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Ancient Mountain Sentinel of Mountains Range after range Ancient Mountain Sentinel of mountains. Shenandoah Year after year Ecosystems after year. Defense I am still in love. Group -Gary Snyder Vol V, No. 1 ACTION for the wild Shenandoah and central Blue Ridge Bioregions Spring, 2003 ative ideas. (The stapler chasing around the trees skit originated here, and was later used in places as far away as Oregon). Our success STAPLES VICTORY demonstrates the power of a creative, driven, and well thought-out By Mike Kruse grassroots movement. You may have joined us when we protested outside of Staples TAKE ACTION! office supply store to demand that they carry more recycled paper and not use paper fibers that come from our national forests. If you were Please remember that recycling is not complete unless you there, if you were one of almost one hundred people who came to one BUY recycled products. It is especially important to buy of the three protests we had here in Charlottesville, or if you buy recycled paper products to bolster the market for such goods recycled paper, then you have reason to celebrate a personal victory. and increase industry production. For a list of resources on In November, Staples announced that they would meet most recycled paper please visit: www.thepapercampaign.com of our demands. Staples agreed to achieve an average of 30%, post- and click on alternatives. consumer waste, recycled content for all paper in their stores (up from an estimated 3%). Staples has also agreed to phase out paper that Mike Kruse is a long-time activist and supporter of comes from our national forests, old growth forests, and certain en- SEDG dangered southern forests. SEDG HIRES CONSERVATION DIRECTOR In the spring of 2002, SEDG hired its first staff person. Through a generous grant from The Agua Fund, SEDG was able to hire Steve Krichbaum, a native of Staunton, to be its first Conserva- tion Director on a part-time basis. Steve has a degree in zoology from the University of Florida and has worked on for- est and wildlife conser- vation issues for over fourteen years. He is a passionate, outspoken Charlottesville activists pose for a photo during a demonstration in front of Staples advocate for wilderness. on Rt. 29 North in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photo: Alex Davis He is the author of the 2000 Shenandoah Moun- This is an enormous victory. This will send a clear message tain National Monument to the paper industry without creating new government regulations. Proposal, an attempt to Staples has created a model for other office supply stores to follow. influence Bill Clinton to The weight now falls on Office Depot and Office Max, the new tar- bestow national recogni- gets of the Paper Campaign, to change their paper purchasing poli- tion and special protec- cies. tions on public lands in Thanks to the Dogwood Alliance and Forest Ethics for lead- the Shenandoah Moun- ing the Paper Campaign and to the thousands of people around the tain area. country who participated Steve is responsible for Table of Contents: in the days of action. monitoring timber sales Thanks particularly to the on the George Washing- Staples Victory.......................................1 people who joined us here ton National Forest with Killing an Oak Tree...........................2-3 in Charlottesville and the special emphasis placed Protecting Your Favorite Places.........4 Students for Environmen- on the Shenandoah river watershed. Only 2% of the George Wash- Progress on High Knob NRA............5 tal Action at the Univer- ington National Forests is protected as Wilderness but it is our hope Bush and Forest Policy..........................6 sity of Virginia. SEDG that with Steve and a growing army of SEDG volunteers we can Abuse on VA's Old Growth................6-7 consistently had some of increase that number to 12% or more. Steve works mostly out of his Assault on Potomac Watersheds.....7-9 the largest turnouts in the home in Staunton as much of his work is in the field. Calendar of Events...............................10 nation with great, cre- 1 Killing an Oak Tree moving shade, changing character all the time Ancient Mountain Sentinel as the light filtering through the leaves changes. A Gratuitous Death Volume V, Number I - Spring 2003 The cycle of light weve grown used to here has _____________________________________________________ By Bruce Jackson, appeared in the January 25, 2003 been determined by the annual cycle of that issue of CounterPunch oak tree. The Ancient Mountain Sentinel is And its cycle of sounds, too: light rain published by Shenandoah Ecosys- My neighbor is killing his oak tree. Its and heavy rain, different in spring, summer and tems Defense Group taking a long time. fall. Light breezes and strong winds, different . Hes not doing it himself. Its too big a job Jennifer L. Creasy, Editor when theyre going through leaves of spring, for him to do by himself, even if he knew how to do summer or fall, or across bare winter wood. The it, which he doesnt. Hes hired a tree company to For subscriptions, inquiries or chattering and singing and calling of the birds do it for him. Their two-man crew has been work- submissions, contact: and squirrels hanging out there, living there, ing since a little after dawn. finding meals there. A lively place,, my Shenandoah Ecosystems Defense Its a white oak, maybe ninety feet tall in neighbors two-hundred-year-old oak tree. Group the trunk, plumb-straight from the small branch at Theres always been a lot of life in that PO Box 1891 the top to the ground. It measures forty-three inches ninety-foot-high trunk with all those limbs and Charlottesville, VA 22903 in diameter at eye-level, eleven feet and four inches branches and leaves. Squirrels use it as their (804) 971-1553 in circumference. The two men cutting it down fig- [email protected] main aboveground thoroughfare getting from ure its about two hundred years old. _____________________________________________ the garages behind our houses to the street be- All day long Ive been listening to the in- fore their quick dash across the street into the termittent howl of the chain saw biting into wood, Contributors this Issue: park and back again. Sometimes, standing in Susan Curry, Alex Davis, Arthur then the saw falling quiet for a while as the two- my driveway, Ive seen them come across from a Evans, Jason Halbert, Bruce Jackson, man crew lowers the severed branch or limb to the far neighbors house, scamper across my garage, Steve Krichbaum, Greg Lipscomb & yellow steel truck parked below. Then the chainsaw leap to the oak tree owners garage, leap from Christina Wulf man in the cherrypicker attaches his rope to an- his garage to the oak tree, negotiate all the way other limb or branch, his saw starts up again, howls across and through its huge web, leap to a maple Submissions again as it bites into another piece of the tree, falls We will gladly print most anything you at the curb and scamper down and out of sight silent again, and that limb or branch in its turn is supply--articles, op-ed, poetry, car- for the run across the street. lowered to the truck. All day long. First the outer toons, photos, drawings, etc... so please The rookery of crows that inhabits the branches, then the limbs, then more branches and send it in. Our next issue will be com- nearby cemetery a few weeks every year fills ing out in Summer 2003, so please sub- another limb. the tree twice a day as they circuit the neigh- mit by June 1st. Thanks! Today the two men amputated all the borhood. Every now and then a woodpecker goes ____________________________________ branches and limbs on the side of the tree facing to work somewhere in it. Robins nest in it. Over my house. Tomorrow theyll start amputating all the years Ive spotted black-headed grosbeaks, Donations to SEDG are gratefully ac- the branches and limbs on my neighbors side. I cerulean warblers, orchard orioles, white- cepted, and much appreciated. assume that will be slower work, since the branches Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) breasted nuthatches nesting in its branches or and limbs on my side were over our adjoining drive- serves as our fiscal sponsor. Please just loafing there for a while. Three years ago ways, while most of the branches on limbs on his make checks payable to VOP and mail two red-tailed hawks lurked on its topmost side are over his roof. them to SEDG at the above address. branches for nearly a week. Thank you! Sometime later in the week, theyll take Its the straightest and tallest white down the trunk. Then there will be nothing except oak Ive ever seen, Pete Seeger said when he a stump in the ground, and maybe not even that. first saw it fifteen years ago. Its so rare, a When we have bad ice storms here healthy straight white oak like that. It would maybe once or twice a yeara few of the old trees make a wonderful keel for another Clearwater. in the park across the street go down. When theyre Clearwater is the sloop Pete helped build to en- down and broken you can see where those trees are courage people to clean up the Hudson River. If rotted and dying on the inside. Its sad to see those the owner ever wants to part with it, Pete said, big trees in the park suddenly nothing but litter, tell him to call me. Pete looked at the tree but you can always see the rot, see that they were some more, then said, But it shouldnt ever hap- ready to go.
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