All of the Above & Wildlife Recreation Survey

All of the Above & Wildlife Recreation Survey. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Washington Congressman Doc Hastings knows something has to be done about gas prices and he says a possible new biomass co-generation facility in north central Washington is part of what he calls the “All of the Above” plan.

HASTINGS: This would fall broadly into my support of an “All of the Above” energy plan. Clearly that would fall into that category recognizing at the end of the day the market price would decide if it’s commercially viable or not. Yesterday the committee that I chair, the Natural Resources Committee had a hearing on the affects of the defacto moratorium of drilling in the gulf of Mexico and today there is hearing on high gas prices and what we are learning is that we have tremendous resources and known reserves in this country. The amount of that is really mind-boggling.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will soon be conducting the 12th National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation.  Hunters, anglers and other wildlife enthusiasts across the nation will be asked to participate in interviewing set to begin April 1.  The survey, which has been conducted every five years since 1955, will involve 53-thousand households. The results will be available in a national report and in 50 individual state reports.

Now here’s today’s Washington Grange report.

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That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.