Alaska rejects endangered-species listing for seabird

The cruel witch Sarah Palin is at it AGAIN!
By DAN JOLING
The Associated Press

JUNEAU -- The Palin administration has rejected a request to list an Alaska seabird as a state endangered species.
Fish and Game Commissioner Denby Lloyd said by letter Thursday it would be premature to list Kittlitz's murrelets because there is insufficient information to determine that their numbers have decreased so much that their existence is threatened, the requirement for listing under Alaska law.
Center for Biological Diversity biologist Shay Wolfe said the decision ignores surveys that have documented heavy declines of 80 to 90 percent of Kittlitz's murrelets in core areas of their range. The decision defies science, reason and the law, she said Friday by phone from San Francisco.
"For the Palin administration to claim that there is 'insufficient information' to conclude that the Kittlitz's murrelet is declining is equivalent to saying there is insufficient information to conclude the Earth is round," Wolf said.