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to Government's Fox River Website
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 Local Citizens Forced to Provide Information on Private Website
 
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Update --- Websites and e-mail service for the U.S. Dept. of Interior were finally restored in April, 2001, after 4 months of closure (and after the public comment period for the Fox River cleanup plan ended.)

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Overview

Gale Norton is President Bush's Secretary of the U.S. Dept of Interior.  In early December, 2000, she chose to respond broadly to a judge's relatively narrow order in a federal lawsuit regarding online security issues and the Dept. of Interior's management of Native American trust funds. 

Norton ordered the entire Department to go offline, shutting down virtually ALL the Department's websites and preventing employees from using e-mail indefinitely.  Now, two months later, they are STILL offline with no resolution in sight. 

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service was one of Interior's many sub-units affected, so their Fox River and Green Bay website is inaccessible to the public.   Citizens can't access any of the reports prepared by the Service under the Clinton Administration.

This is a major loss of information which is critically important for local public awareness and involvement.  The shutdown coincided with nearly 2 months of the public comment period for the sediment cleanup plan which ended Jan 22, 2002.

The documents are also important to our "sister rivers" --- the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, the Hudson River in New York, and the Housatonic River in Massachusetts.  These are all PCB contaminated rivers where NRDA compensation plans are being written.  Citizens along those rivers should have access to Fox River reports, to compare notes and learn what they can expect (or should expect) in their areas.

Gale Norton is preventing this access, using an unrelated lawsuit as an excuse.   It's important to note that she has restored the campsite reservation system for the National Parks Service, but apparently doesn't place an equal value on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's websites.

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Not a Good Sign for the Future

This website obstruction doesn't bode well for the implementation of the Fox River and Green Bay NRDA compensation plan, which should begin this year (2002).  Other environmental actions of the Bush Administration add to our concerns.  Norton recently prevented professionals within the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service from commenting on wetland rules proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and EPA law enforcement actions have dropped drastically since Bush was elected.  Norton's professional past is also a concern. (See news articles below.)

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News Media Articles

ProQuest articles (marked PQ) may be inaccessible through certain Internet Service Providers, for more information see the Appleton Public Library website.   You can also contact host newspapers directly.

Gale ("Typhoon") Norton Wreaks Havoc at Interior - Disastrous First Year, Say Employees - Jan 29, 2002 PEER
National Park Campsites Again Available Online - Jan. 27, 2002 LATimes
Alert preceded Indian trust hacker breach - Jan 18, 2002 Denver Post PQ
White House relaxes rules on Protection of Wetlands - Jan 15, 2002 Washington Post
Gale Norton Accused of Suppressing Fish and Wildlife Critique - Jan 14, 2002 Washington Post
Interior logs off  - Jan 14, 2002  Bangor Daily News PQ
Indian trust protection suspiciously overzealous - Jan 13, 2002 Denver Post PQ
Bush is no environmental defender, attorneys charge - Jan 11, 2002 ENN
Tangled Web at Interior Dept. - Jan 10, 2002 The Baltimore Sun PQ
Environmental enforcement plummets under Bush - Jan 10, 2002 PEER
Public suffers as Web sites are shut down - Jan 4, 2002 MilwJS
Phone, fax will have to do for offline Interior Dept. - Jan 4, 2002 USAToday PQ
Environmentalists blast Wyoming pick for Interior  - Jan 4, 2002 Denver Post PQ
Judge pulls Net out from under agencies - Jan 3, 2002 Charleston Daily Mail PQ
Officials scolded over impact of Net cutoff  - Dec. 11, 2001 Denver Post PQ
Interior Dept. Ordered Off the Web - Dec 9, 2001 LATimes PQ
Interior Department Internet shut down - Dec 8, 2001 Houston Chronicle PQ
Interior Department Bars Access to Internet Site - Dec 8, 2001 NY Times PQ
Interior Dept. Blocks Web Access at Judge's Order - Dec 8, 2001 Washington Post PQ
Closure of Interior Department Web Sites Ordered - Dec. 7, 2001 LATimes PQ
Interior Told to Unlink From Web Computers Handling Indian Funds  - Dec 6, 2001 Wall Street Journal PQ
Gale Norton is no James Watt; she's worse - Jan 17, 2001 Roanoke Times PQ
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The Full Reports of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

The following are the Service's reports which are no longer available online due to Gale Norton's decisions at the Dept. of Interior.  They are large pdf files which require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available for free downloading.  Unfortunately, it will take a while for slower modems to download these reports, and they do use quite a bit of memory.

For more information, call the Service's new local project manager for the Fox River and Green Bay NRDA, Collette Charbonneau, at 920-465-7410.

      Appendices include:
       
    • Total value equivalency study
    • Co-Trustee Coordination Activities
    • List of Potential Restoration Projects
    • Ranking of Potential Restoration Projects
    • Wetland Habitat Restoration Opportunities in the Green Bay Area
    • Description of GIS and Mapping Analyses
    • Simulated TSS and Phosphorus Loads to Green Bay
    • Estimation of Loading Reductions from Conservation Tillage and Vegetated Buffer Strips
    • Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Riparian Buffer Strips and Stream Bank Stabilization BMPs to Control Non-point Source Pollution to Green Bay
    • General Land Cost Estimate
    • Detailed Restoration Cost Analysis
We don't have the following files, or preparatory reports, or explanations which had been provided by the Service on its website.   We'll have to wait until the Bush Administration restores the government information system:
  • Fox River & Green Bay Page - Natural Resources Damage Assessment
  • Region 3 FWS Office - Natural Resources Damage Assessments
  • Training Session for NRDA Staff and Trustees - Good Background 


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