Another boon to the bays comes in the tribes agreement not to allow members any subsistence fishing on key spawning areas from Mar. 1 May 15. To help enforce the agreement, DNR conservation officers will be empowered to enforce tribal codes and any additional regulations of the tribes related to the 1836 Treaty Waters. The agreement will be in effect through 2020. Call to investigate Gore's Occidental Conflict Cheney Challenges Press GOP vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney challenged the press to probe the apparent conflict of interest in Vice President Al Gore's substantial investment in Occidental Petroleum while he presides over decisions that have affected the company's net worth.
Somebody ought to go spend some time on that.
In 1997 the White House announced a plan to sell the Navy's Elk Hills oil and gas reserve, one of the nation's most substantial energy resources, to Occidental Petroleum. The Elk Hills buyout was great news for Occidental stockholders, of whom the most prominent was Albert Gore Sr., the vice president's father. A committee hashing out the U.S. Interior Department's annual budget released its report without money that Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine tried to secure to begin purchasing land in Madison and Union counties. DeWine, the refuge's leading political patron, was outmaneuvered by fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives, including Regula, Pryce, Boehner and Hobson. Zebra Mussels infest Duluth Harbor Minnesota DNR biologists recently confirmed a major infestation of zebra mussels in the Duluth-Superior Harbor.