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What on earth is happening to PBS? Is this as a result of GWBush's slashing of its funding? It's need to spend so much time and energy on raising funding that it is happy to get into bed with the very folk it should be exposing? Sad times!

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I blame compromised conservation groups and the State DEP bureaucrats as much or more than PBS. The PBS people were just used, and have little or no expertise or savvy to understand how badly they were used, and they are ideologically and culturally (class) aligned with the elite conservation groups.

The State DEP is a member of the Young Forest Initiative (see the paper I link to for the membership, it is quite revealing!) and they get lots of federal funds, including military funds, for logging State lands. The conservation group NJ Audubon also is corrupted by donor money and they, at best, have extremely narrow and misguided forestry policies that promote logging to allegedly create habitat. Hunter and related commercial interests - from guns and ammo to off road vehicles - are also involved.

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Thanks, Bill for further explanation.

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