Issue #204 The Inspector General at Interior recently released a report cataloguing the numerous occasions in which she overruled agency scientists, many of whom claim she was an "attack dog" who "terrorized" them, in making key habitat decisions, among others. Now we're growing accustomed to such behavior from the Bush administration, so Ms. MacDonald must have felt compelled to really outdo herself. MacDonald, who admitted she had no background in natural sciences, made crucial habitat decisions that the IG's office found were "without a semblance of agency reasoning," including ordering one biologist not to let the designated range of the willow flycatcher flow from Arizona into California because "her husband had a family ranch there." |
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