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------~ ConR~------;· . ,. \\· .. --- DECEMBER 1995 · ,. • .< .. _, ' ;\. . • ~:. ,; \ •• ' . . : Dear Reader s 1995, Cascadia Times' debut year, winds to a close, we A believe people concerned about the environment have more to be hopeful about than at this time lase year. We are no longer looking at a nation caught up in an extremist frenzy co gut environmental laws. , Rather, we are seeing long overdue emergence of a strengthened move• ment (we profile some of its leaders starting on page 10). We look forward to the coming year, and believe CT is part of that response. The year has also seen the long overdue resignation of Bob Packwood from the U.S. Senate. And given the disenchantment toward extreme fac• tions within the Republican Party, Cascadia¥s Democrats are tripping over them• selves co get on the Oregon ballot. Certainly Reps. Ron Wyden and Peter Defazio didn't waste any time Shining Lights~- , entering the Dec. 5 primary (the seat will ·Yt: ··~,-~ be filled Jan. 30; both ballots are by mail.) Defazio is favored by many fiqht EnuironmentalLeaders to Watch in ·gfi c Oregon voters who admire his stands . A on energy conservation and salmon recovery, as well as against NAFTA. by Kathie Durbin and Paul Kobersto1 He is a maverick in the mold of Wayne Morse. Still, he must over• come a nasty splotch on his record - he voted in favor of the precedent• setting "rider from hell" in 1989 that spelled doom for many old growth forests being logged today. Defazio now admits his vote was a mistake. Wyden's image is dimming next to DeFazio's. He is perceived as an insider in Washington with his ties to big business. Still, to his credit, he has spearheaded whistleblower pro• tection legislation, defended Portland's Bull Run water supply, and has been a leader on Hanford issues. But when it comes to forests and salmon, he's been a no-show. In a debate last month, a third candidate gained respect for his sheer gumption, good nature and direct answers - Michael Donnelly, a forest activist. He ran because he was fed up with the choices given voters, and wanted to make a statement. While his chances are slim, the experience may make him a viable candidate if he runs again. We hope he does. Field --froCa--m sca-dia , _ Is High-Speed Rail Coming? AMTRAK RffHRISTENS 5EAmE-TO-EIJCENER OUTE /THE {ASCAOIA //

By Patrice il1azza hour between Portland and Seattle and Also driving growth is addition of the four hour and 40 minute from Seattle to Talgo fast train, which was provided on a he dream of a Cascadia high- peed Vancouver, would be cut to 2.5-3 hours, test basis by its Spanish manufacturer . rail corridor from Eugene co le than freeway driving rime. While fly• The modern train has been embraced by T ancouvcr, BC, has taken a sym• ing would still he quicker, airports are dis• Cascadians, though track ondition keeps bolic rep forward with the recent Amtrak tant from urban cores while trains go cop speeds around 80 mph. Even a con• de ision to rename its Mt. Rainier line do, ntown to downtown, giving the train a servative Washington Legislature has endorsed it "The Ca cadia." competitive edge. opted to buy two Talgo train sets. in his 1992 cam- The change is a result of a ugge tion Bur despite the positive develop• The Talgo is a .S. de ign, paign, and by Sen. Mark Hatfield R-OR, to Amtrak ments "the news for high speed rail in our "so we're buying Congress passed the Pre sidcnt Tom Down that "The region i mix d," said the o-chairs of the back," noted Jim Swift Rail Act to support Cascadia" might better represent the Ca cadia Task Force, Eugene, Ore. Mayor Slakey, the state's high-speed corridors. Amtrak train 's entire route. The from cattle to Ruch Ba com and Surrey, B.C. Mayor Bob public transit and i upgrading irs orrhcast corri- Portland Mt. Rainier line was extended Bose. The Task Force, a regional group rail director. The dor to higher speeds, while Florida is 124 mile to Eugene in October 1994 including man public officials, has b en terms of well along in plans for rapid rail from through financial support from Oregon. working to promote a Cascadia fast rail Washington state's Miami to Tampa. But overall progress has "A train by another name would not corridor on which speeds would reach 125 purchase agreement been slow and disappointing for high• de ribe how the future of rail travel, mph. Current speed average 47 mph. mandate 25 percent speed rail au ocates, who have found sol• including high-speed rail travel, has cap• On the plus idc, the two officials local a scrnbly, jobs the state's network of id support slow in coming. tured the imagination of Oregonians,' said, ridership on the Cascadia orridor i aircraft indu try upplicr arc well pre• "We're very disappointed With the Hatfield says. exceeding projections. Added service on pared co do, he added. Swift Rail Act," Sh1ki.:y said. "'It> be dcsig• The Federal Railroad drninistration the Portland-Eugene and Seattle• On the downside for fa r rail is fiscal narcd a high-speed rail corridor ducsn 't in 1992 designated the orthwcst line as Vancouver leg has contributed co a 120 uncertainty, The Oregon Legislature mean anything." one of five potential high- peed rail corri• percent rider hip growth and 135 percent nearly abandoned state funding for the The Cascadia Corridor's population dors in the U.S. Federal Railroad revenue increase over the pa t year. With Portland-Eugene kg, but it was restored of 7.7 million is expected co increase near• Ad mini. rraror Don I rzkoff says he expects 60,000 passenger from Portland to when Go . John Kitzhabcr intervened ly 40 percent in the next two decades, Cascadia high-speed rail to arrive early in Eugene alone, ridership on that leg is 54 with the legislature's emergency funding with regional intercity travel projected to the next century. percent abov c estimates, and even board. I\ lean while, at the national level, grow 75 percent over char period. Man The long-term vision is eight daily e: cceds the five-year goal. only a concerted show of support has sec high-speed rail as an answer to airport round trips between Portland and Downs aid the 464-mile Cascadia avcd Amtrak funding from being climi• and highway congestion. Eugene, nine between Seattle and Corridor is the "fa test growing part of our nated by the Republican Congress. Estimated CO~[ to create a high-speed Portland, and four between Seattle and route system, the most promi ·ing route in High-speed rail has drawn a lot of Cascadia Corridor is $1.3 billion, which Vancouver. Trip time, now around four the nation." attention over recent cars. President CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 BARBED Michael Harcourt'sLegacy WIRE By Paul Koberstein ichael I larcourt resigned Nov. 15 as premier of British Columbia. I men• ewer people arc aware of Harcourt's record in office, especially when it tion chis because, unle ss you are a careful reader of your daily newspaper, come. to management of natural re ourccs - which, in Canada, is more a M you could ea ily have mi· ed it. For example, the paper here in Portland, F provin .ial than a federal matter. Since he became premier in 1991, lichacl The Orfgo11i1111, ran just a three-paragraph item on the resignation which it buried in Harcourt ha' not solved all of British Columbia's Jaunting environmental problems, the "foreign news" section. but he has taken major steps to protect biodiversity, promote sustainable forestry, Harcourt quit in the aftermath of a bingo charity scandal that apparently ends and involve communities, stakeholders and aboriginal people in decision-making. this progressive politician's career. Harcourt himself wasn't implicated, but took the le' a record that outshines any among the current crop off govl:rnors in our region. hie for his party. For example, British Columbia under Harcourt was well on the way to realizing While Harcourt's tory is itself interesting, it al o its promise co double the amount of parks and protected raises a bigger question here: Why don't the media on wi ldcrness co 12 per cent of the province, Si nee 1991, the American side of the border care more about news British Columbia has increased the amount of land protect• from British Columbia? It' not the distance; Portland This virtualshunning of BC news cd from 6 percent to almost lJ percent of the province. The and Vancouver, BC, arc about 380 miles apart, not signifi- province is among the first jurisdictions in the world to fol• cantly further than the pan from Portland co hland, by American media is probablya low through on the recommendations of the United Nations Ore. And yet, so far this year, The Oregonian, the region's Commission on Environment and Development co dramati• largest dail newspaper, has run only five stories men• cally increase the amount of land protected worldwide, tioning Harcourt. In contrast, we've had 259 stories about symptom of an indifferencetoward Harcourt's Protected Areas Strategy protects viable rep• Washington Gov. Mike Lowry. rcsenrativc examples of natural diversity. including major British olumbia may be in a foreign counrr , but ic ecosystems. Ir also protects special features such as rare i also parr of the Cascadia biorcgion. And nature, as the C. nadian culture and politics. and endangered species, critical habitats, and outstanding aying goes, know no border . It really goes without ay- cultural or recreational features. ing chat a tions b the BC government can directly affect issues we all care about Unlike the United States, where salvage logging is allowed in old-growth set• 0 no matter on which side of the border we live: salmon, energy supplies, growth, tox• asides, harvesting is banned in BC's protected areas and in most study areas. (I) r, ics, biodiversity and the overall quality of life. Even if ou don't care about the Since 1991, British Columbia has created IOU new parks and protected areas. (I) 3 Cascadia region, a shift in BC's political power can have significant bearing on your These include the 9,500-squ:..rc-kilomcrrc Tarshenshini- lsek Wilderness - er (I) qualit of life. recent! declared a l !ESCO World Heritage site - and the Khurzcymatccn ..... This virtual shunning of BC news by American media is probably a symptom of Valley, now an internationally recognized refuge for grizzl bears, an indifference coward Canadian culture and politics. I , under how many pcopl · British Columbia has also protected vast areas of coastal temperate rainforest know where the capitol of BC sits, or can identify the name of its ruling political parry. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 . - Barbed Wire continued from page 3 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 - including the largest intact forest of this includes new trains, improved crack and kind in the world, located in the Kitlope renovated rations. But that is a fraction Valley. Briti h Columbia ha protected sig• of the cost of adding lanes to the region's main highway, 1-5. And Hatfield warned nificanc old growth forests and water heds that such additions should not be expect• in Clayoquot Sound and the Cariboo• ed anytime oon. Chilcotin and Kootenay-Boundary regions, as well as in theCarmanah Valley. • In 1992, British Columbia created the independent Com mi sion on Re sources and Environment (CORE) co develop a Provincial Land Use Strategy with an emphasis on economic, environmental and Clearcut social ustainability, public participation and consensus building, and respect for aboriginal right . Controversy Finally, there was Harcourt's deci ion 5HOLJLO OREGON LIOTERS REOLJIRE last January to pull the plug on the 5LJSTAINABLE FORESTRY? Kemano Completion Project, an environ• mentally destructive hydro project on the Nechako River, a tributary of the Fraser. by Moya Muir Harcourt killed the project even though it Bob Jackson. left. and Leo Goebel practice sustainable forestry on their forest land near was three-fourth finished. group of Oregonian chink their Joseph, Oregon. This is not to say the job in BC is state should require sustainable, done. CORE, and land-use decisions A labor-intensive forestry, as well as affecting such important ancient forests as ban clear cutting and the use of herbi• product, or not? For a while in Clatsop chance to intervene in the market system cides and pesticides for most fore try County, there was a boom while the tim• when it's not reflecting their needs," she Clayoquot Sound, do not go far enough. uses. Oregonian for Sustainable Forestry ber companies clear cut. They cut the says. "And it could finally make the Only 34 percent of Clayoquot Sound, one is gathering signature for a 1996 ballot whole county, then left. There were no industry in chis rate competitive." of the largest low-elevation temperate · measure that would put their ideas into jobs, no taxes for schools or roads. People . The battle lines are drawn. On one rainforests on the continent, is now pro• law if approved next ovember. The had to ask the state for funds co keep ide rand the powerful agriculture and tected. The entire Sound should be off debate is sure to be heated, and its out• their schools open." Under the sustain• timber industries, which maintain that limits to logging. And water flows in the come will affect the rate's economy for able fore try measure, proponents ee no clear utting is acceptable and necessary. Nechako river still must be restored. But years to come. more boom and bust cycles but rather a On the other stands a disparate group of the environmental records of Harcourt's Already, timber and chemi al indus• steady rate of sustainable timber extrac• ecoforescer , environmentalists and com• counterparts elsewhere in Cascadia pales tries are reacting with alarm. "What peti• tion. munity activists, who agree with James in comparison. tion backer really want," ays T. rry Witt Terry Witt ac uses O F of "mas• Monteith, a petitioner for the initiative, of Oregonian for Food and 'helter, a querading behind aying they're for a that "the only thing you get from clear labor-intensive economy. The bottom arcourt was not implicated in the group of agricultural chemical producers cutting is a pile of capital and dead fish. and user , "is to bring timber companies line is chis bill will not provide jobs in the And that ain't forestry." • scandal that rocked his administra• to their knees. It would be the end of forest." H tion, though his party - the New commercial logging as we know it, and Gary Kutcher of Oregonians for Democratic Party, or NOP - certainly carasrrophie for the rate." Sustainable Fore. try responds that jobs was. Still, he cook plenty of heat. "There Most of Oregon's timber industry has for skilled fore ter who understand eco• were some criticisms I was not a testos• fundamentally different ideas about man• forestry and can manage whole forest terone sort of politician who's into being aging forest and radically different goals ecosystems would increase. Bill Most Private ruthless, just because people said heads from those of the measure's proponents. Oberteuffer adds, "If you get rid of one have to roll, so make chem roll whether Timber cornpanie grow big, heavy machine like they Forests Belong they're innocent or not," he was quoted as even-age, same-species tree use, you're going to need sev• saying in the Toronto Globe and Mail. plantations, now c1ear cut on "The only thing eral more smaller, lighter to Big Outfits The pundits' cake on the scandal is that average in 60 year rotations. f machines to do the work. ew tree are planted, and you get rom That's more people right Harcourt made a critical blunder in refus• By Omo lzakson the pioneering native vegeta• there." ing to fire anyone. tion which springs up follow• clear cutting is Initiative backer point nlike other parts ofCascadia, large Analysts say the candidate who ing uch a disturbance is to other ignificanr benefits chunks of Oregon's coa cal forests replaces Harcourt must build support in a pile of capital eliminated with chemicals. which could be gained by its U are on private land, where the the factions that make up the party - B·uc ustainable fore cry and dead fish. passage. Fish declines, teeth of environmental laws is less strong• including unions, environmentalists, femi• pracuuoners like Bob caused by clear-cutting's. ly felt than on federal land, ays a new nist , social activist and multicultural Jackson of Jo eph in north- And that ain't legacy of increased stream report from the Newport, Ore.-based advocates. The early favorite is finance east Oregon, on the other temperature and turbidity, Coast Range Association. minister Glen Clark. hand, say managed fore ts forestry ... could be slowed, and are What this means, according to the The New Democrats will choose a should "look like forests." more easily reversed. Cannon report, Gated Lands, is that agencie successor the weekend of Feb. 16. The Trees of all ages and species Beach and other tourist• charged with protecting dwindling coastal winner of the race replaces Harcourt as par• should be encouraged, dependent coastal communi• salmon runs should shift their focus to including old and dead trees. -James Monteith cies have long complained ty leader and automatically becomes pre• privately owned land, especially the large Jackson and his partner, Leo about the visual impact of mier. Candidates will face strict rules on operators who own the lion's share of pri• Goebel, don't use herbicides in their min• current forest practices, which are vate timberland. Coast Range Association fundraising and campaign spending, imally-disturbed forest because it repro• unsightly and discourage tourism. Director Chuck Willer says the time has including a spending cap of about $100,000 00 duces itself without their help, and no Tourism has already surpassed the steadi• come to "closely examine the forestry of ~ per candidate, and won't be allowed to species is seen as a "problem." They ly shrinking timber sector in importance industrial fore t owners," adding that the .,: accept money from corporations. don't think in term of rotation , but of a in the rate's economy. Selectively cut fate of coastal salmon rests with those c Like I said, Americans could learn a yearly harvest schedule in which they've forests allow a full range of recreational companies. "The real issue is not who I lot from our friends in BC. • taken 450 board feet per acre - an activities. owns the land, the real issue is how the u exceptional yield - from their 160-acre Other, harder co quantify benefits few industrial owners who own the land• c00 c., forest every year since 1970. Then, the include maintenance of the capacity of scape are managing their lands." land held 1.9 million board feet of mar• undisturbed healthy forest soil co absorb Ten large timber companies own 59 ketable timber. In 25 years, they've sold water in wet months for slow release in percent of the forest land in Oregon' 1.6 million board feet, yet two million the dry season, and maintenance of better Coast Range, and the 50 largest landown• s; Q) board feet of lar~er, healthier timber conditions for "secondary" forest prod• ers hold 77 percent, according co the ..D E remains standing in a forest that is rich ucts such as wild mushrooms. Mushrooms Gated Lands report, released Nov. 8. vQ) with plant species, birds, animals and were estimated co bring in $35 million in Those top ten companies include Hanson d) clear-running streams. 1991 alone. Natural Resources, Georgia-Pacific, 0 Bill Oberteuffer, another long-time Twyla Jacobsen of ch Ecoforestry Weyerhaeuser Co., Longview Fibre, ecoforescer in the Wallowas, says, "The Institute in southwestern Oregon sup• International Paper, Boise Cascade Corp. 0 question is, do you wane an even flow of ports the initiative. "It allow the public a and Willamette Industries. Those owner- ship pattern al o affect coho salmon, "We had a right to be there, we were which have been proposed for protection not told not to be there," KOIN news under the Endangered . pecie A t. director Peter Maroney says. "Nothing at "The data suggest a different strategy all wa aid to our photographer before he for coastal salmon recovery than the one wa throw R 'mto a ci1tch.''' currently pur ued by the rate," Willer Prot eer Joan Norman, 62, of Cave wrote in a press release accompanying the Junction, 'aw the whole thing from a few report. "The tare's water ihed council feet awa . "There were three police offi• j ~t.e,, M'rk- movement is investing most of its energy cers on him," she says. "One was trying to in small woodlot owners while many indus• gee his camera, one was on his left side trial owners, the landscape' acrual owners, putting hi arm - it looked to me like he are not at the table and are avoiding hard wa er ing to put his arm around his back, .,l ~~~v~Fo!ro~~t~ f~~sts~}~e~~te~~~s:r :~x~i~~:sectpests and plant que rions about their land conditions." chat' what angered me, and I could see t diseases, environmentalists have filed suit to block importation of possibly infested The report's implications for restor• the pain on the guy's face." The officers ·· '1 logs into the US. The lawsuit, filed against the Animal and Plant Health Inspection . !'1., ing declining oho salmon co k are sig• u ed pepper spray against the activist· t' Service (APHIS-USDA). challenges the adequacy of the new regulations that would nificant, says Glen Spain, the orthwest who freed Collins. t ~ . allow infested logs to pass through US ports. It claims that APHIS failed to evaluate regional director of the Pacifi Coast "In thi instance, our officer went up '. ,: the impacts of introduced forest pests on forest ecosystems, human health, or region- Federation of Fishermen's As ociations in there and were attempting to affect arrests - al economies. Plaintiffs claim that APHIS was more concerned with international com- Eugene. "It's clear that the big problems a the have all along," says Capt. Alan .. .,, ~ .. merce .than protection of America's forests. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the Portland• on the coast are on private lands. These Pendergrass of the Josephine County 1lt based Oregon Natural Resources Council, Northcoast Environmental Center in Arcata, folks have the means to recover these heriffs Department in Grant Pass. The , I' - Calif., and Pacific Environment and Resources Center in Sausalito. APHIS's new regula- stocks on their land and they have both officers, he says, "are taught they meet tions. which went into effect in August. allow the importation of foreign logs and wood the moral and legal responsibility to do so. resistance with an equal force sufficient to .• products that have not been heat treated to kill all pests. If they want to participate in coastal com• overcome the resistance but not to the munities, they have to help support point of excessive force." ,',~ ,i coastal fishing jobs." Maroney called the attempted arrest - ,, .. But two of the largest timber owners, "unwarranted and unjust." He also p.-, Idaho Salvage Sale Attacked Georgia-Pacific and Boise Cascade think defended the journalistic principles of the · Idaho conservation and fishing groups have filed suit against a controversial limber they're doing a good job. G-P spokesman station in terms of crossing into the clo• 1J salvage sale in the South Fork Salmon River on the Boise and Payette National Forests. Gabriel Boehmer ays the company sure area. 'io· Ill The salvage sale, called the Thunderbolt sale, is one of the first salvage sales in brought a raff wildlife biologist to Oregon "We had a story to cover and we don't t Idaho under the "logging without laws" provision of the 1995 federal budget rescission for the first time last year - after everal view at all our presence as a violation of ,. bill. Thunderbolt is going forward despite opposition from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife the closure," he said. "Th is was a Forest decades of intense logging. • Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Marine Fisheries "Corporate forest owners are Service road that there were hundreds of • • Service. The agencies' concerns are based on risks to fish and water quality from the clearcutting more acres and spraying more people on, including the Boise Cascade steep, landslide prone slopes. The South Fort Salmon River, once the most productive herbicides than at any time in the past," officials including the sheriff's deputies Willer says. "It's time the scare and feder• who had been deputized apparently for summer chinook salmon habitat in the Columbia River Basin, suffered from disastrous al governments quit focu ing on the little this incident, the media from all over the erosion and road "blow-outs," following logging in the mid-1960s. guy. The watershed issue, central to the country." Timber Giant Boise Cascade, which salmon's recovery, is how much industrial '··f!, land is being clearcut?" • is logging the Sugarloaf sale, paid approx• , ~Exxon Valdez Spill Funds Buy Habitat imately $30,000 to the Josephine County The Interior Department has completed a third deal to buy land to protect wildlife on .,, ,, Sheriff's department to re-hire officers Alaska's Kokiak Island with funds from the Enon Valdez oil spill settlement. The who were recently laid off, Forest Service . ···, ":'"aepmment 'said ltbought nearly 60,000 acres. brln~ng the ~nd to be preserved as officials have said. • habitat for bears. salmon. bald eagles and other wildUfe, to 210,000 acres. The deal TV Cameraman included six-year easements for another 60,000 acres, which the government also expects to buy. Funds are to be paid tro.m th~ $900 million .Exxon Valdez settlement Bruised by Cops -·fund, and the land purchase Is to preserve species harmed by the 1989 spill such as at Sugarloaf Idaho Group otters, harbour seals, salmon and herring. marbled murrelets and eagles. Exposes New York Times Drops MacBl"oe By 01110 Isaeso» Fishy Deal n Oct. 30, Bruce Collins, a news The Ne~. York Times, a long-standing customer ol MacMillan Bloedel. one of two lim· cameraman for a Portland televi• ber companies logging ancient forests on Vancouver Island's Clayoquot Sound, has dropped its contract with the logging company. following two years of pressure from O sion station, crossed the line. In an hen Idaho Gov. Phil Batt took American and Canadian environmental groups. "This is the first major development In attempt to cover the story of protesters office in January, the getting themselves arrested on a southern Republican promised to make the rising tidtol U.S. public concern over Canada's forests." says Karen Mahon. W Greenpeace Forests Campaigner. The New York Times' decision is in keeping with its Oregon logging road, Collins was thrown government more friendly co business. hard into a ditch by arresting officers. The Just how friendly became clear stated environmental policy which reads in part: "Suppliers must not be unethical or incident illustrates how hot ten ions have recently when a conservation group destructive to the environment. We will examine their practice and we will not pur• become in the growing controversy over learned Batt was quietly crying co loosen .chase their goods ii we determine that they are nol in conformity with our standards." renewed logging in ancient fore ts. water quality laws for a developer who It was a day of high drama when a wanted to divert one of the largest under• cadre of environmental group leaders ground springs in America for a fish farm. defied a federal forest closure and joined "We essentially caught their hand in forces with grassroots activists protesting the cookie jar," says Rick Johnson, execu• says Johnson. The Hagerman area already supports the Sugarloaf timber sale in the Siskiyou tive director of the Idaho Conservation More than just a pristine spring was at seven large fish farms that supply the ational Forest. Collins, working for League. take. Water quality in the middle part of famous Idaho rainbow trout served in t' KOIN-TV(6), and his camera crossed the The "cookie jar" in question was the Snake suffers from high levels of pol• restaurants. But the fish farms also con- ~ line with them. According to a report that actually an underground river known as lution, largely runoff from fish farms and tribute nutrients that promote the growth i1; aired Nov. 13, "it was the only way to Box Canyon Spring, which flows into the agriculture. The river also suffers from of aquatic plants that art: strangling the ; record the event." Snake River in the Thousand Springs area extremely low flows, as irrigators have Snake. -t The protesters had walked down a near Hagerman, southeast of Boise. At sucked Snake River dry below Milner After ICL exposed the negotiations, i logging road inside a closed gate in the issue was a plan to use Box Canyon Spring Dam. Environmentalists oppose diverting Batt hacked off. "We wi II not make :Z Siskiyou National Forest, one entrance to exemptions co water quality (standards) to for a private rainbow trout hatchery. The Box Canyon Spring because, as one of the O the 35-square-mile closure area around the developer, Earl Hardy, sued the state, few large sources of clean water in the accommodate this project," he told the ~ logging site. The protesters who crossed which had denied the proposal for envi• area, the springs provide some relief from Idaho Statesman. As for ICL, the next the closure boundary that day included time Batt cries to resolve problems for er3 .ronmental reasons. Batt tried to resolve the pollution. But the water's purity also ro former Indiana Congressman Jim Jontz the dispute behind closed doors. makes it vulnerable to development. developers, it wants to he included in the -, and National Audubon Society Vice But the negotiations stalled when the 'The springs are extraordinarily clear talks, Otherwise, as spokeswoman Karl -o President Brock Evans, their presence Idaho Cons vation League blew the and cold," says Johnson,."perfc<.:t for rais• Brooks says, "We naturally get very suspi- ~ bringing unprecedented regional attention whistle. "The governor was very angry," ing trout." cious." • to the sparsely populated rural county. G SPECIAL THANKS Ca itollm------Take It Away: TO THE WASHINGTON VOTERS REJECT l?EFERENOUM 48

Washington voters defeated merits" imposed by the Clinton admin• CASCADIA CLUB! Referendum 48, the "takings" istration made logging "economically measure, on Nov. 7 by a 60 to prohibitive." "In an effort to keep the ' 40 percent. The measure preservationists off their backs, (the would have been the nation's administration) will go to any extreme to MOUNT VANCOUVER ($10,000) most extreme takings Jaw, forcing tax• come up with a reason not to sell trees," payers to pay corporations and individu• he said. It's hard to see what Johnson's Bernard Bortnice als whose land value· decreased by any complaining about; three days later, amount due to public interest regula• under a little-publicized provision of the tions and safety, health, and environ• salvage rider, Johnson's company was MOUNT RAINIER ($5000) mental standards. Proponents of the awarded the Dead Middleman sale on Washington "takings" measure spent a the Roseburg BLM district for $345 per Bill Lazar quarter million dollars to put it on the 1,000 board feet, 51 percent of the $671 ballot, and outspent the opposition by a going market price. In face, D.R. 2 to 1 ratio during the campaign. Johnson has been a big winner in the federal timber derby this year; the MOUNT WRANGELL ($1000) Congress has considered "takings" leg• Roseburg News-Review reported Oct. Bullitt Foundation islation at several points during the 26 chat his company will be awarded Paul Brainerd 104th Congress. The U.S. Senate more than 15 percent of all federal tim• Judiciary Committee began marking up ber released by U.S. District Judge Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation an extreme bill, S. 605, on Nov. 16. The Hogan's decision to interpret the timber Compton Foundation House of Representatives passed a "tak• rider broadly. Dan Meek ings" bill as pare of the Contract with Fund For Wild Nature America (H.R. 925), and a "takings" An amendment slipped into the huge provision was included in the Clean Farm Bill in early November pro• Water Act Amendments (H.R. 961) that poses repealing the "viable passed the House earlier this year. In populations" standard in rules MOUNT SHASTA ($500) addition, "takings" language appears in implementing the National numerous House and Senate proposals Forest Management Act, which Global Environmental Policy Institute to alter the Endangered Species Acc. requires the Forest Service to assure native vertebrate species on national According to the American Resources forests remain well-distributed through• MOUNT Hooo ($100) Information Network, a coalition of out their range. It is this language on public-interest organizations opposed to which environmentalists have based Robert Stoll "takings" legislation, Washington is the most of their successful federal lawsuits Denzel and Nancy Ferguson third state to consider the "takings" to protect Cascadia's fish, wildlife and doctrine in a public referendum - and , · 'hf.l(On Genasci old-growth forests. is the third state to reject it. In 1994, Arizona voters rejected a "takings House and Senate conferees have impact-assessment law" 60 to 40 per• agreed to include a provision in a mas• cent. And in 1986, Rhode Island citizens sive budget biII chat opens the Arctic voted 67 to 33 percent to amend their National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling a state constitution affirming the power of number of sweeteners for Alaska, the state to "regulate and control the including $30 million to pay economic use of land and waters in furtherance of assistance to the North Slope Borough the preservation, regeneration, and and the city of Kaktovik, and up to $5 restoration of the natural environment." million a year would be available to them help prepare fur the impacts of However, this year Texas and Florida development. legislatures have passed far reaching ringer takings laws, and another 16 states have Rep. Jack Metcalf, R-WA, has asked afoury passed some sort of takings legislation. the Justice Department to investi• California legislators rejected 17 differ• gate the Forest Service's treat• ·~'Ska Con. . servat. . ion F oundatiJ . Linda Williams ent takings bilJs. ment of six Bellingham activists who were allegedly Congress' assault on the EPA slowed chained to trees for eight hours down in November. On Nov. 2, without food, water or toilet facilities. the House stripped 17 anti• The activists were arrested for trespass• .. environment riders from the ing during the Oct. 30 protest against ... EPA appropriations bill, 227-194, ::& the Sugarloaf timber sale. In his letter to ..:: with 63 Republicans voting in sup• Attorney General Janet Reno, Metcalf c port. Still, the bill would reduce the noted that the activists were usually ii c EPA's budget by about a sixth from what "harshly critical" of him. In fact, part of u the agency spent last year. The bill the activists' protest was aimed against ..c u would make especially deep reductions the salvage rider which Metcalf support• in aid to the states for water-pollution ed last summer. Metcalf says he doesn't control and in the agency's enforcement condone the protest, but he is con• programs. cerned that chis constituents civil rights L Q) may have been violated. "If these alle• .D E At a hearing before Rep. Wes Cooley's gations are true," Metcalf says, "then Q) u House Timber Salvage Task Force Oct. the Forest Service should be called on ~ 24, Douglas County, Ore., mill-owner the carpet." A 14-year-old girl and a 60- 0. R. Johnson complained to sympa• year old woman were among the pro• thetic GOP panel members chat testers chained to trees. "unnecessary environmental require- Special UR------The Biggest State Money Can Buy Alaska is simply the world's largest company town - with a peculiar twist: Not everyone works for Big Oil, but everybody gets paid

"Our position is, and I think the current governor's is, in most cases, what's good for the industry up here is good for the state. " - Paul Laird spokesman for BP Exploration.

his statement on behalf But Anchorage, where more than half the close to $1,000 a year from the state - open the Arctic National Wilc.llifc of British Petroleum, state's population lives, has no sales tax, regardless of age or whether they work in Refuge to oil exploration, despite strong the largest oil producer and residents in the government, the private scientific evidence of negative impacts in Alaska, is easy co wealthiest district of the by Bob Tkacz sector, or at all. The mon• to the 100,000-strong herd of porcupine swallow if two point city refu e to pay for ey comes from invest• caribou and the protests of Gwich'en about the 49th State police services. Nonetheless they get pro• ment earnings from the Alaska people who depend on the herd. A plan are made clear. tection anyway - state trooper responses Permanent Fund. This state-owned sav• to open the refuge has heen approved by The first is that Alaska is simply the in emergency situations - for free. ings account, established in the 1970s both houses of Congress but rejected by world's largest company town - with a The econd point, and possibly the when oil began co flow from Prudhoe President Clinton for the damage it peculiar twist: Not everyone works for more significant one, is this: Alaska suf• Bay, is where the state puts its excess oil would do to the environment. Big Oil, but everybody gets paid. Big Oil fers from a serious case of mass schizo• income. Current balance is $18 billion. Consic.ler, for example, the influence t' provides 85 percent of the state's $2.4 phrenia. Moreover, nearly one in three Alaskans is Big Oil buys with its campaign contribu- ~ billion annual operating budget and 'I he Last Frontier is almost the only a government employee. tions. Cl nobody - no private sector think tank, place you can build your own cabin in A study released last month by the ;;::- no government committee - has been the forest and live off moose meat, fish, he Alaskan's tax-free, govern• Alaska Public Interest Research Group -1 able to come up with any remotely real• wild berries and cabbages the size of bas• ment-subsidized lifestyle (AKPIRG), a nonprofit research organi- ! istic plan to replace petro-dollars with ketballs from your own garden. It is T wouldn't be possible without zation, shows that oil and gas companies 00 any combination of taxes. home to non-endangered populations of exploitation of oil. Whether they admit gave $300,000 to Republicans who won o (D Not that people here want to pay tax• wolf, grizzly bear and salmon. Alaskans they are addicted or not, Alaskas do want legislative seats in the 1994 election. @ es. There's no state property tax in like to think they are independent, self• co keep Big Oil's money flowing into The amount is more than $130,000 3 a• Alaska. There's no state income tax. And sufficient pioneers. their pocketbooks. · greater than the runner-up contributor, ~ even if there was one, projections say it Noc a convincing claim, considering Or 70 percent of them, anyway. the Republican Party itself (which also would raise only a couple hundred million every Alaskan is on the government That's the portion of state residents, gets much of its money from the oil ~ dollars a year. Sales taxes are reserved as dole. That's right, everyone who has according to recent polls, who support industry). u, revenue sources for local governments. lived in Alaska for at lease 12 months gets the politically supercharged proposal co CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 0 Special Report c o N n N u E o Big Oil isn't partial to the GOP, how• Petroleum, in England, shortly after his vacant since mid-October, when National the opening of the refuge. It wasn't clear ever. Oil and gas interests were the third inauguration last January. The governor, Audubon Society V-P David Cline whether she was lobbying for the state or largest contributors to winning an Anchorage restaurant owner and the resigned with the complaint chat his pres• her employer. either Pearce nor Arctic Democrats, giving $73,000. Oil and gas city's former mayor, came back from his ence and views were "futile." Slope Regional would divulge terms or also gave $9,000 to other winners, includ• travels declaring a new "partnering" rela• "I sort of detect• the amount of her ing Gov. Tony Knowles as well as bor• tionship with Big Oil. ed there was a com- contract. ough and municipal candidates. To chat end, he established an Oil & mitment, or an agen• "Why does it Among individual contributors, four Gas Policy Council to help him chart the da you might -say, to matter?" Pearce told of the top five givers were Veco, the proper course for the state in the new age move toward giving 'The oil industry has. the Anchorage Daily largest oil field service company in the of global competitiveness for oil explo• the oil industry fur• News. state, and ARCO, BP and Exxon. ration money. Big Oil lobbyists made it ther breaks, specifi• with massive adver• Possibly The AKPIRG report, entitled "The clear in recent years chat Russia and och• cally, royalty relief because it could be a Best Politicians Money Can Buy," was er countries from the former Soviet and regulatory tising campaigns and conflict of interest, written "co show why campaign reform is Empire are welcoming oil exploration relief," Cline says. the paper might have necessary," says Janet Campbell, a staff with substantial incentives and far fewer Admini tration with its campaign responded. Pearce, researcher. It conclude· chat over 65 per• of chose pesky environmental regulations spokesper ons say like a majority of the cent of all campaign concribucions come that clutter Alaska's regulatory regime . Cline's attendance at funding, basically legislature, cospon• directly from businesses or, to bypa .s 1h e IS-member Oil & Gas Council council sessions was sored a resolution donation limits, from corporate execu• includes five representatives of Big Oil poor, and that the seduced the public. supporting the open• tives, their immediate family members and five state government officers, Audubon Society's ing of Arctic Refuge, am! ochers with significant business affil• including Drue Pearce, president of the seance against open• broughtit to a state and voted in favor of a iations. state Senate; Rep. Mike Navarre, a ing the Arctic $432,000 state appro• Bue BP's Laird suggests Big Oil's Democrat from Kenai (a ity located Refuge may have of quiescence while pnanon to Arctic influence is overrated. '11 guarantee we southwest of Anchorage where much of influenced his deci• Power, a pro-drilling wouldn't be paying 85 percent of the the Cook Inlet oil and gas industry has sion. it has dominated the group formed in 1992. state budget if we were running every• facilities); and three state agency com• But Cline says As the Daily News thing," Laird says. m 1ss10ners . the council's agenda legislature." noted, one of Pearce's Maybe so, but how could the indus• Its "public" members include clashed with much superiors at the Arctic try complain when the governor and law• George Ahmaogak, mayor of the North more than Slope Regional Corp. makers are climbing in bed with it while Slope Borough which got rich enough Audubon's stance on is vice-president its, most of the state has long been cuddled from the original Prudhoe Bay discovery the refuge. "It John McClellan, who under its rich, warm blankets? that, for a time, it was flying Barrow city appeared to be very - Richard Fineberg is also a member of high school athletic teams to Hawaii, or heavily biased the board of directors nd what does Big Oil get in return bringing opponents up to the Arctic toward oil and maxi- of Arctic Power. for its campaign largesse? Coast. Another of the four "public" mizing short term economic benefit," Pearce's ties to Alaska's oil industry A members of the council is a senior vice Cline says. He found little interest in are questioned. For the record, her hus• From Knowles, a Democrat who won president for Cook Inlet Region, Inc., a larger issues such as global warming, band, Mike Williams, now a consultant by a 543 vote margin in 1994, it received Native corporation with substantial oil which many scientists believe is caused and lobbyist, is a former senior executive special, unprecedented visits co the head• and gas interests. by burning the very fossil fuels chat make with Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, quarters of ARCO, Exxon and BP The council has one seat for an envi• Alaska's economy cook. the outfit that runs the TransAlaska Exploration's parent company, British ronmental representative but it's been "What I feel about this council at this Pipeline and is owned by Alaska's major point is the state administration, if not in oil producers. bed with the industry, is too cozy with the industry," Cline says. "It's better for ig Oil does have lots of friends in ~west Net them to be at arm's length. The gover• the Alaska Legislature, which this nor's got to be tough on these companies B year approved a bill allowing the The OnlineCommunity for People with a Passionfor Cascadia or they'll take you to the cleaners." commissioner of natural resources to The governor, who spent much of negotiate a reduction in the state's royal• WestNet is a regional online service that makes it easy to find the best November in Washington personally lob• ty share of oil revenues. Currently, the bying President Clinton to allow explo• state gets 12 percent, but Knowles wants information on conservation and community in the West. It's an online ration in the Arctic Refuge, couldn't be to cut that to 3 percent for new oil dis• community where people work together to protect the places we love. reached for comment. His deputy chief coveries deemed not economical to of staff, David Ramseur, says the coun• develop at the 12 percent rate. cil's purpose is '.'to try and make sure In a 1994 battle that stretched into a Alaska is competitive" as an investment two day special session, the Legislature O Files 17 Folders location for the oil industry, and that the defeated a plan to require Big Oil to pay - , ... , ...... ·.: {.;. governor does wane to address the broad• some past due taxes. Another bill passed er issues Cline found undiscussed during that year gave Big Oil a $21 million tax ::::\mtf// . . :::~:::::: J~r< his five month tenure. cut through changes in a fund providing : : : : : : : : : News : : : ; : · : : : : Conferences: : · . : · : · : · Chats ; · : : : : : · : . · Internet · : : Ramseur noted that two competi• improved, immediate response co oil : . : : : .. ~~: : . : . F'c:Jj. : . : . : . : .. : : . tiveness studies prepared for the council, spills. The fund was set up after the 1989 : : : . . : ~~ . • • • . LAli). . • : : : I .. : . : one of which was paid for by Big Oil, Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William · · Cascadia Times Online GYC Online · · · · • · \ ...... showed that Alaska is "about in the mid• S ound, where cleanup gear was out of dle" among world oil provinces in terms service, buried under snow on the Valdez Ali/ • • : : [Dr• : : : '. : ? : : . • : : -~~ · : : : · • . of "how friendly we are to industry." beach, when the supertanker ran : Databases: : . Western Lands: : : : RUR@L : : : . E-Networking : : : ······· . aground. ut Knowles' ties to oil are nothing Yet another bill passed in 1994 pro• :_:_:_:.::~.L!III·.-:.~/ ~ ::._:_:.:.. . :': :.:: ...... : ~~L.Bll · ·:' .:.. . . . l..liBI~·r' .·: . . like those of Pearce, the Senate vided $30 million in tax credits to encour• GO IM .: .: Files:.:: ...... : W AFC · · : Audubon Listserv president, whose l 994 campaign age oil exploration in remote areas of the .. .. . ·····- ... B :IE .... ·~ .. raked in $141,000 in oil money. Pearce state. ··w. · ...... M...... - . " ; ,:- I"' .. also takes pay from the Arctic Slope Legislation already being written for c - h.Jd} ...... : : '::Help : :: ; ...... ' . ·et. . . ·· e·st·· ... Read Me! Regional Corp. (ASRC), for giving guid• the 1996 session would allow producers c ...... ···-·.·.·"" =u ed tours of the refuge for visiting mem• to pump the first 500 barrels of oil per day ao c bers of Congress and their staffs. Arctic free of any royalty fee in the West Sak u Slope is the Barrow-based regional field. Its sponsor is Anchorage Native corporation that owns vast stretch• Republican Joe Green, the co-chairman For a tree 30-day look at WestNet, contact Desktop Assis ance at 406-442- es of subsurface rights within the wildlife of the Alaska House Resources L 3696, email [email protected], or dial 406-442-3691 with your modem. refuge, including the site where the first Committee, and a retired ARCO execu• (IJ ..0 and only exploration well has been tive. West Sak may be the largest known E OJ drilled. It stands to make huge profits if but undeveloped oil reserve on the North u WestNet offers a free 1-year account to 501 (c)(3) conservation organizations. (IJ Once on WestNet, send email to Organization Account for more information. oil is found. Slope, with an estimated reserve of 13 to 0 Pearce has also taken several trips in 25 billion barrels of oil. Prudhoe Bay's ..Cl)...... recent weeks to Washington to lobby for preproduction estimate was 9.6 billion, but various geological factors make West ut staunch opposition to Knowles' concept is a hallmark of the Hickel the table from the oil companies for two Sak oil more expensive to refine. approach to the oil industry comes, administration and a feature of Alaska and a half decades, so I'm comfortable In 1989 ARCO halted development B interestingly, from Walter Hickel, that place a unique burden on state gov- dealing with them. l respect the people," of a West Sak pilot project complaining the conservative Republican who has ernment. he declared. that closure of a tax loophole made the served twice as gov- "It's very clear But, he insists, no one need worry project uneconomical. In 1991, the Wall ernor, most recently we haven't been that his vote is for sale. "I've got enough Street Journal reported ARCO planned from 1991 to 1995. managing this thing net worth. I'm not going to be unduly to begin production from West Sak when Hickel is no cari• as an owner," Hickel influenced by a lot of oil money," he says. pumping facilities (then operating at full bou-hugger. A self• ·rve got enough net says. "If Prudhoe But as for other politicians, "it might be capacity) had room. Its capacity was esti• made millionaire Bay was in the different." mated at 100,000 to 500,000 barrels a day. and owner of the worth. rm not Midwest there might One with more experience in scare Despite all these tokens of assis• Captain Cook, the be 200 farmers own• government and less trust in Big Oil is tance, Ramseur, the governor's assistant, largest hotel in going to be unduly ing it and they'd Richard Fineberg, a senior budget and says, "We certainly would draw the line Anchorage, Hickel each have their own policy analyst for two Democrat gover• at any request by industry that would dis• remains the arch influenced by a lot attorneys and nors from 1983-89 who now works with advantage the state." enemy of many accountants. Do you the Alaska Wilderness League against As a leading proponent of drilling in environmentalists of oil money." think a farmer in Arctic Refuge exploration. the Arctic Refuge, Knowles is so eager to for his efforts during Kansas would take "I chink in the time I have watched see it happen he is willing to reduce his 1990-94 term to three percent? state government, the oil industry has, Alaska's share of the royalties. Currently, gut state water q ual• Sometime they get with massive advertising campaigns and the state gets 90 percent of the royalties, ity standards, largely - Norman Rokeberg 25 percent," Hickel with its campaign funding, basically with the federal government receiving to help timber mills says. seduced the public, brought it to a state the remainder, In an effort tu persuade and gold mining Hickel's hard of quiescence while it has dominated the Congress to open the refuge, Knowles interests in the line toward oil is not legislature," says I· ineberg. offered to increase the federal govern• Southeast panhan- only unusual for a He charges that Big Oil "dominates" ment's share of the royalties to 50 per• dle. Republican, but disdained among party the legislative process and offers the gov• cent. This offer had special appeal to evertheless, Hickel collected $4 leaders. As Rep. Norman Rokeberg, ernor's and legislature's support for the Republicans eager to slice the federal billion in back taxes, royalties and other chairman of the House Special 50/50 Arctic Refuge revenue split as deficit. The share AJaska would surren• payments from Big Oil, including some Committee on Oil & Gas, told Cascadia proof. der under the Arctic Refuge legislation money owed since the 1970s. Because of Times, "I think Gov. Hickel has his head "The state will trade away its 90 per• pencils out at $1,040,000,000, a sum state confidentiality laws, the original up his ass." A freshman Republican, cent so the industry can gee into the Republicans have included in their amounts the state thought were due Rokeberg thinks Alaska is "very hostile" refuge," he says. "It doesn't matter to the deficit reduction/tax cut plan. remain secret, but reliable accounts ug• to business in general and Big Oil in par• industry (who they pay), they get what Ramseur says "the governor's over• gest Hickel settled for 50 cents on the ticular. "I certainly would not character• they want: they get into the refuge." ture to industry is broadly supported by dollar, and much less in some cases. ize them (Big Oil) as having an over• Alaskans," and the 70 percent support for Hickel says he would have vetoed whelming influence," he says. Bob Tiao: reports from Juneau, where he has Arctic Refuge development seems tO Knowles' royalty reduction bill and that As a commercial real estate broker coverer/ Alasl:tm politir:r since 1990. • bear that out. his Democratic successor is not protect• and one of Anchorage's largest office ing the "owner state's" interests against space landlords, Rokeberg has dealt with Big Oil demands. The "owner state" Big Oil before. "I've been sitting across Ralph Nader On: Ron Wyde11 Peter DeFa~io

"What's happening is the mutation of a former liberal consumer advocate, Ron "Peter Defazio is a fighter. He's made a couple of votes I don't like but is Wyden. He is undercutting progressive interests in legislation and trying to almost right down the line for workers, for consumers and for the envi• bargain with the devil, Newt Gingrich; and tryingto become a player at the ronment. I would put him in the top 10 of the,.535 members of Congress." GOP table." "It isn't just the votes. He can be counted on. He's not wishy-washy. He does• "He voted for the Gingrich telecommunication bill, which concentrates more n't use pretext like, "I want to build consensus,' and then try out a deal with power in the hands of a few media mogl:,lis ah? keeps out citizen access." .Cingrich. People who fight on principle.Jf they

"There were a lot of Democrats who felt they were undercut when they were try• ing to stand firm against Gingrich, against tobacco, and against attempts by the GOP to weaken the FDA in the areas of pharmaceutical and drug devices." ,, "I've talked to Ron a lot about this. It doesn't matter. He's not listening. He's . 'tJ THE VOICE taken huge amounts of money from the telecommunications industry, the _g§=.TALK RADIO •_10~,o AM insurance industry, the securities industry - all of whom want something from the House Commerce Committee, where Wyden is a senior member."

"He is no longer the Ron Wyden I knew."

0 - Ralph Nader, interviewed by Greg Kaloury ro n ro 3 '" Portland's progressivetalk radio KYXQ 1010 AM, Oct. 30, 1995 O• .,ro

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Cecelia Lanman County. The group won the suit in 1985. Now the area is likely to become the Garoeroille, California first incertribal park in the United States. EPIC's opponents have been corpo• ln 1982, Cecelia Lanman moved to rations, as the lion's share of redwoods Mendocino County in Northern are in private hands. As a result, EPIC California with modest goals of raising has found itself battling the California her young family and getting involved as Department of Forestry, the state agency a community activist. But she became a that regulates logging on private lands. key figure in a globally important battle This is a different sort of battle than the Clean-water advocate Gershon Cohen. right. kayaks near his home in Haines. Alaska. with his with a multinational conglomerate, one to save ancient forests to the north mom. Rosalie Cohen. Maxxam Corp., and its plan to liquidate that are managed by the Forest Service another injunction against a PL logging executive order gutting the water quality one of the last large redwood groves, and Bureau of Land Management. "We operation. 1996 is likely to bring more rules in his last official act. Knowles Headwaters Forest. are a small regional grassroots organiza• lawsuits, more direct actions. And, if responded by naming Cohen to his tran• As program director for EPIC, an tion taking on corporate issues that are Hurwitz' chainsaws start tearing into sition team, and, in August, instituted environmental group based in not usually being contested by the larger Headwaters, expect Lanman co lay her cougher water quality standards. Garberville that has filed 28 lawsuits to groups, so our task has always been body on the line in defense. "I le held the line against the I lickel protect redwoods, Lanman has spear• rather difficult," Lanman says. "This is only possible because of administration until a new governor was headed vital work the big environmental Since 1988, EP I C's foe has been our ability to gee support from our com• elected," says Ann Rothe, executive groups have shunned. Charles Hurwitz's Maxxam Corp., which munity," Lanman says. ''I think the red• director of Trustees of Alaska, a public To Lanman, 42, the purpose of entered the picture with its junk-bond woods are a highly endangered ecosys• interest legal group. suing Maxxam goes beyond the saving financed takeover of Scotia-based Pacific tem. The redwoods are as endangered as Cohen landed in Alaska by accident. of a number of trees, awe-inspiring Lumber. lax.xam began liquidating P(}s the call grass prairies in the Midwest." The native of l'hiladclphia was working though they may be. or do the suits ancient redwood groves to pay off the -l~K. as a tumor biologist at Oregon Seate merely seek to restore populations of bonds. In recent months. EPIC has University when, he says, "I had a friend from college who lived in Fairbanb tell me not co come up. le\ expensive, and Gershon Cohen hard to find a job. I told him I'd be right up." I le moved to .I uneuu. spent his Haines, Alaska honeymoon in 198.', in I Iaincs (a town of 1,300 located a half-hour by plane north "What we need to stop doing is of J uneau) and fell in love with the trading clean water to private interests," place. I le and his wife, Kerry, soon says Gershon Cohen, -1-1, executive moved to I Iaincs, where he has been director of the Alaska Clean Water employed as a potter. Eventually. Cohen Alliance. "If one looks at the full picture, intends to finish work on his doctorate. for us co pollute the water now in the But in the meantime, he's going name of the economy only costs us more money later. The main point is that the after mining, oil and timber interests who pollute Alaska's waters. "I lcrc's the people who stand co make money now bottom line: just about every pollution arc not the people who will pa) the bill permit in Alaska is illegal." Cohen says. later." PK. Cohen's interest in water quality issues began in 1992 when he attended hearings on a pollution permit for a local Pat Moss ~ mining company Soon after, he and :,: ~ three others formed ACWA (pronounced Smithers, British Columbia i0 aqua). Later that year, Cohen burst into ~ the limelight when he made a spectacle "There is no doubt the Kernano EPIC"s Cecelia Lanman is a leader in the battle to save redwoods. of then-Gov. Wally I lickel's bald-faced Project is

hat do you do when your political movement chat aren't forest groups," said Robert "Bobcat" ious sexism that exists within the environmental move• is on the ropes? Since the reality of the Brothers of Headwaters. ment. Since 1993, when the issue boiled over at an W Republican revolution began co sink in lase As mentioned in this space last month, the Oregon ancient forest activists' conference in Ashland, they spring, environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest have Natural Resources Council has created a new entity, have successfully challenged extreme gender imbal• passed through a series of stages: Panic. Hunker down. ONRC Action, that will forego tax-exempt status to ances at a professional conference of range scientist , at Regroup. Analyze. Organize. Reach out. Persevere. enter the political fray, caking positions on political a National F crest Reform Rally and at the J 994 The process is beginning to bear fruit. What may races and ballot initiatives and donating money to can• niversity of Oregon Environmental Law Conference. emerge, here in Cascadia and across the nation, is a didates who vow not to weaken environmental laws. If By writing letters, suppl ing Ii cs of qualified women stronger, more diverse and more inclusive movement. it is to have the kind of influence it wants, ONRC participants and in some ca es organizing panels them• Consider these recent developments: Action coo will have to broaden its appeal. It began that selves, they ucceeded in getting more women as Hundreds of newly mobilized forest activists have speakers at all of these events. Thi diversity can only trooped into the woods in Oregon and California in strengthen a movement orely in need of new voices recent months to protest the effects of the timber rider and new perspectives. passed by Congress last summer. Among those arrested It's .essentialthat the movement It's essential that the movement reach out to new at the Sugarloaf actions in Southwest Oregon were high constituencies and examine its own dysfunctional school students Lila and Prema Heller, who brought a aspects. But perhaps the most difficult casks it faces are fresh idealism and outrage to the demonstrations; 67- reach out to new constituencies those that require perseverance. Monitoring timber year-old Doc Fisher-Smith, a seasoned practitioner of sales is the nitty-gritty cask of the fore t preservation civil disobedience; and businessman Gary Schrodt, who and examine its own dysfunction• movement. If grass-roots activists weren 't out on the wanted to add a mainstream voice to the protests. ground reviewing timber sale plans, talking to con• Recognizing the significance of this development, cerned scientists and district rangers, and documenting regional and national environmental leaders, including al aspects. But perhapsthe most threats to the piece of land or section of stream they National Audubon Society vice pre idem Brock Evans, Iove.no one would hear the old-growth trees falling or joined chem at the barricades Oct. 30. difficutttasks ~ faces are those understand the consequences. The 1995 timber rider Cascadia environmentalists have made overtures co bans appeals and stifles lawsuits, but it can't silence the ocher progressive groups in an effort co find common message these reports deliver about what is befalling ground and increase their political clout. In August, that require perseverance. our public lands. Ashland, Ore.-based Headwaters and the Klamath Without perseverance by people you may never Forest Alliance, of Etna, Calif., along with the Labor• have heard of - Sam Stroich, Francis Eathcrington, Environmental Solidarity Network and the Rural process with a series of public meetings in November. Alex Bradley, Paul Engelmeyer, Tim Coleman, Ron Organizing Project, invited representatives of 18 other Larry Tuttle's amazing 1,872-mile odyssey, in Mitchell and many more - the world would not know organizations, including the Oregon Progressive which he spent several months this year walking from about the Thunderbolt sale on Idaho' Boise and Alliance, co a meeting in Portland, where they explored Portland to Denver co publicize the public resource rip• Payette national forests, which threaten endangered building a regional network to fight the ascendancy of off of the 1872 Mining Law, won positive media cover• Snake River chinook, or about logging that will wipe the Far Right. age all along his route and brought Tuttle in touch with out habitat for marbled murrelets in the California Members of the fledgling alliance, which calls itself hundreds of people who have never been involved in coastal redwoods, the Oregon Coast Range and the Northwest Progressive Network, identified coun• an environmental campaign. Washington's Olympic Peninsula, or about old-growth tering corporate efforts to dismantle laws protecting the Within the environmental movement, a wave of sales the rider resurrected on Oregon's Umpqua poor, workers and the environment as the issue on painful but healthy self-criticism is underway. Some National Forest, which threaten South Umpqua salmon which they all agree. They also agreed chat organizing activists, including Michael Donnelly, a Democratic and searun cutthroat trout. Brock Evans, a veteran of - in communities, within their movements, in the candidate for governor, are questioning the ethics of countless Northwest environmental campaigns, pre• workplace and in electoral politics - would be essen• dependence on funding from large foundations, espe• dicted many years ago what would be required to pro• tial. They hope co attract peace activists, feminise cially foundations that don't share grass-roots political tect the region's wild forests and undammed rivers: groups and defenders of civil liberties, including the goals or that invest their money in planet-destroying "Endless pressure, endlessly applied." Time, and shift• American Civil Liberties Union and the National corporations. ing political winds, have proven how true those words Lawyer's Guild, to future meetings. "We've got co Joy Belsky, Sally Cross and Diane Valentine, three remain. broaden out with other progressive groups that aren't women taffers of the Oregon Natural Resources Kathie Durbin can be reachedby email at environmental groups and other environmental groups Council, have taken concrete steps to combat the insid- [email protected].

Congress Undermines Gains the need. of an important industry. rather on differences and disagree• aide showed no concern for these val• At the hearings I was impressed by ments. This behavior, like the ue . Instead, he focu ed his comments Toward Healing the essential congruence between "Logging Without Laws" rider itself, on the need to brush aside these much of what tho e coming from the threatens the fragile attempt to find processes in order to get out the cut. environmental and the timber industry common ground which forward As a 20-year resident of Siskiyou To the editor: per pective emphasized - the need thinkers in the environmental and tim• County and someone whose organiza• for a long-term strategy that reforms ber communities have undertaken . tion has invested thousands of hour in ...., On Oct. 21 I joined other aspects of forest management as a Before the hearing, I was aware attempts co seek common ground with California environmentalists in provid• .! means co rriove our forests toward (Herger's) aides were travelling around timber industry folks, I request that e ing testimony before Rep. Wes ecosystem health. The point is that, Northern California with timber indus• (Herger and his aides) immediately ii Cooley's Salvage Task Force. while large area of disagreement per• try lobbyists pressuring Forest Service cease attempts co micro-manage the ~ Environmental leaders in Washington, sist, for the first time in 20 years I've personnel to accelerate salvage logging national forests by pressuring FS per• : D.C., Oregon and elsewhere have boy• lived in Siskiyou County, specific and to add green trees to timber sales sonnel. These actions threaten the real U cotted these hearings which appear co points of agreement have been which are already in progress or close gains partnership groups have made ~ have been focused on pressuring the achieved. to sale. The FS did its best co describe toward healing divisions in our com• o- Forest Service to "get out the cut." In At the Redding hearing, Reps its efforts to balance the desire for munities and moving coward consensus ~ California we decided to participate Wally Herger, R-CA, Cooley, Frank timely salvage with the need to com• on public forest management. E because we are working closely with Riggs, R-CA, and Helen Chenoweth, plete processes necessary to protect 4> industry and local officials u the timber R-ID, chose to focus questioning not other resources, including crit' al Felice Pace ~ in "partnership groups" which are find- on areas of agreement among environ• salmon and sceelhead runs an Native Executioe Director; Klamath Forest Alli01u:e ing common ground in an attempt to mentalists and the timber industry but American cultural values. (He~er's) Etna, Calfor11ia e balance environment protection and Point ofllD~HN~+m.,11------• Ancient Forests Imperiled by Greed WES [OOLEY AN!J OON YOUNGA RE !JETERMINE!J TO RAVAGE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES. WHOSE INTERESTS !JO THEY REALLY REPRESENT? By Russell Sadler

reshrnan Congressman Wes Cooley, R-Oregon, ket. The conservatives in Congress have only themselves ))id you know? presided over hi· fir t Capitol H iJI hearing the co blame. Their budget cues redu ed land management other day. Reporters in attendance described it agency per onnel to the point where they no longer have as embarra sing. Cooley chairs a cask force cre• enough people co push timber sale out che door as quick• • The pesticide toxaphene, a cocktall ated by House Resource Committee Chairman ly as they did in the past. of some 250 chemicals, has been FDon Young, R-Alaska. It i upposed tO look into imple• Publicly timber industry lobbyist complain about banned for 20 years in North . mentation of the timber salvage rider western partisans how slowly the agencies are responding co the law. snuck into the budget rescission bill. Privately they are angry at the content of these salvage · America due its cancer-producing No Democrats attended the hearings. sales. The dirty little secret is there is little or no profit in . properties. ~ut high levels of Environmentalists boycotted the hearings becau e salvaging dead trees. There were no bidder for many of tox9ph~l;le have been discovered in Cooley turned them into parti an capegoacs at recent the salvage sales the agencies have already offered. In the trout fish caught in Lake Laberge hearings he conducted in Lewiston and Redding. Instead past the Forest Service and BLM tucked enough green in the Yukon Territory of Canada. of taking testimony on salvage logging, Cooley allowed trees into salvage sales to make them profitable. Studies by David Schindler, a scien• the hearings tO become an inquisition into the member• When Congress passed the salvage rider authorizing ship and sources of funds for environmental organizations what environmentalists are calling "logging without tist from the University of Alberta in implying dark conspiracies. laws," the Clinton administration instructed federal land ,., EdqlOnton, indicate that the pesti• These hearings apparently aren't part of the New management agencies to comply with the law, bur do cide was carried to Lake Laberge Conservative Revolution in Washington. The new style what they could administratively to protect the resource from Central America or Russia by "hearings" are when they sold sal- wind currents. sideshows that sav• ~ /.lll~i:ft' vage sales. The age political ene• agencies responded mies and provide by minimizing the ·• A very promising -and time-tested media exposure for profitable green =buildinq material is baled straw, the foundation- trees in the salvage kept "scholars" sales. The agencies which can be used in any climate. housed at the tax• followed the letter Initially developed at the University . exempt founda• of the law, but infu• of Arizona; straw-bale buildings tions that have riated western law• have now been built in many states become part of the makers like Young and Cooley who and in Canada.Straw-bale homes new permanent are structurally .stronq, very energy• government 111 feel betrayed Washington, because their cam• efficient, and fire-resistant. Straw Cooley and his paign contributors bales contain enough air to provide crowd are not real• are not getting that excellent thermal insulation, but ly interested in they thought they not enough air to support a fast hearing how feder• bought. The Clinton fire (Rachel's Environment and al agencies are . . Health Weekly. 11/16/95) implementing the 1\ll: eARlH • EATERS' 9AN~UET administration gave timber salvage rid• in lase week, saying it will not appeal er to minimize the • The city ofBend, Oregon, is one of impact of logging on the environment. They only want to Federal District Judge Michael Hogan' ruling releasing know how many trees are being cut and how fast. many of these deceptive timber sales in Western Oregon the most inefficient municipalities Now that the federal government is broke, and Washington. The administration says it will instruct in terms of its water use. Congressman Young and his cohort are substituting nat• federal land management agencies to re lea .e trees it had Residential water use in Bend is ural resources for non- existent cash in the political pork• sought to leave standing tO protect wildlife. 300 gallons per person per day, barrel. They only want tO hear their contributors are get• The new congressional leadership does not have the twice the national average of 150 ting what they paid for. votes tO repeal the federal forest management and envi• Rider got us into this situation in the fir t place. Sen. ronmental protection laws on their merits. Paying off gallons. The city charter prohibits Mark Hatfield, R-Oregon and former Congressman Les campaign debts to contributors requires legislative metering of water, and residents AuCoin, 0- Oregon, sec arbitrary timber targets for the sleight-of-hand, tacking riders onto huge budget bills chat pay a flat rate regardless of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management in must pass or bring the country co the precipice of default• amount of water they use appropriations bills during the 1980s. At the same time ing on its debt. The new congre ·sional leadership (WaterWatch of Oregon. Fall 1995 Congress was setting aside substantial areas of public land defends this partisan sleight-of-hand by claiming it is newsletter). · · for purposes other than logging. These combined deci• legal and the other party did the ame thing. These folks sions forced federal land management agencies to log confuse the art of governing with the art of the deal. This more trees on less land. The results were disastrous for petty partisanship creates further doubt about the legiti• macy of their decisions by an electorate already deeply • The latest CNN/fime Magazine poll the forests, offensive tO the public and destroyed the Found percent of Republicans credibility of both Congress and federal land manage• cynical about elected officials and their institutions of 63 ment agencies as stewards of the nation's natural government, fueling a revival of civil disobedience. and 61 percent of Democrats don't resources. Federal district judges William Dwyer and No nation has kept its native forests. America's his• want protections for endangered Helen Frye issued injunctions barring further federal tim• toric effort tO preserve a remnant of its immense heritage species reduced: 52 percent of ber sales until the government brought its logging prac• of natural resources is now jeopardized hy crass congres• Republicans and 61 percent of tices into compliance with federal law. sional dealmaking with its campaign contributors. The Democrats oppose increase,d log-. Instead of obeying the law, the new congressional natural resources chat Congress is putting in the political ging, mining and ranching on public 0 leadership slyly exempted these old timber sales from porkbarrel won't hold up any better than the money did. II) lands.snd 64 percent of Republjcans ;. @ existing environmental laws. These timber sales include 3 some very old, very green trees. They were coyly includ• Russell Sod/erh os been a commentator 011 tsester» polirirs and 65 percent of Democrats · CT .,II) ed in legislation hastening the salvage sale of dead and and govern111e11tfor over l'/J.!Jo decades. He teorhesjou rnalism al oppose oil drilling in the Arctic , · dying in parts of the west hit by fire, drought and insect Southern OregonS tate Colle1;e i11 Ashltmd. National Wildlife Refuge (Wilderness infe cation. The deception was intentional. Some timber Society, FaTI 1995 New Voices). industry lobbyists complain the agencies are dragging their feet putting these timber salvage sales on the mar- e Arts .~!.i ' :I&.! & [!!(lijf@ THE DYING OF,, 8 0 0 K 11 E U E W THE TREES Why are All the Trees Dying?

By Lauren Esserman u Charles Little's TheD ying of the Trees. statewide auto emissions testing pro• ing their In contrast tO Easterbrook's tome, grams, Charles Little's eloquent, well• own little oward the beginning of the year, Little's book is short, clear and alarming, researched, and eminently readable field. When Viking hit environmentalists in the tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent book arrives you add up hard with its publication of Spring - the little text that woke to inform us what they're T The Dying of the 'Trees:The Pandemic in Gregg Easterbrook's A Moment on Earth, America up to the dangers of our indis• that our trees doing, America's Forests an astonishing study in denial and half• criminate use of pesticides. are dying at they're as truths proclaiming that environmen• Just as the J 04th Congress is doing epidemic By Charles E. Little, Viking (1995), surprised by tal problems were greatly overstated. all it can to disarm the EPA, and gover• rates all over $22.95. the picture Now, ironically, the same publisher gives nors around the country are cancelling the US, and ------' that emerges as the average that whatever the proximate cau e in reader is." each case, the best research implicates One of the most interesting issues air pollution and other impacts of indus• the book raises is the tension between Some damn good science books at Powell's trial development as the root culprit. science and politics in our society, which Little makes clear that the progress of Little says became the "unexpected the gypsy moth and the spruce bud• subtext" of his book. "It appears," he worm are not esoteric matters interesting says, "that the science in the US i good Listening to the Land Restoration Forestry only to silviculturists, but are of great - some of it's brilliant - but there's an consequence to all of humaniry. As incredible timidity in saying what Conversations About Nature, An International Guide to Little put it to me, "The death of trees they've found out in a direct way, Culture, and Eros Sustainable Forestry is not just a warning, like the death of a because science - even at universities Derrick Jensen, Editor (Sierra Club Books) Michael Pilarski, editor (Kivaki Press) canary in a coal mine. We need trees to and government agencies - is essential• Engages some of our best minds in an explor• Provides actual results and valuable insights from sustain life." ly funded by the economic machinery of ation of more peaceful ways to live on the earth. over fifty articles on forest ecosytem restoration The greatest strength of this book is this country." projects. Little's masterful ability to make seem• In the case of acid rain, Little con• ingly obscure scientific data acce sible tends, government agencies not only Science and the Endangered and engaging to a lay audience. He is a distorted the findings, but, for political Geology of Oregon good translator of science who also takes reasons, sent the research off in the Species Act care in each chapter to give us a ense of wrong direction to begin with. According Orr, Orr, and Baldwin (Kendall/Hunt) (Notional Academy Press) place, a cast of characters (both human to Little, the scientists were not asked, Does justice to Oregon's unique and varied A timely exploration of what scientists know geologic past and arboreal), a story line, and a reason "What's happening to the trees, and about extinction as it relates to the ESA. to care. what seems to be the major cause?" but He tells us how the dogwoods rather, "Could it possibly-be something Visions Upon the Land around Camp David in Maryland - and other than acid rain?" The Origin of Species in western Washington state - are Little also makes an important point Charles Darwin (Random House) Man and Nature on the Western falling prey to a deadly and incurable about how journalists contribute to the Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the Range fungus. How the red spruce, which public's misinformation by clinging to a great works of the scientific imagination. Karl Hess, Jr (Island Press) dominate the mountain tops in Vermont simpleminded notion of "balance" that, Examines how "landscape vision" - efforts and throughout the Appalachian chain, when it comes to science, can be terribly by settlers to sculpt their environment to are being killed at an alarming rate by misleading. For instance, Little argues, Among Whales match their dreams - pervade the history of acid rain blown in by the prevailing there has been cientific agreement the American West, and the role these visions westerlies from heavily industrial areas about global warming for a decade, with Roger Payne (Scribners) have played in the ongoing environmental in Michigan, Ohio and the Tennessee only extremely minor disagreements A work of biology- cetacean, marine, and destruction of western public lands. Valley. How throughout the Rockies and about tile precise rate of that warming, human; of exploration, of sociology, of cultural through Cascadia's dry east ide forests, a but most of the public doesn't realize mythology, of philosophy, and of literature. half-century of fire suppression - at the this because the media have routinely The Great Columbia Plain behest of the timber industry- has set given equal weight to divergent views in tile stage for the spruce budworm and order to give a story an air of "balance." Reaching Home A Historical Geography 1805-1910 several species of bark beetles to launch In conversation, Little also faults the Pacific Salmon, Pacific People D.W. Meinig (University of Washington) an assault of unprecedented scale, mak• mainstream environmental groups and By combining geographic description with ing the forests even more susceptible to sympathetic foundations for not funding Tom Joy, Brod Matsen, Natalie Fobes (Alaska NW historical narrative, Meinig's work tells the fire. And how the gypsy moth, acciden• enough good, hard-hitting science writ• Books) story of the transformation of the Plain. tally released by a French silkworm ing and for not being forthright with the "Salmon dwell in two places at once, in our hearts breeder in 1869 near Harvard Univer ity, and in the waters, and they know the way home." public about the magnitude of what has now colonized 31 states and contin• needs to be done to avert ecological Exploring the Seashore ues to spread at an increasing rate, while disaster. in British Columbia, beginning in 1991, an even more Perhaps the environmental institu• Bird Brains unstoppable strain from Siberia has been tions do not fund enough science writing The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Washington and Oregon showing up in western ports. because they have become as skeptical Magpies and Jays Gloria Snively (Soules) Little's training is not in science but as Little ha about how much clout sci• in re earch and writing. (He worked for Candice Savage (Sierra Club Books) Enables anyone to identify our seashore ence has in shaping policy. Nonetheless, the Library of Congre s during the '70s, every now and then a book like Silent ... presents the archetypal featherheads, the creatures through observation, understanding, heading its research team on natural corvids, as the smartest and most highly evolved and appreciation. Spring comes along that really does have resource policy, and has since written of all birds. an impact The Dying of the Trees has the seven books and numerous articles.) potential to be uch a text. While its This proved to be an advantage because message is grim, the book hines with he was able to jump over the walls that hope: the hope we are inspired to feel separate one scientific discipline from each time we come across someone who L Q) another. 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