Good Move, Mr.Bush

Bush plan: world's largest ocean reserve | csmonitor.com:

"A Montana-sized chunk of ocean would be off limits to fishing boats and tourists in a bid to protect fragile reefs.
By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
With the stroke of a pen, President Bush has established the largest ocean wildlife reserve in the world, centered along a string of islands, reefs, and atolls that stretch 1,400 miles northwest of the main Hawaiian Islands.

Other reef systems, such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef, are larger. But only a third of that UN-designated World Heritage reef is protected, analysts say, leaving far more of it open to exploitation. . ."

I really don't want to rain on this bright light, but it's awfully easy to do this kind of stuff when there are no gay whales or creationist dolphins or corporate barnacles involved.