CARLU NEWSLETTER Contemporary Agriculture and Rural Land Use Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

Volume 9 Number 1 August 1993

Editor: Lisa M.B. Harrington, Department of Geology/Geography Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL 61920

able to use the email directory as a supplement to the CHAIR'S REMARKS NEWSLETTER when timeliness and the ability to communicate interactively are important.

-R.S. Roberts The fall NEWSLETTER represents our opportunity to ensure a successful and stimulating Annual Meeting in April. San Francisco should be particularly exciting. We STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION are an increasingly vital and active specialty group. In addition, we are expecting the San Francisco venue to pull in large numbers of non-geographers (especially rural sociologists) and non-US geographers (particularly those CARLU will present a $50 prize for the best student paper from New Zealand, Britain, and Canada). As you make in a CARLU session at the San Francisco meeting. your plans to organize sessions, you can think big! Many Students must register and submit an abstract to the of these people would be only too happy to accept session organizer. To enter the competition, students invitations to give papers, act as discussants, sit on must submit three copies of the paper by 15 February to panels, etc. Unfortunately, we cannot waive their Timothy J. Rickard, Department of Geography, Central registration (new and unpopular AAG regulation). We Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050. can, however, offer them member registration rates as our official guests, provided you send their names to me by the September registration deadline. SPECIAL SESSIONS FOR 1994

I would also like to call your attention to the reprise of the UK/US/Canada joint study group seminar that we are considering hosting in August 1995. The first of these The following sessions are being organized for the San was professionally and personally rewarding to those of Francisco meetings. Please contact the organizer as us who attended. The sense of the 1993 Business soon as possible if you are interested in presenting a Meeting was that we very much want to rise to the paper. Send all materials to the session organizer BY occasion if we can do so successfully. We will be 10 SEPTEMBER. Organizers must have all materials to considering themes and logistics between now and the the AAG by 20 September, and some will be away from 1994 Business Meeting, where we will make a final the office for several days before the AAG deadline. decision. Everybody is welcomed and encouraged to become involved in the planning. See the notice "Feminist Perspectives on Capitalist Agriculture" elsewhere in this NEWSLETTER for further details. Contact: Janel Curry-Roper Finally, the email directory is taking off. The listing now Central College includes a good proportion of active CARLU members, Pella, IA 50219 and an increasing amount of CARLU business is TEL: 515/628-5151 conducted by email. In the very near future, we will be "Emerging Themes in the Theory of Family Farming" have a number of non-geographers and non-US geographers contacting CARLU centrally because they do Contact: Tom Johnston not receive the Newsletter, but would like to participate in Department of Geography a CARLU-organized session. University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4 Rebecca Roberts will be acting as a general Canada clearinghouse for these situations for the San Francisco TEL: 403/329-2534 meetings. If your paper doesn't fit any of the indicated FAX: 403/329-2016 sessions, your desired session is full, or you need further "Agriculture and the Sustainability Question: information on what sessions are available, contact her as Integrating Theory and Practice" soon as possible: Rebecca Roberts Contact: David Lighthall Department of Geography Department of Geography University of Iowa Colgate University Iowa City, IA 52242 Hamilton, NY 13346-1398 TEL: 315/824-7255 TEL: 319/335-0151 FAX: 319/335-2725 Particularly papers connecting empirical work to ------theoretical issues of sustainable agriculture. Papers on Editor's Note: also see E-Mail Directory for contacts. technological development issues, case studies of LISA adoption, and analyses from a political ecology/economy perspective are welcome. Two sessions (perhaps one US-UK-Canada Seminar with more theory emphasis) may be possible. "Issues in Rural Planning"

Contact: Tim Rickard The joint seminar of the US, UK, and Canadian rural study Department of Geography (or specialty) groups is taking shape for 1995. The goal of Central Connecticut State University the seminar will be to provide an opportunity for extended, New Britain, CT 06050 thoughtful, comparative presentations and discussions on TEL: 203/827-7465 leading issues in rural and agricultural geography in the "Agriculture and the Environment" US, the UK, and Canada. The first of the series, held in England in 1991, resulted in two books and a greatly Contact: Darrell Napton extended and continuing interaction between rural Department of Geography, Scobey Hall geographers in the three countries. The US was tagged South Dakota State University to help make it a tradition by holding the next seminar. Brookings, SD 57007 TEL: 605/688-4831 The 1993 CARLU business meeting concluded that this 605/693-4298 (home) was something that we were very much interested in and FAX: 605/688-6386 formed a committee (Hart, Nellis, FitzSimmons, and Topic: Critical theoretical perspectives in agriculture Roberts) to investigate the possibilities. We have just about convinced ourselves that the logistics are feasible, Contact: Margaret FitzSimmons given distances in the United States. Part of the problem Department of Urban Planning was the excellent precedent provided by the UK study University of California, Los Angeles group in interspersing days of papers/discussions and Los Angeles, CA 90024 field studies. Our current thinking is to move from Baltimore to Charlotte, North Carolina, with potential stops TEL: 213/825-1446 to see the southeastern Pennsylvania seed bed of the American grain/livestock production system, the North As a specialty group, we will be attempting to place Carolina peanut/tobacco region, the urbanization of the everyone interested in giving a paper in a relevant countryside in the North Carolina Piedmont (and efforts to session. Between now and the abstract deadline, a manage it), and farmland protection in the Washington/ number of new sessions will form, and several are likely to Baltimore urban fringe. overflow and become two sessions. In addition, we will We will make a final decision whether or not to attempt this monster at the 1994 Business Meeting in San combining paper session days with field trips. For details Francisco. The theme should speak to emerging on how to register for the next conference, please write: controversies affecting the field of rural/ agricultural geography and for which different national perspectives Professor G. Kluczka are relevant. The personalities and interests of the three IGU Study Group Local Organiser study groups, while similar, have distinctions of which we Department of Geography should be able to take advantage. Give the theme some Free University of Berlin thought, and communicate your ideas to any of the Grunewaldstr. 35 committee or at the business meeting. D-12165 Berlin Germany And mark your calendars for early August, 1995! For more information on participating in the Study Group, -R.S. Roberts contact: Dr. Ian R. Bowler Chair, Study Group on the Sustainability NOMINATIONS FOR HART AWARD of Rural Systems Department of Geography University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH The CARLU Honors Committee invites nominations for United Kingdom the John Fraser Hart Award for Research Excellence. TEL: (UK) 533.523837 The Award will be presented at the annual meeting of the FAX: (UK) 533.523854 AAG to recognize a scholar who has achieved and maintained excellence in the field of agricultural and/or rural geography research. Scholars recognized by this AVAILABLE award must be members of both the AAG and CARLU. Nominations must be received by 1 January 1994. Candidates may be nominated by any AAG member. GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES Send nominations to Timothy J. Rickard, Department of ON THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC Geography, Central Connecticut State University, New RESTRUCTURING OF RURAL AREAS Britain, CT 06050. Proceedings of the 1992 Commission on Changing Rural Systems--International Geographical Congress, edited by IGU STUDY GROUP REPORT M. . 315 p.

The Proceedings include 26 papers by authors from 15 countries on the subthemes of restructuring rural land The IGU Study Group on Sustainable Rural Systems just use, restructuring the relationship between natural concluded its first annual meeting August 14-18 in resources development and the environment, social Montreal, Canada. It was both a relaxed and stimulating recomposition of rural areas and the built environment, meeting, focused closely about the question of and restructuring rural employment and recreational sustainability in rural systems with due controversy over landscapes. the meanings of both 'sustainability' and 'rural systems.' The format of the meeting provided for intense To receive a copy of the Proceedings, send your name, discussions and for the opportunity to get to know an address, and a check for $14.00 (U.S.) plus postage (to interesting group of people. The culinary possibilities Geography - ) to: provided by Montréal and very interesting field workshops into the Ottawa Greenbelt and the Eastern Townships of M.Duane Nellis Québec contributed to both purposes. Department of Geography Dickens Hall Next year's meeting will be held in Berlin (15-22 August) Kansas State University and Prague (22-26 August) under Professor Georg Manhattan, KS 66506-0801 USA Kluczka's directorship. The format will be similar, CONTEMPORARY RURAL SYSTEMS IN TRANSITION made in creating an e-mail directory for CARLU and urged members to submit e-mail addresses. Two books arising from the first UK-US-Canada seminar are available. Volume 1: Agriculture and Environment NEW BUSINESS: (277 p) contains 18 chapters with emphases on rural environments and agricultural systems and policies in 1. Rebecca Roberts reported that the AAG has a new developed countries. Volume 2: Economy and Society policy on guests at annual meetings. Registration of (314 p) contains 20 papers related to rural development guests will no longer be subsidized; instead, they will be and employment, social change, and recreation/tourism. charged member rates if they are official guests of a The books are published by CAB International, and are specified group. available from The University of Arizona Press, 1230 N. Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719. Volume 1 is $66.50 + 2. Chris Bryant reported on the upcoming meeting of the $3.00 shipping; Volume 2 is $76.00 + $3.00 shipping; the IGU Study Group on the Sustainability of Rural Systems, two-volume set is available for $133.00 + $5.00 shipping. to be held in Montreal 14-20 August. There will be paper sessions, discussions, and keynote speakers focusing on the themes identified in the circular now available. About CENTRE FOR RURAL ECONOMY half the time will be spent in the field, with a tour of Quebec's eastern townships to be included.

3. Warren Moran reported on the University of Auckland The Centre for Rural Economy was created in 1992, at Fulbright program. The program's general thrust is the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. According to its "regional perspectives in environmental management." first newsletter, the centre's major interests are "rural Owen Furuseth was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for resource management, rural development, and the Summer 1993; Warren Moran and Chris Cocklin are maintenance of the social fabric of rural areas." The requesting applications for 1994. Centre has particular interests in the North of England, "but also in the diversity of rural society within Europe. It 4. Rebecca Roberts reported on "honors." There were no aims to approach research in a holistic and applicants for this year's student paper competition; interdisciplinary way." Philip Lowe is Centre Director. members are asked to encourage students to apply in the future. A nomination will be made (by committee) for the IBG Young Researcher award. Again, future applications MINUTES from students are encouraged. No John Fraser Hart CARLU BUSINESS MEETING award was made this year. The AAG Honors Committee

8 April 1993 asked if CARLU wants to submit any names. Rebecca Roberts suggested that a CARLU Honors Committee be formed and asked for volunteers.

Minutes of the 1992 meeting were approved. 5. Duane Nellis attended the Specialty Group Chairs Luncheon; his report was presented by Rebecca Roberts. CARLU Chair Rebecca Roberts delivered the Treasurer's It was noted that there has been good networking Report (prepared by Lisa Harrington). At the end of between specialty groups and their foreign counterparts, it CARLU's fiscal year (31 March 1993), CARLU's checking was agreed that there should be an AAG Newsletter item account balance was $1476.92. As of 31 December devoted to specialty groups, and more applications for 1992, there was a balance of $3044.00 in the Hart Fund. specialty group awards were requested. It was also noted that the application deadline for the program for talented Rebecca Roberts reported that CARLU's bylaws would minority students has been extended. have to be modified to comply with the AAG's requirements. This means changing directors' terms from 6. Rebecca Roberts urged that organizers and presenters three to two years; specifying that the Chair submit an for the 1994 annual meeting sessions act soon and she annual report, and specifying that there is a 30-day period noted that there should be a strong international presence for transfer of funds following designation of a new at the 1994 meeting. Margaret FitzSimmons agreed to treasurer. The changes were approved. organize a session. Fran Ufkes expressed interest in organizing sessions on the regulation of agriculture and Rebecca Roberts noted that limited progress had been Pacific Rim food restructuring; David Lighthall is interested in the nature/society theme. Employer Identification Number: 37-1276934 First Federal Bank; 206 S. Central; Paris, IL 61944 7. In the absence of volunteers for newsletter editor, Rebecca Roberts noted that Lisa Harrington had Checking Account Amount Totals tentatively volunteered to assume these duties if no one Balance, 1 April 1992 else comes forward. Lisa's department is not able to $1216.05 subsidize mailing costs. Owen Furuseth--current Expenses: newsletter editor--suggested that different departments Hart Research Excellence might be made responsible for different parts of the overall Award (1992) Plaque $ 36.13 mailing. Also, money could be saved by mailing at bulk Student Paper Awards 50.00 rate rather than first class. - 86.13 Income: 8. A Canada-U.S.-U.K. joint seminar for 1994, 1995, or AAG Dues Rebate (1992) $ 66.00 1996 was discussed. Possible locations (California, Iowa, AAG Specialty Group Dues East Coast) and themes were considered. There was a (3-1993) 281.00 strong show of support for the seminar. A committee, + consisting of Rebecca Roberts, Margaret FitzSimmons, 347.00 John Fraser Hart, and Duane Nellis, will begin planning for Balance, 31 March 1993 $1476.92 the seminar. Other Support 9. Elections: Margaret FitzSimmons and Fran Ufkes are Newsletter production and mailing: vacating their positions as CARLU board members. 280 copies, twice/year $ 400.00 Nominations for board members were requested, Dept. of Geography & Earth Sciences preferable one student and one non-student. Lisa University of North Carolina-Charlotte Roberts (faculty) and Althea Willette (student) were nominated and elected. John Fraser Hart Fund [Award for Research Excellence] OTHER BUSINESS: none. Fund administered by the AAG Updated according to information supplied by the AAG as Rebecca Roberts recognized CARLU's international of 17 March 1993 (Mr. Veerappan, Comptroller) guests: Richard Munton, University College, London; Neil Ward, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; Warren Moran, University of Auckland; Chris Bryant, University of Montreal; Claude Amount Total Marois, University of Montreal; and Bodo Freund, Balance, 1 January, 1992 $2552.12 University of Frankfurt. Interest, 1992 $ 63.36 Contributions, 1992 500.00 Warren Moran suggested that the national rural study + 563.36 groups exchange newsletters by e-mail. Administrative Charges1 - 37.10 The meeting adjourned to the nearby sports bar. - 37.10 Balance, 31 December 1992 $3044.002 Respectfully submitted, Robert J. Mason ------Recording Secretary for meeting 1This is substantially more than the 2% charged on earnings in the past.

2 1992-93 TREASURER'S REPORT There is some discrepancy ($0.31) between the balance provided by the AAG comptroller and the transaction totals he provided. ------Contemporary Agriculture & Rural Land Use Specialty Group (CARLU): Report for 1 April 1992-31 March 1993 Submitted by Lisa M.B. Harrington Treasurer CARLU meetings and cannot hold office in CARLU.

REVISED BYLAWS B. Dues Annual dues will be set by majority vote of the membership, at the annual business meeting.

ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION ARTICLE III: OFFICERS The Contemporary Agriculture and Rural Land Use Specialty Group of the A. Board of Directors Association of American Geographers CARLU shall be administered by a Board of Directors, consisting of the following officers: Amended, 8 April 1993 Chairperson, Secretary-Treasurer, three Directors from the regular membership, one student ARTICLE I: NAME AND PURPOSE Director, and the Newsletter Editor. All officers will serve two year terms, and the chair may not A. Name serve two consecutive terms. All officers must be The name of this organization shall be The regular AAG members. The Board will be Contemporary Agriculture and Rural Land Use responsible for all decision-making during the Specialty Group of the Association of American year; decisions may be rescinded by two-thirds Geographers. The organization's name will be vote of the membership voting at the annual abbreviated to CARLU hereafter in this document, business meeting, or by special ballot if such and commonly in its operations. The Association ballot is called for by petition of at least 20 of American Geographers will be referred to as members. The Board may also decide to hold the AAG. special ballot during the year, if it determines that there is sufficient need. The Board also will be B. Purpose and Activities responsible for evaluating nominees and The purpose of CARLU is to promote research bestowing special awards granted by CARLU. and education related to agriculture and rural land use. Activities will promote and facilitate a) the 1. Chairperson exchange of information among members of The Chairperson will be elected at the CARLU and other specialists in agriculture and annual business meeting, and will serve rural land use, b) recognition of geographers for a two-year term. The Chairperson will quality of work in agriculture and rural land use represent CARLU to the AAG, will research, and c) development and recognition of preside at CARLU meetings, and will these areas of geographic inquiry and education serve as the presiding member of the within the discipline and among the general Board. The chairperson will prepare and public. submit an annual report of CARLU to the AAG Council. ARTICLE II: MEMBERSHIP 2. Secretary-Treasurer A. Membership The Secretary-Treasurer will be elected CARLU is open to regular members, student at the annual business meeting, and will members, and associate members. Regular serve a two-year term. The Secretary- members are those who are AAG members and Treasurer will record minutes for the who pay annual dues to CARLU, either in annual business meeting, will submit the conjunction with annual AAG dues, or separately minutes and annual financial report to the to CARLU's treasurer. Student members are Newsletter Editor for publication, will those who have student membership in the AAG, administer the financial affairs of CARLU and pay CARLU dues at the student rate. in accordance with the direction of the Associate members are those who are not AAG Chairperson and the Board, and will members, but who do pay dues to CARLU. make appropriate reports to the membership at the annual business Associate members are not eligible to vote in meeting. The Secretary-Treasurer will be responsible for tabulating mail ballots. In Elections normally will be held at the annual the event that the Chairperson is unable business meeting, and election will be by simple to complete his or her term, the majority of those present and voting. Secretary-Treasurer also will serve in this capacity until the next regular CARLU ARTICLE IV: COMMITTEES business meeting. Upon election of a new secretary-treasurer, all funds must Committees and committee members may be be transferred to the new officer within 30 appointed by the Chairperson or by the days. membership at the annual business meeting.

3. Directors ARTICLE V: MEETINGS Directors will serve staggered appointments, normally with three-year A. Business Meeting terms and one Director elected each year CARLU will hold an annual business meeting, at the annual business meeting. In the open to all members, in conjunction with the event that a position is open before the annual meeting of the AAG. Business meeting expiration of the term, an election for the activities will include: reports by officers; remainder of the term (one or two years) nominations and elections to office; recognition of will be made at the annual meeting. any special visitors and/or award-winners; discussion of matters of concern to the 4. Student Director membership; voting on matters of concern to the The Student Director will be elected at membership. Other meetings may be called by the annual meeting from the student the Chairperson or Board, as feasible and membership, and will serve a two-year appropriate. term of office. In the event that a Student Director graduates to non-student status B. Other before the term of office is completed, a CARLU will sponsor and co-sponsor special new Student Director will be elected at sessions at the regional and national AAG the next regular business meeting. meetings, with the purpose of promoting the reporting and discussion of research, ideas, and 5. Newsletter Editor applied activities related to the interests of The Newsletter Editor will be elected at CARLU. CARLU will encourage the participation the annual meeting, and will serve an of its members in other forums appropriate for indefinite term, as willing, and as agriculture and rural land use researchers, and acceptable to the membership. The will cooperate, as reasonable, with other groups Editor will be responsible for gathering of similar orientation. and compiling information for the newsletter, and for seeing that it is ARTICLE VI: RATIFICATION AND AMENDMENTS distributed to the membership. The newsletter will be published at least two A. Ratification times per year. These Bylaws will take effect immediately upon their approval by the Board of Directors, pending B. Regional Representatives their ratification by at least 60 percent of the Regional Representatives will be selected from membership voting at the next annual meeting. the membership, elected or appointed, depending on interest, for a term of three years. Terms will B. Amendments be staggered. Regional Representatives will Amendment of these Bylaws may be proposed by serve in AAG-defined regions as liaisons between the Board, or by a petition of at least 20 CARLU the membership and the Board, and will facilitate members. To be adopted, an amendment must CARLU-related activities at AAG Regional be approved by at least 60 percent of members meetings. voting at the annual business meeting, or by mail, if such vote is held. C. Election of Officers Any member may make nominations for office. Munton, Richard [email protected] E-MAIL DIRECTORY (University College, London) Nellis, Duane [email protected] (Kansas State University) Pease, Jim [email protected] The e-mail directory listing is finally taking shape. Please (Oregon State University) check your listing to (a) see if it is there, and (b) check if it Pierce, John [email protected] is correct. Contact me to add or correct a listing. If you (Simon Fraser University) have submitted your address, but fail to find it, the Pyle, Betsy [email protected] problem probably lies in the state of my disorganization; (University of West Virginia) send me a reminder. Send any changes to Rebecca Rickard, Tim [email protected] Roberts, Department of Geography, University of Iowa, (Central Connecticut State University) Iowa City, IA 52242, or to the e-mail address below. Roberts, Rebecca [email protected] (University of Iowa) Block, Dan [email protected] Rumney, Tom [email protected] (University of California-Los Angeles) (State University of New York-Plattsburg) Bowler, Ian [email protected] Solecki, Bill bsolecki@fsuaum (University of Leicester) (Florida State University) Bryant, Chris [email protected] Thompson, Susan [email protected] (University of Montreal) (Bates College) Clark, Gordon [email protected] Visser, Sent [email protected] (University of Lancaster) (Southwest Texas State University) Cocklin, Chris [email protected] Vogeler, Ingolf [email protected] (University of Auckland) (University of Wisconsin) Curry-Roper, Janel [email protected] Willette, Althea [email protected] (Central College) (University of Minnesota) Diamond, Larry [being transferred] (University of Iowa) Duram, Leslie [email protected] DIRECTORY OF KEY PERSONS (University of Colorado at Boulder) 1993-1994 FitzSimmons, Margaret [email protected] (University of California-Los Angeles) Friedland, William [email protected] (University of California-Santa Cruz) Chair: Gayler, Hugh [email protected] Rebecca S. Roberts (1992-1994) (Brock University) Department of Geography Green, Brooks [email protected] University of Iowa (University of Central Arkansas) Iowa City, IA 52242 Harrington, Lisa [email protected] TEL: 319/335-0151 (Eastern Illinois University) FAX: 319/335-2725 Johnston, Tom [email protected] (University of Lethbridge) Secretary-Treasurer: Lewis, Mike [email protected] Lisa M.B. Harrington (1992-1994) (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) Department of Geology/Geography Lighthall, David [email protected] Eastern Illinois University (Colgate University) Charleston, IL 61920 Mason, Rob [email protected] TEL: 217/581-5528 (Temple University) Maurer, Jeanne [email protected] Directors: (University of Toronto) Robert J. Mason (1991-1994) McMichael, Phil pdmx@cornella Department of Geography & Urban Affairs (Cornell University) Temple University Moran, Warren [email protected] Philadelphia, PA 19122 (University of Auckland) TEL: 215/787-7692

Darrell E. Napton (1992-1995) Pacific Coast Department of Geography James R. Pease South Dakota State University Department of Geosciences Brookings, SD 57007 Oregon State University TEL: 605/688-4613 Corvallis, OR 97331 TEL: 503/754-3141 Lisa Roberts (1993-1995) Department of Geography and Geology Southeast Middle Tennessee State University Lizbeth Pyle Murfreesboro, TN 37132 Department of Geography TEL: 615/898-2726 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 Althea Willette (Student Rep. 1993-1995) TEL: 304/293-5603 Department of Geography Southwest Minneapolis, MN 55455 Sent Visser Department of Geography and Planning Regional Representatives: Southwest Texas State University East Lakes San Marcos, TX 78666 Mike Brklacich TEL: 512/245-2171 Agriculture Canada Land Resource Research Centre West Lakes Central Experimental Farm, Bldg. 74 John Fraser Hart Ottawa, Ontario K1A OC6 Department of Geography Canada University of Minnesota TEL: 613/993-4802 Minneapolis, MN 55455 TEL: 612/625-6080 Great Plains M. Duane Nellis Department of Geography Newsletter Editor: Kansas State University Lisa M.B. Harrington Manhattan, KS 66506 Department of Geology/Geography TEL: 913/532-6727 Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL 61920 Middle Atlantic TEL: 217/581-5528 Calvin R. Thomas FAX: 217/581-2722 Geography and Regional Planning Department Salisbury State University Salisbury, MD 21801 FROM THE EDITOR TEL: 301/543-6460

Middle States vacant As I take pen (or word processor) in hand as the new Newsletter editor, I would like to thank my immediate Nestval predecessor, Owen Furuseth, for his past service as Paul B. Frederic editor. It will be difficult to keep up the excellence-in- Department of Geography newsletter-editorship tradition that has been set by Owen University of Maine-Farmington and those who have gone before. Farmington, ME 04938 TEL: 207/944-3121 As well as items for the Newsletter, which are always needed, general comments or suggestions for the Newsletter are welcome. The "deadline" for the next Newsletter is 15 February 1994. -L.M.B. Harrington CARLU Newsletter L.M.B. Harrington, Editor Dept. of Geology/Geography Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL 61920