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Fall 2009 Newsletter Friends of the Columbia Gorge Protecting the Gorge Since 1980 Fall 2009 Newsletter Inside: Gorge Air goes to Court Page 4 Condit Dam removal on track Page 8 Insert: Holiday Giving Guide Friends of the Columbia Gorge Cedar Falls is on an 80-acre property under contract to Founder Nancy Russell, 1932-2008 be purchased by Friends of BOARD OF DIRECTORS the Columbia Gorge Land Cynthia Winter* CHAIR Bob Hansen* CHAIR EL ec T Trust and is a high priority Maria Hall VI ce CHAIR for U.S. Forest Service Karen Johnson Sec R E TARY /TR E A S UR E R acquisition. Angie Moore AT-LARG E Mem B E R Photo: Don Nelson/Jim Daly Rick Ray* AT-LARG E Mem B E R Priscilla Turner AT-LARG E Mem B E R Chris Beck Broughton H. Bishop Bowen Blair, Jr. Susan Crowley* Ken Denis Aubrey Russell Pat Wall Mark Waller Charlie Webster Polly Wood* FRIENDS OF THE COLUM B IA GOR G E LAND T RUST BOARD OF T RUSTEES Aubrey Russell PR es ID E NT Bob Hansen* Sec R E TARY /TR E A S UR E R Bowen Blair, Jr. ne of the most effective ways to appropriate money for Columbia River Jim Desmond to protect Gorge habitat and Gorge Land Acquisition. Last year, no Dustin Klinger Christine Knowles* Oscenic landscapes is public land funding was allocated to purchase land in Angie Moore acquisition. Each year, Friends of the the Columbia Gorge. Columbia Gorge works with Congress to In honor of the National Scenic Area STAFF secure funds for the U.S. Forest Service to Nathan Baker STAFF ATTORN E Y Act’s 25th anniversary in 2011, we hope Kelley Beamer CON se R V ATION ORGANIZ E R purchase land from willing sellers. These to secure $1.5 million in federal funding Justin Carroll EX ec UTI ve Ass I S TANT purchases support watershed protection, for the Forest Service to purchase several Peter Cornelison* FI E LD Rep R ese NTATI ve expanded recreation opportunities, and important properties in the Gorge. Kevin Gorman EX ec UTI ve DIR ec TOR Merrit Hoeh ST E WARD S HI P COORDINATOR better land management practices. Please contact your Senators and ask Michael Lang CON se R V ATION DIR ec TOR As President Obama assembles his them to urge President Obama to support Marilyn Lipko Deve LO pme NT Ass I S TANT 2011 budget, it is critical that he sets Columbia Gorge Land Acquisition in 2011. Kate McBride* LAND T RU S T MANAG E R aside funds and recommends to Congress Contact information is below. Rick Till LAND Use LAW CL E RK Renee Tkach* OUTDOOR PROGRA ms COORDINATOR Sandy Wright Deve LO pme NT DIR ec TOR * Gorge residents Active citizen support makes the difference! Your actions for ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Gorge protection are crucial to our success. Contact your Senators and Representatives using Legal Counsel: Gary Kahn the information below, or check www.senate.gov or www.house.gov for other offices. Newsletter Design: Kathy Fors and Kathleen Krushas (To the Point Publications) Oregon Washington Editor: Betsy Toll Sen. Ron Wyden, (202) 224-5244 Sen. Patty Murray, (202) 224-2621 PORTLAND OFFICE http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/ http://murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm 522 SW Fifth Avenue, #720 Sen. Jeff Merkley, (202) 224-3753 Sen. Maria Cantwell, (202) 224-3441 Portland, Oregon 97204 [email protected] http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/ (503) 241-3762 Rep. David Wu, (202) 225-0855 Rep. Brian Baird, (202) 225-3536 GOR G E OFFICE Rep. Earl Blumenauer, (202) 225-4811 Rep. Doc Hastings, (202) 225-5816 205 Oak Street, #17 Rep. Greg Walden, (202) 225-6730 Rep. Norm Dicks, (202) 225-5916 Hood River, Oregon 97031 Rep. Peter DeFazio, (202) 225-6416 (541) 386-5268 Email your Congressional Representative by Rep. Kurt Schrader, (202) 225-5711 logging on to www.house.gov/writerep/ www.gorgefriends.org Photo: Greg Lief www.liefphotos.com 2 Cover photo: Wahkeena Falls in autumn. Director’s Letter he most important task that a environment, our team clicked, systems non-profit executive director flowed, and everything from fundraising to performs for his or her organi- advocacy to our hiking program moved to a Tzation is one that many people take for higher level. granted: hiring the right people. This past September, Development In my 15 years working in non-profit Director Jane Harris broke my two-year management, I’ve seen organizations grow streak when she announced that she and steadily, contract drastically, and vacillate her husband were making plans to move between the two. Many factors contribute to Whidbey Island. Jane was with Friends to non-profit success, but I’m convinced for 11 years—almost unheard-of tenure in nothing is more important than hiring and fundraising, and I stepped into the hiring Kevin Gorman with Friends’ new development keeping talented, passionate individuals. process with trepidation. director Sandy Wright, touring a potential As one of my favorite business books, Good Right away, former Board Chair Angie acquisition property. Photo: Phil Durkee to Great, states, “You need to get the right Moore generously stepped in as interim people on the bus and then keep them on development director and I gladly accepted. the bus.” Then some 60 candidates applied, sending will bring new energy and ideas and fit In 2007, I hired two new staff cover letters that read like love letters to in easily with the culture and ethic of the members and, as a result, assembled what the Gorge. The response demonstrated organization. I felt was the best staff the organization the passion so many people have for the For more than a decade, I’ve operated ever had. With no turnover for two Columbia Gorge and the respect they have on the belief that if your organization has years and each staff person learning and for this organization. a great mission and a good workplace developing their talents in a collaborative In October we hired Sandy Wright as atmosphere with enjoyable and stimulating our new development director. Sandy cut colleagues, employees will use your her fundraising teeth with Three Rivers organization not as a place to build a resume, Land Conservancy and most recently but rather as a place to build a legacy. I look worked for Trust for Public Land. She forward to seeing the legacy Sandy builds. Kevin Gorman Executive Director [email protected] Friends of the Columbia Washington Gorge works to ensure that the Sen. Patty Murray, (202) 224-2621 beautiful and wild Columbia http://murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm Sen. Maria Cantwell, (202) 224-3441 Gorge remains a place apart, http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/ an unspoiled treasure for Rep. Brian Baird, (202) 225-3536 Rep. Doc Hastings, (202) 225-5816 generations to come. Rep. Norm Dicks, (202) 225-5916 Email your Congressional Representative by logging on to www.house.gov/writerep/ Fall colors from Cape Horn. Photo: Kate McBride 3 Federal Judge Okays Suit to Clean Up PGE’s Boardman Plant Court Case Against Oregon’s #1 Polluter Proceeds Michael Lang, Conservation Director, [email protected] hanks to Friends of the Columbia Boardman has consistently produced high Columbia River Gorge and for everyone Gorge and a coalition of like- levels of pollutants that smother Gorge who values breathing clean air in the minded conservation organizations, views in haze, and created acid rain that Northwest. TGorge air quality will have its day in court. harms forests and wildlife in the National Federal Judge Ancer Haggerty recently Scenic Area, as well as other federally Acid rain, climate change, and denied a motion by Portland General protected parks and wilderness areas. mercury Electric (PGE) to dismiss a coalition In September 2008, the coalition, PGE’s coal-fired plant is Oregon’s lawsuit that alleges numerous violations represented by the Pacific Environmental largest single source of sulfur dioxide and of the federal Clean Air Act at PGE’s Advocacy Center (PEAC), filed a lawsuit nitrogen oxide pollution—haze-causing aging coal-fired power plant in Boardman, against PGE for egregious violations of pollutants that are regulated under the Oregon. This decision means that Friends the Clean Air occurring since 1980 at the Clean Air Act. Under certain atmospheric and our coalition partners—including the Boardman plant. In December 2008, PGE conditions in the Columbia Basin during Sierra Club, Northwest Environmental filed a motion to dismiss the case. PGE fall and winter, these pollutants form Defense Center, Columbia Riverkeeper, and is represented by Baker Botts, a Texas- sulfuric acid and nitric acid at levels that are Hells Canyon Preservation Council—will based law firm notorious for its defense of equivalent to vinegar. The acidic compounds be able to present our case in court. polluters. PGE argued that more effective drift into the Gorge in the form of acid Our lawsuit will demonstrate that pollution controls are not required and fog and acid rain, harming ecosystems and PGE has violated the Clean Air Act and, in that it was too late to enforce the law for endangering Native American cultural doing so, has subjected the Columbia River violations that have occurred over the resources. Gorge and eleven other national parks and past three decades. But this September, PGE Boardman is the state’s largest wilderness areas throughout the Northwest the Court ruled against PGE on all issues, source of greenhouse gas emissions, to a steady stream of air pollution. PGE’s allowing the case to move forward. The pumping out 5 million tons of carbon 30-year history of pollution emissions at decision is a significant victory for the dioxide (CO2) every year.
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