[env-trinity] San Jose Mercury News February 11

[Byron]

STATE FISH AND GAME

Fish and Game commissioner withdrawn

San Jose Mercury News - 2/11/05

By Paul Rogers, staff writer

In a move that could tip California's powerful state Fish and Game
Commission more toward environmentalists' interests, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger withdrew his nomination Thursday of commission member Marilyn
Hendrickson.

Schwarzenegger appointed Hendrickson, 66, a Vacaville Republican and
co-owner of Sep's Pro Fishing, a tackle supply business, in March. But she
had not been confirmed by the Senate.

She drew opposition from environmentalists during the past year for votes
opposing endangered protections for coho salmon, the tri-colored blackbird
and the tiger salamander. She voted no last week on a proposal to ban lead
bullets.

Senate Democrats, led by Oakland's Don Perata, refused to hold confirmation
hearings for her.

``This just shows you what environmentalists can do when they are running
rampant,'' said her husband, Joe ``Sep'' Hendrickson.

Environmentalists celebrated. ``Her record was consistently against
conservation,'' said Ann Notthoff, a lobbyist for the Natural Resources
Defense Council.

 

 

Byron Leydecker, 

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Consultant, Californiua Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 383 9562 fx

415 519 4810 ce

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)

http://www.fotr.org

http://caltrout.org

 

 

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