At the bottom of the site Don Firth links to you will see:

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U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   USGS Fact Sheet 002-00
January 2000
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This page is http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/
Maintained by Eastern Publications Group Web Team
Last revised 01-31-00


That page was set-up for the 2000 presidential campaign and has not been changed. I know people in the USGS and federal EPA and they say both agencies were so politicized during the Clinton years that many people who would not parrot-back the party line were forced to quit. Can we say Nazi tactics.