PEEReview
A Publication of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
Throttles Top Threat to Public Lands
R
eckless off-road vehicle abuse of public lands
is spinning out of control, say federal law
Winter enforcement rangers in a first-ever survey.
The poll was conducted by Rangers for Responsible
2008 Recreation, a coalition of retired federal and state
law enforcement and land management profession-
als organized by PEER. Tougher penalties and a new
emphasis on enforcement are critically needed now,
according to the vast majority of Forest Service and
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rangers polled
in the five-state Southwest
region.
This survey of federal rang-
ers’ views on off-road ve-
hicle (ORV) issues leaves
little doubt that law enforce-
ment officers on the ground
perceive the situation as ex-
tremely serious and worsen-
ing:
• More than nine out of ten
of respondent rangers agree
that “off-road vehicles
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my jurisdiction are out of control;” and
• Nearly three out of four say that off-road abuses
“are worse than they were five years ago.”
In the essay portion of the survey, a Forest Service
ranger conveyed the scope of impacts by noting: “The
numbers of off-road vehicles on public lands, espe-
cially National Forests, are creating resource damage
at an alarming rate.” One BLM ranger wrote bluntly,
“User attitudes are atrocious. They are the single big-
gest destruction on public lands these days, far worse
than grazing or energy development.”
4Pharmaceuticals Fouling Our Waters, page 3
INSIDE 4EPA to Re-Open Its Libraries, page 4
4Forest Service Gets Taser-Happy, page 6
“This survey reflects the overwhelming nature of ORV
problems on public lands – vast landscapes, a deeply
entrenched pattern of abuse, far too little enforce-
ment, and soft penalties,” stated Jim Furnish, former
Deputy Chief of the Forest Service, who appeared at
a congressional briefing to unveil the survey results.
“Agencies like the Forest Service are making belated
progress, but still lack the leadership and will to re-
verse the runaway crisis.”
The mailed survey sent to federal rangers in Arizona,
New Mexico, Nevada, Utah
and the southern desert area
of California found that
their agencies are unequal to
the task of controlling ORV
abuse:
• Nearly two out of three
(62%) believe their agency
is not “prepared to deal with
the ORV problems we are
experiencing”; and
• More than three out of four
(78%) do not think their de-
partment “devotes adequate resources to cope with
ORV problems.”
“The rangers are all saying the same thing – there’s no
meaningful response to the reckless use of off-road ve-
hicles,” added Southwest PEER Director Daniel Pat-
terson, who coordinated the survey. “Congress needs
to get a handle on this problem before it spins further
out of control.”
Sonoran Desert Closure
The Sonoran Desert National Monument has banned
off-road vehicle traffic altogether from the northern
third of its lands because of resource damage and user
continued on page 12
 From the Executive Director
Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth
T
o the surprise of some, President Bush signed Freedom of
Information Act reform legislation into law on New Year’s
Eve. The Freedom of Information Act or FOIA was enact-
ed 40 years ago and authored by one of the unsung giants of post-
war progressivism, Rep. John Moss of California. In the ensuing
years, FOIA has been an invaluable tool for unearthing the paper
trails buried behind bureaucratic walls and bringing some degree
of transparency to the activities of federal agencies.
In recent years, particularly under the Bush administration, the
gears of FOIA have been gummed up by growing security-related
claims of secrecy and lengthening delays in even acknowledging,
let alone satisfying, requests for documents. The new FOIA bill,
passed with broad (and veto proof) bi-partisan support, re-affirms
a presumption of openness for federal records. It also enacts a
series of minor repairs, such as tighter time-lines for agency han-
dling of document requests, web-accessible tracking of request
status and even stronger provisions to hold officials accountable
for “arbitrary and capricious” disclosure denials.
Working on behalf of public servants, FOIA is an invaluable tool
for PEER. Concerned employees need not go public or leak sensi-
tive documents. Instead, they merely need tell us what records to
FOIA – and we do, averaging three FOIA requests per week just
from our D.C. office. Many of our FOIA requests are ghostwritten
by the employees who are the custodians of the documents that
they believe should see the light of day.
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tribal law enforcement officers, scientists, land managers and other professionals dedicated to upholding environmental
laws and values. Through PEER, public servants can choose to work as “anonymous activists” so that public agencies must
confront the message, rather than the messenger.
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FOIAs which are laser-guided by inside experts often make ideal
vehicles for ventilating agency misconduct. Battles over release
of documents are media-genic, as the sought after records take on
a “secret” character and reporters share a vested interest in prying
loose anything that an agency does not want released. Moreover,
the reason the agency is withholding documents is usually because
they confirm culpability or illuminate inanity. Conversely, the ul-
timate disclosure of smoking gun documents is a potent purgative,
as the agency is hard-pressed to dispute the validity of their own
records.
For PEER, a key provision of the new FOIA bill is one that facili-
tates collection of attorney fees and costs from lawsuits to force
release of records. This provision removes an obstacle for us to
press many cases to the limit when the agency delays or dissem-
bles. As a result, PEER will be filing many more FOIA suits in
2008 than ever before.
King Lear said that the ingratitude of one’s own child is “sharper
than a serpent’s tooth.” Inside the Beltway, however, the sharpest
cuts are usually self-inflicted when political miscreants are im-
paled on their own words. If you are a current or former em-
ployee and know of skeletons lurking in agency closets, please let
us know where we should shoot our FOIA arrows. As we enter
the last year of the Bush administration, this is the time to pursue
accountability like there is no tomorrow.
— Jeff Ruch
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Pharma Pollution is a New Reality
Regulatory agencies at all levels of government are beginning to
realize that pharmaceutical and personal care products and endo-
crine disrupting chemicals in surface and drinking water are of
concern. This phenomenon of “pharma pollution” is being found
in rivers, lakes, and groundwater, which serve as drinking water
sources, and even in treated drinking water.
Pharma pollution includes over-the-counter and prescription
medications, dietary supplements, hormones, cleaning agents
(especially antibacterial cleaners), and the inert ingredients that
are associated with these products. Many of these components
are not completely metabolized
by the human body. Therefore,
the unmetabolized portions are
excreted when people defecate
or urinate. For example, when
amoxicillin, a common anti-
biotic, is ingested, 60% of the
drug comes out unchanged in the
urine.
During a March, 2007 congres-
sional briefing on compounds of
emerging concern, Dana Kolpin,
Chief of the U.S. Geological
Survey’s toxic substances hy-
drology program, stated that the
USGS has “definitive” evidence
from laboratory experiments
Pharmaceuticals as Pollutants. From 1999
to 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
that chemical compounds found
studied surface and groundwater samples in household detergents, drugs,
from around the country and found at least and other compounds that pass
one compound in 80% of streams and 93% through wastewater treatment
of groundwater. plants are responsible for “femi-
nizing” male fish downstream of such plants. Potential human
health impacts include cancer, compromised immunity, Type II
diabetes, behavioral changes and neurological effects.
Even if these compounds are then treated to the highest standards
prescribed by state and federal law, the compounds make it into
the waste stream and are discharged into the environment. Oth-
ers make it into the waste stream when people flush unused com-
pounds down the drain.
While people can be educated as to why flushing medications is
dangerous, it is impossible to enforce a no-flush policy. Waste wa-
ter treatment plants are not designed to remove these compounds
from the waste stream. Moreover, no drinking water standard for
these compounds currently exists.
Under the leadership of New England PEER Director Kyla Ben-
nett, a former EPA biologist and lawyer, PEER is putting together
a Pharma Pollution Program. The PEER program will push agen-
cies to educate consumers, develop standards, take pharma pollu-
tion into account in all discharge permits, and, above all, use the
precautionary principle.
Winter 2008
Pharma Pollution
Prison Industry Health
Perils Grow
In an investigation sparked by PEER, federal health of-
ficials found staff and inmates are being exposed to off-
the-chart levels of lead and cadmium in a prison industry
computer recycling plant. These officials urged an im-
mediate shutdown of computer recycling operations at the
Elkton Federal Correctional Institution, in eastern Ohio,
and strict new anti-contamination safeguards if the factory
is to reopen.
Written by officials from the National Institute of Occu-
pational Safety and Health as well as the Federal Occu-
pational Health Service, the November report determined
that airborne lead and cadmium, both dangerous heavy
metals, are accumulating at alarming concentrations in-
side air filters and ventilation systems:
“[T]he data from the ‘filter change-out’ operation
showed that airborne exposures can exceed by a
factor of 450 times the concentration adopted by
OSHA as the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)
for cadmium and over 50 times the PEL for lead.
Even though workers performing this operation
wore respiratory protection equipment…these ex-
cessive exposures will exceed the Protection Factor
afforded by this type of respirator.”
Most of the contamination springs from inmates breaking
up computers with hammers in “the cathode ray tube glass
breaking operation.” In one factory section, “one [dust]
sample…was as high as 16% lead.”
The report was submitted to the Justice Department Office
of Inspector General as part of its system-wide review of
all the recycling centers. The Justice Department oversees
the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The review is expected to
conclude this year.
This review stems from a whistleblower disclosure from
a prison safety manager, Leroy Smith, about similar dan-
gers in the federal institution at Atwater, California {see
PEEReview Fall ‘06}. “Ever since Leroy Smith went
public, every one of the six other federal prisons with
computer recycling plants should have been on notice that
they are putting the health of their own people at risk,”
stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that
besides workers, families of staff members are routinely
exposed to dust carried home in clothing. “The Justice
Department needs to provide thorough health check-ups
for everyone who may have been exposed at all of these
institutions.”

 Environmental Protection Agency
Congress Orders EPA Libraries Re-Opened
C
apping a nearly two-year cam-
paign by PEER, Congress or-
dered the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to restore
library services across the country and
has earmarked money for that purpose.
Beginning in early 2006, without pub-
lic announcement or congressional ap-
proval, EPA began dismantling its net-
work of technical and research libraries.
Altogether EPA has closed regional li-
braries serving 23 states and its head-
quarters library in Washington, D.C. It
has also reduced services and hours in
libraries covering another 14 states. In
addition, EPA has shuttered several of
its specialized, technical libraries, such
as its only library dedicated to the ef-
fects of pesticides and new chemicals.
The report language attached to the
omnibus appropriations bill for the
remainder of the 2008 fiscal year di-
rects EPA to use $3 million to “restore
the network of EPA libraries recently
closed or consolidated” and to report
within 90 days on its plans to “restore
publicly available libraries to provide
environmental information and data to
each EPA region…”
The EPA libraries are not only impor-
tant to the public but are invaluable
tools for the agency’s own scientists
and specialists. While the intervention
of Congress is welcome, it comes after
several closures and much disruption,
leaving the remaining EPA librarians
with the task of putting Humpty Dump-
ty back together again.
“We have already been contacted by
EPA librarians who are concerned
that the same officials who destroyed
the libraries will be in charge of their
restoration,” said PEER Associate Di-
rector Carol Goldberg. “We will help
Congress closely oversee whether EPA
fully restores the full range of library
services it had provided.”

Pesticides to Carry Celebrity Plugs & Charity Tie-Ins

EPA is now proposing to allow pesticide Safety directions on the label are consid- plugs and catchy slogans that distract the
manufacturers to display “third-party en- ered the principal means that EPA has at eye from sober precautions. In March
dorsements” and charitable tie- 2007, EPA bowed to a request from
ins on their labels to promote the Clorox Company to display the
retail sales. Until now, such Red Cross symbol in advertising a
promotional marketing was pledge to donate a small percent-
forbidden, with the pesticide age of the retail purchase price of
labels devoted to safe usage its bleach products to the charity.
directions. After agreeing to make an excep-
tion for Clorox, EPA now wants to
EPA Administrator Stephen transform that exception into the
Johnson wants EPA to approve rule.
each marketing claim on a case-
by-case basis, thus entangling EPA’s plan has already drawn the
the agency in the design of cor- ire of the Association of American
porate campaigns. EPA would Pesticide Control Officers which
even give conditional approval contends promotions “could mis-
for questionable labels when lead, be misinterpreted, or be false-
it has “some residual concern” ly offering assurances of safety.”
about consumer confusion, ac- Attorneys General of seven states
cording to his plan. have called on EPA to retract the
Clorox-Red Cross label, and Min-
Misuse of pesticides, however, nesota banned it.
is a major public health prob-
lem. The most recent report Ironically, EPA is willing to lavish
from the American Association regulatory attention on pesticide
Cautionary Hypocrisy. Read the Label First is the name of the main EPA
of Poison Control Centers finds program to cut harmful pesticide exposures. promotions but cites lack of regu-
that pesticides are the eighth latory resources for why it cannot
most frequent cause of poison address issues ranging from global
center calls, accounting for more than warming to childhood exposure to lead-
its disposal to prevent misuse, yet John-
100,000 exposures a year, nearly half of based paint.
son would allow pesticides and other reg-
which involve children under six.
ulated poisons to feature flashy celebrity

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Epic Battle in Tiny Town of Westport
T
he small town of Westport, Mas-
sachusetts sits on the edge of Buz-
zards Bay, and has
spectacular natural re-
sources. In fact, much of
the town is water, includ-
ing the Watuppa Ponds,
Westport Harbor, and two
branches of the Westport
River. It is bucolic and
picturesque; so pretty
that the drive for more
development threatens to
change the character of
the town.
Horseneck Beach. Views like this drive the Conservation Com-
As in many places, the development pressures.
battle lines on develop-
ment are drawn across wetlands. Massa- lands protections but that changed when
Greenhouse Gasbag
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson
deserves a lump of coal in his stocking
for his December 19th announcement
blocking California and 16 other states
from controlling greenhouse gases.
Although this was a decision that was
supposed to have been the product of
months of legal and scientific delibera-
tion, Johnson hastily called a press
conference at 6:30 pm to use the ener-
gy bill signed just that morning as the
main reason for vetoing state action.
Characteristically, Johnson completely
ignored the advice of his own technical
staff yet ordered them to write the jus-
tification for his decision after he an-
nounced it. The California waiver de-
cision will waste at least another year
in litigation before it is reversed.
In addition, EPA has yet to issue an
“endangerment finding” on CO2, let
alone declare that it would regulate
carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the
Clean Air Act. Johnson has reportedly
told his staff to stop working on any
federal greenhouse gas regulation.
Without a doubt, EPA under Johnson
has become a major impediment to
moving the country forward to confront
the challenge of global warming.
Winter 2008
chusetts has one of the strongest wetlands
protection laws in the country and a unique
enforcement institution:
the municipal Conserva-
tion Commission. All
351 towns and cities in
the Commonwealth have
Conservation Commis-
sions, part-time, appoint-
ed, volunteer citizens
charged with implement-
ing the state Wetlands
Protection Act.
Historically, in Westport,
mission had only spo-
radically enforced wet-
a pro-environmental protection majority
emerged. A few complaints came to Town
Hall and the Westport Selectmen, the lo-
cal governing council, reacting by driving
out the Conservation Agent, the town’s
sole environmental enforcement employee,
and then by trying to fire the Conservation
Commission.
In response, four of the seven members of
the Conservation Commission have filed a
complaint in Massachusetts District Court
alleging malicious interference with the
Commission’s enforcement of wetlands
protections and free speech rights. PEER
is joining the suit not only to protect the re-
Westport River. Approximately thirty
miles southeast of Providence and
sixty miles south of Boston, Westport
is becoming an increasingly popular
bedroom community.
Massachusetts
sources of Westport but also to safeguard
the role of Conservation Commissions
throughout Massachusetts. “Summary dis-
missal of these public servants threatens
the ability of citizen volunteers to defend
natural resources within their communi-
ties,” stated New England PEER Director
Kyla Bennett. “Our job at PEER is to sup-
port those who enforce resource protection
laws.”
Bailey Flat. Much of the undeveloped
land in Westport is protected wetlands.
Outsourcing Blocked
Included in the 2008 Omnibus Ap-
propriation Act signed by President
Bush is a ban on any further ac-
tivities directed toward outsourcing
Forest Service jobs. That legislation
also severely limits any outsourcing-
related activities within the Interior
Department to $3.5 million to com-
plete ongoing studies.
Since 2002, PEER has been lead-
ing the campaign against wholesale
outsourcing of environmental staff.
Even Republican-controlled Con-
gresses were persuaded to slow the
pace of this effort. This latest ac-
tion, covering the last full year of the
Bush administration, rings the death
knell for what was a key plank of its
Management Agenda – placing tens
of thousands of federal jobs out to
bid by private contractors.

 U.S. Forest Service
Forest Service Getting Taser-Happy
T
he U.S. Forest Service has bought
$600,000 worth of “Electronic Con-
trol Devices” without any training
program, rules for use or even a written ex-
planation as to why the devices are needed.
Known as Tasers, the devices are sitting
in storage and cannot be issued because
the agency has yet to develop a training
course.
Due to an intense fire season, the Forest
Service is now staggering under a more
than quarter-billion dollar deficit, causing it
to jettison core programs. For example, the
agency lacks enough funds to draw up new
timber sales. At the same time, the agency
law enforcement program is hobbled by
more than 200 vacant positions, leaving
only one officer to cover each 300,000
acres of National Forest and 750,000 an-
nual visitors.
Yet, in late September 2007, the Forest Ser-
vice purchased 700 weapons and “related
accessories” from Taser International, at a
cost to taxpayers of more than $600,000,
according to agency records obtained by
PEER. This represents more than enough
to equip every single sworn Forest Service
law enforcement official with an Electronic
Control system at a cost of $857 apiece.
In addition to the cost of training its entire
law enforcement staff, the Forest Service
may be assuming significant financial li-
ability for injuries and deaths. In October,
Amnesty International released a study es-
timating that 290 civilians have died from
Wolf-Baiting on the Range
PEER and other conservation groups
are pushing for a full investigation
into reports that a ranch hand on the
275,000 Adobe-Slash spread in New
Mexico used a pregnant cow that was
about to birth as bait to lure wolves so
that the wolves could then be destroyed
for attacking livestock. The rancher
knew wolves were in the area by track-
700,000 Volts of Persuasion. The Forest ing the radio signals from their collars.
Service is inexplicably looking for more bang “We would sacrifice a calf to get a third
with your bucks. strike,” he reportedly said, referring
to the federal policy of shooting any
police use of Tasers since 2001. wolves linked to the loss of three live-
stock within a year.
Tasers are touted as a non-lethal alterna-
tive to the use of deadly force, but since the The reintroduction of the Mexican gray
Forest Service rarely is called upon to ap- wolf into the Southwest has been rocky.
Nearly one wolf is killed or removed
ply deadly force, the use of these electronic
from the wild for each documented pre-
devices on forest visitors is problematic. In dation – a removal rate that will doom
addition, agency law enforcement officers the reintroduction effort.
already have pepper spray as standard issue
equipment. The Forest Service, however,
was unable to explain why it needed these
new weapons.
“There must have been a fire sale on Tas-
ers, otherwise why would an agency buy
700 of them without a program, protocol
or need?” asked PEER Executive Director
Jeff Ruch, noting that the federal fiscal year
ended in September, around the time of the
hurried single source purchase. “Along
with the howl of the coyote and the hoot
of the owl, soon the plaintive cry of ‘Don’t
tase me, bro’ may echo through the forest
night.”
Mexican Gray on the Move. PEER is
urging suspension of grazing permits of
any ranchers baiting wolves.

Good Science, Forest Service Style

The Forest Service has lost a long string of court decisions on everything from grazing permits to grizzly management. The last
time PEER was able to obtain an internal tally, the agency calculated that it received an adverse ruling in a federal lawsuit once
every two weeks, all year long.
Most of these decisions stem from the agency’s inability or unwillingness to honestly reflect scientific evidence about the implica-
tions of an action, like a timber sale or a new coal mine. To reverse this track record of judicial frustration, the Forest Service has
instructed its supervisors to “include a statement in the record…showing consideration of the best available science as the basis
for the decision.” Here is the suggested statement:
“My conclusion is based on a review of the record that shows a thorough review of relevant scientific information, a consideration
of responsible opposing views, and the acknowledgement of incomplete or unavailable information, scientific uncertainty and
risk.”
Would that saying it made it so.

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Cyber-Parks Coming to a Flat Screen Near You
V
isitors soon will be able to
watch the spectacular Old
Faithful Geyser without leav-
ing the comfort of home, the nearest
cyber-café or wherever there is a wire-
less signal. Yellowstone National Park
is readying a web camera to air live
streaming video of the park’s most fa-
mous feature. Real-time views of the
most stunning sites in our national
parks may soon be available to anyone
with access to the Internet.
Streaming webcasts may usher in a Cyber Tree House. The new webcam would offer the
whole new era in which people can tune first live streaming video of Old Faithful and nearby
geysers.
into national park vistas whenever they
choose. On-line visitors could one day
outstrip actual park visitation. Yellowstone
already has three webcams (at Mammoth
Hot Springs, Mt. Washburn and Old Faith-
Park Cell Phone Bill Shocker
ful) providing static images every 30 sec-
onds or so.
The public unveiling of the streaming Old
Faithful webcam has been delayed until reli-
able 24-hour, 365-day operation can be as-
sured. This delay may give the Park Service
time to consider ramifications, including:
• Will more streaming webcams be installed,
and, if so, where? Who will make that deci-
sion and how?
• Will 24-hour webcasts from Old Faithful
lead to fewer visitors, or more visitors, and
what are the repercussions of each?
• Will Yellowstone officials include these
and other webcam issues in its new Wireless
Plan, which it has been developing for the
past three years?
“It would behoove the Park Service to dedi-
cate at least a thimbleful of planning toward
possible web applications and priorities be-
fore going too far down the road,” stated
PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting
that agency policy for permissible webcam
use is also muddled. “Tellingly, far more
organizational thought and effort has gone
into the selection of the park ornaments for
this year’s White House Christmas tree than
has gone into charting the park system’s cy-
ber-future.”
Winter 2008
National Park Service
In 2005, Yellowstone spent $92,000 in
cell phone charges and nearly $94,000
in 2006. Prior to 2005, the park was
illegally receiving free phones and
minutes while improperly depositing
lease fees in its own accounts rather
than the U.S. Treasury.
Employee use of cell phones at
Yellowstone has more than doubled
in recent years. Park records obtained
by PEER indicate employees were
issued 70 cell phones in 2004 but by
August 2006 that number had grown
to 188. As of November 14, 2007,
the park counts 155 employees with
government-paid cell phones but this
number reflects off-season usage and
may grow again this spring. These
numbers raise the question of how
Yellowstone can objectively develop a
wireless plan when more than 40% of
the park’s 380 full-time permanent staff
is cell phone dependent.
National Park Service policy limits
issuance of cell phones to when it “is
necessary for the employees to perform
Service work.” Additionally, the need
must be documented and validated in
official forms. Yellowstone appears to
be ignoring both policies.
Yellowstone’s Echoing Ring Tones
Even as Yellowstone National Park of-
ficials finalize a policy to govern cell
towers inside the park, officials are
mobilizing to block a cell tower slated
for a private campground just outside
the park. Alltel Corp. has announced
plans to erect a 115-foot cell phone
tower in Gardiner, Montana, adjacent
to the park’s north entrance. The Yel-
lowstone superintendent is concerned
that it would mar views at historic and
popular natural settings. Since the
structure would be on private land,
it does not require approval from the
park or the National Park Service.
The concern by park management
about the negative effects of cell tow-
ers on park values is somewhat ironic
given Yellowstone’s own history of ap-
proving inappropriate cell towers within
park boundaries. PEER points to a
number of park actions which appear
to promote what it is now protesting, in-
cluding approval of a controversial cell
tower that is visible throughout the Old
Faithful Historic District and its secret
meetings with telecomm companies to
divide up the remaining portions of the
park lacking cell coverage.
Other national parks are struggling with
cell tower proposals for sites inside as
well as adjacent to, but visible from,
park confines. For example, Harpers
Ferry National Historic Park is protest-
ing plans for a 195-foot cell tower that
would loom above the Civil war battle-
field that is the park’s raison d’être.
“The National Park Service provides
no guidance or assistance to its super-
intendents who are left to cope, tower-
by-tower, with a widening web of wire-
less scaffolds,” stated PEER Executive
Director Jeff Ruch, noting that only one
of the nearly 400 national parks has a
cell tower siting plan. “Even today, our
national parks consider the cacophony
of ring tones to be part of the natural
soundscape.” PEER is campaigning
for the Park Service to develop a sys-
tem-wide approach to the proliferation
of cell towers and the intrusion of the
wireless world into places that other-
wise offer solitude. Follow our efforts in
our web campaign center.

 U.S. Office of Special Counsel
Bizarre Bloch
T
his is one of those man
bites dog stories (and the
dog gets rabies). The Bush
appointee serving as the U.S.
Special Counsel, Scott Bloch, has
managed to make himself the tar-
get of several investigations. The
Special Counsel’s main job is
protecting federal whistleblowers
but whistleblowers need protec-
tion from him. Bloch’s bizarre
behavior is leading to a rising
bi-partisan chorus calling for his
resignation. As he enters the last
year of his five-year term, short of
A Desi Arnaz Moment. Scott Bloch has some ‘splaining to
resigning he can only be removed do to Congress about deleting his e-mail records.
by the President for cause.
In the latest installment, following a com-
plaint lodged by PEER, other groups and
his own employees, Bloch is the subject
of an Office of Personnel Management In-
spector General (OPM IG) investigation
for retaliating against internal whistleblow-
ers, politicizing Hatch Act enforcement,
imposing illegal gag orders, and dismissing
more than 1000 whistleblower disclosures
without investigation. The OPM IG had
been trying to get hold of Bloch’s e-mails,
only to find he purged them from his gov-
ernment computer.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Bloch
hired a computer-help company, Geeks on
Call, to scrub his office computer’s hard
drive and the laptops used by his two top
political deputies. Specifying a “seven-
level” wipe procedure, Bloch tried to make
it virtually impossible for forensics experts
to restore the data.
In the ensuing firestorm, Bloch asserted
his privacy and First Amendment rights –
which is beyond ironic because Bloch pur-
ports to be investigating missing Karl Rove
Chambers Case before Federal Circuit
The bid to restore Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police was finally
argued by PEER lawyers before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
this November. Known as “the Honest Chief,” Chambers was removed for ad-
mitting officer shortages in an interview with the Washington Post. A decision is
expected this winter.
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tion on the basis of sexual orientation.
While Bloch continues to implode, federal
whistleblowers are getting precious little
official assistance.
News You Should Know
e-mails in the unresolved affair of the fired
U.S. Attorneys. Bloch has also gone after
public employees for even incidental use of
e-mails with political overtones. Early in
his tenure, he issued this warning to his Of-
fice of Special Counsel (OSC) employees:
“OSC employees do not have a right,
nor should they have an expectation,
of privacy while using government
office equipment. To the extent that
OSC employees want their personal
activities to remain private, they
should avoid using government
equipment, such as their computer,
the internet, or e-mail.”
Adding another twist to the pretzel, Bloch
contends that the OPM IG investigation of
him is illegal due to a “conflict of inter-
est” in the White House ordering the probe
while Bloch is supposedly investigating the
White House – although the OPM IG probe
predates Bloch’s latest Karl Rove goose
chase. Even more weirdly, Bloch is claim-
ing in radio interviews that he is a victim of
a plot by “the homosexual lobby,” due to
his refusal to legally recognize discrimina-
Futurists no longer read chicken
entrails for omens. Instead, they
decipher informational bits such as
these:
Pacific Dead Zone. Scientists will
survey the Great Pacific Garbage
Patch, a three million-ton floating
trash mass formed by ocean current
patterns one thousand miles west of
San Francisco. Consisting mostly of
plastic, the patch extends to depths
300 feet below the surface in places.
Georgia on My Mind. Governor
Sonny Purdue sank $19 million into
his dream project (“Go Fish Georgia”)
to “turn Georgia into a fisherman’s
paradise.” Unfortunately, “Go Fish”
tournaments had to be cancelled due to
the state’s persistent drought. Perdue
has angrily denied that the state’s utter
lack of water planning may also be a
factor; some dreams just die hard.
Penny for Your Thoughts.
International Paper has announced a
‘partnership” with the National Park
Foundation to sell a customized cup
(a “fully compostable, recyclable
ecocontainer ™”) with “printed
messages that will raise awareness
about the National Park Centennial
in 2016 and educate the public about
conservation and environmental
stewardship” to parks and
concessionaires. International Paper
will generously donate a penny from
each cup sold “up to $1million back to
the National Park Foundation to help
fund” more of this “joint effort” with
IP, whose corporate selflessness knows
no bounds.

Chem Weapons Smackdown
I
n a Lexington courtroom,
a parade of current and
former specialists from
an Army chemical weapons
plant testified about safety
breakdowns, inadequate train-
ing and a practice of silencing
those who pointed out prob-
lems. The case concerns the
refusal by Blue Grass to re-
store the position of, and clear-
ances for, Donald Van Winkle,
a chemical weapons monitor-
ing operator. Van Winkle had
revealed that —
Handle with Better Care. A state inspection of Blue Grass
• Air monitors inside stor- found improper storage practices which crush the shells of VX
nerve gas rockets and cause leaks.
age units called igloos
were configured so as to be
ineffective;
• Employees at the depot were not being
properly tested for low level exposures
to nerve agent; and
• The chemical weapons facility lacked
critical preparedness procedures in case
of an emergency, provided inadequate
maintenance of monitoring equipment
and suffered from training gaps among
key personnel.
Comings & Goings
U.S. Army
developments have moved the state’s two
U.S. senators, Mitch McConnell and Jim
Bunning, along with Rep. Ben Chandler, to
seek changes in conditions at the depot. A
ruling in Van Winkle’s case is expected this
spring.
Legal Bid to Restore
EPA Ombudsman
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency is fighting a novel legal bid
to re-create an independent internal
watchdog. At the time that it was
disbanded in 2002, EPA’s National
Ombudsman Office had begun inves-
tigating the public health conditions
following the World Trade Center col-
lapse and had conducted high-profile
Many of Van Winkle’s disclosures were
hearings exposing agency mishan-
confirmed in an October 2007 site inspec- dling of several Superfund cleanups.
tion by the Kentucky Department of Envi-
ronmental Protection which took the un- The attempt to force EPA to recon-
stitute the Ombudsman Office flows
usual step of issuing notices of violation to
the Blue Grass Depot, where more than 500 from a whistleblower complaint filed
by Hugh Kaufman who was the Chief
tons of chemical warfare agents, including
Investigator for the National Ombuds-
highly lethal nerve gas, are stored. man Office from 1999 until its disman-
tlement by then-EPA Administrator
In addition, Van Winkle’s reports are at the
Christie Whitman. “If ever an agency
heart of an ongoing federal grand jury in-
needed an independent ombudsman,
vestigation into base management. These it is the EPA,” stated PEER Senior
Counsel Paula Dinerstein, who is as-
sisting in the case.

We are proud to announce that Dr. Adam Finkel has joined our Board of Directors.
He was a senior executive at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administra-
tion (OSHA) and was its Regional Administrator in Denver. He was a PEER client
in 2003, when the Assistant Labor Secretary retaliated against him for protesting that
OSHA had decided to forego blood testing for its own inspectors to detect the early
stages of chronic beryllium disease. He received a substantial monetary settlement
and OSHA changed its mind about testing, discovering that at least a dozen inspec-
tors tested positive for beryllium sensitization. In 2007, Adam forced OSHA to make
public its workplace exposure database.
Today he is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health and Executive
Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Law
School. He recently received the David P. Rall Award from the American Public
Health Association for “a career in advancing science in the service of public health
protection.”
Also, we are thrilled that Angela Welsh joins our D.C. staff as our first Director of EPA Role Still at Issue. First responders
are seeking redress for lack of warning about
Individual Giving. Angela previously directed the (Princess) Diana Legacy Fund, harmful air quality at the World Trade Center.
helped grow Kidsave and designed the donor program for the World War II Memorial
campaign.

Winter 2008 
 PEER Perspective
Help, I’ve Fallen and Can’t Get Up
D San Francisco Board of Supervisors
President Aaron Peskin
After Jared Blumenthal, head of the city’s Depart-
ment of Environment, advocated non-fossil fuel alternatives
D Paul Souza, Vero Beach Office Director,
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The already tattered range of the highly endan-
gered Florida panther just lost another 900,000 acres of
to a plan by Peskin to build a natural gas-burning power- protected habitat thanks to Souza, who heads the local
plant, the politician struck back. Peskin authored legisla- Ecological Services Office. Souza insists his decision
tion to abolish the entire department and re-assign all 64 was “driven by science” but a transportation official with
employees. The city attorney nixed the move to eliminate fast-growing Collier County begs to differ: “The reason
the voter-established department, ruling it violated the city they changed it is because we asked them to change it.”
charter. When pressed by a colleague about his motive, Unfortunately, in today’s Fish & Wildlife Service, bio-sti-
Peskin replied “Payback is a bitch.” Asked about this com- tutes like Souza have a bright future.
ment, Peskin would not deny it but groused that it made
him appear “vindictive.” Perish the thought.

D White House Science Advisor John

Marburger
D Texas Land Commissioner Jerry
Patterson
Texas has the lowest percentage of public lands of
any state. The saga of Christmas Mountains is illustrative.
In October, testimony by the head of the Centers Donated in 1991 on the condition that these remote lands
for Disease Control about health effects of global warm- remain in state hands or be turned over to the National
ing was heavily edited by the White House, leaving much Park Service, Christmas Mountains has become a political
substance and more than eight pages on the cutting room football, thanks to Patterson who has blocked transfer of
floor. At the time, Mar- “Sadly, my idealism in advocating for the lands to Big Bend Na-
burger defended the cuts tional Park because hunting
as upholding “the high environmental values led me to ignore the clear is not allowed in the park:
standards for scientific ac- warning signs that both Mr. Abramoff and Mr. “No hunting, no firearms,
curacy that I expect from no deal,” he said. Instead,
my staff” adding that critics Griles may have had ulterior motives…” Patterson wants the land
“missed several nuanced — Italia Federici, convicted bagwoman for phony sold to private interests,
but important differences.” green group set up by former Interior Sec. Gale Norton, a move that has sparked a
In November, when hauled successfully pleading to avoid joining Griles and bi-partisan backlash. Leg-
before a Senate committee, islative investigators are
Marburger sang a different Abramoff in prison starting to probe Patterson’s
tune, admitting there was penchant for peddling en-
nothing nuanced about the ham-handed deletions and con- vironmentally sensitive lands to developers. Perhaps this
ceding they went too far: “I don’t think it was necessary.” probe will push Patterson out to pasture – on private land,
While some senators called for his resignation, commit- of course.
tee chair Barbara Boxer suggested “Somebody’s hanging
you out to dry. You better find out who it is.” Marburger,
however, showed zero curiosity about the source of his
missing credibility. D Jeffrey Lape, Director of EPA’s
Chesapeake Bay Program
The computer model measuring EPA’s progress

D Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks toward meeting its goal of restoring the Chesapeake Bay
to health by 2010 is plagued by inflated inputs and “overly
Commissioner Vic Workman optimistic” assumptions, according to an academic review.
After a close encounter of the grizzly kind, Work- The findings echo those of a 2005 GAO report that de-
man suggested that hunters should be allowed to kill some bunked claims of progress for what EPA touts as one of its
of the bears so they would learn to fear humans. “We’ve premier environmental programs. While critics charge the
got grizzly bears eating people who come here to hunt,” “bay program has evolved into a public-relations machine,”
he reasoned. Workman, however, apparently flat missed Lape declines to retract the model and instead sniffs “For
the grizzly he shot at – wasting what would have been an some people to suggest that there was a deliberate attempt
important teachable moment for the entire disrespectful to be optimistic is just wrong.” “Avoiding Optimism” may
species. become EPA’s new mantra.

10 PEEReview
 Tennessee
Forest Service Promises to Kick ORVs Out of Trout Streams

F
acing a threatened suit from
PEER and other conservation
groups, the U.S. Forest Service
says it will close all off-road vehicle
(ORV) trails in a two-state area for the
winter – when wet weather exacerbates
muddy runoff into streams. The area
affected is the Tellico watershed in
the Nantahala National Forest through
Tennessee and North Carolina, which
contains what are considered among
the best trout streams in the region.
Intensive use has turned some ORV
trails into massive ditches more than
seven feet deep. The Forest Service
estimates more than 25,000 tons of
sediment has become muddy runoff
into the headwaters of the upper Tellico
River. Streams by ORV trails receive
500 to 1,000 times more sediment than
streams just outside the trail system.
“We have been trying to get some ac-
tion like this for the past several years,”
said Tennessee PEER Director Barry
Sulkin, who coordinated the effort.
“Now that it has finally taken some
effective steps, we will make sure the
Forest Service sticks to its guns.”
Shameless Promotion. Tennessee PEER Director
shows off some equipment donated to PEER by
Patagonia to aid our efforts in exposing failed
wetland mitigations offered to compensate for
destruction of natural wetlands.

Updates
A few brief follow-ups on some PEER projects from past PEEReviews:

Scary Safety Review Evaporating Ethics Board review.

Prodded by PEER publicizing a string
of accidents, mishaps and security
breaches, the federal agency that
conducts mass wildlife extermination will
undertake a nationwide safety review.
The scope and severity of the security,
safety and bio-hazard issues confronting
the U.S. Department of Agriculture
branch called Wildlife Services is
staggering. In a November 5, 2007
memo, WS Deputy Administrator William
Clay wrote -
“In the wake of several accidents in
WS’ programs, WS is conducting a
nationwide safety review focusing
on aviation and aerial operations,
explosives and pyrotechnics,
firearms, hazardous chemicals,
immobilization and euthanasia,
pesticides, vehicles, watercraft,
and wildlife disease activities.”
Wildlife Services fingered so many
problems, it is a wonder that it can
focus on any one. PEER is calling on
the agency to open up this multifaceted
safety examination to public scrutiny.
An ethics initiative unveiled with great
fanfare this summer by Interior Secretary
Dirk Kempthorne has been quietly
scaled back while other elements of the
Secretary’s “10-point plan” to transform
the scandal-ridden agency into “a model
of an ethical workplace” remain in limbo.
The plan’s centerpiece was creation
of a Conduct Accountability Board “for
ensuring consistency and fairness” in
discipline cases. This turned out to be less
significant than touted:
• Jurisdiction of the Board was limited
to cases involving “Executive Level”
employees – well less than 1% of the
Interior workforce; and
• On July 25th, about a month after
he commissioned it, Sec. Kempthorne
amended its charter so that the Board
could only review matters “referred to
it by the Deputy Secretary and Chief of
Staff.” This means that former Deputy
Secretary Steven Griles, now serving
time in federal prison, could have
determined whether his own egregious
ethical lapses would be eligible for
Interior still will not divulge to PEER
its plan for incorporating “best ethics
practices.” And Kempthorne continues
to resist calls to outlaw political alteration
of agency scientific findings – a
widespread practice within Interior that
led to the abrupt resignation of Deputy
Assistant Secretary Julie MacDonald this
spring.
Manatee Reversal
At the behest of Governor Charlie
Crist, the Florida Fish & Wildlife
Conservation Commission dropped
plans to downgrade the manatee from
endangered to threatened status.
Although manatee deaths from boat
collisions are running near all-time highs,
the American Watercraft Association
cried foul, accusing the commission of
ignoring science and taking “Florida
back to…the Bubba system of politics.”
Commissioner Kenneth Wright made
this distinction: “I am not acting on
directions from the governor; I happen to
agree with the governor.”

Winter 2008 11
 Off-Road Vehicles
Throttles Top Threat
continued from page 1
conflicts. Agency officials cannot cope with the “exponential” in- Blue Ribbon Coalition Flashes Green
crease in recreational demands on the nearly half-million acre fed-
The Blue Ribbon Coalition is the die-hard advocate for all
eral preserve south of Phoenix – particularly abusive off-roading
forms of motorized recreation and against trail closures and
by excessively large groups,
wilderness designations. Now, this rock-ribbed anti-green
according to internal memos group has amended its articles of incorporation to say that
obtained by PEER. it “shall [also] be dedicated to…the protection of the envi-
The Sonoran Desert National ronment.”
Monument is an increasingly Either this is a sign of the apocalypse or an indication that
popular recreational destina- even the most rabid rock crushers realize that they have a
tion in between the burgeon- serious image problem.
ing populations of Phoenix
and Tucson. One of the fast- teers are not enough to restore all the damaged areas. Volunteers
est growing components of are also getting tired of seeing their work destroyed.” In 2006,
Monument visitation is off- there were 73 illegal off-road “incursions” into the three congres-
road traffic, allowing ever sionally designated wilderness areas inside the Monument. All
bigger groups to damage re- told, Arizona BLM recorded 280 wilderness violations last year by
mote and sensitive areas. off-roaders. BLM documents cite a wide range of growing head-
aches arising out of off-road groups, from improper disposal of
Attempts to restore damaged human waste to the intensive police presence needed.
areas are being thwarted by
Failure to Communicate. Bullet-riddled “Reckless off-roaders are trashing America’s natural heritage,”
repeated improper off-road closure sign hints at the extent of law
intrusion. One BLM staff enforcement problems created by growing
said Patterson, noting that the Sonoran Desert is the most biologi-
member noted that “volun- ORV usage. cally rich of the world’s deserts. “America’s national monuments
must be protected from vandalism and environmental destruction,
even if that means keeping off-road vehicles out of monuments.”
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