems like sad is the uniform of the day, every day, with the GOP raiding and raping the country at will.

[proud patriot]

8. awfully sad

:-(