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Interior official accused of bullying scientists resigns
MacDonald had big influence in NW
By MATTHEW DALY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/313969_interior02.html

WASHINGTON -- An Interior Department official accused of pressuring
government scientists to make their research fit her policy goals has
resigned.

Julie MacDonald, deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and
parks, submitted her resignation letter to Interior Secretary Dirk
Kempthorne, a department spokesman said Tuesday.

MacDonald resigned a week before a House congressional oversight
committee was to hold a hearing on accusations that she violated the
Endangered Species Act, censored science and mistreated staff of the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

MacDonald recently was rebuked by the department's inspector general,
who told Congress in a report in March that she broke federal rules
and should face punishment for leaking information about endangered
species to private groups.

Interior Department spokesman Hugh Vickery confirmed MacDonald's
resignation.

Environmentalists cheered her departure. They say she tried to bully
government scientists into altering their findings, often without
scientific basis.

"As the inspector general showed, she bullied agency scientists, and
she improperly released documents to industry attorneys and lobbyists,
and so there's no question it's a good day for endangered species and
for Fish and Wildlife Service biologists," said Noah Greenwald,
Pacific Northwest representative of the Center for Biological
Diversity.

"I woke up this morning, and I thought I heard the birds and wildlife
cheering," Seattle-based Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles said.
"Now I know why."

McDonald had an influence in the Northwest. She played a strong role
in reducing the amount of area protected for the bull trout, according
to internal Interior Department e-mails environmentalists obtained,
Greenwald said.

She also was part of an unusual multiagency "Washington Oversight
Committee" of Bush administration political appointees who refused to
accept a Northwest-based team of state and federal officials,
environmentalists and timber-industry scientists on how to rescue the
spotted owl, the Seattle P-I reported last week.

MacDonald, a civil engineer with no formal training in natural
sciences, had served in her post since 2004. She was a senior adviser
in the department for two years before that.



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