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Maine Woods-Late Winter 2003-7 THE MAINE WOODS “In wildness is the A Publication of the Forest Ecology Network preservation of the world.” Henry David Thoreau Volume Seven Number One • Late Winter 2003 Free Acid rain-killed trees on Whaleboat Island in Casco Bay, an island recently acquired by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Acid rain is just one of the many disastrous effects of a national energy policy that is reliant upon fossil fuels. See the articles on pages 6-7 and 15. Also see the articles on pages 8 and 16 for other equally disastrous effects of that energy policy. Photo by Paul Donahue War on Environment Not Justified - page 3 “Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Herbicide Project Update - page 4 Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.” Leadership Needed Now to Reduce Maine’s Acid Rain & Fog - page 6 David Brower The Oils of War - page 8 War on Life in the Seas? -The US Navy and LFA Sonar - page 10 Forest Ecology Network Cutting and Selling the Gems of Maine’s North Woods - page 12 P.O. Box 2218 NON-PROFIT ORG. Balance Along the Roads - page 14 US POSTAGE PAID Augusta, ME 04338 AUGUSTA, ME An Analysis of Forest Statistics for Maine, 2001 - page 15 http://www.powerlink.net/fen PERMIT NO. 75 Ecuador and Oil - page 16 [email protected] A Birthday in the Treetops - page 20 The Battle Rages While the Old-Growth Dwindles - page 22 Logging the Sequoia Monument to Save It?!? - page 25 Allagash Wilderness Threatened - page 29 THE MAINE WOODS - Late Winter 2003 PAGE 1 A Voice in the Wilderness by Jonathan Carter THERE IS MUCH WORK TO BE DONE It feels good to be back in the saddle at FEN after a be imperative that FEN continues to set the agenda. year of campaigning for Governor. I want to thank you While John Baldacci has a weak environmental record, I for your support. It was a great campaign. As a person do think that FEN has an opportunity to help point the who practices the politics of belief the outcome was less compass in the right direction. FEN needs to give John a important than articulating a vision for the state of chance. It will be very clear early on as to whether the Maine which incorporated ecological, social, and new administration will simply be supporting the status economic justice. I have been around long enough to quo or offering a bold new vision. When it comes to the know that “winning” isn’t simply about the number of forests of Maine, a bold new vision is critical. votes. It is about introduc- ing new ideas, confronting We need a vision the powers of resistance, which recognizes that presenting a vision, and “working forests” are educating the public on not just fiber fields. new approaches. Forests work for us in protecting Einstein once wrote, “the biodiversity, in problems of the world providing clean air cannot be solved using the and water, and as same level of thinking places where we can which created them”. connect with the Activists understand this spirit in the natural concept. To be on the world. We need a P. O. Box 2218 photo by Janet LeClair cutting edge in initiating vision that proclaims Augusta, ME 04338 change is not easy, but it is that “multiple use” Phone: 207-628-6404 essential somebody FEN director Jonathan Carter in a Plum Creek clearcut does not mean every Fax: 207-628-5741 articulates the new ideas. If north of Flagstaff Lake. acre of forest needs to Email: [email protected] not, the new ideas will be home to the saw never become reality. Change takes time. It also takes and motorized vehicle. Most importantly, we need a http://www.powerlink.net/fen persistence. I often marvel at the impact FEN has had vision that is restorative. One that stops the destructive on defining the agenda around protecting Maine’s practices and recognizes the need to heal and repair the Jonathan Carter forests. Who would of thought ten years ago that damage of the past. clearcutting would disappear as the dominate forest Executive Director practice? Or that millions of acres of the North Woods I look forward to the challenges ahead. There is a huge would be protected through development easements? Or amount of opportunity. And where there is opportunity, ______________________________________ that the forest corporations would be seeking “green” there is much work to be done. certification? While we still have a long way to go THE MAINE WOODS before logging is carried out in an ecologically sustain- Paul Donahue able way and before we can visibly see a restored wilderness, the momentum is headed in the right Editor direction. Vigilance (so that we don’t move backwards) and initiative are critical. FEN Awards Scholarships Contributors Phyllis Austin, Jonatan Carter, Five applicants were awarded scholarship It would be very easy, considering the current political Bill Corcoran, Andaria Crespi, climate and the vast resources of the special interests, to funds in FEN’s second annual essay and photo simply give up and go home. This is not an option. As contests. “The Health of the Earth” photo John Demos, Ryan Douglas, the first “clean” gubernatorial candidate (publicly contest award was split between Lucia Fenney Maggie Drummond, Lucia Fenney, funded) in Maine’s history, I had the opportunity to of Monroe, Maine and Ryan Douglas of Jay Fitzgerald, Susan Higgins, constantly highlight the relationship between special Windham, Maine. Their winning photos can be Sue Jones, Alyssa Jumars, seen on pages 30-31. “The Future of Maine’s interest money and political decision making. Indeed, it Lynn Landes, Mitch Lansky, is the special interest money that is at the core of the Environment” essay contest award was split ecological crisis. Ask yourself why acid rain continues between Alyssa Jumars of Whitefield, Maine, Jym St. Pierre, Steve Swift, to pour down destroying the health of terrestrial and Jay Fitzgerald of Brunswick, Maine, and Teresa Wood, Russell Wray aquatic ecosystems? Why are we not moving full tilt Andaria Crespi of New Sharon, Maine. Their away from coal, oil, and gas when it has been scientifi- essays can be seen on pages 26-28. Special Thanks cally documented that fossil fuel combustion is the Teresa Wood primary cause of global warming? Why is there such The announcement for this year’s contest can political, not public, resistance to the Maine Woods be found on page 5 of this issue of The Maine National Park and Preserve when the evidence is so Woods. overwhelmingly supportive of the positive ecological THE MAINE WOODS and economic benefits? Just follow the money trails and is printed on 100% recycled, 90% post- it all becomes clear. While we may not have the money, consumer, non-bleached waste paper I believe truth has a way of always winning in the long (newsprint). The cover stock is 20% run. “Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after recycled paper. the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish FEN’s voice is more important now than ever before. has been caught. Only then you will find that money With the new administration in Augusta, it is going to cannot be eaten.” Cree Indian Proverb THE MAINE WOODS - Late Winter 2003 PAGE 2 What was born of this misinformation campaign, and the War on Environment Not Justified raging wildfires, were efforts in the Senate and House of by John Demos Representatives to strike at the heart of environmental laws, that have stood the test of time for over thirty For two years Bush and his compatriots from industry the crisis. Unfortunately many members of the media years. In the name of fighting fire and ending a fictitious have been waging “the mother of all battles” on our chose to simply rebroadcast his specious arguments with “analysis paralysis,” several pieces of legislation and system of environmental regulation. Until Election Day, very little critical analysis. proposed executive orders are in the works to undermine the Democratic majority in the Senate stood as a the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and bulwark, albeit a leaky one, against wholesale rollbacks Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark Rey, a former other forest laws. Signed into law by President Nixon, of our Nation’s clean air, clean water and forest protec- timber industry lobbyist, likewise pointed a finger of NEPA requires that the government undertake studies of tion laws. Meanwhile conservationists have been guilt at groups and individuals who had succeeded in the environmental impact of proposed projects (such as fighting a defensive battle that, so far, has thwarted reducing the timber cut on our public lands. He charged timber sales) before they can be approved. many of the President’s most egregious plans. In that forestry laws, like the National Forest Management November the Senate and House adjourned without Act (NFMA), allowed extremists to block legitimate fire Citizens are able to block timber sales only when a judge taking any harmful actions to the environment, but the thinning projects on frivolous grounds. When con- finds a clear violation of law. In New England, Conser- incoming Republican-dominated Congress is expected to fronted with the independent General Accounting vation Action Project and American Lands Alliance push the Administration’s agenda with renewed vigor. Office’s two-year study that showed that no fire projects succeeded in halting two projects on the White Mountain National Forest. Neither had Prior to September 11, president been designed for fire mitigation. Bush’s popularity polled below What stopped the sales was the 50%, and he was facing a great Forest Service’s failure to deal of criticism for his environ- conduct the legally required mental actions (e.g.
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