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Pesticides Foul Wildlife Refuges in Klamath Basin by Kathie Durbin Colii:Fflffl------A Gl' T 1996 VOL 2 No Lower Klamath Tule Lake Lake Pesticides Foul Wildlife Refuges in Klamath Basin By Kathie Durbin Colii:fflffl--------------------------- A Gl' T 1996 VOL 2 No. 4 Dear Reader or years, as The Oregonian's envi• ronment beat writer, Kathie F Durbin knew there was a story to be told about the Klamath Basin. Bue, sh · ·ays there were always too many other conflicts and controversies (not the lea st of which wa her chief respon ibili• t • of covering the burgeoning crisi in orthwest forests) to co er. But this ummer, having moved beyond the grind of daily journalism and also having ornpleted her forthcoming first book Tm Huggers, to be published this fall b lountaineer in Seattle), Durbin finally found the time to cake an extended trip co the Klamath. What she found, she su s, wa · a story far bigger than she'd Restoring The Marsh Unsafe Havens ·, er imagined. High Noon in the Klamath Basin Page 7 Pesticides Foul Klamath Basin Refuges Page 7 The result, an eight-page report that scares un page 7, illustrates ju. t how interconnected places in the Pacific orthwest urc co the entire West. The Klamath Ba" in still ha .ome of the fine st watcrfow 1 habitat in . orth THE USUAL STUFF nerica, but \\ hat's been lost after decades of diking. filling, diverting and FIELD NOTES: Blue Babies. Forest MAIL: 16 pe ticidc .pra ing saddens the soul. The Roadblocks. Endangered Steelhead 3 impacts arc felt not just within the local POINT OF VIEW: Recycling Old Hat Ideas ecosy tern, but throughout the Pacific GROUNDTRUTHING: Confronting "Folk about Recycling. by Pamela Brown 17 Fl ·way, a giant a ian ·uperhighway from Economics" With Facts. by Kathie Durbin 3 laska to 1c ico. One of the lessons we REALITY CH ECK: .17 learn is just how far reaching the con e• CAPITOL BUZZ: Gorton's Power Play 6 quences of unwise u e of resources in BOOK REVIEW: Can We Learn from Deeds one area can be throughout the region. CASCADIA CALENDAR: 15 Done to the Dodo? by Elizabeth Grossman 18 Teachers are finding Cascadia Time· 11 seful in clas r c ms, and we think our ESSAY: The Victor in Victoria. by Ian Gill: .16 CLASSIFIEDS: 19 pr· cntation on the Klamath will be no e ccption. \Ve offer a specially discount• ed price for bulk order of Casradia Times. Back issues are al so available. For Editor/Publisher Paul Koberstein more information, call 503) -23-9036. Operations Manager/Publisher Robin Klein CASCADUI R R E C T l O - n editing Art Director Bryan Potter rror caused a mistake in the opening TIMES paragraph of John Rosapepe' fine essa , Contributing Editors Kathie Durbin, Jo Ostgarden "Mending a Broken River," iCasradia How to Reach Us Tim r, Jul· 1996). I lere's the paragraph Phone (503) 223-9036 Fax (503) 736-0097 a: it should have appeared: Email [email protected] BURDO OF ADUISOBS "Sometimes, if one is luck. or Susan Alexander. San Francisco, Calif. Web http://cascadia.times.org Mail 25-6 NW 23rd Place, No. 406, Portland OR 97210 hie red, a river will reach out and touch Peter Bahouth. Atlanta, Ga. .ou, talk to you and sing to you. I wa · Pamela Brown. Portland, Ore. Cosoxia Times is published I 2 times a year by fortunate the Elwhu found me." Cas adia Time regrets the error. David James Duncan. Lolo, Mont. Cascadia Times Publishing Co .. 25-6 Northwest Pat Ford. Boise, Idaho 23rd Place. No. 406, Portland OR 97210-3534. Michael Fro me. Bellingham, Wash. Subscriptions are $20 per year. $36 for two years. .....00 The entire contents of Coscaaa Times are copyright Ian Gill. Vancouver, B.C. cascadia Times.is not simply about ....! Peter Lavigne. Portland, Ore. © 1996 by the Cascadia Times Publishing Co .. and c Ken Margolis. Kitamaat Village, B.C. may not be reproduced in whole or in part wnh• furry animals and remote forests. i:i c out permission of the publisher. The publisher u Marshall Mayer. Helena, Mont. It's really about the _people live 00 encourages unsolicited manuscripts and art, but c Christopher Peters. Arcata, Calif. u in the Pacfflc Northwest and their Catherine Stewart. Vancouver, B.C. cannot be held responsible for them. Manuscripts or material unaccompanied by a self-addressed quaUty of · • cascadia Tames Randy Showstack. Washington, D.C. stamped envelope will not be returned. Cosoxia make949Rnectrons amobg c:o t: Jim Stratton. Anchorage.Alaska ::J Times encourages electronic submissions to e-mail 00 Sylvia Ward. Fairbanks, Alaska ::J box [email protected]. We reserve the right to <( Charles Wilkinson. Boulder, Colo. ~ ~: :tclsco .. ~ print letters in condensed form. fakiNI 8 . regi K"lf •• !0#1,lll.°'8'°°" ------Mary Wood.----- Eugene,----------------------- Ore. --- Field [& ..fro -C-m asca-dia _ Blue Babies, Hot Potatoes A NEW STATE OF WASHINGTON STUDY UNKS A RARE INFANT DISEASE TO A POISON IN SOME COLUMBIA BASIN DRINKING WATER SUPPUES. CRITICS SAY FRENCH FRY PRODUCERS ARE TO BLAME. by Paul Koberstein with nitrogen fertilizers, the lion's share is pread on porato fields. And, according ew research on a rare and to recent studie cited by Washington ornetirnes fatal infant dis• health officials, th application is vigor• ease known as rnetherno• ou : farmer' apply 4 to 38 percent more globi nemia, or "blue baby of these fertilizer than crops require. syndrome " is rai ing trou• Health official. b Ii ve at lease ome of Nbling que tion s about health effects a o• the excess nirr tc p rcolates into under• ciated with potato and French fry pro• ground water upplies. duction in the Columbia Basin. imilar health studies in the Dakotas The Washington Department of and Nebraska h v found a correlation Health has reported seven possible ca es between nitrate in drinking water and of blue baby syndrome among infants in blue baby ndn rn at the ame nitrate the Tri- ities area of ·oucheast contamination I vel seen in the Wa hingron, where drinking water well Columbia Ba in. However, health offi- are ontarninated with a sub ranee ials in Wa hin rt JO rnpha ize they don't known co cause the di ease. That sub- yet have enough vid n e to how a clear ranee i nitrates, and the likely source i connection. Ther 's no evidence any of the nitrogen-based f rtilizer applied to the ca se reported in the study did or did potato fields throughout the area. The not in olve hospit lization, Doctor do case curred from 19 9 through 1994. not routinely report ca es of methemo• Doctors say blue baby syndrome can globinemia. The rud did find 13 other result when infants inge t nitrates in on• cases of child ht od rncthernoglobinemia centration of as little· 10 parts per mil• outside the lumbia Ba sin that did lion in their water, which is the maxi• involve hospiralrzarion, in Island, King, mum allowed under the Safe Drinking Yakima, Spokane. Pi ·r .e and Clark coun• French fries are safe to eat. but growing them can pollute drinking water supplies with nitrate. Water ct. According to the '.S. ties. a potential hazard to infant health. Geol i I urvey, 46 percent of th re - Health official do say there's idenrial drinking water well in the Tri• enough oncern to \\ arrant further inves• associated with environmental ause ." is to urvey all of the physician in the Citie area violated the 10 part per mil• tigation. ays the , cudy's lead author, onethele s, he say the tudy is state." lion tandard during the late 19 0 . lore Joanne Walker hi ·Ids, Ph.D., an epi• very preliminary, adding, "we weren't Bue William Bean, president of the recent data are not available. demiologi t for th l lealth Department's able to get all the an wer we wanted co Columbia Basin Institute, a Portland- While varied crops such as onion , Office of oxic iubsrance . "We would determine what direction our work F IE L D NOTES CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 ugar be ts and peppermint are treated suspect the (th t'\ ·n cases) might be should cake in the future. The next seep GROUND Confronting··Folk Economics"With Facts TRUTH ING By Kathre Durbin ashingron Highway 4 amble northwe r from Lo g, iew along the Lower e onomy. Today, though tourism chokes the Long Beach Peninsula to the west, the Columbia River, pa t th leepy communicie of 'J....imokawa and Rosburg, Lower olumbia seem a place used up and forgotten. W Gray River and ' ellc. to Willapa Ba . le' a true Iascadia backwater, a The Lower olumbia is the exception chat proves the rule in Thomas Power's pl e the new ' rthwe: t e nomy ha not yet reached, new book, Lost landscapes and Failed Economies. Hi message: Folk economics - the For pare of the r · son, look to the gentle notion that we tern economies live or die by the extraction of natural resource - COMMENTARY and abu ed Willapa 11111~. stripped of their may have been true once, but it is true no longer. old-growth iitka pru and we tern redcedar The myths by which we environmentall aware westerners define our economic be inning in the I ~Os, then logg d again existence die hard. We say, and believe, that an and J~ain over the pa t centu h the pri• "Despite the high wages often associated with mining, old-growth cedar left tanding is more valuable vate c rnpanie that till control all of than one run through a peeler.
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