Serafina, heading north, runs into another consequence of Operation Gatekeeper: the dependence on sometimes rapacious smugglers who act as guides through the rough terrain.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection said that the accord, in the form of a draft consent order, would mitigate the environmental consequences of operations of the city's water supply system in the Catskills.
Here, for example, are the consequences of Operation Gomorrah, the raids on Hamburg in midsummer 1943 whose aim was to inflict "maximum destruction on the city and reduce it to ashes": "Horribly disfigured corpses lay everywhere.
That is, what is being argued to be happening in humans (to allow the leukemogenic effect) must for some reason not be happening in the experimental animals, or else they would have been seen to have parallel hematotoxic and leukemogenic effects, as well as evidence of other consequences of operation of the proposed modes of action.
"The number of security incidents increased significantly, compared to previous years and contrary to seasonal trends," the report said, adding that most of this was a consequence of military operations in the southern part of the country, particularly Helmand and Kandahar Provinces, where increased NATO military operations have been under way since February.
The other major consequence of these operations and policies is that they actually gave the coyotes a reason to exist".
Rapid dewatering in rivers as a consequence of hydropower operations may cause stranding of juvenile fish and have a negative impact on fish populations.
"The police are duty-bound to act on information that identifies a real and serious terrorism threat to the safety of the public and it is a regrettable consequence of such operations that force may need to be used.
Is the risk worth it?" One possible consequence of these operations would be a violent Iranian crackdown on one of the dissident groups, which could give the Bush Administration a reason to intervene.
Officials also say privately that some cases have not been investigated thoroughly because there has been a tendency to consider Iraqi civilian deaths an unintended consequence of combat operations.
