The Birdchaser writes about Interior Secretary Gale Norton's resignation here.
I wanted to review the jubilant speeches given by Norton and others at the April 2005 Ivory-bill rediscovery press conference. Curiously, I now get "Timed out" errors when trying to view any of those speeches, while I seem to be able to view the other videos available on Cornell's web site here.
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One has to wonder just what is going on behind closed doors here. On the open side of things, everything appears to be just fine. There has to be something going on behind closed doors to make people jump ship when all seems to be OK.
One just has to wonder if she see's the hand writing on the wall & feel's the wind off the coming storm that might be brewing? If this Woodpecker deal is going South, the one in charge will take some major heat.
Like I said, The Captain of a ship does not resign command when it appears everything is OK unless they know something is about to happen to the ship & they don't want to be Captain when it does!
While I doubt there are any Ivory-Bills in Arkansas, I think it's unlikely the issue has anything to do with her resignation.
I think the Ivory-bill woodpecker issue is very low on the priorities list of this administration, and even if the whole thing is shown to have been a big mistake, I don't think Gale Norton would have taken much heat because of it.
I'm sure the IBWO is so low on her radar that it probably didn't figure into her decision. It's actually pretty rare for a Cabinet Sec. to stay both terms. I can only fear who the new Sec. might be.
Many people here seem to have a vastly overinflated idea of how important this matter is within the scientific, academic, and conservation communities as a whole, as well as to the general public.
right the importance of this discovery is plumeting like a goldeneye in a winslow homer painting ... but make no mistake and you don't have to take my word for it ... go back in time about a year and read the press, hear the words from the "community" - read Don Kennedy's editorial ... it is all there in black and white. This "was" the most important finding in "history" ...
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