Oregon: How do you Commit Theft without Stealing?

I Spy Radio Guests: OSU Emeritus Professor of Forestry, Dr. Mike Newton & Senator Doug Whitsett
This week: How do you commit theft without stealing? You make it legal. But to do that, you need to pass a law or create administrative rules to give your agency legal "permission" to take what you want. And to create those laws or rules, you need to provide the justification for it -- hence, "best available science."

Last week we discussed how far-left environmental groups abuse laws like the Endangered Species Act to increase their bottom line. This week we discuss the abusive outcomes when they purposefully ignore good science for bad. First, with Dr. Mike Newton about his study that demonstrates a global, blanket policy currently in place to lower stream temperatures through shading may be harming fish production -- the opposite of their stated intention. But it does help prevent logging.

Then we talk with Sen. Doug Whitsett about what constitutes “best available science” from a legislator's viewpoint, which leads to governmental policies that take land from ranchers and give those lands to another group of people. And if ranchers don't take the deal the government tells them to take, they'll simply have their water shut off.

Call it environmental blackmail or legalized theft, it's the same effect. And all of this happens while a Governor -- who has the power to stop the administrators’ hands -- does nothing. And, in fact, advocates for it.

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