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Published on Wednesday, October 08, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - A federal biologist was threatened with a 30-day job suspension over a kayaking trip she took to protest perceived government threats to the Los Angeles River and other waterways, according to documents released Wednesday.
Heather Wylie, a project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Los Angeles, went kayaking on the river one Saturday in July to draw attention to a proposal by the Corps that could have exempted parts of the Los Angeles River from federal clean water protections.
Shortly thereafter, her supervisors told her they were proposing to suspend her for 30 days without pay because of the "unsafe and unauthorized boating expedition" and also because of an "unauthorized and inappropriate e-mail message" she had sent to co-workers about the clean water issue
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