Artist Mark Wilson, an Oregonian transplanted to Connecticut, passes along yet another instance of Bush’s contempt for science. Same-old, same-old: Feds fund research. Findings fluster timber barons. Feds pull plug.

“It’s totally without precedent as far as I can recollect,” said Jerry Franklin, a professor at the University of Washington who has studied Northwest forests for decades. “It says, ‘If we don’t like what you’re saying, we’ll cut off your money.’ “