{"id":8209,"date":"2010-10-15T20:19:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T01:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2010-10-15T20:19:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T01:19:44","slug":"killer-whale-lobby-we-need-15-million-food-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/15\/killer-whale-lobby-we-need-15-million-food-assistance-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Whale Lobby: We Need $15 Million Food Assistance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hubristic man, and by &#8220;hubristic man,&#8221; I mean government with too much revolving credit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/national\/article_78e18fa9-f0de-5d2f-afdd-30636af163a1.html\" target=\"_blank\">considers tampering with nature<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A report by government scientists identifies killer whales as the No. 1 reason there are so few sea otters in southwest Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service&#8217;s proposed five-year, $15 million recovery plan for sea otters in the Aleutian Islands considered a slew of possible reasons for the perilously low numbers found in some areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So is the government thinking about not spending the money?  Perish the thought!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The report said there may be &#8220;few actions that can be taken&#8221; to mitigate predation by killer whales. &#8220;But the sea otter recovery program should search for solutions and be open to novel ideas,&#8221; the report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why should humans be the only higher order mammal on food stamps?  <em>No Orca left behind!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubristic man, and by &#8220;hubristic man,&#8221; I mean government with too much revolving credit, considers tampering with nature: A report by government scientists identifies killer whales as the No. 1 reason there are so few sea otters in southwest Alaska. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service&#8217;s proposed five-year, $15 million recovery plan for sea otters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8211,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}