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Cascadia 's Politicians, Polluters, €S Payola Corif:fflffl------OCTOBER 1996 VOL. 2 No. 6 Dear Reader

e often have been asked dur• ing rhis election year w hich W candidutev w ill win a Cascadia Times mdorscment .. \s if it would make .~plO~th a difference ... Ar «irnc point in the future, " Co~~ss Cascudia Tirne-, w ill endorse candidates. But .11 rhi'I juncture, \\C admit: we're not read . 1':oncthcle "· \\ e do ha, c ome Contract on the opinion, we'd like to share. Environment" EDITORIAL lot of people have asked u co endorse Ralph Nauer. We think 1 ader's Contract on the Environment candidacy has merit largely in that it is Election '96 bringing people into the political process Politicians, Polluters & Payola Page 10 who h rve grown cynical. Some ay votes by Kathie Durbin Page 6 Why Far Away Elections for uder are wasted, but even true-blue Clinronites must admit their candidate Matter in Cascadia Page 9 has plenty of c cess political capital this Citizen Initiatives Seek to Influence year that could be invested into a Green Environmental Agenda Page 14 Part . As for the congressional races, the information we pre ent on pages 10-13 THE USUAL STUFF speaks for itself. During the 104th Congress, polluters helped write much FIELD NOTES: Cows Pollute Streams: POINTS OF VIEW: Alaska. British Columbia of rh • anti-environmental legislation, as has been reported by the Washington Headwaters Grove Spared -- for Now: Voters Leaders Do Battle 16 Posr 111d many others, and repeated by Want Environmental Protection 3 MAIL 17 [iriron on the stump. Now the e pol• ···································································· lur srs are hown to have given money in GROUNDTRUTHING:Clinton Finesses his REALITY CH ECK: 17 a fop ided fashion co scorch-the-earth Forest Record -- Again. by Kathie Durbin 3 conservatives. Getting rid of those BOOK REVIEW: Alan Durning Finds in .urnbents would send a message co the CASCADIA CALENDAR: 15 his Place at Home. by Patrick Mazza 18 polluters that the public will not stand for dirty air and ravaged ecosystems. lot of these same companies say th support a clean environment and a conservation ethic. So why don't their Editor/Publisher Paul Koberstein campaign contributions reflect those Operations Manager/Publisher Robin Klein dues? Correction: September's cover story Art Director Bryan Potter CASCADUI on the Pacific Salmon Treaty misstated Contributing Editors Kathie Durbin.Jo Ostgarden 'I IMES th· manner in which the United States nlculcates the value of its catch. The BORIO OF ROUISOIS How to Reach Us U., . no longer includes the high cost of Phone (503) 223-9036 Fax (503) 736-0097 ulmon recovery in the Columbia River Susan Alexander. San Francisco, Calif. Email [email protected] in it calculations. This value is an Peter Bahouth. Atlanta, Ga. 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The Confederated Tribe· of the Warm incc 1994, Camp reek in Springs Reservation, which holds Eastern Oregon has been treaty right· in the John Day River E. hibit 1 in a legal campaign Basin also joined the suit. b) environmentali ts to get Cows are hard on streams, espe• cow out of Oregon streams. ciall in arid r ·gions. The eat ihading Slandmark ruling b a federal judge in egetation, tramp! and erode stream• Portland last month may boost chances bank and def ecare and urinate in the for pavsuge of an Oregon ballot rnea• water, contributing to pollution, sedi• vurc with the same goal. What's more, mentation and warming. ln court, Mike the ruling could for e a weeping rein• xline of the West ·rn Environmental terpretation of the 197 2 federal 'lean f .aw Center uruu .d that for all these Water ct nationwide. rea ons, the C lean Water ct required ln l\lay of l t 94, the Oregon the Forest Sen ice o obtain a permit • .atural Desert sociation of Central from the Oregon Department of Oregon and seven other conserv ation Environmental uulit before permit• groups sued the, or vr Service under ting gra,,i ng of the Camp Creek the Clean Water ct for issuing a gra,,• (Section 40 l of the Clean Water cc ing permit that allow cd rancher Robert requires rate p ·rmics for activities that 13urril co graze bi, cows on land at the threaten to pollute screams, rivers and confluence of Camp Creek and the lakes.) Middle Fork of the John Day River. The law uir threatened much The Middle Fork vupports the last more than one rancher's grazing per• wild run of spring chinook alrnon in mit, as the national livestock lobbv the Columbia River Basin - a run that instantlv rcco~n11 ·d. Burri! and an declined from 100,000 historical! · t Oregon cattlcmc n's group quick! fewer than 3,000 in the early 199 ls. In igned on as def n lane-intervenor· on 199.,, water temperature· on the the side of the I'm ·,c Ser ice. liddle Fork reached 75 de rrecs dur- t stake. II ,1d ' recognized, was ing spring salmon migration. a broader challcnu · to live uo ·k grazing Temperature above 60 degree can b FIELD NOTES CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 GROUND Clinton Finesses His Forest TRUTH ING Record Again By Kathie Durbin

ou've got co hand it to Bill Clinton. During hi earn] a,gn ~\ 'P through the was in default on a federal loan it had taken out to retool its mill for processing mail• Pa ·ific ·orth\\ est last month, he deftly turned a pohn .tl h.ihiliry of his own er-dimension timber. It needed a h, not old growth. Y making into J elling point for four more y ar-, in the \\ h11 • House. The buy-back wa fine with Washington environmenrali st . Because linton's On the eve of the Clinton-Gore bus tour, the adminisrranun .innounccd it had Northwest Forest Plan plac all remaining old growth on the Olympic ational reached a deal with I. runhcr ompunies that Forest off-limits t< commercial logging, there i no available old growth there to trade. COMMENTARY would ave uld-gro vth Im ·~ts from the chain- When she heard about the replacement deal, Alex Bradley of the Quilcene Ancient saw Mo c 'orthwc,t n '\\, media let the Fore c Coalition in Port Town end called Dick 'office in a panic. "I said,' re they claim go unch llenged: one exception was going to make them cur this old growth even if the Eugene Register-Guard, where they don't want it?"' reporter Lance Robertson pointed < uc 'The n ws is. the Clinton administration The answer, in thi case, is no. But ome of that "a federal appeals court in June the 15 companies that were partie co the already had pared the trees from log• September deal will insist on replacement tim• ging." Remarked Doug Heiken o the managed to pull a huge fast one on everyone by ber. If Ii neon were erious about saving old Oregon I atural Re ources Council: "The growth, he would cancel these old contract and news is the Clinton administration m n• m king non-news into news." refund the purchaser ' deposits and our-of-pock• aged to pull a huge fast one on everyone et e penscs. He has \he discretion to do so. The by making n n-ncw into new ." - Doug Heiken price tag - Chris We t e ·cimatcs it at $50 million As part of the deal, the administration co $75 million - is not insignificant, e pecially ~ promised to ffer replacement timber vol• since it would come out of the Forest ervicc's ume in other. un pecified federal forests, hrunkcn budget. But put that amount in per• i "'00 Timber indu ti) lobbyist Chris Wesc provided a reahry chec 111 :lint n's claim that spcctive. .tin ton i. offering to pay financier Charle· Hurwitz $250 million for 7,500 he had av cd old-growth forevts, observing chat he auve th d1111111 tration promised acres of the last privately owned stand of virgin redwood forest in northern California, 0 replacement timber of "like kind." ch· deal "doe n't neccs .ml suv c any old owned b Pacific Lumber Co. linton could have made the argument that spending a s O"' (ll growth." fraction of that co prote t orthwe told growth is well worth the price if it alvages > The new'> that coastal old-growth forests would be tra cd fur old growth else• his tattered orthwest fore t plan. where hoc ed me Washington forest activists, who had '>UPJ 11 l ·u efforts by Rep. It was, after all, Ii neon himself who signed the timber sat age rider that stripped Norm Dicks, 0-\\'a h., to buy out three timber contract. held h I Hoquiam, Wash., awa legal protection for everal thousand acres of old growth in the Northwest and timber company, The company, layr Brother , CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 A '--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~____,V Field Notes CONTINUED FROM coNPAGE1 1NuEo------3 and other extractive ind u trie that The ruling, which i. likely to be 10 years, Measure 8 would phase out paign. Marlett reserved televi ion air lead to degradation of public water• appealed, will for the first time force grazing in riparian areas along streams tirn last pring, but in July, when wa s. Since 1972, mo t Clean Water both agencies to get serious about pro• that fail to meet lean Water Act .tan• fund-rai 'ing lagged, he had to cancel ct enforcement has targeted reduc• tecting clean water at the source, dards due co livestock grazing - about the ads and .ettle for print media. tion of discharges from factories and regardless of the cost. The Fore t 15,000 river miles in all, according to 1eanwhile, the anti-Measure 38 sewage treatment plants, known in the Service presently rents out its range• DEQ estimate . It would target salmon .umpuign, which has adopted the water quality biz as "point sources" land through more than 400 separate and trout streams flowing through pub• nume Don't Fence Oregon, has rai sed because they come out of a pipe and grazing leases on Oregon national lic land first, phasing in enforcement ah Hit $400,000, much of from non• are ea ily identifiable. Never has the forests alone. It renews each lease on pri ate lands later. ranching interests outside Oregon, and act been interpreted to restrict tream• annually and is supposed to conduct Ranchers who graze cattle along hop s to raise $550,000 before it's in ading cows. formal environmental reviews periodi• polluted creams would have to fence done. Opponents paint backers of On September 26, l .S. District cally. As for the DEQ, it was woefully them out at a cost of about $3 000 per ~I a sure 38 a e trernisrs who want to J udgc Ancer L. Haggerty of Portland understaffed co review Section 401 mile of fencing. Though cattlemen shut down an entire indu try and delivered a slam-dunk ruling for the permits to begin with and will need protest that this would put them out of ranchers a· willing partner· in volun• plaintiffs. Dismissing all objection more people to meet the increased bu iness, that's not nece sarily the tary efforts to repair watersheds dam• raised by the government and ran hing workload. case. Marlett points out that grants and aa d by livestock grazing. intere ts, the judge cut to the chase: other subsidies are available to cover While rancher· can appoint to "The 1970 legislative hi tory reveals the cost of fencing through local soil s me iuccess stories, those voluntary that Congress intended to regulate all 'This is not so much about and water conservation districts, the f ores haven't made much of a dent in polluting a .tivities through water qual• Governor's Watershed Enhancement th· problem. In December of 1995, the ity standards. There was no distinction grazing permits as it is Board and the federal Wetland Reserve r gon DEQ released a greatly between point and nonpoint sources in about pulling these nonpoint Program. The measure provides tax expanded li t of nearly 1,000 cream the original Act." credits to ranchers for out-of-pocket merit that fail co meet federal In fa t, he concluded that sponsors sources of pollution into the expenses and exempt ranchers who water quality standards. Livestock of the 1970 amendments, which were adopt plans for reducing the environ• nr.1£ing wa found to be the major incorporated into the 1972 law, clearly enforcement system of the mental impact of livescock grazing on cause of pollution in warm, ilty intended "that all Federal activities water quality - something they're tr am . This shouldn't have come a· a that have any effect on water quality Clean Water Act." supposed to do anyway under a 1993 urpri e: in 1992, the DEQ reported be conducted so that water quality law. that grazing had degraded more than standards be maintained." - Bill Marlett Measure 38, like the Clean Water .. 00 river mile in regon, more than Accordingly, he ruled that ection 401 Act, include, a citizen enforcement am ther ource of nunpoinc pollu• "applies to all federally permitted provision that allows members of the ti m." activities that may result in a discharge, Bill Marlett, executive director of public to bring suit if the federal gov• Lare eptember polls howed including discharges from nonpoint the Oregon Natural Desert ernment fails to enforce it. Backers say t r gon voter favor the 'lean Stream sources." That opens the door to regu• Association, has fought a lonely uphill it's necessary because the federal gov• Initiative. En ironmental moderates, lating logging, road-building, mining fight against environmentally destruc• ernment has declined to enforce the in .luding ov, John Kirzhaber, Sen. and other activitie when the threaten tive livestock grazing. He called the lean Water Act against ranchers, and Ron W ·den, P rtland Mayor Vera Katz water quality. Haggerty ruling almost coo good to be the state, under intense pressure from .111d Demo 'f tic L'., .. cnare candidate In the Camp Creek case, Haggerty true. "This is not so much about graz• the Ii estock industry, has refused to Tom Bruggere. have all come out aid the plaintiffs offered "undisputed ing permits as it is about pulling these back meaningful reform. "You have to against it. Bur Kitzhaber cold rancher evidence that cattle grazing ... not nonpoint sources of pollution into the reach a threshold where the public IJ st ummer that h might change his only 'may' result in pollution, but has enforcement system of the Clean realize that this is the public's water mind if they didn't ooperate in devel• resulted in pollution of both Camp Water Act," he said. and demands some accountability," oping a plan to attain water qualir Creek and the Middle Fork of the John For Marlett, the ruling could hard• Marlett aid. sr indards for all Oregon waterway Day Ri er." He is ued a temporary ly have come at a better time. Hi Initiative backers had no trouble within JO years. restraining order that requires the Clean Stream Initiative, Measure 38 on gathering signature to get the mea• Stay tuned to see whether big Forest Service to immediately begin the Oregon general election ballot, sure on the ballot, but they did have m mey and sophisticated political on• obtaining rate DEQ permits before seeks a far more moderate solution to trouble raising the $80,000 they need• ultants can overcome these ar umcnts granting grazing leases. the problem of cows and streams. Over ed for a high-profile television cam- I r pa· age of leasure . . •

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opened those forests to clearcutring, ven has refu ed to campaign, thereby expo ing ide Yellowstone National Park. Bur thi i the la. t pre idcntial ele - after the measure' disastrou conse- a broader publi to his views on the is ues, Conservationists cheered, but according to ti n the 20th century. It h uld quen e b ·came apparent, linton refused his candidacy is largel symboli . 1any the Washington Post, that deal may be 11111 r redefining who and what \\C ar · to back r p ·al of the rider or to u e hi dis• green orers will opt ~ r Nader anyway, unraveling; more than half the mining , nation. As Barry Lore, \\ te 111 n cretion to er ncel egregious timber sales. and resign themselves to maintaining con• ornpany's board of directors quit oon , \ entitled "Waiting on \\1 dom," nd in lat· September, a week after he stant igilance in linton's second term. after, in pan because the doubt the gov• mding co a ongre- mn I pn po I to took credu for saving old growth, the Octogenarian environmental crusader ernment will be able to come up with oth• n _() million acre o uh wrldcrne Clinton Ju tice Department was in court David Brower, who has not let age soften er coal-rich land in 1 ntana by February, '\ elopment: fighting a temporary restraining order his tongue, accused the Clinton-Gore as promised. "\\'e need a pau- m \\ rem ic~ sought b the Sierra Club Legal Defeo e administration in June of racking up a Remember the early weeks of 1993, e the. decision to dev cl p J tretch Fund, which would have silenced the worse environmental record after ju t when a naively idealistic Bill linton blic land can't he r, c.: •n , red. nd, chainsaw, in west ·ide old-growth forest at three and a half year than Presidents spoke from the heart to the American peo• 00 !ill midnight on Sept. 0, when the ection of Reagan and Bush achieved in 12. In fair• ple about the urgency of providing health .,: the rider c empting those sales from en 1- ness, linton has stood firm on some low• care to all citizens, and Interior Secretary c ronmen I challenges e pired. (The risk i ues: Keeping the retie ational Bruce Babbitt articulated a vision of biodi• : adrninis , ion won; logging on ome of Wildlife Refuge off-limits to oil and gas versity for the nation's public lands? The :;g those , continue .) e tploration, maintaining the integrity of brash linton crowd learned Washington's ~ BUl h public has a hort memory, the lean Water ct. He i going all out co lessons fast, and all too well. Little of that -o and csc environmentalists by now court environmemali. ts in the final weeks sweeping agenda has survi ed Clinton' ~ e peer I tle but compromi e from the of the campaign, canceling a mining lease first term and the 104th ongre s. .._ Clinton drninistrarion. Their other presi- in [ontana, creating a national monument Man citizens are putting their efforts ~ dential option this year, ,reen Parry can- in Utah, buying redwoods in California. into supporting environment-friendly con• -@ didate Ralph Nader, iupports an end to But in the pro es , he's making promises gressional and legislative candidates and O learcurring, strong consumer protection he may not be able to keep. In September, ballot initiati es. They're thinking global• laws and :.1 curbing of corporate influence he cut a deal with rown Butte Resources, ly, acting locally- and taking a pass on O in publi life. However because ader Ltd., to halt the New World 1ine just out- pre idential politics in 1996. Field Notes CONTINUED FROM coNPAGE1 1NuEo------3 and other extractive ind u trie that The ruling, which i. likely to be 10 years, Measure 8 would phase out paign. Marlett reserved televi ion air lead to degradation of public water• appealed, will for the first time force grazing in riparian areas along streams tirn last pring, but in July, when wa s. Since 1972, mo t Clean Water both agencies to get serious about pro• that fail to meet lean Water Act .tan• fund-rai 'ing lagged, he had to cancel ct enforcement has targeted reduc• tecting clean water at the source, dards due co livestock grazing - about the ads and .ettle for print media. tion of discharges from factories and regardless of the cost. The Fore t 15,000 river miles in all, according to 1eanwhile, the anti-Measure 38 sewage treatment plants, known in the Service presently rents out its range• DEQ estimate . It would target salmon .umpuign, which has adopted the water quality biz as "point sources" land through more than 400 separate and trout streams flowing through pub• nume Don't Fence Oregon, has rai sed because they come out of a pipe and grazing leases on Oregon national lic land first, phasing in enforcement ah Hit $400,000, much of from non• are ea ily identifiable. Never has the forests alone. It renews each lease on pri ate lands later. ranching interests outside Oregon, and act been interpreted to restrict tream• annually and is supposed to conduct Ranchers who graze cattle along hop s to raise $550,000 before it's in ading cows. formal environmental reviews periodi• polluted creams would have to fence done. Opponents paint backers of On September 26, l .S. District cally. As for the DEQ, it was woefully them out at a cost of about $3 000 per ~I a sure 38 a e trernisrs who want to J udgc Ancer L. Haggerty of Portland understaffed co review Section 401 mile of fencing. Though cattlemen shut down an entire indu try and delivered a slam-dunk ruling for the permits to begin with and will need protest that this would put them out of ranchers a· willing partner· in volun• plaintiffs. Dismissing all objection more people to meet the increased bu iness, that's not nece sarily the tary efforts to repair watersheds dam• raised by the government and ran hing workload. case. Marlett points out that grants and aa d by livestock grazing. intere ts, the judge cut to the chase: other subsidies are available to cover While rancher· can appoint to "The 1970 legislative hi tory reveals the cost of fencing through local soil s me iuccess stories, those voluntary that Congress intended to regulate all 'This is not so much about and water conservation districts, the f ores haven't made much of a dent in polluting a .tivities through water qual• Governor's Watershed Enhancement th· problem. In December of 1995, the ity standards. There was no distinction grazing permits as it is Board and the federal Wetland Reserve r gon DEQ released a greatly between point and nonpoint sources in about pulling these nonpoint Program. The measure provides tax expanded li t of nearly 1,000 cream the original Act." credits to ranchers for out-of-pocket merit that fail co meet federal In fa t, he concluded that sponsors sources of pollution into the expenses and exempt ranchers who water quality standards. Livestock of the 1970 amendments, which were adopt plans for reducing the environ• nr.1£ing wa found to be the major incorporated into the 1972 law, clearly enforcement system of the mental impact of livescock grazing on cause of pollution in warm, ilty intended "that all Federal activities water quality - something they're tr am . This shouldn't have come a· a that have any effect on water quality Clean Water Act." supposed to do anyway under a 1993 urpri e: in 1992, the DEQ reported be conducted so that water quality law. that grazing had degraded more than standards be maintained." - Bill Marlett Measure 38, like the Clean Water .. 00 river mile in regon, more than Accordingly, he ruled that ection 401 Act, include, a citizen enforcement am ther ource of nunpoinc pollu• "applies to all federally permitted provision that allows members of the ti m." activities that may result in a discharge, Bill Marlett, executive director of public to bring suit if the federal gov• Lare eptember polls howed including discharges from nonpoint the Oregon Natural Desert ernment fails to enforce it. Backers say t r gon voter favor the 'lean Stream sources." That opens the door to regu• Association, has fought a lonely uphill it's necessary because the federal gov• Initiative. En ironmental moderates, lating logging, road-building, mining fight against environmentally destruc• ernment has declined to enforce the in .luding ov, John Kirzhaber, Sen. and other activitie when the threaten tive livestock grazing. He called the lean Water Act against ranchers, and Ron W ·den, P rtland Mayor Vera Katz water quality. Haggerty ruling almost coo good to be the state, under intense pressure from .111d Demo 'f tic L'., .. cnare candidate In the Camp Creek case, Haggerty true. "This is not so much about graz• the Ii estock industry, has refused to Tom Bruggere. have all come out aid the plaintiffs offered "undisputed ing permits as it is about pulling these back meaningful reform. "You have to against it. Bur Kitzhaber cold rancher evidence that cattle grazing ... not nonpoint sources of pollution into the reach a threshold where the public IJ st ummer that h might change his only 'may' result in pollution, but has enforcement system of the Clean realize that this is the public's water mind if they didn't ooperate in devel• resulted in pollution of both Camp Water Act," he said. and demands some accountability," oping a plan to attain water qualir Creek and the Middle Fork of the John For Marlett, the ruling could hard• Marlett aid. sr indards for all Oregon waterway Day Ri er." He is ued a temporary ly have come at a better time. Hi Initiative backers had no trouble within JO years. restraining order that requires the Clean Stream Initiative, Measure 38 on gathering signature to get the mea• Stay tuned to see whether big Forest Service to immediately begin the Oregon general election ballot, sure on the ballot, but they did have m mey and sophisticated political on• obtaining rate DEQ permits before seeks a far more moderate solution to trouble raising the $80,000 they need• ultants can overcome these ar umcnts granting grazing leases. the problem of cows and streams. Over ed for a high-profile television cam- I r pa· age of leasure . . •

Ground Truthing continued from page 3

opened those forests to clearcutring, ven has refu ed to campaign, thereby expo ing ide Yellowstone National Park. Bur thi i the la. t pre idcntial ele - after the measure' disastrou conse- a broader publi to his views on the is ues, Conservationists cheered, but according to ti n the 20th century. It h uld quen e b ·came apparent, linton refused his candidacy is largel symboli . 1any the Washington Post, that deal may be 11111 r redefining who and what \\C ar · to back r p ·al of the rider or to u e hi dis• green orers will opt ~ r Nader anyway, unraveling; more than half the mining , nation. As Barry Lore, \\ te 111 n cretion to er ncel egregious timber sales. and resign themselves to maintaining con• ornpany's board of directors quit oon , \ entitled "Waiting on \\1 dom," nd in lat· September, a week after he stant igilance in linton's second term. after, in pan because the doubt the gov• mding co a ongre- mn I pn po I to took credu for saving old growth, the Octogenarian environmental crusader ernment will be able to come up with oth• n _() million acre o uh wrldcrne Clinton Ju tice Department was in court David Brower, who has not let age soften er coal-rich land in 1 ntana by February, '\ elopment: fighting a temporary restraining order his tongue, accused the Clinton-Gore as promised. "\\'e need a pau- m \\ rem ic~ sought b the Sierra Club Legal Defeo e administration in June of racking up a Remember the early weeks of 1993, e the. decision to dev cl p J tretch Fund, which would have silenced the worse environmental record after ju t when a naively idealistic Bill linton blic land can't he r, c.: •n , red. nd, chainsaw, in west ·ide old-growth forest at three and a half year than Presidents spoke from the heart to the American peo• 00 !ill midnight on Sept. 0, when the ection of Reagan and Bush achieved in 12. In fair• ple about the urgency of providing health .,: the rider c empting those sales from en 1- ness, linton has stood firm on some low• care to all citizens, and Interior Secretary c ronmen I challenges e pired. (The risk i ues: Keeping the retie ational Bruce Babbitt articulated a vision of biodi• : adrninis , ion won; logging on ome of Wildlife Refuge off-limits to oil and gas versity for the nation's public lands? The :;g those , continue .) e tploration, maintaining the integrity of brash linton crowd learned Washington's ~ BUl h public has a hort memory, the lean Water ct. He i going all out co lessons fast, and all too well. Little of that -o and csc environmentalists by now court environmemali. ts in the final weeks sweeping agenda has survi ed Clinton' ~ e peer I tle but compromi e from the of the campaign, canceling a mining lease first term and the 104th ongre s. .._ Clinton drninistrarion. Their other presi- in [ontana, creating a national monument Man citizens are putting their efforts ~ dential option this year, ,reen Parry can- in Utah, buying redwoods in California. into supporting environment-friendly con• -@ didate Ralph Nader, iupports an end to But in the pro es , he's making promises gressional and legislative candidates and O learcurring, strong consumer protection he may not be able to keep. In September, ballot initiati es. They're thinking global• laws and :.1 curbing of corporate influence he cut a deal with rown Butte Resources, ly, acting locally- and taking a pass on O in publi life. However because ader Ltd., to halt the New World 1ine just out- pre idential politics in 1996. Book Excerpt

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" ~ Contract on the by Kathie Durbin Environmen t"

Exclusive book excerpt from Tree Huggers: Vi .rorv, efeat & Renewal in the Northwest Ancient Fore c Aampaign

Reprinted with Permission by The .Mountain rs Books Copyright 1996 Kathie Durbin

Within day of the stunning upset, rumors of plans to roll back Campaign, the threat on everyone's mi, l was a bill that \\ c uld 20 year of federal environmental legislation were coming from all exempt salvage logging from environm -nral law . directions. Leader hip of congressional committees overseeing the Forest activists had reason to wo , In December. Jurkowski nation's air, water and public lands had passed from sympathetic and raig asked Mark Rey, the timber rn lu try' top lobh) ivt in Democrats to ho tile Republicans. Friendly congressional staffer D.C., to ome to work for them. With R • ·'· help, th lead r hip's who had given environmental lobbyists access to the working of forestry agenda came together in a two- ~ ek period berw een mid• House committee, began getting layoff notices as House Speaker• Deeember and mid-January. At the top f the list w J a bill to open designate Newt Gingrich announced deep cuts in congressional the national forests to more logging. office budgets. Overnight, green Democrats like Senator Patrick Leahy of ermont and Representative George Miller of California were out of the loop. Environmentalists' most rabid udversarie in ongre s were In late January of 1995, nearly 400 West Coa t ore t activists about to grab the reins of key natural resource committees. gathered in hland '. Oregon , to get an h ~ r sobennu <" •...· , 'u :s on Republican Senator Frank Iurkowski of Alaska would become f rom the D . C . lobbyists who wen- ~:: :~ - rront tin in chi, fierce f"I01,, hn .. .-J,.. 'T"I r , • ~ l .J chairman of the powerful Senate Energx and 'arura! Resom<'".'._ ...... ""u' . 1nc m1_·~:::!;?;C: I heir foes n .ongres anu tarehouse ,-.., . ttt·~ ;:; .._ ..,.. ,._i .. 1.~..-...... ,..,,.., __ I - - ~ • ,. - .. · - Lon1m! .__ ""1-'"'v"'-"" '-'"""u" w,111 ~ l,ra1g ot ioano would chair throughout the West had captured th I ipulist high round. c lurkowski's forestry subcommittee. Republican Senator 1ark Without serious political alliance buildn ~. cnvironm n I activists i:i c Hatfield of Oregon would take the reins of the powerful Senate stood to lo e everything they had fougl for. c.:i Appropriations Committee. And Republican Representative Don They were served up a preview ot ,:tbacks to L n c: Vlussivc cGO u Young would take over as chairman of the House arural Resources alvage logging throughout the We st, I ,,ibly aided h, n crncr• ommittce. In case anyone doubted his intent, Young promptly gene congressional appropriation with nguage th t vuuld shield deleted the word "Natural" from the committee's name. the sales from legal challenges. Propes , to turn mer federal land For national conservation groups, it \,\,US a nightmare from to the states. A moratorium on new en l gered -pe I Ii tings. Q) which there was no waking. By December, they were holding ,11 .D Raids on the Tonga National Forest I the rcru, . ational g lengthy strategy sessions to figure out where they had gone wrong, Wildlife Refuge. 0 what friend they had left, and how they could recast their message onservative Republicans sympatl -ri to the "1 c-use agenda so that it connected with people's lives. had simply ·eized the initiative, said R er Feath r-tone of the At the cramped offices of the Western Ancient Forest Endangered Species Coalition, a foun tion-fund d organizarion Cover Story c o N 11 N u E o Citizen Initiatives Seek to Influence Environmental Agenda

by Kathie Durbin

hat to do when politician hostile er' an effort to reduce litter and promote re ently reached an out-of-court ettlemcnt 1,, environmental causes control re ycling. \\ell-financed beverage whole• that requires Pegasus to pend up co $32 W ( :ongress and state legi ·latures salers and the grocery industry have fought million for better waste treatment at two throughout the West? imilar attempts in 39 rates, killing them in huge Montana mines, with a goal of elimi• Throughout Cascadia this year, citizens all but nine. Thi year they arc e peered to nating all toxic discharges. fru 'traced wuh the performance of govern• 'pend as much as $3.5 million to defeat Some moderate Republicans have ment envrronrncntal agencie · and elected Measure 37, an attempt by the Oregon State joined Democrats in backing the water qual• officials arc 11,ing the initiative proce to Publi Interest Research Group to broaden ity initiative as a vote of prote t against the n \Va hingron stare, a group call d People gain control of the agenda: To incrca e river Oregon' bill by requiring deposits on. ingle• 1995 Montana Legislature, which raised the I for Puget Sound is circulating a measure protection in Oregon and Iontana, ban the scrving containers of beverage that didn't state allowable level of arsenic in water th.it addre ev concerns about o shore oil importing of low-level radioactive waste into c ist in 1971: napple, iced tea drinks, 1.000-fold and weakened standards for other ,11lls and protection of salmon habitat. Thi Idaho, redu e the risk of oil spill· off the Gatorade, wine coolers, 0 spirg expects to carcinogens in State waters well. State m -asure won't appear on the. ·member bal• Washingt<,n Coast, e panel Oregon' land• spend only about $100,000, but the measure environmental otlicials point out that the l it; instead, if backers gather the required mark bonl hill, and ban conrroversial hunt• al o enjoy the support of Gov. Kitzhaber, new arsenic standard is still more restrictive number of si natures, they'll prevent it to ing practice in Alaska, Montana and else• Oregon Senate President and .S. Senate than the federal drinking-water tandard, th 1997 Washington Legislature. whi h will where. candidate Gordon Smith, and other politi• but the l1.S. Environmental Prote tion ha luve the option to pass it as written r ub• cian . Late September polls showed voter argued against weakening water quality mit it to voter' in :\<>Vember 1997. favoring the mca ure by a deci ive 4-to-l tandards intended to prevent pollution at The compli aced measure would allow ratio. the source. Advocates also predict the initia• c unties to provide t incentive to proper• tive will be a boon to Montana's growing fly• l' owner who take teps to protect almon fishing and wilderness recreation economy. h ibitar, with local onservation di rri ts et• One of the most significant initiative tmg the criteria. Michael Sato of People for appearing on any state ballot is a 1ontana Puget Sound m ke no claim that the rnea- measure that would forbid corporations from u c by itself" ill bring back dwindling contributing directly to ballot measure cam• lmon run , but he says giving private prop• paigns. The mining, livestock, utility and . owner an in enrive to prote t riparian beverage industries have funneled million as along salm n streams can he part of an of dollars into sophisticated campaigns to , ·rail salmon re toration plan. regon voters will wade through 23 bal• defeat popular environmental initiatives in The measure also would keep oil pill O lot measure on ov. 5, of which 17 n Montana, backers of the Clean Water recent years. In 1994, ewmont Mining Co. vention with the Office of ~I rine Safety, were put on the ballot by interest groups Iand Public Health Protection Act want to pent $3.8 million to defeat an Oregon ted after the E on Valdez oil pill as and individual . One of the most con• impose the nation's toughest restriction on chemical mining initiative that would have t of the Wa hington Oil pill Prevention tentious i Measure 38, the Clean cream owners of new or expanding hard-rock forced the Denver mining giant to meet ·t of 1990, rather than fold it into the Initiative, which would require ranchers and mines by requiring them to meet state strict new standards in developing an open• epartment of E ology as some have pro• dairy farmers to fence their cows out of water-quality standards. The measure, 1-122, pit gold mine in Eastern Oregon. ewmont I ed. It would full fund oil ill cleanup streams polluted by livestock grazing. (See would amend the state's Metal Mine bankrolled a successful media-savvy cam• ·cs through a mode sr incre in ii ship• ...... Reclamation Act to mandate that mining nt taxes and would pn hibu c ploratory paign that deliberately sidestepped debate !! Field ore, Page 3.) The measure is an ... attempt , hold the livestock industry companies remove metals, cancer-causing on the real issues involving cyanide heap• drilling within 1 mil he c responsible for the sorry condition of many chemicals and other toxic substances from leach mining, while the backers raised just \'· ihingron coast. ii c streams m cattle and dairy country. Ranchers wastewater before they discharge them into $120,000 in cash and in-kind contributions Sato calls the camp i n longterm c:i forced linton administration to aban- streams or groundwater. and failed to get their message heard. ~ fort to educate the puhh well as push u don seri range reform efforts on federal Montana's powerful mining industry (Newmont later pulled out of the project Legislature to live up to I tewardship lands in J 3 and killed a proposed claims that meeting the requirement would anyway.) Given the vast financial resources esponsibilities for the cc· fragile coastal Agricul I Practices Act in the 1993 be impractical at best, impossible at worst. corporations can bring to bear in such cam• eas. That steward hip h nguished since Oregon Legislature. But an editorial in the August 11 Mis oulian paigns, some citizen activists say measures late 1980s, when the 111 ependent Puget Expansion of the Oregon Bottle Bill is a debunked that claim, pointing out that like the one proposed in Montana may be • und Water Qualir, u h nrv set an arnbi• popular cause with Oregon voters. In 1971, Pegasus Gold Co., state and federal environ• the only way to level the playing field. >us agenda to clean u he und by Oregon became the first state in the nation mental protection agencies and the Fort ucing pollution r m II ,urces in the e to require deposits on beer and pop contain- Belknap, Montana, Community Council xmd's vast ware hed, \\1th e House in Book cerpt C O NT I N U E D virtual! ' · : polluting indu tr favored California to chair a ta k force chat upported a strong Endangered Species th · fate of imperiled species. Gorton this bill, wl -h like "takings" legislation would undertake a rewrite of the Act, were added to the panel only after fr· ·I • acknowledged that the bill was would rna · it prohibitively c pen sive Endangered Species ct. Young wanted ti hermen flooded Pombo's office with "rice ·n b Washington, D.C., lawyers for federal • rencics to enforce rules on a bill that would put economic argu• phone calls. The l .S. Fish and Wildlife r .presenting timber, mining, ranching, the books. R gulatory reform and tak• ments against saving endangered species Service and the National 1arine and urilit interest. ings both cv entually fell b the way ride on an equal footing with ecological argu• Fisheries Service, the two agencies in 1995. ments in favor of saving them. Pombo, charged with enforcing the act, were But the ·e were just the opening who represented a Central Valley district nowhere in sight. salvos. When Congress convened with numerou simmering endangered But attempts to sta k the hearing Though Interior Secretary Bruce Republican leaders quickly made it clear specie conflicts, stacked his task force backfired in the Northwest, where polls Babbitt had praised the Endangered that they would use all the arrows in with western conservatives. showed 60 percent of residents favored Spc ·ie ct a the nation's strongest and their legislative quiver to undo environ• One of the worst fears of Northwest retaining the law. Environmentalists, m st important environmental law, his mental . afeguards: self-standing bills, forest activists - that they might save tapping into a nationwide network, suc• voice was largely ab enc from the debate rewrites of the Endangered Specie A t the forests but lose the Endangered ceeded in exposing the hearing as a for much of 1995. He tried to defuse and Clean Water Act, deep cuts in Species Act - eerned about to be real• sham and turning some of the testimony oppo .ition by publicizing the act' sue• appropriations, and attachments to ized. to their advantage. ce e and by negotiating with private appropriations riders and omnibus "Pushing species to the brink of landowners to adopt voluntary habitat spending bill . Conservation groups extinction anJ beyond not only wastes ns ervacion plans. found themselves inundated. future economic opportunities but helps By April, when President Clinton In April 1995, Congress took its first destroy those industries we already till had not dug in his heels again t the shot at the ESA when it attached a rider have, uch as the Pacific salmon indus• R ·1 ublican attack on the environment, to a Defense supplemental appropria• try," testified Glen Spain, regional direc• nuri mal group· went public with their The three-member Ala ska delega• tions bill placing a temporary moratori• tor for the Pacific Coast Federation of frustration, sa ing the now believed tion flexed its new muscle shamelessly. um on new endangered species listings. Fishermen's Associations. "Without a th · · could not count on the President to A team of f xleral and state biologists That same month, Pombo's task force strong Endangered Species Act, there v to bills rolling bu ck environmental had recent! warned that continued log• held field hearings in everal states. The will never be salmon recovery in the protection. "I think the merican p o• ging of the' I ongass National Forest at first three - in Louisiana, Texas and Northwest, and the approximately pl' have to demon crate this is their air, current rates threatened the survival of North arolina - featured speakers 85,000 jobs which the salmon resource their, acer. their ·ommunities," said near! a dot. ·n pccics, Republican invited to air grievances against the act. could potentially generate in this region arl Pope, e e .urive director of the enator 'led Stevens of laska inserted In Louisiana, a shrimper complained would be gone forever." ierra Club. " nd th have to demon• language in an appropriations bill forbid• about having to equip his boat with a Stan Shaufler, a former awmill crate they are not going co let an ·body ding the Forest Service co take any turtle exclusion device to save endan• owner, testified that he had come to - whether it i · Bill Clinton, the l .S. action impl ernenting the findings. gered sea turtles. In Texas, a rancher realize that the overcutting of old• Hou e or the l . . , 'enate - mess with Senator Murkowski floated a bill to turn protested the curtailment of pumping growth forests had to stop. "The old• it." That same month, more than a over larges ections of the Tongass from the Edwards Aquifer to protect an growth logs I milled represented cen• d 11 m national group'> launched a _ acional Forest to so-called "landless endangered fish. In North Carolina, a turies of growth," haufler said. "The million media campaign to alert voters co Nati es" who had not qualified for tim• landowner griped about the reintroduc• logging of the national forests was a dis• the ;op\ awault on the nation's envi• berland allotments under a 1971 law. He tion of endangered red wolvc . Task grace at the rates instituted and main• ronmental laws. was forced to abandon the bill after it force members were wined and dined tained by our expert forest managers." drew strong opposition from fishermen, by the wealthy constituents they had . ome environmentalists truck a southeast luska communities, and a invited to testify. Several disgusted conciliatory note, conceding that the act number of laska , atives, who had Democrats on the panel boycotted the could do a better job of involving local Trre H11gers is ot'llilo/1/e at book ston :r seen their hunting grounds and salmon hearings. people in developing conservation plans or/ mm th publish r. Tl, .llo1111tai11eers streams ruined by loMing. On pril 24, the ta k force held a for threatened and endangered species. B 111:s. too. SW Klul:itllt Ht1J. Suite lOI. Don Young, laska's only represen• hearing in Vancouver, Washington. The everthelcss, Pombos committee , ,,file !Vi\ 9, 13./, or rall t; ,w -sJ-4453. tative in th · I louse, set up several task speakers' roster was stacked with critics went back co Washington and wrote a forces hea I id by his own hand-picked of the act: a mill owner, a resident of a bill gutting the act. On the Senate side, Alllhi D111i1111 ran t rrtJth1d tit rt!..· chairmen lt1 bypass the existing subcom• timber town, an aluminum worker, a Slade Gorton, a Washington Republican, d,11 II l IOI.(()!//, mittee '>t111t ture, I le appointed rancher, a miner, and three irrigators. un cilcd a bill giving the secretary of Rcpres .nunive Richard Pombo of Represenrarives of fishing groups, who Interior unilateral authority to decide

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of the Great Northwest Commentary Wh Farawa Elections ~ascadia

by Andy Kerr

four salmon runs and forests are out with the holding senator. The power ade if they get involved politically. Jim sen ironrncntalists re-engage to be saved and restored, of a hold i root d in the power of the Britcll, a forest activist from Port Orford, politically after nearly 20 years of being Cascadians need to be con• filibuster, the uhillty to abuse the Senate Ore., says: "Every merican i'l politically apolitical environmentalists must never cerned about ,, ho represents rules allow mg fr • and full debate. active. Some people do politics, the rest again let the ernocrutic Party take U'l the Sth District of Indiana or The mere th, .ut to filibuster a bill have it done to them." for granted. \Vt: must seek and maintain the l l th District of orth whi ·h would ti· llp Senate action on 1o t of the major en iron mental a bipartisan majority, to whom the only Carolina in Congress. The pow• cv ery other man r i · often enough. The laws upon which we rely were first question is what's the best political er to save or destroy our backyards and only sure \\ ,IV t1, ict around a hold i,; to enacted in the 1970s when the environ• method of saving and restoring the future often re ts with an obscure mem• line up the 60, «t • required to end mental movement, as political. The Earth, not whether we should or not. ber of Congress far from the Pacific debate on an 1,,11 .. movement allowed its political mu clc orthv e 't. This writt II rule is complicated by to atrophy during the 1980'. with disas• Andy Kerr recent~v retired from the The greatest champion for the an unwritten mutual non-aggression pact trous consequences in the 1990s. This Oregon Natnrat Re. ourres Council after!() West's ancient forests was a Democrat among both ·n,ttors and representa• terrible trend is now reversing. years. As exeaaioe direaor during his last from Indiana named Jim jontz. He wa tives: "You '>ta) nut of federal matter in ationally, the Sierra Club and the Into years, he restructured O.VRC to allow defeated in 1992 by a candidate with big my state [or di,111 •ti and I'll stay out of League of Conservation Voters (the direct engagement in elections. Fle tantes from backing from Big Timber. Legislative yours." umbrella political action committee for Joseph, and ran be reached at rmdykerr@ore• efforts to permanently protect ancient Such i~ rhe 1\1 • with reforming the the environment) are deeply engaged in goiurail.ne: • fore ts have yet to recover. 1ining Law of IH'7 . ntil it he omes this congressional elections. Regional The champion of the present dread• controversial nati mally, we'll never see a and state organizations also have PAC . ed salvage logging rider in the House of vote on the S nat .. floor. Alternatively, if All deserve your support. Reprc entatives was Rep. harles mining law reforn, becomes controver• Taylor, a Republican from North ·ial in western ~t~t • election , we'll see Carolina. He sits on the Hou e Interior Senate action. Appropriations Subcommittee, which Cascadians · I o need to be con• Considering a Move? controls the Forest Service budget. cerned and activ in elections, not only The l S House of Representatives in their own di'>trllt and state, but is a body of 435 kamikaze pilots all seek• throughout C:a,L'1Hlia. Never ha a worse Consider ing nothing more or le s than their own anti-environment tli~t than Republican re-election. If they think it help'> to fly Don Young from laska chaired the in formation, they'll do it. If the think a House Resourc · lommittee. He cause· solo is be ·t for the re-election chances, trouble for the 'lh ironment not only in so be it. If a member of Congress think'> laska, hut cv 'f\ \ here from Guam to Laurie Joooeofeld that being green helps, green he or she 1ainc. will be. If the member thinks that wear• Oregon's Zrul t 'ongressional District Whether you're selling or buying, I'll be there ing a brown shirt helps re-election con rain 20 pcrc ·111 of the tare's popula• to help you fulfill your goals and dreams! chances, that will be the uniform of the tion but cm er, 7J I .rcent of the state's day. land ha .e. The fal I to represent this dis• The 1ining Law of 1872 would be trict i, irnport.mr lt11 the en ironrncnt, repealed, the Endangered Species ct even though ncirh, r of the candidates would be strengthened, if only environ• seeking to rcplu · the discredited Wes rncntali: ts could get a clean up-or-down Cooley is worth .i rlumn. Cooley' predeces• vote free of politic'> on the Hou. c floor. sor, Bob Smith 1, 111ming out of retirement If onlv there was a windshield wiper on to retake his se. t I he House leadership a duck's butt. 'either is or can be the has promised h1111 I h · chairmanship of the case. Agriculture Comn1 u .c, which also has The power of the I lou e is centered jurisdiction mer nc.tuonal forests if Smith n a, in the committees. It i' important for (and the Rcpuhlil.iM) win in ovcmber. 00 Sales Associate, Million $Club n Cascadia not only which party is in pow• Facing hin I I cmocrat Des hutes a, 11:11 er, but also who chairs the committees of Count_Y Distr)ct. .nrney 'like Dugan Windermere (Portland area) ;::: jurisdiction. Both arc determined b the who, 1_,kc mith, l t t vote would be cast "'00 nate power co an individual senator. The for Dick Gephar I from Indiana co be 233, 7777/234,6308 res. 0 Senate likes to see it elf steeped in an Speaker of the l-1 isc, rather than Newt g atmosphere of social harmony in which Gingrich from G , rgia. My Business helps support; KBOO Community Radio, Oregon g- -, the minority (including a minority of Becau co rl excesses of a radical, Natural Resources Council, Friends of Trees, The Fund for one), isn't run over by the majority. but powerful, minority of Republicans in nder Senate rules, a senator may the Congre .,, th oming election is Animals, Mckenzie River Gathering Foundation, The Feral place a "hold" on a bill, which by prac• poised to be a pl chiscite on the environ• Cat Coalition of Portland, 1000 Friends of Oregon. tice stop all action on the bill and ment. Environm cntulists can turn the requires the proponents to try to work it lemons of the past two years to lemon- Tune in to my folk show on K 90. 7FM, alternate Friday , 11 am- 1 pm. The Polluters 1. MARCO Corp. Fml5sioos: 1.6 million lbs. lnislon, Idaho 13. Exxon Corp. Political Conlrlbullom in Cl&adla: $700 Air: Hydrochloric Add, Methanol, Sulfuric "" id, fmlssioas: 1.8 million lbs. Republicans: While, Washinglon lad Smelter (Superfund Siie) Petroleum Product, aitoroform !lurface Water: Ammonia Democnls: M11.ler,Clllfo mia EIII Helena. Mont. (1) Beneda, calif. Surface "'*"= Melhanol, Otlorolonn ~r: Methanol, Ammonla, Oiloroform EnvironlneDtll Raling: 6l F.anilllo8I: ~ llillloa lbs. F.alissic)m: 681,000 lbs. ( cl Missoula, Mont. Totll PAC Coolrlbuliom: $26~'150 Air: 7.tnc, lad. SWl'uric Add, Arsenic, Copper Air: Ammonia, ~. Xylene Emislloas: 134. 742 l'vll1ical Conlribu11ons in Cascadia: $14,750 Land: 1Jnc, Lead, Manganese Compounds (b) BiWnp, Mont. 18. Willamette lndus1ries Tocal PAC Contributloos: $19,520 Republicans: ~. California; G. Smidl, Cooley, Tocal PAC Contributions: $29,075 Fmlssions: 150.000 lbs. Pulp and Paper Political Contributions in Cascadia: $11,emocrals: None ~1.'111, Craig, Crapo, Idaho Polillcal Contributions In c.asadia: $36. 700 Air: Methanol, Hydrochloric Acid loung, ~. ,\laska l'Jwll'Olllllental Rating: 3 Democrats: Baucus, Montana Republicans: Pombo, Rlp,gs, caJifornla; Bunn, Tocal PAC Conlrlbulions: $10,000 Democrats; None Emironmentll Rating: I 5 G. Smith, Oregon: Dunn, ~. MelClllf, Political~ In Ca.,cadia: $10,000 Eniironmentll Rating: .'I 9. Stone Container Corp. Selhercua, Tale, WbiCe , Wmigson; Republicans: G. Smith, Oregon 2. Weyerhaeuser Co. PaperboanVP-.iper/Pulp Chenoweth, Craig, Cr2po, Idaho; ~. Democr.its: None. 5. Amalgamated Sugar \1b.wula, Mont. FJt\'lronmental Rallng: 'VA Wood Products Young. Alaska Food Proces,~ing fani.'61ons: 1,616,000 I~. (a) l.onfl\ie\\, 'l.i.,h Democrats: !\one (a) Paul, Idaho -\Ir· \!ethanol. -\nunonla Em ironmental Rating: 8 19. Amoco fJmi.s1011!-; .t i million lb,. rmi\-,oll'i: I ,09t-o"' lbs. Total PAC Contribution.,: $61,.io-! \ir· Methanol. llydrochlorlc AcKl, .\cCl3idcll)de Pl1roleum Products \Jr unmonu r,c Contribuliort, in C..SCadi.c $ 1-. ~oo Surface 'httr: \lcdtan0I, Chloroform, 14. 3M Corp. Mand.in, ,.D. (b) vampa, Idaho RepubUcan.,. RI~. Califomla. G. Smuh, formalcit.-h)de "1anufacturing fJnt"loD!-: 1r.-6.{ Ilk.. IJlll"IOn,: -{ 1, l.~0 lb, Ortogon,lli U, Rl'hlx'f!(, \1onl.lnJ ( h) UhRIOpoh, \\.1.,h I hnt· Cll), O~ .\ir: ll)dr(ll;l11 ~1uonde, Tollk'llC' \Jr \Jnmo111.1 I mironmental Ralillj\ O fm,,Mon, C>-18,000 llh Toi.II P\C (Anllribuuo,,., $!0.i,-80 le) Tum f.tlb. IJJ!m ur \kth.uM>I. \niJ!dehid,• \ir \lt'lh)l Hh)I M1orw. Toh1t11e Politir.il ContnhutiJ.IMKI lb, 10. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (cl :,prm~hdd Ort' Total P\C Contnhution,: Si 181 Repuhlkm,. Rim,, Callfomia, C<1ok'I-. ~rth. \Jr unmonu l.m "1011, 1 :; n11lh1111 lh, Pu~, and Pa11t1 Pohtrt-.d Conrnhuuon., 111 < .l."-W St sm Ort'g11hhcani. Cook">. (i South, Oni(Clll, C'r.ui:, \rr '" tJ!dimdt \t11h.u10I I 1111, J(lll\ 'il! (KHI Iii, Suria<.t' \\a11·r \Jnmon,a l 1111"'°"' Ki,- l}l~ '"' Id.um 1..>t,no,:r.1h f .11m. C.ihiorm.i The Politicians ur \mn nma foul P\t' !A111trlhu1101h \·o;;,~,; \or ~mmomJ 11\Jn" hlonc \ol llt·mcl\ r.11., ll.tm11,, \lc"tll.na l.m1m11111111l.ll !bun)( 1, YES $(1,'i()() flizabelb /-11~. D(I). I'S. Bill Ifill. R r,>UJ r\< Contnh11t11111, !!. IX{ ~ur!Jn• \\ Jlt r '1t'lh,nol Ca lifonzia Oregon l111l 1J,~ Contnh11t1011s 111 (JJ:>l:!llhh< ,Uh ( •M>k), l, \1111tit 0fl~f>II ( .111 ( iloh.tl \\Jrllllll" lk,c:.rrt h· \\c.1kcn k.111 \\.uer \n· YES 1, lltnn, 111'-1111:..., IJlll"l<>II, b• 1 IHM) II" Limited Partnership House ,nuth onw11 \ltit .1lf ( .henolH'llt Cr.111: ( r;ipo, Idaho 15. Boeing Airplane Co. I.C \ RJtlllt.!;: o \\ cJkt:n ~.P \: YES Furse < \t'!ht n uu I snulh la1t•, \\hit. , \\:a.sh 11 •1011 \11 illorofo1 m, \k1h.'Utul \\ood Prodtrtt, Senate lk1ncl(T rt, lltnlll\ IIJU\'r,011 'g!m \l.u111fac111 nn~ \pprmc l.,JhJgc Logging l{1dcr: (oral I'\( lkl'erpt,: ~.!H.'/94 ~1rf.1< t \\,lllf' \111mo11u, \,t1.lldtfodt I he rol'.1lh Cr.tlM> l1L~10, \!t,1·1, ,or1n" I Hfl'lt \\J,h u,lumh1.1 I .ill, \lont lie Fazio. O(i). rs. Timoth,v lefeter. R Braden YES P \( "'"' from Lc.1d1ng Polluter,: I J1wun01,·11ul R.11111K I l,~JI I'\(' <'0111nbuuo11, I 10,lJ-1l \l.l,l.:i lllll"lllll, 811-.INK) lbs I 1111"1orts \11(1.IHKI llh ">.1Lr.tlll, ·nco .m J lot.11 P\( Hn·c11m: ~S.(KM) P.1, Pollurcr-: YES (;orr/011 Jmilb, R. rs. Tom Bru m. n ~ ],()(Ml l\1htl1.1I f on1nhu1m1is 111 1'..1.,ucLiJ ,! fllMI I), UICI( rats Bllfllll'IIJlll'r. 011')tOO. ll,d,s, \1r \l1li11l i.1hd KllPllt' I >IUl·ne \Jr \mmo111a. for111.il,ld1\ilt· P \(. 'i.i,'i, from I .cJdmg Polhrtt'r,: C '11t < ,lohJI \\.mrnng RcscJrt h: YES !open scat) h.t:\ \otL \ 6. Simpson iunbcr Co. R111uhlK.111, II! ri:•·r. 1'1,1111><1 R1•••,, 1.:ihton11.1: Fazio \\.L11tnbu11m1,. !l.~-o NONE I.<.\ R.ttin~: 8 \\c.1kcn ( lc.111 \\,1tcr \Lt: NO \\,Kid PnMhrt b 11111111, 1; s11111h Oni!on, ll.i.,Ufill'· \kll.ilr. fate. 'i.V:iS I m rroqmrnul R.u1111r H low P\l. (A•lllrrl~lllflll' !h{ Iii PolrlllJI Contniluuon~ m I .t...cadi.1. $ I I i\KI lot,11 P\(, lkl'Cllll'>: '1-.:-ll Smith \\c.1kcn Fl'\: NO (JI fa<.oma. \\a.,h \\,t-.l1111~'11Ht, l.r.u11. ld.iho ,ouni: \J.i.,ka Pohtkal Comrrhut10"' in < a,,cadi.i: , -o 10- Rq1ublk'.u1, Sm11h. On-i:on Dunn, IIJ,1111~. P \( ..,.,. from L1.:Jd111g Pollute I'>: Sliva lot.ii I'\(. Rt·t·crpc,: $.lllilh, Tait', \\ l11tt , \\a.,hhlR(OII, 'fotJI P\( lkce1pt~: 1.000 P \C: $$$ from LcJding 1'11lh1!L'I'>: l',t\ l'ollutcr,: NO \1r \1t'lh.11"1l. l>ulfuric \tKl, \mmo111.1 I 1111rnnml111al Rauo~ 14 Ea,t SI· B:1, ~m ulturJ! Pmduct, ll~tin~. \IClt.uf '\l'llll'n utt, I.. '-mith. T.Ut, flK'1tt111t1h, <.r~,~ ld.iho !>ll'\l11, \Lt.,i,.i Kn.~ P.\(. $$$ from I ,e,tdrng Pollutcl'>: $87.267 ( :m (,lob.ti \\',1rming Hc,cJrd1: NO Surfact \\,Ut,· \n1Jllil'h1d~ Ot.'1110<:r.ll:, l>rck.., \\ ~hin~IOII \\c.1kcn C'lc.111 \\',1tcr \l't: NO NONE I .C:\' HJtmg: 92 (al lu-11.11, \la.,k:i \\hire, \\a.-.liinglon: l.rJII(. l. I million Iii,. 'focal P.\C Recei1m: $103, 1.'iO 9,alht '\lalla, 9,a.-,11 .\pprmc ~JI\Jgc Lo~mg Hider: 'lot.II P.\C Receipt~: $92.1,.!11 Wftt Air \mmonu. Methanol l>emocr~. Fa,10. Calrfonmi.. Blume11.111er. P\C $$$ from Leading Polluter-: -\ir: ~ethanol. Fonnaldth\tlc Pulp and P..iper \h~cnc Prank Riggs, R(i), 1•s. Alicbe/a Alioto, D l'.\C $$$ from Leading Polluter...: 'lbtal P,\C Rcccip~: $9,()(J() Surface 'hll'I" '\mmonia, l'lh}k'llt' Gl)tOI t'uN, Oregon. Dick.,. \tcDt'nnott. '1'.i.,hington: 21. Shell Oil $1,500 Toi.II P \C Comnbutiorl!\: $1 'i. ~0<1 Fmis., Califon11a; Dick.,, V;a.-b1111.1on Richmond. Calif. (Four l'adlides) Poliliatl Contributions In casadla: $11,000 C~t Global \\'arming Re~earch: NO Jim Bum,, R(i),vs. Darlntt Hooley, D I~. 'it.'lhercutl, ,asblngton. Craig, Crapo, PAC$$$ from Leading Polluters: Kn Vons; Air: Ammonia, ll)drochloric Acid fJlll~ "'14,861 lbs. Republicans: llerger, Riggs, California; Bunn, LC\' Raring: 92 Weaken Clean \\'ater Act: YES Willamette \'alley Ell\ironmcnlal R.!ling: 14 Idaho $500 Blumenauer (took office In Tocal PAC Contributions: $30.1'19 Air: CFC-ll, Ammonia, ~lene Oregon; Tale, W:llihington; Craig. Idaho; Yoong. Weaken EPA: YES May 1998) Democne: Dicks, W~ington Poliliatl Contributions in Cal.cadra $11,lOO Tocal P.\C Contributions: $l P,450 SleYens. Alaska Reece Appro\oc Salrnge Logging Rider: Bunn Total P\C Receipts: $2-18,752 7. Kerr-McGee Emironmental Rating: 14 Republk'lllS: Riggs. llerger, Califomia; Tate. Political Contribulions in Casadla: $38,000 Democnds: Jlione. Wal~ Jterger, R(i),t'S . Roberts JlraMn, D 'focal PAC Receip~: $400 YES Total PAC Receip~: $10\, B8 PAC $$$ from I ,eading Polluters: Chemicals ~. ,·~hingion; Craig, Idaho; Sit.-, Republicaos: Pombo, Riggs, California; Conk.>y, F.mironmental Raling: ., 'onhern California PAC$$$ from Leading Polluters: Pay Polluters: YES PAC$$$ from Leading P11lluter~: NONE llendeMn. 'iCI'. Alaska. 12. Du Pont G.Smith,Oregon;Dunn,Hastings,Tlle,1'bite, NONE Cut Global Warming Research: YES $12,750 LC\' Racing: 89 f.missions: l,014.'102 lbs. Democrals: Sone (llemicab •·ashlngton; Craig, Crapo, Idaho; ~. 22. Lamb-Weston (a Herger LC\' Racing: 12 KEY Yous: Weaken Clean Water Act: /A Land: Manganese Compound!• Emironmentd Rating: 5 Antioch, Calif. }'oong.Alaska; Rehberg. Montana 'local P.\C Receipts: $243,381 Weaken Clean \\'acer .\ct: YES We,tken EPA: N/A Totll PAC Contriblllions: $59, 50

Weaken EPA 1995 Rescissions Hill that suspended .ill r1ti1en Cut Global Warming requires companies to report rclcJ!.C', of certain rium on listing endangered and threatened from oil leases on the refuge's fragile coastal appeals and legal challenges of sah JI{\' l1ig~ing • toxic chemicals to EP.\, ,\h1lh puhli,hes the species and critical habitat for protection under plain. In the fall of 1995, llouc;c leaders pushed an Research House Bills on federal lands, allowing timber sak'\ 111 pro• •enate Toxics Release Imentor~ (TRI). The data on the Endangered Species Act. appropriations bill containing 17 pro\oisions to ceed without regard to em ironmentJI IJ"'· The Omnibus Ci\ ilian Science .\uthorization page JO is based on TRI dat:.A \ prO\ i!>ion in S. Cut Funding for EPA Weaken Clean Water Act eliminate EP\'s role in protecting wetlands, to Hill, Jl.R. 3322, would hmc prohibited the EP.\ ,prove Salvage Logging 343 ,,ould allm1 industr~ to ,t, mtl' new TRI The Senate also appro\'ed a resolution cutting 0 On \1a~ 16, 1995, the llou,e passed 11.R. 961, exempt 011 refineries from air toxic st,mdards, tu from ~pending an) funds to re!>earch changes in Open Arctic National Pay Polluters der listin~ and petition to \tril..c l'\i,ting ones based EP.-\ programs and emironmcntal la\\ enforce• g a hill that ,1 ould rcla\ or wJi, c federal water prohibit EPA from regulating arsenic, radon, globJJ climate. Wildlife Refuge to Oil The Superfund rcauthorilation bill, 11 R 2500, on cl,tims that cert.1in lc,cl, 1,t n po,ure arc not ment. President Clinton ,ctocd the bill on Dec. f{ pollution con1rol regulations, \\Cal.en treat• and sulfate!> in drinJ..ing \\ater, and to block \larch 14, 19%, the Senate rejected a bill to ., called for federal pa~ments to parttl, l1.1hle for dangcrou'>. Drilling 18, 1995. ... ment requirement'> for to\ic pollution and enforcement of clean air prO\ isions I em ironmcntal challenge.s to timber sales. .3 cleanup of contamin.1tcd sitL~ in e"rnn', pa~• Located in northeast Al.1sla, the 19 million acre 0 rcmo1t: up to 80 percent of \1ctlands from fed• ing polluters ,, ho damage rhe cm ironrnrnt and .\retie \ational \\ ildlifc Refuge is J..ncm n il.'> t eral protewon. Approve Salvage Logging strict Public's Right to Cut Funding for 0 public health. \n t:ffi>rl to I.ill the hrll 11.1, Endangered Species "\merica's Serengeti," due to the unique and Rider defeated in the I louse. Low Toxic Releases unequaled \\ealth of" ildlifc in its cc(l'>Y'>lem,. In 1995, Congrc.,., nnposcd ,1 01w \r,tr morato- 1986 C:ommumt~ Right to 1'.nm1 kt \ 1995 Budget Resolution included menue e Cover Story c o N 11 N u E o The Politicians continued Petr lkf'azio, D(i}, vs.john ewleirk, R lotal PAC Receipts: $12,000 Cut Global \\'arming Research: YES l'\C ~ from Leadina Polluters: NONE E11µ111 • rea P C $ from Leading Pollurers.: NONE. LC\' Rating: 12

DeF zlo Smith /ask a 'fowl l',\C Receipts: 78,900 Jim McDermott, D(t), rs, Frank Klescben, R 'local PAC Receipts: 117,()00 I'\(.$ $ from Leading Polluters: NONE Seattle P C $$$ from Leading Polluters: NONE. Senate Weaken Clean Water ct: NO McDennott Rick White, R(i), t'S.Jeffrey Coopersmith, D Weaken EJ>A: NO Total PAC Receipts: $100,531 Ted Stet'fflS, R(i), rs. Frank fondersaar. D East Seattle pprove Salvage I ,o~ing Rider: NO J> C $$$ from Leading Polluters: 1, J()() Pay Polluters: NO E V E ' Stevens \\'eaken Clean Water ct: NO White 'Iotal PAC Receipts: %5, 148 Cut Global Warming Research: NO 'local PAC Receipt : 39_,365 LC\' Hating: 88 Weaken EPA: NO P C $$ from J .euding Polluters: 53,000 pprove Salvage Logging Rider: NO PAC$$ from I .eading Polluters: 17.575 Approve Salvage Logging Rider: YES Newkirk Pay Polluters: NO Restrict Publicis Right to Know To. ic Weaken Clean Water ct: YES 'lc1tal PAC Receipts: NONE Cut Global Warming Research: NO Releases: YES Weaken EP.\: YES P,\C $$ from Leading Polluters: NONE LC\' Racing: 92 Cut Funding for Endangered Species: YES pprovc Salvage Logging Rider: YES Open retie 'ational Wildlife Refuge to Oil Kleschen Pay Polluters: YES Drilling: YES Bob Smith, R, vs. Michael Dugan, D Total P C Receipt : NONE Cut Global Warming He carch: YES Cm Funding for EPA: YES (open scat) P C $$$ from Leading Polluter : NONE LC\' Rating: 31 J ,C\' R, ring: 4 Eastern and Southern Oregon Coopersmith Vondersaar Jack Metcalf, R(i), rs, Ket•in Quigley, D Smith 'local P.\C Receipts: 15,865 Total l',\C Receipts: NONE Bellingham rea Total P.\C Receipts: NONE PAC from Leading Polluters: NONE P. .\C $ from J ,cading Polluters: NONE P C: from Leading Polluters: NONE Metcalf 'local J>AC Receipts: 184,404 Dugan: Idaho House 'fotal P C Receipts: $51,()00 PAC$ from Leading Polluters: 17.1 lZ P.\(: from Leading Polluters: NONE KvV Weaken Clean \\'acer Act: YES Senate Don Yo11ng, R(t) ts. Georgianna /Jnroln, D Weaken EPA: YES Washington Approve Salvage Logging Rider: YES J,11rry Craig, R(i), t'S. Walt Minnick, D Young J>ay Polluter : YES 'Ibral PAC Receipt: $417,611 Cut Global Warming Resear h: YES Craig P C from Leading Polluters: 30,000 House LCV Rating: 23 'local PAC Re ciprs: $558,940 K s: PAC$$$ from Leading Polluters: $61,000 Weaken lean Water ct: YES om, Dicks, D(i), vs. William Tinsley, R Quigley E VOT : Weaken EPA: YES Tacoma, 01 mpic Peninsula 'focal PAC Receipts: $75,419 pprove Sal age Logging Rider: YES Approve Salvage Logging Rider: YES PAC $$$ from Leading Polluters: NONE Re trice Publici Right to Know Toxic Pay Polluters: YES Dlcka Releases: YES Cut Global Warming Research: YES 'lbtal PAC Receipts: $211, 175 Cut Funding for Endangered Species: YES LCV Hating: 4 George Nelbemut, R(I), l's.Judith Olson, D P C $$$ from Leading Polluters: $15,500 Eastern Washington Open Arctic ational Wildlife Refuge to ( I E VT • Drilling: YES Llncoln Weaken Clean Water Act: NO 'local PAC Receipts: $9,050 Nethercutt Cm Funding for EPA: YES \\'eaken EPA: NO lbtal PAC Receipts: $173,636 LCV Rating: 0 PAC $$$ from Leading Polluters: NONE. pprove Salvage Logging Rider: YES PAC$$$ from Leading Polluters: $16,500 Pa Polluters: NO KEY Vons: Minnick Cuc Global Warming Research: NO Weaken Clean Water Act: YES 'lbtal PAC Receipts: 28 653 Montana I ,CV Rating: 69 Weaken EPA: YES PAC$$$ from Leading Polluters: NONE Approve Salvage Logging Rider: YES Tln8ley Senate Pa Polluters: YES Total PAC Receipts: NONE. Cut Global Warming Research: YES House P \ '$$$ from Leading Polluter·: NONE Max Ba11C11S, D(t), t'S. Dennis Rehberg, R LCV Rating: 12 llelen Chenoweth, R(i), vs. Dan Williams, D Baucus Olson jnmifer Dunn, R(i), vs. Dat•e Utile, D Boive, Northern Idaho 'local P C Receipts: $956,264 local PAC Receipts: 20,000 'orth Seattle P C $$$ from Leading Polluters: 5,()()() PAC$$$ from J .eading Polluters: NONE Chenoweth (" . Dunn 'Iotal I' C Receipts: $198,710 pprovc Salvage Logging Rider: NO 'loul PAC Receipts: .H4.759 PAC$$$ from Leading Polluters: $21,7.S() Linda Smith, R(i), I'S. Brian Baird, D Restrict Publicis Right to Know Toxic l'\C from Leading Polluters: $17,537 Southwest Wavhington Y V ES: Releases: NO T : Weaken Clean Water Act: YES Cut Funding for Endangered Species: NO \\ ken Clean Water cc: YES Weaken EPA: YES Smith Open Arctic . arional \\'ildlife Refuge to Oil :\caken El' : YES 'local Jl C Receipts: 20,348 pprove Salv 1ge Logging Rider: YES Drilling: NO rove Salvage J ,ogging Rider: YES P C $ from Leading Polluters: $4,625 Pay Polluters: YES Cut Funding for EPA: NO P Polluters: YES Cur Global \\'arming Re ·earch: YES E V LC\' Rating: 78 < t GI bul Warming Re curch: YES Weaken Clean Water ct: YES LC\' Racing: O I r: Rating: 12 Weaken EPA: YES Rehberg WHllams pprove Sul\age Logging Hider: YES 'Iotul PAC Receipts: 1.37,218 Uttle Total P C Receipts: 112,268 Pay Polluter : YES l'AC: from Leading Poll uters: 23.000 I,, I PAC Receipts: NONE. PAC from Leading Pollurers: NONE Cut (;Jubal \Vanning Research: YES I' (,$$$from Leading Polluters: NONE LC\' Rating: 12 Mike Crapo, R(i), l's.john Seidl, D House bard "Doc" Hastings, R(i), t'S. Rick Locke, D Baird Eastern Idaho 'local P C Receipts: 56,455 ·ncral Washington Ria Hill, R, rs. Bill Yellou·tail, D PAC$ $ from Leading Polluters: NONE Crapo (open sear) ~ng• 'focal PAC Receipts: $262,766 ,ul PAC Receipt : $140,000 PAC$$$ from Leading Polluters: $16,()( Randy Tate, R(i), t'S. Allam Smtih, D HII C $$$ from Leading Polluters: $17,383 South Seattle KEY VoTEs; 'local PAC Receipts: 27,500 v Weaken Clean Water Act: YES PAC$$ from Leading Polluters: 10,000 Tate Weaken EPA: YES local PAC Receipt : $348,518 pprove alvage Logging Rider: YES Yellowtall L \pprove alvage Logging Rider: YES Pay Polluters: YES (I) PAC$$$ from Leading Polluters: $30,745 Total PAC Receipts: $12,797 ..0 Pav Polluters: YES YES KEY VOTES: Cut Global Warming Research: P C $$$ from Leading Polluters: NONE . 0 Ct;t Global Warming Re carch: YES tl Weaken Clean Water Act: YES LCV Rating: 0 LCV Rating: 0 0 Weaken EPA: YES Seidl Approve Salvage Logging Rider: YES Locke Total PAC Receipts: $5,450 Pay Polluters: YES The Polluters continu d How Green is Your

Sleveos, Alaska Major cascadia lluters Reporting Company? Democ:r8 Beucus, MoAlall& No Contrfbu1i ( or no data) ~ RallRg:9 The Environmental Rating of Polluters. The lowest possible 23.ARCO James ltiver Products scores go to the companies supported politicians with the worst ~Products ..... ,... environmental ratings from the League of Con ervation Voters: Blaine, Wish. (l)~W.. ll::11111eatu.._.._ l!llllrloas: no.- 1. Tosco Mr: 8allldcAdd,.... (1,) ...... 0... 62 I*' fACCt•l4Ciollf:lt7,1 Hk ... 2. Boeing Airplane Co. 32 l!IIC~-c---.. ~-- 3. 3M Corp. 30 .. ttc. BfaJer, ,._, llgs, Clllbnia; G. Sndllti 4. Allied- ignal 17 Of.-, 0.. Idell. Mertul. Tate, 5. ASARCO Corp. 15 cnpo, Jdlho; Reldlelft _.I_; Chr••• 6. Chevron 15 --. ... 7. Amoco ....n.qu: 11one 15 Eavlr,• ltll llllllg:6 8. Plum Creek Mfg. Limited Partnership 15 Co. 9. Simpson Timber Co. 14 24. JJL 8i11p1ot Co...... 10. Georgia-Pacific Corp . 14 l'ood PNlmlDg ...... 11. Boi 'e Cascade Corp. 14 Qddwel. ... IIIIIMloll:901,106~. 12. Weyerhaeuser Co. 13 1!m1ssi1-= 207,813 lbs. - ...... llydrodtlork Land: ...... 13. Lamb-Weston 9 Tolal PACO.llllloas. $8,000 .... & Talbot 14. Exxon Corp . 8 Politktl a...... Ill fMaldll: $8,000 15. Texaco 8 Repubb1t Silli6, Oregoo; Olalowedl, Cnilf, 11111111 16. Shell Oil 7 Demoalll: ~749.ZSOb. 17. ARCO 6 Bml,CWIIIII llilaF & =-Air: Mellllaal, Chlorobm. C1llortae 18. Unocal 5 'Nlr:Millllllllal 25~ Allied-signal: 19. Du Pont 4 Phoenix. Ariz. 1\tleclylle Wall 20. Louisiana-Pacific 3 Maric:turlag ..... 21. Potlatch Corp. 3 TOIII BiJlblloRs: 182,240 ~(ft, 22. Kerr-McGee 2 Air: 1,1, I 'l'ridllenledll l!llllllioll: 3.600 23. malgamated Sugar 1 Tolal PAC Coldludons: J "11.0:U Nr. Methyl llobutyl • ~ Add 24. Mapco laska Petroleum 1 PolldCII Cmlllllaliolll ill Caodil; $10.500 ...... RepublianE UerBer, Califomla; Smidt, Oregoa; Nedleral. 25. Stone Container Corp 0 Tale, Whllr • WahiDgton; Craig. ldlho: Slevens, Aluka Cenex Refinery 26. J.R. Simplot Co. 0 Democnlls: Dlcb, 'l'albingloo. .. k ft llaclncls Fnvlronllnlll IIIIDp; 17 ..... Mont lllailllons: 326. 510 lbs 26. Texaco Nil: Xyleue, Toluene Pdroleum Products How Green is Your i.nacones. Woedgnin Mllhvork Inc. l'Jnissions· t 61.140 k Wood Prodllds Air: Buladeoc. ~ ~..., Candidate? To121 Polkiall l~ $l8i,O.i5 lilllslimll; J69,000 .. Political Conlrlhullons In Ca:icadia: t • -.r;o Air: MedlyJ l!dlel .K.elonr Republic2ns: fkrl!er, Pombo, Rlf',R.'I. califomia; 8-, Smilb. The following candidates in Cascadia have taken PAC money Oregoa; Mdcllf, ~ Dunn, Tatt•. V.11111.•, Watb1a81oa; from polluters, based on records on file with the Federal ,000 8. White R-WA $17575.00 Republican,<.~ Smith, ()nopi I~. kllho; Y09III, HollySupr 9. Dunn R-WA $17,537.00 Alaska: Rehberg. MOIIIIIII Sidoe). Mont l!nvlroomenlll Raling: I J!millllom: .I0:\500 10. Hastings R-W $17,383.00 ,\lr:Almlol* 11. Iercalf R-WA $17,122.00 c-, 12. Nethercutt R-WA $16,500.00 :a,, CIID 13. Crapo R-ID $16,000.00 n a, 14. Dicks D-W $15,500.00 = 15. Bunn R-OR $12,750.00 ;:: 16. Riggs R-C $10,850.00 ...... 17. Hill R-MT $10,000.00 i CIID 18. Berger R-CA $8,750.00 "' 0 19. Pombo R-CA $6,500.00 Q 0 20. Baucus D- 1T $5 000.00 CT 21. L. Smith R-WA $4,625.00 ...,(1)

22. Fazio D-CA $3,500.00

by Kathie Durbin

hat to do when politician hostile er' an effort to reduce litter and promote re ently reached an out-of-court ettlemcnt 1,, environmental causes control re ycling. \\ell-financed beverage whole• that requires Pegasus to pend up co $32 W ( :ongress and state legi ·latures salers and the grocery industry have fought million for better waste treatment at two throughout the West? imilar attempts in 39 rates, killing them in huge Montana mines, with a goal of elimi• Throughout Cascadia this year, citizens all but nine. Thi year they arc e peered to nating all toxic discharges. fru 'traced wuh the performance of govern• 'pend as much as $3.5 million to defeat Some moderate Republicans have ment envrronrncntal agencie · and elected Measure 37, an attempt by the Oregon State joined Democrats in backing the water qual• officials arc 11,ing the initiative proce to Publi Interest Research Group to broaden ity initiative as a vote of prote t against the n \Va hingron stare, a group call d People gain control of the agenda: To incrca e river Oregon' bill by requiring deposits on. ingle• 1995 Montana Legislature, which raised the I for Puget Sound is circulating a measure protection in Oregon and Iontana, ban the scrving containers of beverage that didn't state allowable level of arsenic in water th.it addre ev concerns about o shore oil importing of low-level radioactive waste into c ist in 1971: napple, iced tea drinks, 1.000-fold and weakened standards for other ,11lls and protection of salmon habitat. Thi Idaho, redu e the risk of oil spill· off the Gatorade, wine coolers, 0 spirg expects to carcinogens in State waters well. State m -asure won't appear on the. ·member bal• Washingt<,n Coast, e panel Oregon' land• spend only about $100,000, but the measure environmental otlicials point out that the l it; instead, if backers gather the required mark bonl hill, and ban conrroversial hunt• al o enjoy the support of Gov. Kitzhaber, new arsenic standard is still more restrictive number of si natures, they'll prevent it to ing practice in Alaska, Montana and else• Oregon Senate President and .S. Senate than the federal drinking-water tandard, th 1997 Washington Legislature. whi h will where. candidate Gordon Smith, and other politi• but the l1.S. Environmental Prote tion ha luve the option to pass it as written r ub• cian . Late September polls showed voter argued against weakening water quality mit it to voter' in :\<>Vember 1997. favoring the mca ure by a deci ive 4-to-l tandards intended to prevent pollution at The compli aced measure would allow ratio. the source. Advocates also predict the initia• c unties to provide t incentive to proper• tive will be a boon to Montana's growing fly• l' owner who take teps to protect almon fishing and wilderness recreation economy. h ibitar, with local onservation di rri ts et• One of the most significant initiative tmg the criteria. Michael Sato of People for appearing on any state ballot is a 1ontana Puget Sound m ke no claim that the rnea- measure that would forbid corporations from u c by itself" ill bring back dwindling contributing directly to ballot measure cam• lmon run , but he says giving private prop• paigns. The mining, livestock, utility and . owner an in enrive to prote t riparian beverage industries have funneled million as along salm n streams can he part of an of dollars into sophisticated campaigns to , ·rail salmon re toration plan. regon voters will wade through 23 bal• defeat popular environmental initiatives in The measure also would keep oil pill O lot measure on ov. 5, of which 17 n Montana, backers of the Clean Water recent years. In 1994, ewmont Mining Co. vention with the Office of ~I rine Safety, were put on the ballot by interest groups Iand Public Health Protection Act want to pent $3.8 million to defeat an Oregon ted after the E on Valdez oil pill as and individual . One of the most con• impose the nation's toughest restriction on chemical mining initiative that would have t of the Wa hington Oil pill Prevention tentious i Measure 38, the Clean cream owners of new or expanding hard-rock forced the Denver mining giant to meet ·t of 1990, rather than fold it into the Initiative, which would require ranchers and mines by requiring them to meet state strict new standards in developing an open• epartment of E ology as some have pro• dairy farmers to fence their cows out of water-quality standards. The measure, 1-122, pit gold mine in Eastern Oregon. ewmont I ed. It would full fund oil ill cleanup streams polluted by livestock grazing. (See would amend the state's Metal Mine bankrolled a successful media-savvy cam• ·cs through a mode sr incre in ii ship• ...... Reclamation Act to mandate that mining nt taxes and would pn hibu c ploratory paign that deliberately sidestepped debate !! Field ore, Page 3.) The measure is an ... attempt , hold the livestock industry companies remove metals, cancer-causing on the real issues involving cyanide heap• drilling within 1 mil he c responsible for the sorry condition of many chemicals and other toxic substances from leach mining, while the backers raised just \'· ihingron coast. ii c streams m cattle and dairy country. Ranchers wastewater before they discharge them into $120,000 in cash and in-kind contributions Sato calls the camp i n longterm c:i forced linton administration to aban- streams or groundwater. and failed to get their message heard. ~ fort to educate the puhh well as push u don seri range reform efforts on federal Montana's powerful mining industry (Newmont later pulled out of the project Legislature to live up to I tewardship lands in J 3 and killed a proposed claims that meeting the requirement would anyway.) Given the vast financial resources esponsibilities for the cc· fragile coastal Agricul I Practices Act in the 1993 be impractical at best, impossible at worst. corporations can bring to bear in such cam• eas. That steward hip h nguished since Oregon Legislature. But an editorial in the August 11 Mis oulian paigns, some citizen activists say measures late 1980s, when the 111 ependent Puget Expansion of the Oregon Bottle Bill is a debunked that claim, pointing out that like the one proposed in Montana may be • und Water Qualir, u h nrv set an arnbi• popular cause with Oregon voters. In 1971, Pegasus Gold Co., state and federal environ• the only way to level the playing field. >us agenda to clean u he und by Oregon became the first state in the nation mental protection agencies and the Fort ucing pollution r m II ,urces in the e to require deposits on beer and pop contain- Belknap, Montana, Community Council xmd's vast ware hed, \\1th e House in Republican control, the 1995 Legislature unsuccessfully to kill th· mca urc on consti• did away with the authority, pushed deregu• tutional grounds befoi • the Idaho Supreme lation and made steep reductions in the Court last ugusr. B111 the court said, in CascadiaCalendar budgets of environmental and natural essen e, that uch a challenge could nor be resource agencies. La t June, the filed until after the cl · ·rion. Wa hingron Department of Ecology issued a wakeup call when it released a new list of 666 water bodies that failed to meet federal water quality standard '. The initiative call Workshop for returning to a citizen-governed authority to over ee the cleanup of Puget Sound and al o c tends the opportunity for a large The Institute for Conservation Leadership will hold a work• watershed-planning approach ro the cleanup shop, "Building an Effective Board/ taff Team," Dec. 6 and 7 of Washington's other major coastal e tuar• at the Sleeping Lady onference enter, Leavenworth, ie , Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay. Idaho, along with laska, Washington Wash. The workshop will focus on strengthening board skills and Oregon, ar among seven states where and partnerships with staff. For more information, contact the voter will decide c n measures regulating ICL at (301) 270-2900. hunting practices, n laska initiative would ban the u of airplanes in wolf hunt• ing. Shooring wolves from planes was out• f n e r-v q H e a r i n vs lawed in Ala ka after former Gov. Wally ·~· .·~ Hickel propo ed 10 1993 to boost caribou ~·il The Northwest can look forward to sweeping changes in its ..< . . . and moo e herd, h r educing wolf popula• . .;, . . tion through a n.11 shooting. When the pro• electric power system. Hearings on proposed changes are be . .. ' . . •.. - . . '-'; po al sparked publi · outrage and a boycott held throughout the region. The schedule includes: Oct. 22, of Alaska rouri rn, I Ii .k ·I quickly retreated. Wenatchee, Red Lion Inn, 1225 N. Wenatchee Ave.; Oct. 23, ·---~·-• J -- , . Thi year's measure /!;<>es further, forbidding Portland, State Office Building, 800 N.E. Oregon St.; Nov. 6, :1,.; hunter to track wol s from planes, then Missoula, Village Red Lion, 100 Madison; Nov. 12, Seattle, --~ land and kill th m on the ground. In Idaho, Seattle Center Olympic Room, 305 Harri on St.; Nov. 13, voter will con id r a measure banning the Spokane, Red Lion Inn, 322 N. Spokane Falls Court. For u e of hound and poisoned bait in bear more information, call the Northwest Power Planning Council hun and the uncing of bears by any (503) 222-5161. n Idaho, a group called Stop the mean· in the rma, when cubs are unable Ih ipments i backing a measure that tO survive on their own. would nullif · Gov. Phil Bart's high! contro• An Oregon nuriuiive would repeal a ver iJI de i ion last year to approve deliver• 1994 ban on be r-1 ;titing and the hunting of Conference ie of nu !ear waste to the Idaho National bear and cou af\ with hound . Backer of Engineering Laborarory for 40 years. The repeal ay they w nt ro return wildlife man• The annual Oregon Coa t onference will be Nov. 2 and 3 at laboratory, the ire of nuclear energy e rperi• agement to prate \ion.tis in the Oregon the Hotel Newport, at the north end of Newport by the men in the 1950s, ha become a major Department off- t h und Wildlife, which beach. Topics include threatened clo ure of state parks, land storag and reproce ing ite f r pent oppo ed the ban. In ·r .used sightings of use, growth boundaries and beach access. Fore more informa• nu lear fuel from the U.S. av) and the cougars in urban areas, including one young tion, contact the Oregon Shores lonservarion oalition, P.O. Department f Energy. Bur backers point male shot dead after wandering into a ub• Box 1344, Depoe Bay, Ore., 97341. our that the ite is hardly ideal. lying as it urban hoolyard in . ' .prernber, could boo ·r doe on cop of the Snake River aquifer in an the measure' chanc ·~. Washington mea- earthquake zone. The measure would sure would im e I h in on bear baiting require all future agreements on hipment and the hound hunnn , of black bear , Deports of nu lear wi re to be approved by the ougars and bol ar-, Idah L gi larure and by popular vote - an The Independent Science ommittee, formed to re iew sci• unlik I) occurrence. A coalition of federal entific and technical information on Columbia River salmon contra tor ,, ho stood to gain from in reused survival, ha issued a report calling for a return to a more nor- shipment o nu ·!ear waste into Idaho tried mal Columbia River. For ::I""'""' ~n11 ~1- "'• • "" - -~t' t» "'ail Lile rvorthwest Power r'tanning Council, (503) 222-5161. Public Comment n a, M n The U.S. Department of Energy is asking for public com• a, :! ment on its draft Nonproliferation and Arms Control a, Gregory Kafou r A sessment, which deals with the storage and disposition of -4 i plutonium. Hearing are Oct. 28, Idaho Falls, Department of l"l"I Attorney M Energy perations, 785 DOE Place; Oct 28, Oakland, Calif., Personal Injury Roybal Auditorium, 1301 Clay St.; Oct 30, Richland, Federal Building, 825 Jadwin; Oct. 30, Portland BPA 905 E 11th. For more information call, (800) 835-8009. 2 SW Stark Porcl nd, OR 503)224-2647 • Publicize your euent in {asCddia Times. Send information to Cascadia Calendar 25-6 Hill 23rd Place 1406 Portland OR Q7210. Deadline for submissions is the 10th of each month. Point ofl'm------~----- Alaska Fisheries Pacific Salmon Treaty are Sustainable has Become

by Fran L 'lmer; Lieutenan: Gooemor; 1/aska stocks. In the management of our fi herie , wild tocks have a tarurnrily mandated pri• "Impotent" Alaska is larger than the three largest ority over hatchery tocks. states in the lower 48 combined, We're Al ka continue to ban fish farming one-fifth the izc of the contiguou United even through there has been rrernendou · by th Glen Clark, Premier; British Columbia ,1 hi -ve what we all desire - the sustainable tates - about 586,412 quare miles with economic and polici al pre sure to allow it. nurugernenr of our Pacifi ulrnon runs. more than 3,000 rivers, 3 million lake , and While other countries have focused their A recent public opinion poll in B.C. This treaty i driven h the reality that 33,904 miles of shoreline. laska ha nearly efforts on producing farmed fish, usually at found that 68 percent of all those inter• t , ,I igy docs not recognize poliri al borders, 15,000 water bodies that contain anadro• the expense of natural runs, Alaska ontin• viewed expected pre ervation and enhance• ,Jlmun migrate in and out of our two coun• mous fish. ue to concentrate it energy and its ment of our salmon to be a cop priority for tr • ·. Their urviv al depend on our coun• We are keenly aware of how unique re ources in the on ervarion of our wild m government. tr "ability co en ure that salmon can be Alaska is. Our large land base, diverse geo• stocks. It may be for that reason that only a few l 11 -rved. and that each nation catche no graphic regions, mall human population primary reason that laska decided days ago one of ur major daily newspapers Ill m: than a h produce . The e were the and largely pristine condition makes us dif• to forego almon farming was the risk to shouldered aside new of world and provin• t, 1 key principle- underlying the treaty• ferent. We are a young state, and have the wild . tocks posed by the introduction of cial events co put a almon story on the top c n: ervati n and equity. advantage of learning from the experience exoti or di ·ea ed fish. Even o, this year of its front page. They were reporting what While conservation is the primary ~IYJI, of others. We do not take for granted our hundreds of Atlantic salmon have shown they called the mira le of the Upper Adam , 1t i-, "equity" - the right of each country co abundant natural re. our es and although up in Alaska's fisheries, apparently where tens of thou ands of salmon returning , urc hcnefi equivalent to its production we have a su cc sful track record since e capees from Wa..~hington and British to the spawning grounds hold the prospect that secures a government's commit- statehood in conserving and protecting Columbia almon farm . We still don't of reviving this magnifi ent run almost 90 m -nts co invest, a, we must do, in fi herie important almon habitat, we also recognize know the ecological implication of this but year after its near-extinction. h ,hitat and management. It' a simple mat• the need to ontinue and improve our vigi• our cientists are concerned. Bue I don't have to tell you the pper t ·r of fairne . lance. Even with healthy cock , Ala kan Adams return is no miracle. It is the result of Equity impl · mean that you can't One hundred twenty years of fi hing fi hermen face market problem . Alaska the generations of hard work by dedicated .,n·h more than ou produce. It should also hi tory ha produced a complex mosaic of wild salmon must compete with farmed fisheries biologist . It's the result of many Ix· en as the recurn on investment - commercial fi heries in Alaska. Ala ka has salmon that is glutting the global market• cycles of con ervation by our fishing fleets. turning almon that c n upport job , 184 eparate and di tin t commercial fish• place and driving prices down. The public's And it is also - and I want to underline -reation and cultural \ lues in both coun• eries spread over twice the coa tline of the perception of salmon does not distingui h this point - the result of generations of rrie . Lower 48, and that' not even including the between farmed salmon from South careful management of Fraser (River) In my view; th tr c is being CU), many sport, ub i stence and personal u e America, Canada or Washington and salmon runs under the umbrella of salmon ,1,i le b tho e who would put self-interest fisheries. Alaska's wild almon. treaties that acknowledged the absolute uh xrd of aim n conserv rion. We are just The public perception that all ·almon In the 37 years ince statehood, Alaska nee icy of international cooperation to pro• fluhhing our f urch t'( nsecutive salmon sea• has deliberately implemented it ustained are endangered is also a point of frustration tect our fisheries resources. ,(1n without poliri ::ii commitment to make it yield model in it· fi sheries. During years of to us. While there are salmon stocks in och• That kind of cooperation is obvious rk. The law has hccn broken and the fish lower return . harve t have been re tri t• er places that are endangered, Ala ka's today as government leaders, fisheries ,II • paying for it. \\'e fi hing plam that ed. The e investments in escapement salmon runs overall are extremely health experts and average citizens gather to work mt rcept Canadian tock, at levels that re during periods of poor environmental con• and bountiful. We are working diligently to out joint strategic to protect our salmon. , ·II beyond the "fair sh ring" and on rva• dition provide the basis for the healthy educate the public about Alaska almon - Salmon and how we con erve it has emerged t11>11 need . almon production and a u tainable indus• chat it's not an endangered species. But as one of the most critical environmental, In 1985, when ch Pacific Salmon try. the e mi conceptions pop up in surprising economic and cultural challenges fa ·ing us. 1 rt'Jty, a, signed, 1t looked like a new era As a result of our ongoing commit• places. n example: From as far ' uth a San Francisco co , f PJ1(1fQlOLI~, The couldn 't under- a far-removed federal government. un u1 runs is virtually non-e istent today. The ti · Jcrificc,. "hilc other/!, i,ernments allov • -- ... oorl g commitment to con. ervation ti 'tr indu tri ton ntinu to fish as they the driving forces behind laskan state• stand how Weekly Reader could portray !)a1111v11 ...... _ hood was the desire to gain state control the strong Alaska stocks as endangered. '" h I can tell }Oii that :t B.C.'s premier, I and co-operation. What we ee coda. at me - .... ·- .1,,., ~ee our over management of la ka's salmon fish• international level i confrontation and its , nnot a<..'tept C:ltC 01 Jll,111> w,-, - eries. Written into the Alaska Constitution (Th abot'I' comments are excerptsfr om a inevitable consequence: the threatened 111 lu m hue dcmn ,,h,lc others harvest our is the requirement for ustained ield man• speed: at the SustainableFis heriesC o11fm11re, destru tion of vital salmon resources. kt thJt t e eel) '\\ hJt i happening agement of laska's renewable resources. Seattle, Sept. 14). What I want to urge us to undertake a.< kJn mccm:puon fahery. In our \\'e have almost 40 years of legislation, coda is a new commitment co make the \l.1. kJ' 111ten.:cpt1on ,, ill not only cue regulation and management e perience (I .S-Canada) Pacific Salmon Treaty work co 'm 1da\ u · C) cnutlement but into the that enforce this constitutional mandate. d d for rnn_\Cn Jll n as well. c i5 Alaska made a onscious choice to \\ l1Jt R.C. 1 a km, for i5 a Pacific c u forego economic benefits from hydropower , 111 1rcJC)' th t "orl. for all of u . 00 development where it would damage our c nc hould be J, Ill/!, the \.line thing u salmon resources for future generations of rr l'C\pct:U\c •o,emment',.. We need to

] into or out of anadromou creams. f1nt almr.Je {Oll/f!lt'11/S arr rxce,ptsf roma g Alaska manage and sites its hatcheries i t1/ the S11stai11t1bk Fiwri Co11ferenct, O to minimize genetic interference with wild ILLUSTRATION BY )AKE 8oRTNCK ,Sept.14). Expand Bottle Vancouver W Bill J:rBear· Baiting Did you know? "Io the editor: Most Cougar • Starting in the 1940s, the To the editor: I'm writing to encourage every Hanford nuclear site in south• Oregonian to vote es on Measure 37 to "Incidents" We are sportsrn n who have pent east Wa·shington has produced e pand the bottle bill. We all know the bottle bill works, yet every year 100 mil• countle hours in the woods of Oregon, most of the nation's plutonium hunting and fishing in u lawful and respon• lion ingle serving containers litter our Unconfirmed used in U.S. nuclear weapons, sible manner. We rrongl oppose Measure rate and fill up the landfills. I n't that the and is the largest nuclear waste 34, which would O\ errurn the 1994 deci- very rea on we have a bottle bill in the dump in the country.Today ion of Oregon voters to b.rn bear baiting first place? 'Io the editor: and the high-tech hound hunting of black Hanford harbors177 underground Opponents of Ieasure 37 seem to bear and cougars. \\'e urg · all respon ible tanks storing 56 million gallons want the people to think that they would The Predator Defense Institute sportsmen to oppo e Measure 34 because cover more containers had they written the recently released a comprehen ive inve - of radioactive, hazardousand it i a deceptive attempt ro legalize these measure bur the fact is that these are the tigative report on the cougar controversy in mixed toxic chemical wastes. two un porting and unfair hunting meth• same people who tried to repeal our e i t• Oregon. Here are its major findings; ods - pracri e that grv · hunting a bad ing bottle bill in the Legislature la t year. - lore than 95 per ent of all cougar name and diminish public a xeptance of A confused voter generally vote "incidents" recorded by the Oregon • More than 67 tanks are known thi pa time. 'no," so how ironic it i that the oppo i• Department of Fish and Wildlife from or suspected leakers, having We have hunt d phca ant, deer, elk, tion's flagship argument is that the rnea- January 1994 to May 1996 were uncon• leaked more than 1 million gal• duck and bear during our cars in the ure is confu ing. The imple fact i · that firmed. The majority of the reports were woods and we would v i orou ly defend lons of high level nuclear waste thi easy reading ballot measure will based on nothing more than phone calls to our right to take gam regulated to the soil. tanks contain increase re · ling and keep Oregon beau• d111ing di 'trier offices of the ODFW. The hunts. Hunting i a um .-honored tradi• tiful. Ju task Gov. Kitzhaber, Gordon - Of the 832 cougar incidents report• 208 million curies of radioactive tion, and it serves not onl a legitimate rnith, the League of Women Voters, or ed to the ODFW, 644 were recorded as material. Most of the standing porting function, hut prm ides food for even l\.l~. Tom l\.k all. sightings, and 188 as damage complaints, liquids have been transferred out the table. But ther r · rul that hunter· but onl 3 percent of the ightings and mu t obsen e - rule rh.u not only protect of leaking tanks. However, solids Paul Becker only 10 percent of the damage complaints wildlife, but protect th· spirit and integrity Portland Ore. were confirmed. These percentage repre• and sludges remain., of the hunt sent only 21 confirmed ightings and 19 true hunter h~ n ·~ fair-chase confi.rmed damage problems statewide in • Contaminants identified in the rules and eats the garn th rt he or she well over two years! kills. It is an obvious \ iol uion of fair chase - There ha never been a docu• groundwater beneath Hanlord's More History to fit dogs with radio-rransrnirring equip• mented attack by a cougar on a per on in tank farms include arsenic, ment, to unleash the do 'N for the purpose Oregon hi tory. chromium, cyanide, carbon tetra• of ha ing them cha .111t1 trap a bear or The POI report invalidates the tro• chloride, co~alt-60, strontium- Lessons ougar, to home in on th radio signal phy hunter's claim that cougar incidents 90, technetium-99, iodine-129, emitted from the d ~,· ollurs with a hand• are rampant. It also demonstrates that a held dire tional anc nn. , und to hoot the cesium-137,tritium, and plutoni• To the editor. trophy hunting sea on doe nothing to trapped animal at cl • r.mgc. Even the reduce the remote risk of an encounter um-239, and -240. Boone and rocke t Club, which main• between people and cougars. Kathie Ourbin's "History Le on" in tain the official I c trophy record for the ' prember 1996 i ue regarding the E isting law already allows private all big game peci taken in lawful hunts, • In 1994, groundwater monitoring federal g \ ernrnenr' heroic effort to save landowners and state and federal damage di allow the · u e o ·I .tronic devices for control agents to eliminate indi idual nui• detected concentrations of the sockeve ~ n pool mis ed the point. attracting, locarin , r oh, rving game, or M . Durbin ail d to note that the state sance cougars. It simply bars trophy chromium, tritium, nitrate, for guiding the hut l r 111 such game." and fed r. ry agencie also played a hunter from hams ing and killing cougars 1 h • imilarlv, the r tr of bear baiting trichloroethylene, cobalt-60, major r le in the de rruction of the ock• in the wilderness with the aid of packs of contradicts J~ mm m , .nse definition strontium-90, and uranium that eye run. A rer 'unheam Dam had been radio- ollared hounds. Voters should of fair cha . Then 11111 sport in setting were above the existingor pro• removed, ch agencies in the earl 1960s oppose 1easure 34 and prevent cruel and out ro ring foods i rh "nods to lure a constru red dult barrier dam at th out• unsportsmanlike means of cougar hunting. posed EPA drinking water stan• bear and then to sl •11 ch animal while he dards. Contaminants have lets to sockeve I ke and ubsequently or she is feeding.\ c ·rfo\\l hunter, deer poison d tho e lake to eliminate any Brooks Fahy hunters, nd other h rn1 ·, are not allowed Rowed into groundwater and the rernarnin ockeye. (These a tions were Executive Director, to bait and hoot I!. , 1 ·; 11' cheating and Predator Defense Institute, Columbia River. intended to m k the lake· usable for it' not the \\J} of ·I ,portsman. There i Eugene OR plannn m ut f r quality sport fi hing.) C") no logical reason n a :a,, H1 t f\ .1 demon rrate that the for the baiung of be • Nearly 60 percent of the OI tare and ed ral fi hery agencie failed to n cl • ran e ot It 11 ougar trapped Columbia River's entire native :a,, provid r ne single measure for sockeye 11:1 in a tree or J bear h ht head in a barrel wild stock of fall chinook ;: a part I th tr compensation plan for the i not hunting. It i h 1 , of the slob Lower na e River mainstern dams. salmon spawn in the Hanford .... hunter. no the ,pc r 111111 i (Sock ve wer not considered a spore fish; Reach, a Sl-mlle stretch of the "'OI ther on . n programs were ti .veloped.) Jim Rogers Columbia River through the The are the dams that are most often I ore Orford, Ore. Hanford site. (Source: blame r th destruction of the , nake Department of Energy 8/96) River lrru n runs, including ocke ·e. The Ste e Alf cornpe ti n plan was developed to miti- ( regon City, Ore. re or the losses. Thi Ii herv a en :y u mpen non plan wa pproved or fcder• I undin m 1976. Douala \\'. 1 ompier e Arts & [ijl((!ii·:1J------· B O O K R E U E W Alan Durning Finds His Place Back

BJ Prttti(k .lfllzza farms' drasticall de reasing chemical mundane particulars of a locale co which n ighborhoodv before national capitals. use, and builders repla ing virgin timber I had a bond ... that superseded ... cos• That secs up a counrerposing ques• lirck over three years ago, Alan with recycled materials. He highlight mopolitan rationality." tion: ls it enough to seek ustainabiliry Thein Durning was a twen• metropolitan efforts to move from auto• Making that leap was no eas mat• in one biorcgion?. Arysomething on the fast track to dep ndency co compact urban form - ter. "Coming home, l was racked with Durning derails the lorthv est' the height'> of environmental policies. Vancouver's European-style We c End doubts about, hethcr my decision re ource rushe , otter, beaver, salmon, Worldwatch In rtitute senior researcher, and Portland's 50-year growth manage• made me a deserter; now l believe the ancient fore-ts. Each ru h he had rubbed elbows with senator', ment plan. He document the potential decision was the mo ·t radical I have . lorthwesterners managed co gobble all spoken at the White I louse and pub• of watershed councils co generate new ever made. fter all, radical comes from bur a mall fra cion of nature's legac . lished a well-regarded book critiquing worldview · in communities di ided by the Latin word for "roor."' onethclcss, a portion remain . With consumer -ociery But in the Philippines environmental di rputcs. Durning' move resonates with a the. 'orch,\e'>t economy mo, in_i.,; from a researching indigenous livelihoods, he 8 leaving the national center, way of thinking he i · not shy to identif raw resources to a human ingenuity writes, a tribal prie: te s put a metaphor• Durning has located himself in a ke. - bioregionalism. Biorcgionalists point ha .. c, I urning maintains, "people have ical "seed in 111} shoe" when she asked, planetary proving ground. He is here to place as environmentalism's missing stopped rhemsclv c · ~ hilt: eco ) stern "What i, our homeland like?" partly to rest a thesis: 'The Pacific element. They call upon humans to still had a chance." Thinking of the traffic- and crime• Yer that ingenuity c ·onom~ i'> ridden Wa,hingcon, D .•. neighborhoods spurring the region's last great re ourcc back home, "I wus mute a'> stone." boom, n m ni · rush to "qu.iliry of life." ftcr a vilcn ·e he responded, "In This P/are on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence, From m rrupolitan to rural ureas, tech• America, \\ e have careers, not places." nolog), recreation and retirement arc That pesk seed sprouted into a by Alan Thein Durning, Sasquatch Book , Seattle, 1996, dm ing J d ·, clopment boom. It threat• full-blown desire co return co hi'> native 326 pages hardbound, $22.95 em co de, our ch' region's qualirv of life place, Seattle. Coming home in 1993, a'> thoroughh a timber companies Durning founded a rnini-Worldwatch for clearcut the ancient forest. the region called Northwest "It rniahr b • the most difficult Environment Watch. The blossoming qu .stion. nor just politicallv, but inccl- of that homecoming expcrien c i., Northwest i the greenest part of the commit thernselvc · to "re-inhabit" eco• 1 'l't11all~. ·· I )urning a .know lcdgcv, described in Durning' new book, "This richest society in history. If logically-defined bioregions. "B Tau c 111 ofar as the , 'orch,\e ·t doc Place on lvarrh: Home and the Practice , orthwesterners cannot build an eco• \: hen he set up orthwcst I .tter rh:111 other places, then the per• of Permanence." logically ound way of life, it probably Environment Wat ·h, Durning e en con• t" ·i, cd .. upcnor quality of life draw· "Thi'> Place on Earth" is really two cannot be done. If : orthwcstcrncrs can, sidering adopting the name "Cascadia," mor · folk, from e, eryw here cl ... c." books juxtaposed. One is Durning's they will sec an e ample for the world." favored hy bioregionalisrs. He opted for Whil • the new boom underscores very personal story of re-rooting in his hough Durning has a rationale f r orthwest because, ''I Iii e co reclaim the need for compact development, native ... oil - working his wa through his move, his choice still transcends hi· terms char are already in common use. Durning addv, it also indicates n > one self-doubts about abandoning a national finely honed intellect - It proceeds Bue in the end, I'm not going to put up region can go home alone, "The long• career track, taking his family out co from feeling as much as anything. a fight." term answ er i, only that ocher places rediscover J salmon stream of his youth, "In my progress in relative career A viral strain in the bior ·gional wa ha, e co bernmc worth staying in.'' building community in the neighbor• success us a global advocate for the is the acknowledgment of the impor• Durning does make a good case for hood with a basketball hoop. long-term future, I felt the longer I did tance of an emotional, even spiritual, impl ·n cncation of t.:cologi ·al taxes at a The other book is a serie of it the more I was becoming part of the connection with the land. "This Pia e 1 ~It nal ale fir. t. lf ''taxe on bad " Worldwarch-i h reports on progress problem ... wherever the solution was on Earth" reveal Durning the biore• r I l.1 p.t~roll ta c , it would reduce coward sustainability in the orthwest, going to come from, it wasn't 'up there,' gionalist seeking that soulful root in I.ii ,r rn t and give regional businesses Durning details numerous practical up the power hierarchy," Durning says. place even as Durning the cco-polic, tl lllmpctitivc advantage, he argue·. For e arnples of ideas long ad ocated by "If we're going co pull through it's going wonk spins out ideas for regional u - ·qmt\, [ urning would target tax cues Worldwatch growing on Iorthwest to be becau ·e people lo e their .ornrnu• tainability, fir r t pct pie below the median ground. And a rich turf it is. nities and love their homes and love That techni al crack relies heavily in1m I ,c:1. " o part of the industrial world has their places." on proposals to shift tax and pricing sys• 'Th, PI.ice on Earth" cover. coo as large a share of its ecosystems intact," That Philippine priestess, he tems to encourage more efficient use of cur tn be comprehen-;i\'e. he write . "And no ocher place on the writes, "appalled me with the realiza• rcsour es and sharp reduction in pollu• - u ha, clcccoral politic,; and ·ontinent matches it depth and tion that I wa - for all m good inten• tion. That plus population .ontrol re not covered. Public breadth of sustainability initiatives ... " tion - a global vagabond ... The only through a large increase in family plan• r • onl glanced over. What Durning ha· turned up " mare way out was to ... to install myself in the ning efforts forms the centerpiece of r, i an outline for chang- Durning's proposals - ery much the in r e 1101111 • and a ·cnse of how com- Worldwatch program brought co regional mitment to rla could be the driving Kathleen Dean Moore is a stunning new voice among scale. Bue doc· such an agenda, sen ible ·n ·rgy for th t hange. +' the literary naturalists. Her writing, like that of Annie as it might be, have the animating pow• D11rnm~ .it.:knowledgc'>, for all Dillard or Edward Hoagland. shows us a vast. complex. er to pur fundamental change? th· region i ... d,nng right, " ... thing'> are partly hidden and startling world that has always been "I don't know," Durning honestly nil going the ~ re ng way ... Thcrc i~ a right before our eyes. Bill McKibben says "Riverwalking 00..... acknowledges. "We're all kind of '·'" ning cha in between what i'> polici• :IE is more than a fine book of essays. 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