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Copyright: All rights reserved. The user may download, preserve and print this material only for private, research or nonprofit educational purposes. The user may not alter, transform, or build upon this material. EARTH FIRST! YULE EDITION December 22, 1983 Vol. IV, No. II THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNAL ONE DOLLAR FREDDIES ATTACK WILDS 8609 MILES OF ROAD FOR ROADLESS AREAS! Since the issuance ofthe RARE II nothing to oppose it, The Fon'''1 Final Environmental Impact State Service has not tried t.o hide tlH'jr ment in 1970, t.he Forest Service hulldozer assault on the' roadie"" has quickly and methodically gone areas: they haven't pul,liciz('d '" about their business of insuring an pither. But tl1(' Sit'ITa Cluh. \\'ild";' end to t he question of wilderlll's" lWSS Socic-ty and 01 ht'r grolll'" designations on the national fore"ts. ha\'cn't lonk('d for it. TI1<"' inform', '1'111' Forest Service solution is Iion i.'> Ihere, 'Earth First' 11: " simple. It's done with cbainsaws, rcC'eiv('d a summar,\' or the cntir,· drill rigs and bulldozers, Iftherearp t\lwration frolll tIl(' ('hief of 11,, no roaclless areas, there will be no Ft\resl Service (EF' has sent c,)!,i,-,> wilderlH'ss proposals from pesk,\' 10 01 her conservation groups). I,'" ('onsf'!vation groups, called the DAR;\, RC'i'ort (De\'e], -f ,. This"Dest.roy the Wildernpss" llH'nt Activities in Hoadless :\,>1,' campaign by the Forest Selvic<' is S('lectcd) and is a computer prin' oneoftlH'great conseJv
\ • Watch for the group deyeloping can. too cozy a relationship with political • Be an open Earth First!eras you figures that will end up with the do this. Introduce other militants politician getting more than the in the outfit to Earth First!, hand cons~rvation group from the rela out copies of EFt, wear your EF! tionship. Warn against being sucked T-shirt or hat. Be an honest sub into the system or playingthegame versive. Come out of the closet. as though it's legitimate. There should be active EF! wings Struggle against growing in all conservation groups and an bureaucracy within the group or EF! network throughout the against "professional" staff or environmental movement. established leaders insulating Of course, there also need to be themselves from the grassroots and separate Earth First! groups outside trying to "lead" instead ofserve the of the other organizations - that volunteers. Write letters to the will always be our main focus. president or executive director of In essence, Earth First! should the group when they sell out or not merely educate and lobby the become bureaucratic. agencies, Congress and the public • Keep passion, emotion, anger, but should target the environ etc., in the forefront and don't let mental movement as well to the group be led off into the blind encourage it to take ethical, alleys of "credibiljty," "profes visionary, passionate and coura sionalism" and acceptance in the geous stands and actions on a mul establishment. tiplicity of issues affecting natural • Work your way into leadership diversity and a healthy environ \\1 NTE LLI GEN CE S VAST AND COOL AN 0 UNSYMPATH ET Ie positions in the organization. ment. Earth First! as a movement, Develop-no-compromise wilderness not a group, should work to take WATCHED OUR WORLD WITH ENVIOUS EYES ... AND proposals and positions on issues over the environmental movement. MADE THEIR PLANS" for them. Testify for them at hear - Dave Foreman - Bill Turk ings. Push the group as far as you - H. G. WELLS
Dear Earth First! DearEF! DearEF! Your brave road blockades and I wish I could send you more Thoseguys and'gals who expospd yourclearthinkingaboutourplanet money. Please keep up the great thf'ir bodies to the bulldozers to are inspiring. Butyourhabitofcall work and don'tbe shy aboutasking protectwilderness m southwestern ing bureaucrats names like for the funds to work with. Earth Oregon, and went to jail for it, cer "Freddie" is a bit counterproduc First!is the besthope the wild lands tainly deserve great credit. A year tive. I've worked for Jim Watt's have for an advocate and ago I went to a liident Submarine Interior Department, burrowing spokesman. protest rally over on Point Julia at from within like Ed Abbey's noble - Virginia the entrance to Hood Canal, but cutworm. I've helped to derail SOme that was a Sunday picnic. fairly mindless proposals, when Reminiscing now: I hiked up till' there has been a lot ofpublic pres DearEF! north bank ofRogue River the first sure to get the attention of the Your paperis the bestthinggoing time in 1927, as far as the Lowery higher-ups in the Department. on in the environmental front - it ranch. There was no bridge across I'm no longer with Interior, but really helps to tie all ofuswith love the river to Gold Beach at that time. Letters to the editor are Dear Earth First! there are lots of brave souls still for the land together. Very suppor Then I hiked down the R.R. trail encouraged. Lengthy letters Read "EF! & Non-Violence, A holding out there. Even some of tive to know there are others out from just below Grants Pass to Ag may be edited for space Discussion,"and thoughtitwas very Reagan's appointees have a con there of like feelings. Your Smokey ness in 1962 on the Memorial Day requirements. Letters should good. After all, WHY SHOULD an science and are trying to do the the BearChainsaw Letterwas great. weekend. Even that recently the be typed or carefully printed anarchistgroup havea single"party right thing but are trapped in this. I've been plastering them all over trail was practically deserted. Now, and double-spaced, usingonly line"?! Peter Swanson says EF! inhuman system. By all means crit theWillametteNational Foresthere I understand, they have to set lim one side of a sheet of paper. should choose anapproach, as ifall icize theiractions, block theirworst in Oregon - on campground poster its to the numbers allowed to hike Besuretoindicateifyou wish situations required thesame tactics: efforts, stand firm - but try to do it boards and on stumps by clearcuts on weekends. your name and location to ridiculous. with consideration for the humans in the forest. I've even hit a few 1wroteletters to theOregon Sen appear or if you wish to Montanasaid it well: I'd ratherbe behind the masks. When we call ranger stations. Keep up the good ators and Washington Reps. as remain anonymous. Send to a hammer than a nail. But it is not any bureaucrata name, we've guar- work. requested. Enclosed is - a small 230 West 7th Avenue, Chico, just that I'd rather; I believe that , anteed they won't listen to us. I - Oregon contribution. CA 95926 those of us who are here now to know it's satisfying, and it plays to - Washingto/l manifest the Rainbow Wanior have cheers back home, but even my (Editor's note:Ifanyonewould like Dear EF! a duty to protect Earthmother. We environmentalist colleagues in a sample copy of the Smokey the Ijust want to compliment you on have to succeed, notjust look holy Interior take offense when their Bear Chainsaw Letter u) copy and Earth First! the special discussion of violence trying. And Chim Bleais rightabout whole departmentis smeared. They post like alxrve, send a stamped, After reading Ed Abbey's "The in the last issue. I was very impres not turning aside from the struggle need oursupport- it's lonely trying self-addressed envelope with your Monkey Wrench Gang," and loving sed by Dave's lead-in essay. I to achieve "inner peace"; it is to bring reason to the bureaucracy. requ.est to our Chico address.) - every minute of it, I wished that thought itstruckjustthe right note. cowardly spiritual narcissism. there really was such a band lI[ . (I'd sign my name but there are DearEF! I hope all ourfriends take whatyou I agree about not mixing beerand some vindictive types here.) zealots. I would like to know more about said to heart. milk. - Helena, Monta'IW- Then I read the alticle "The Real - Virginia - Appalachia your organization, your activities, Monkey Wrench Gang" in Outside publications; and whether you are (Editor's note: "Freddie"asa'jJ({jora magazine and I rejoiced at the exis Dear EF! tive for the Forest Service or a organized at all in my area of the l,'IH:e ofjust such a group. Thanks for a superb and sensible DearEF! Forest Service line officer origi Midwest. 1have rearl a few briefbut Now 1 ha'''f' read your letter in positive praises of your approach EF!(Mabon Ed.), especially on the From one soul's point of view, nated with rural rednecks in O:'!Jsidl' in ro~sponse to the altide and that's en'ough to make me think privatizati~Jn question ofnon-violence. Ifyou are ecotage isdirect non-violent action Catron County, New Mexico, and on and I know there is that you might supply something g;'Oll~ ')'~':lple not comfortable in a blockade as long as it could not hurt some was picked up by Earth First!ers a of O'lt there who stay out! If you feel uneasy with a one. We are pulling up survey working for the Gila National the Sierra Club (to which I belong) share ll\~' vil'w '")fthe rdative impor doesn't. monkeywrench in your hand, don't markers at the Michigan ELF ease Forest there. It isderivedfrom "Fed tance of our species In the whole - Cincinnati, Ohio pickone up! Each ofus knows what ment and doing blockades of the eral." Similar disparaging terms ecosyst.em of ,)tir planet. personal contribution wecan make Wisconsin facility. I see no devia I have n('\··~r before been a mem include"Forest Circus"and"Forest (Editor's note: We are hoping to to the defense ofMother Earth and tion from a Gandhian approach in Industry Service." Yes, there are ber of an environmental'conser become moreorganized in theMid it is a false consciousness to dwell any of this. I also think that if non good peopte workingfor the Forest vation organization. Pleasesend me west through our Road Show in on thoughts and methods that we violence is only a tactic and not a Service and the Department ofthe all the informdtion on Earth First' FebruarY. We'relookingforwafdto cannot handle ethically, psycholo philosophy, it will fail. Witness the Interior. There are even active and how I may get involved in its meetingEF!ers throughout thearea ' gically or whatever. Your efforts IRA members who used the hunger Earth First!ers working for those campaign(s). east ofthe Rockies then.) and mine will be as complex, as strike after a violent history. They agencies and we are glad they are - Colorado innocent, as absurd, as profound as were allowed to perish. Maybe my there. We do notmean to insultany DearEF! we wish to make them. One other mind is small, but consistency is at ofthe good peopte in the Forest Ser I am gratified to see that-at long Letters cO/ltilll/l'd thing - Chim Blea's article on the least a goal in this movement. vicewhenweuse the term"Freddi.e." lasta group ofenvironmentally con Oil pages 15 alld /7 Arrogance of Enlightenment - Wisconsin Butitishumannature to call your cerned people has gotten up the wonderful! enemy by derogatory names (and courage to initiate something most Earth First! has the most lucid, DearEF! it is arrogant humanism to deny (if not all) the rest of us so-called poetic, intelligentand heartfelt wri Please send me a "Rednecks for ourhumannature). TheForestSer environmentalists covertly would ters I have ever come across in any Wilderness" bumperstickerso I can vice is indeed the enemy and they like tosee. Itwas a notable effort by -magazine. Keep going. be the first redneck on my block to are dedicated to the industrializa yourgroup to resist the USFS in the SUBSCRIBE -Rainbows have one. tion of our forests and the des Kalmiopsis. John Martin, Australia - Covelo, Cali/o'roia truction ofwilderness.) - Coos Bay, Oregon TO EARTHFIRST! Page 3 Earth First! December 22, 1983 SAVE OUR NATIONAL FORESTS
From il" inct'ption in IDt)(i.·the pri/llal'," mi""Ion' of tIlt' l nited Siall'" Fort'''1 St'lyicp has been the Unfortunately for life, the timber Federal employment usually dl'\'l'lopnH'nt of wild National industry war against the woods is means good pay, superb benefits, F, 'I"<'"t land". TIll-' program has been also a political war. The existence and above all, security. "Don't rock di"glli""d as "conselyation": it oflarge timber mills throughout the the boat" is the unwritten law in . Itas appt'arl'd under a Yaliety of THE western U.S. pressures the Freddies most federal agencies. Those few l'uplll'mi"ms (wise use. opening up into maintaining the status quo. environmentalists who do become Iltt' (·ountr~·. working forests. Few district rangers, forest super established in the lower levels of I\lltllipll:' use. etc.). but under GRIZZLY visors, or local congressmen are the agency - and there are some Ill'publican or Democratic admin going to initiate reforms that might good timber foresters, wildlife ist rations the purpose ofthe Forest force a mill' to close and put people biologists, soil scientists, hydrolo Sl'IYicl:' has been to civilize the vast DEN out of work. The timber corpora gists and recreation specialists Iracts ofland untrammeled by man tions maintain an ever present find career advancement to deci in tIl(' mountains and forests ofthe shutdown threat Uob blackmail) in sionmaking positions difficult or "nited States - to build roads by Howie Wolke order to pressure the Freddies into impossible. For this reason, few \\'hl're only trails went before, to maintaining the qevastating levels have the courage to outwardly I"<'place ecologically diverse of overcutting necessary to feed oppose agency policy. Those who n'gt'tati\"e communities with. excessively large mills that never do tend to stagnate in the lower managed tree farms. to control THREE REASONS WHY THE professional foresters (many of should have been constructed. levels of the agency. In the Forest naturall~' occuning wild fire and to U.S. FOREST SERVICE SUCKS: whom work for industry) who Forest Rangers consider it their Service, the district ranger who manipulate watersheds. Quite 1. The Forest Service operates received their training at the same duty to maintain this legalized successfully produces his timber simply. it has beel1 a campaign with under a set of laws that are institutions that they themselves insanity: quota (thus helping his forest military precision and religious zeal inherently biased againstwilder accredit. This incestuous relation "We have a responsibility to receive more funding) will become. to industrialize the wild. ness and the maintenance of ship is conducive to maintaining keep the Louisiana-Pacific a forest supervisor. The supervisor To be sure. the Forest Selvice has natural diversity. the status quo of timber and live mill in business. " whose forest "gets the cut out" always been wiliing to set aside a For example, the Multiple Use stock oriented curriculums (the - Reid Jackson, Supervisor while creating minimal controversy fl'\\' areas of spectacular scenery Sustained Yield Act of 1960 man S.A.F. must approve all college Bridger-Teton will become a regional forester. for recreational horsepacking or dates the agency to manage the forestry curriculums). Thereis little National Forest, Subscribers to agency dogma opportunity for the infusion ofnew backpacking in a plimitive setting. forests for timber, livestock Jackson, Wyoming, 6/79 advance to decisionmaking posi But they haye an inherent bias production, recreation, wildlife and ideas. Old dogma is simply recycled. tions, while the good guys arc against Il·ildemess. The Forest watershed purposes. This anthro Further complicating the problem At the national level, industry filtered outand remain at the lower Sen'ice \"iewed RARE II in 1978 as pocentric law is one of the vaguest is the fact that forestry schools influence and lobbying are legend levels of the agency. In the Forest the final decision on what was to pieces of political offal ever receive a large percentage of their ary. Under the Carter Administra Service, as with most bureau remain essentially wild and what produced by the great political research funding directly from tion, timberindustrylobbyists were cracies, it is the conformists, not was to be developed. Of the 66 mil garbage machine in Washington, industry. Thus, forestry cuniculums instrumental in initiating the RARE the innovators, who climb the lion acres identified as roactless in D.C. Although the Act. -does statE' are thoroughly product.ion n process which gave away nearly ladder of success. Tradition has RARE II, the Forest Service pro t.hat "some land will be used for less oriented. Professional foresters are 3/4 ofthe remaining national forest degenerated into a self-perpetua posed only 15 million to remain as than all of the resources" and t.hat laden with training in forest roadless areas to industry. Under ting cycle ofconformity. such. the Forest Service must not allow economics, wood technology, Reagan, John Crowell, former chief Certainly, there arc other reasons Without a visionalY, courageous "impairment of the productivity of computer programming and silvi legal counsel for Louisiana-Pacific why the ForestServicesucks. Thos(' change in the goals and strategy of t.he land" (section 4a), there is no culture, while their training in the (the largest purchaser of national I've discussed pointout, I think, til(' the enyironmemal movement, the specific direction given to main natural sciences (in Ecology, par forest timber) is the Assistant deep rooted nature of I. he problem. hattie for wilderness on the taining inherent biological diversity. ticularly) is woefully inadequate. It Secretary of Agriculture, in charge There is no reason to believe that \"ational Forests is over. For a The Wilderness Act. (1964) does is notsurprising that young forestry . ofthe Forest Service. young foresters entering the agency \"ational Forest Wilderness System little to promote the preservation school graduates tend to already Furthermore, timber production will be any more inclined or able to \\'e will have what is currently of real Ecological Wilderness, and conform to industry ideology when "targets" for each forest come overhaul it than were those of past protected as wilderness and the is literally filled with loopholes(see they first enter the Forest Service. directly from Washington, set by generations. If anything, th" scraps Jim McClure, John Melcher, Grizzly Den 3/21/83). The National The timber industry has waged a bureaucrats who are far removed Freddies are getting worse. .Jake Garn. Mar~ Hatfield and other Forest Management Act (1976) sets successful propaganda war outside from the land and its fragile eco Although autilization-orientpd timber mining industry stooges are up a maze of rules and regulations the universities, as well. Slick full systems. As we shall see, career agency from its inception under willing to give us in the current designed to keep bureaucrats page magazine ads tell us that new advancement is for those foresters Teddy Roosevelt in IROn, I do round ofRARE II "wilderness" bills. planning, and to allow them to tree seedlings are always planted who meetorapproach their targets. believe that its [oundet·s would be E\'erything else - except for "mitigate" the impacts ofactivities to replace the old trees that must Through a well-organized multi appalled at the agency's holy war country that protects itselfthrough that. should never he allowed to be cut so that all Americans can level propaganda campaign; against Wilderness, its giant scale extraordinarily rugged topography occur. These laws ALLOW the have a three-bedroom house in through the application of tremen roadbuilding and c1earcutting or lack of "resources" - will be Freddies to legally destroy wil suburbia. Industry and Forest dous political pressure at the local, practice'>, its mismanagement of de\·eloped. With that in mind, Earth derness and natural diversity. So Service publications laud the brave regional, and national levels; and livestock overgrazing, and its First' is initiatinga major campaign does the National Environmental new world ofgenetic "supertrees." via the inherent dea'd-weight general callousness toward wildlife, not just to reform the U.S. Forest Policy Act(NEPA, 1970), a toothless Government pamphlets and college momentum ofa large bureaucracy, water quality, and soils. Even the Sen"ice but to totally restructure paper tiger which simply requires texts, wildly oversimplified and the timber barons have molded the true utilitarians of the early 1900's tl1{' concept and "management" of the agency to consider a range of biologically incorrect, claim that Forest Service into their own such as Gifford Pinchot, as well as our \!ational Forests. The key points options and their potential impacts. logging is beneficial to wildlife. servant. the early biocentric visionaries such of the campaign at this time are: Conversely, the 1872 Mining Law "Trees are a crop" say the govern 3. Forest Service decision as Leopold and Marshall, would, I •A :-.lational RARE II lawsuit to MANDATES the agency to allow ment and industry publications: makers are the survivors of an am convinced, be completely dis stop development activities the complet.e destruction of forests really aren't much different incredibly efficient Orwellian gusted with the Forest Service of planned for 1984 and to dramatize ecosystems over large areas of than a cornfield. Ifwe don't harvest ":filtration system." the 1980's. tIll' crisis in the National Forests; public land. them, our forests will become University students who have a • Demonstrations at major Forest Unfortunately, there are no laws "decadent and overmature" (a real bioceritric viewpoint tend to The nextGrizzlyDenwilldiscuss S('lvice offices in conjunction with whi<;h actually require the Forest forestry term) and their wood will become rapidly disillusioned by the the myth of professionalism, and til(' lawsuit; Service to maintain vast undeve be wasted. development-oriented forestry why we must rwt let "professional • Completion of Earth First! pro loped areasas reservoirs for genetic The message is driven home in schools. Many drop out or switch resource managers"decide thefate posals for ecological wilderness on diversity. As we shall see, itis simply magazines, newspapers, television majors(I switched from Forestry to qfour public lands. all our National Forests; a matter of acquiescence for the and radio, and in colleges and Conservation halfway through my • Development ofa new concept Freddies to take the path of least universities. Resource managers junior year), leaving forestry lill' Fon'st Service management and resistance: plan, develop, mitigate accept lies as truth, and in turn schools with a preponderance of al tit udes toward timber harvest, and manage. The Earth loses. seek to further indoctrinate the unquestioning, multiple-use wildlift'. watershed, wilderness, fire, 2. The Timber Industry and public. The utilization mentality worshippinggraduates to enterthe grazing. mining, etc., based on other economic self-interest permeates every level ofoursociety. Forest Service. Therefore, relatively Howie Wolke owns and operates l'("ological grounds and a land ethic. groups run the Forest Service. In this atmosphere of misinfor few men and women with vision, WildHorizonsExpeditionsinJack • ()pposition to sell-out "wilder Forestry schools in the United mation and morally bankrupt ideals and courage become son, Wyoming, and is the former ill'S"" hills with minimal acreage States are accredited by the Society thinking, the U.S. Forest Service. Freddies. Most have already been Wyoming Representative for protl,(·tt'd and any kind of release ofAmerican Foresters, a utilization operates as the cornerstone of filtered out of the forestry Friends of the Earth and is a languagt'. oriented organization composed of corporate dogma. profession. founder ofEarth First! Page 4 Earth First! December 22,1983 ARIZONA WILDERNESS
In Arizona, Earth First!ers are and precious little water, the devas combining their Forest Service wil tating effects of roads are in most derness proposal with the more cases not only morally and ecologic comprehensive wilderness eco ally unjustifiable, but are also system preserve idea. The coupling impractical in terms of economics and contrasting of these two, we and engineering. feel, will enhance both. Our recommendation therefore is A Forest Service wilderness bill first to immediately protect the for Arizona is beingconsidered this roadless character of whatever year by Mo Udall and the restofthe remains undisturbed; and then to Arizona congressional delegation. identify areas which should be The moderate conservation com returned to a roadless condition. munity has presented the dele We have gone on record as support gation with a "reasonable" propo ing wilderness designation for all sal suggesting about 1.8 million identified roadless areas, but that Forest Service acres or about 17% is just the beginning. A true Earth of the total Forest Service lands. First! Wilderness proposal must Their proposal is considered by have its own vision and ethic and industryand most ofthe delegation not simply respond to the govern to be radical and unrealistic. In ment and agency game plan. truth it is basically unambitious. It The developing Earth First! Ariz plays the agency game by generally ona wilderness proposal is really considering only identified Forest two overlapping proposals as men Service roadless areas - even tioned earlier. Fi rstofall, expanded though those areas are only ema versions of the roadless areas are ciated versions ofthe actual roadless being proposed with boundaries acreage. Italso sticks mainly to units defined in ecological terms rather devoid or"resource conflicts" with than in terms of roads, impacts or Arizona's West Clear Creek. Photo by Dave Foreman. the livestock, mineral and timber artificial wilderness attribute rat industries; and has already offered ings. This part ofthe proposal (unit,> , The next portion involves the wil reduce thesmallerwilderness a.reas pre.sent practical intentions is dis many compromises to these oppos outlined in black on a state map) derness ecosystem preserves. This in black to a moderate position; played for the public and policy ing forces. Fewattempts were made relates specifically to the congres provides the ideal and the basis for while the smaller areas are pro makers. to really expand the roadless area sional delegation's considerations the more "practical" portion above. moted as "building blocks" for the We have first draft boundaries for designations and many RARE II and provides a contrastto the mod The preserves are much larger ideal more comprehensive wilderness wilderness areas in the six Arizona units were not included simply erate environmentalists' proposal. wilderness areas overstepping all ecosystem preserves. In many cases Forests and a few preliminary eco because they didn't have high (arti It also relates to the present Forest boundaries and man-made intrus the preserves will center on areas system preserves outlined. Ifanyone ficial human) standards of wilder Service roadless area reevaluation. ions. They center on whole geo containing one or more agency would like to recommend other ness qualities. Since it responds to the game plan, graphic regions and assume an roadless units thereby emphasiz ecosystem preserves or help to fin Earth First! believes that far too this portion o{the proposal is more intention to recreate vast roadless ing this "building block" concept. alize the agency-related portion of much of Arizona's forests· are intellectually accessible to the areas of special ecological sig Thus, these two aspects of EF! our proposal please contact: Pablo roaded already. In a state with such agency and politicians. It will get nificance. wilderness policycomplementeach Desierto at P.O. Box 40154, Tucson, radical topographical relief, soil their attention and serve to open The ecosystem preserves (out other. A larger picture presenting AZ 85717. Get in touch soon if -instability,_fragile arid vegetation the door to the rest ofour proposal. lined in bold green on a state map) our ideal aspirations as well as our you're concerned.
along the existing Kalmiopsis million and a halfacres ofroadless DARN (cont) Wilderness boundary in order to areas scheduled for logging in the but to file a national RARE II suit to Service moved in to develop a road- completely sever the 150,000 acre DARN report represent even mqre RARE II stop DARN and to demonstrate that less area by chewing away at its North Kalmiopsis Roadless area. millions ofacres eliminated from a the United States Forest Service periphery, munching slowly from The first timber sale was slated for roadless condition and chopped SUIT (cont) operates in insouciant disregard for the outside to the core. In order to the center of the roadless area - into smaller and smaller scraps of the law. As Marcy Willow said on swiftly eliminate a roadless area not the ·edge. There is even an wild country. on the RARE II FEIS for NEPA the Bald Mountain Blockade, "The now, the Freddies are first going for official forest managementterm for The DARN· material does not compliance." Chief to Regional Forest Service is an outlaw agency." the core. this practice.: backing out. This cover the entire national forest Foresters, March 9, 1983.) It's time they were stopped. This new strategy is best exem- identical pattern appears on maps system either. Because of "release According to the DARN report Furthermore, a national RARE II plified by the Bald Mountain road and in plans in any National Forest language" in passed RARE II bills, (see separate story) hundreds of lawsuit can be the central feature project in Oregon. This road was planner's office. Becauseofthis, the Alaska, Colorado, New Mexico, thousands ofacres ofwild national around which wilderness preserva- ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Indiana, Missouri and West Virginia forest lands are slated to be roaded, tionists can rally to begin a new are not included. In fact, roadless logged and leased for oil and gas in offensive in support of protecting ~WHATYOU CAN DO~ areas not designated as wilderness 1984. A national RARE II lawsuit our wild forest lands and to stop • • in those states do not exist in any will stop that activity for at least t.he bulldozers, chainsaws and drill • RARE III AND by the Sierra Club and Wilderness. legal sense. The miles ofroads and the coming field season. After rigs thatare destroying ecosystems • WILDERNESS BILLS .Society. : acres ofclearcuts built or projected consultation with many leading a'building since the glaciers : The Forest Service is currently Additionally, National Forest. in these areas are not in the DARN environmentalists, Earth First! has retreated. The battle is not over. It • taking an6ther look at roadless wilderness bills are being con-: figures. Additionally, DARN figures decided that it has no alternative has just begun. areason the National Forestsand is sidered for many states. Almost: for Californiaare much smallerthan holding public meetings and without exception, these are "non- • DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN NON·SELECTED they would otherwise be because ROADLESS AREAS (DARN): A SUMMARY requesting comments. It is impor . wilderness" bills in thatthey release: theCalifornia RARE IIsuitresulted tant that Earth First!ers 'get more wild country to·development • in development activities being REGION timber oil & gas roads involved in this process without than they protect. Write your: prohibited in the 47 roadless areas harvest leasing (miles) accepting its validity. Go to the Senators and Representative (U.S. • covered by the suit. (acres) (acres) public meetings, meet with Forest Senate, Washington, D.C.; House of: With RARE II the Forest Service 1 (MT, North ID, ND) 503,300 1,916,000 2,301.7 Service staff to review maps and Representatives, Washington, D.C.): won the battle over wilderness on development plans, write letters in for information on wilderness·bills. the National Forests, DARN is the 2 (East WY, SD, NBy 89,800 629,000 313.5 support of EF! wilderness propo in your states. Oppose any.kind of· mopping-up action. Examples of 3 (AZ)" 10,100 124,000 28.9 sals to the Supervisor. Let the "release" language. Support Earth nationally significant wild areas on Freddies know thereare people out First! proposals for ecological the chopping block are: Gospel 4 (UT, NV, Western WY, there who want more than the wilderness. Hump in Idaho - 90 miles ofroads; Southern ID) 169,100 3,503,000 1,515.-1 paltry wilderness areas proposed McGregor-ThompSon in Montana 5 (CAY" 149,200 107,000 793.3 • Help developor:fine-tune Earth First!wildernessproposalsfor 246 miles of roads; Selway-Bitter your National Forest or state (contact Howie Wolke or the EF! root additionsin Montana - 20,000 6 (OR, WA) 449,200 775,000 2,952.6 WJ1derness Coordinator for your state); (See page 7) acres ofclearcuts; Leidy in Utah 8 (Southeast) 65,900 530,000 609.5 • Get.involved in the current Forest Service planning effort 56 miles ofroads; Orleans Mountain (RARE III, FORPLAN) and speak out for EF! proposals (contact in California· - 79 .miles of roads; 9 (Northeast, Midwest....) 19,400 29,000 94.7 your local Forest Service); : Glacier Peak additions in Washing • Write your Congressional Delegation in support for EF! pro- • ton - 62 miles ofroads; North Fork , Colorado not included due to passed RARE II bill • posals for wilderness in your state. Oppose compromise bills that : of the John Day in Oregon - 156 " New Mexico not included due to passed RARE II bill • designate more non-wilderness than wilderness; • miles of roads; Big Schloss in Vir :• Publicize the Forest Service campaign to destroy wilderness; : ginia - 35 miles of roads. '" DARN in 47 areas prohibited by California RARE II lawsuit •• MonitorForestServicedevelopmentactivitiesonyourNational • "" Indiana, Missouri and West Virginia not induded due to : Forests and fight them with whatever tools are appropriate; : Copies ofDARNfor your region passed RARE II bills •• Help organize or take part in Earth First! demonstrations • can be obtained by writing the : against the Forest Service this spring {contact Howie Wolke for : Chief, US. Forest Service, POE Alaska is not included because its RARE II areas were released • information). .• 2417, Washington, D.C. 20013. by the Alaska Lands Act ~ - Page 5 Earth First! December 22,1983 'I'll(' Ear1 h Fi rsl I national forpst wilderness proposal for Utah includes: I. Raft River Complex: (iH,OOO acres; Sawtooth National Forest ~. Stansbury Mtns.: (iO,OOO acres; Wasatch National Forest :1. Sheeprock Mtn. Complex: 47,000 acres; Uinta N.F. UTAH WILDERNESS 1\. Oak Creek: 41,000 acrE'S; Fishlake N.F. ;,. Greater Pavant Complex: 323,000 acres; Fishlake N.F. Ii. Greater Thshar Complex: 51,000 acres; Fishlake N.F. 7. Circleville Mtn.: 17,000 acres; Fishlake N.F. H. Ashdown Gorge: H.(jOO acres; Dixie N.F. THANKSGIVING TURKEY Utah !I. Pine VaUey Mtns.-Cedar Bench Complex: A UTAH WILDERNESS BILL II I :!H.llllO ,UTE'S; Dixie N.F.. Just a few days before Thanks f(~[:T HJ!f!ii:Il5~ I ll. Lost Peak: -t3.000 acres; Dixie N.F. giving, the Utah Congressional PROPO.)AL II. Clarkston Mtn.: 7,000 acres; Caribou N.F. Delegation introduced a wilderness FOREST SUt\'K£ ~AM~S I:!. Greater Mtn. Namoi Complex: 105,000 acres; Wasatch N.F. bill for the Beehive State, In an Ii W'i.i)(·o,:,[S"> attemptto quell the squabbles over • ."v\ORE WI~D£RN£.~~ 1:1. Wellsville Mtn.: 24.000 acres; Wasatch N.F. O£Xisrl!\i~ PARK ?.r.'}...:t~Mf\~tS l-t. Willard/Lewis Peak Complex: 29,000 acres; Wasatch N.F. the future of RARE II lands, the I;'. Burch Creek/Francis/Farmington Complex: delegation's propo~al designates :17.000 acres; Wasatch N.F. only 706,000 acres for wilderness 1(;. Mt. Aire/Olympus/Dromedary/Timpanogas/Lone Peak on national forests in Utah. Additions Complex: 80,000 acres; Wasatch N.F. In a surprise statement, the Utah Ii. Greater Santaquin Complex: 110,000 acres; Uinta N.F. Wilderness Association called this IH. San Pitch Mtns.: 63,000 acres; Manti La Sal N.F. severely compromised proposal "a IH. Greater East Mtn./Black Canyon Complex: good start," and a bill they could Iii,000 acres; Manti La Sal N.F. "begin working with." Indeed, they I !)a. Greater White Mtn./Big Bear Complex: have their work cut out for them, :!i6.000 acres; Manti La Sal N.F. since the UWA endorses 1.6 million ~o Greater Thousand Lake Mtn.IFishlake Mtn. Complex: acres for wilderness in national :!~1.000 acres; Fishlake N.F. forests in Utah. :! I. Greater Signal Peak/Marysvale Peak Complex: Commenting on the "bare-bones" lJ 1.000 acres; Fishlake N.F. proposal, Earth First! spokesman ~:!. Greater Casto Bluff Complex: 205,000 acres; Dixie N.F. SpursJacksonsaid, "Sure it's a good :!:1. Boulder Mtn./Box-Death Hollow Complex: start! It's a good start toward the 1;-;.+.000 acres; Dixie N.F. elimination of the majority of :!.+. Table Cliff/Henderson Canyon: 20,000 acres; Dixie N.F. national forest wild lands in Utah! :!.:'. Lakes Unit/Greater High Uintas: 183,OQO acres; Wasatch N.F. The bill should begiven a complete :2fi. Greater High Uintas: 1,000,000 acres including overhaul or killed outright." small satellite units; Ashley and Wasatch National Forests Earth First! has initially proposed :!i. White Ledge Complex: 71,000 acres; Uinta National Forest 4.4 million acres for wilderness on :!8. Diamond Fork/Two Tom Hill: national forests in Utah. Besides :350.000 acres; Cinta and Ashley National Forests protecting RARE II lands, EF! pro :ZD. Price River Complex: 144,000 acres; Manti La Sal National Forest poses ultimate protection for a :30. La Sal Mountain Complex: series of "wilderness complexes," 30.000 acres; ;\1anti La Sal National Forest plus the protection of "wilderness :31. Dark Canyon/Abajo Mtns. Complex: recovery areas" that were planned :300.000 acres; Manti La Sal N.F. -for non-wilderness purposes prior to RARE II. The High Uintas Mountain Range is the area of greatest controversy supported by EF! to write directly to the Utah dele in Utah. This magnificentmountaip As Spurs ,Jackson stated, "We feel gation in Washington, D.C. and voice RARE III IN CALIFORNIA mass is a critical wildlife haven and that a High Uintas Wilderness of their concerns for wilderness in a crucial undisturbed watershed for over one-million acres (including a Utah. Jackson also urged peoplc to EARTH FIR'ST! PROPOSES Utah and Wyoming. Its scenic and unit in the Lakes area) is an testify at upcoming field hearings recreational values are nationally absolute must for Utah. We will not in Utah, possibly scheduled for as 126,000 ACRE ISHI WILDERNESS famous; in fact, many people feel settlefor less! lftheUtah bill passes early as February. (For more infor that the High Uintas should have as is, the incredible north slope mation contact Spurs Jackson at been a national park years ago. The forests of the High Uintas will be Box 26221, Salt Lake City, Utah Long time northern California important oak-savannah foothills Utah delegation proposes to protect sacrified on the altar of the timber 84126.) \\'ilderness activist and now EF! and d.eep canyons of Deer, Mill and· about two-thirds of the lands pro beasts and oil and gas gluttons." "It's now or never," said Spurs. California Wilderness Coordinator Antelope Creeks, and a 106,000 acre posed for wilderness by the UWA, Mr. Jackson stressedtheneed for "Let's not let our delegation off the \'ancy Morton of Chico presented Middle Fork of the FeAther River and less than one-halfofthe acreage all Earth First!ers and their friends hook!" the Earth First' recommendations Wilderness. - EF! Wi1'ed Spl'Vices for wilderness in the RARE III Morton called on Earth First!ers re\'iew to the Lassen and Plumas elsewhere in California to develop \'ational Forest Supervisors in wilderness proposals for their \'O\·cmber. Morton called for closing national forests in response to selected dirt roads, rehabilitating RARE III. She can be reached at old timber sales, and combining 2:30 W7th Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 areas for a total of635,000 acres of (9I6) 343-6547 for help. Jim Ferrara new wilderness areas and additions (Box 522, Covelo, CA 95428) is In cxisting \vilderness on the Lassen developing EF! wilderness and Plumas National Forests. recommendations for the Six Among the more significant wil Rivers, Klamath, Shasta-Trinity derness proposals made by Earth and Mendocino National Forests First! are a 126,000 acre Ishi and would appreciate help from Wilderness in the ecologically knowledgeable people.
EARTH FIRST! WILDERNESS PROPOSAL FOR LASSEN AND PLUMAS NATIONAL FORESTS, CALIFORNIA. 1. Thousand Lakes Wilderness Additions 11 ,500 acres ':2. Lava }1,000 acres :3. Cinder Butte 18,000 acres .+. Timbered Crater 58,000 acres '>' Heart Lake 9,000 acres Ii. Wild Cattle Mountain 6,000 acres 7. Harkness 1,200 acres X. Caribou Wilderness Additions 5,200 acres >J. West Prospect 6,000 acres IO.lshi 126,000 acres II. Humboldt Summit 22,500 acres 1:2. Chips Creek 45,500 acres 1:1. Bucks Lake 71,000 acres 1-1. Middle Fork Feather River 106,000 acres 1:). Nl'lsons Creek 8,500 acres \(i. Yuha 105,000 acres Ii. Adams Peak 24,500 acres The lshi Wilderness - a critical remnant ofCalifornia Oak Savannah, Total: 635,000 acres ":UT(·a~c.·s art' n)u~h approximations Page 6 Earth First! December 22,1983 ED ABBEY IN UTAH
Editar's Note: Abbey recently might see this matter in a serious received this letterfrom a SaltLake light given the importan('e of tlH' City attorney. His replyfollows the imminent nuclear waste disposal attorney's letter. - site to our national security. Addi ionally, a numher of ('riminal Dear Mr. Abbey, charges might he considered hy tIH' I am writing on behalf of my authorities ofSan .Juan County. NEMESIS NEWS NET clients, Mr. and Mrs. J. LaDell Hatch, My clients are willing to forego with regard to an incident that compensation for their pain and suf to: Alton Chavis, Tactical Air occurred in Canyonlands National fering and will not press criminal Command/DEEV, Langley AFB, VA Park on July 16,1983. On that mor charges ifyou make prompt restitu 23665. Send copies ofyour letter to 1080 RETURNS ning they had parked their 1982 tion for their property losses and yourSenators and Congressperson. The livestock industry has dis Honda model 185 All Terrain Cy my fees. These are as follows: covered that it pays off to have a cles in a canyon below the Needles Honda 185 ATC's (2) $3700.00 300-FOOTREDWOOD gentleman rancher in the White Overlook when, withoutwarning, a PanasonicSMX500 stereo 189.00 MURDERED House (or is it that he's played a lot very large boulderfell from the cliff. Aladdin thermos 32.50 Despite efforts by theland owner of cowboys in B movies?). On It and other debris destroyed both Legal fees 250.00 and the Sonoma County Land Trust October 31, the EPA issued a final vehicles, a Panasonic portable AM/ TOTAL $417UiO to save it, a 1,500-year-old Redwood decision on registering 1080 poison FM. cass.ette recorder (model Payment should be via a cash was cut down October 17 in this for use in single lethal dose baits SMX500), and an Aladdin-brand ier's check made out to me and northern California county. The and toxic collars to be worn by thermos bottle. The Hatches were delivered to the address above. I previous ownerofthe ranch where sheep. There are, of course, essen very nearly il\iured and suffered hope to hear from you within ten THE TRUMPETER the great tree lived, Healdsburg tially no provisions for enforcing significant emotional and physical (10) days in order to avoid much Canadian eco-philosopher Alan attorney Thomas Passalaqua, the use of 1080 to just the above. stress resulting from their loss and more serious andexpensive actions. Drengson has begun a newsletter retained timberrights when hesold Watch out coyotes, eagles, badgers, the arduous return to their motor Sincerely yours, for the Canadian Eco Network the ranch. The tree shattered and bobcats, grizzlies - it's open season home and friends. They were dis Petter C. Thompssen called The Trumpeter. For fell - destroying most ofthelumber on you all again. posed to consider the event to Anscott, Cartlyn & Mastwrigt,t information contact Drengson, c/o it would have yielded. simply be one of the hazards one Attorneys at Law Lightstar, 1138 Richardson St., RARE II SUIT IN WASHINGTON ELVES IN THE WOODS assumes in that desolate and dan Victoria, BC, V8V 3C8 Canada. The Kettle Range Conservation Project ELF - the Navy's gerous country. However, upon Group in Washington State has extremely low frequency radio reporting theloss they learnedfrom Dear Mr. Thompssen: MINERS GET THE OCEAN successfully sued the ForestService signal system to contact missile the authorities ofSan Juan County Perhaps you have heard of me In preparation for leasing to stop road building and timber carrying submarines in case ofwar thatsuchwas notthecase, Le., their and my nationwide campaign in the thousands ofseabed acres for zinc, sales in the Thirteen Mile Roadless - continues to draw militant loss was not due to an "act ofGod" cause oftemperance. Each year, for lead, copper, chromium and other Area in theColville National Forest. opposition. Notonly would the vast but to an illegal, wantonly mali the pastfourteen years, I have made minerals, the Department of Citing the Earth First! vs. Block arrayofburied antennas bea prime cious, and negligentactperpetrated a tour of Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Interior has distributed question and California vs. Block decisions, target in case of nuclear war, it is by two men. This information came Nevada and Texas and have deli naires asking for ideas on fair U.S. District Judge Justin L. tearing up many acres ofwoods in from the reports of Mr. J. Heber vered a series of lectures on the market value to private mineral Quackenbush on October 6 en Northern Michigan. The anti-ELF Cannon and Mr. B. Bradley Snow, evils ofdrinking. companies. The leases will be joined the Forest Service from any group has been staging non-violent surveyors (Cannon, Snow & Garn, On this tour I have been accom offered in 1984 and cover the Gorda actions which would change the civil disobedience protests in both Salt Lake City) under contract to panied by my young friend and Ridge from Cape Mendocino in Cali wilderness character of roadless Wisconsin and Michigan. Since the Atomic Energy Commission. assistant, Clyde Lindstone. Clyde, a fornia to Newport in Oregon. areas in the Kettle Range. August, they have also been pulling They have sworn, in a legal deposi youngmanofgood family and excel up survey stakes for the new grid tion, that; they watched two older lent background, was a pathetic AIR FORCE BOMBS ABOS GO TO JAIL near Marquette, Michigan. men, one bearded, push the rock example oflife ruined by excessive GILA WILDERNESS The imprisonment rate for over the' rim. Accomplices to the indulgence in whiskey and women. The Air Force is continuing in Australian Aborigines is the highest BUCKS COUNTY BUCKS PUMP act included two young women, a Clyde would appear with me at theireffort to use the airspace over for any group in the world, the Over 100 people were arrested girl, and black dog. We have estab the lectures and sit on the platform, the Gila National Forest in New Australian Institute ofCriminology during July in non-violent protests lished, with the cooperation ofthe wheezing and staring at the au Mexico as a supersonic training area says. In Western Australia, the rate against the Point Pleasant Pump ArizonaDepartmentofPublicSafe dience through bleary, bloodshot for F-15s. Twelve sonic booms a for imprisoned Abos is 1300 per Project on the Delaware River in ty, that the light brown Toyota eyes, sweating profusely, picking his day can be expected. The sonic 100,000. In Queensland, the death Pennsylvania. pickup (with camper) in which the nose, passing gas, and making booms will be overpowering - up rate for Aborigines from infectious bearded man and a plump young obscene gestures to the ladies pre to 10 to 25 pounds per square foot diseases was up to 200 or 300 times YOUNG HAYDUKES woman left. the scene is, in fact, sent, while I would point him out as ofpressure (the Concordc was pro higher than for whites, Queensland Four boys in Joppa, Missouri, dug registered to you. We areawaiting a a perfect example of what over hibited·from flying into the United University reports. To protestthese through an earthen dike this fall response from Texas identifying the indulgence can do to a good man. States because it created sonic deplorable conditions, write: Prime and released a 6 million gallon flood. owneroftheblueFord pickup (with Last fall, unfortunately, Clyde booms of 3/4 psf!). Write.a letter Minister Robert Hawke, Parliament There was no confirmation of a camper) in which the others died. protestingthis outrageous invasion House, Canberra 2600 ACT rumor that Earth First! had offered escaped. A mutual acquaintance, Dr. Stan ofthe nation's first Wilderness Area AUSTRALIA. to pay their way to Page, Arizona. Mr. Abbey, my clients are notanx Silberman, hasgiven me yourname ious to publicize this event. I am and suggested that you may be EF!~LDERNESSPROPOSALS certain that you share this view seeking employment in the near given the harm that public aware future. I wonder if you ...:ould be 1. The all-wilderness alter intrusions like dirt roads within ness of criminal behavior could do available to take Clyde's place in native either for BLM WSAs or ·your area? Do they really serve an Earth First! is undertaking the to a prominent playwright's career. my forthcoming lecture tour? RARE II areas should be your important purpose? Do they re I also would point out that public Yours in Faith, development of wilderness pro starting point. Include adjacent ceive significant use? If not, posals for all National Forests. proceedings would attract the .Rev. Edwin P. Abbott lands or other areas discarded in recommend that they be closed. notice of federal authorities who These proposals are different than the RARE II inventory or the Are there non-conforming uses the proposals ofothergroups which ELM WSA selection that were that can be phased out? If so, let accept Forest Service roadless recommended by conservation the land be restored to a natural inventories and standards of ists. Also review areas elimin condition. reasonableness. Earth First! ated by conservationists in their 4. Are there adjacent roadless wilderness proposals recommend efforts toward being "reason areas separated from each other all that is currently roadless and able." or that were somehow only by dirt or gravel roads? How undeveloped but also consider "lost" during the process. about closing the roads and com" closing roads, rehabilitating timber . 2. Look at the area and·deter bining the areas for a larger cuts, and removing other develop mine. O}Jfut frum human intru wilderness complex? Don't for ments to create ecological wilder sill/ls IIr rt'SU/lITt' CIIUj7 icts, what get to check back to RARE I ness. Help is needed to produce the "natural" wilderness unit areas not considered in RARE II these wilderness recommendations. should be. A "natural" wilder or ELM roadless areas tossed out ness unit is an entire mountain earlier in the review. The following are some guidelines. range, a vast desert basin, or a 5. Draw your boundary out to river system. Think hard.about the limit of serious human use preserving the integrity, diver and activity. Past abuses can be sity, continuity, and expansive included in "wilderness recovery ness of 'the area. Pick out serious areas." Propose that all roads and human intrusions such as paved other intrusions in your area be roads or major gravel roads that closed and private and state lands can serve as a boundary. Road acquired. When you present your boundaries are easily defined and proposal to the agency or Con enforced. gress don't try to hide the in trusions. Admit them but argue that the wilderness values are 3. What about current human paramount. Page 7 Earth First! December 22,1983 NOTE TO LOCAL CONTACTS Please check your add'-ess, name and phone number to make sure LOCAL CONTACTS the-)' are correct. Please send in change ofaddress or phone num· bel' Information promptly. AJso make sure that you are listed. If not, let uS know. . NEW JERSEY Salt Lake City If yOIl want to twcontf' 8("tivf" with Earth First! in your area.. Bob Ludd Spurs Jackson ('onlac't mu- n(th.. fulks ~Iow. [fther~ is no one listed in your area :!-JH Fil\\":l Ridgp POll 2(i22 I and you'd likE' to start a local KJ"Qup of Eart.h First! or be a -local :\lo11htaiJl:oiidp. N.J 070D:! Salt Lakt.' City. lIT H412fi f·unt.ac't. ('Ullla('. EF!. 2:10 "'('st i\h A,'e-nue, Chico, CA 95926. (~Ol)2:1;1·7'i,'ili(N) (HOI ):l;",-:1 I1;-1 (~O I) 1;~4-,44(; (D) ,\t'STRAI.lA Ft. \oUins"': Chris Johnson VERMONT Linda Hay .Iohll St,t'fl 1:->.,11 Laporl(' "'BP Staccy Washko POll 7HI 1::11111",11"1· ... 1 Inf,ll"lll:lli.lfll \'111rv F!.('ullin..;. ('llNO.':!l RI) "-I Box :l:lO Springfield, VT Of) I r)fi 1'1 H\ ::I;S, I.i,"lllll!"t' t.:htq -J:-::.!~:!:~s:! \Iortlt Brullswick, ~.! OH$)O:! (~Ol) (H02) 21);l~!)427/HH!)-t)4!)H ,\,-\\ Sllllllt \\";11,'" :2ls11 H21-%47 H21-Xli4-1 \ll'.rr:di:t Mike Lidestri VIRGINIA nH Mprritt AV('IllH' .'AI',\:\ Glenwood Springs Manassas - Lee Few Rt.'q..(t'nfit'lct, N.' 07tl:! I 7fi I 0 GIt'nolden Place Wck I>a\"is John Flippone (201):lH;;-2047 Manassas, VA 2211 I ';l~ h:'11111- ... hi. Fushillli·ku PllHltHli (70:l) 3f;I-2239 Fllk;I~II"';I. S;lItll~a:--hiki-dltl. t.;\\'nWtl\\<.l Spril\g~. en ~\HO\ Bob Philbin ~ II rttU)p-l:)-:!n"j".-) Rox finS ~I('adow Av('. Rn #2 Staunton - Alan Kinchloe Tall:lk,I.:;II;I Tl/;,u:kwood, N.J OBO 12 Route 1, Box ;")4A Gunnison - Scotty Sidllcr I" lilli, .I.\I':\\: (Wfl) 227-R248 Millhoro, VA 244(;0 Ili-;.-,)lil::-:.!lI!IO :;ps~. 1:!lh SI. t.;lIllni:-tlll. CO S12:jO NEW MEXICO OR WESTER:\ SOLO~IO:'oI Albuquerque - Karen Brown Robert Mueller ISI.A:\I>S T"II"ridc - Art Goodtimes :')00 PlincC'ton SF.:, Apt. :3 Rt. I Box 2~0 \"jun'ul "ag:uni and Btlx lolls Alhuquprque, NM H7) 0(1 Staunton, VA 24401 .Iflh 1)lUllt'~' Tausin~a TplilIrid..,. CO SI-J:J;l (:")0;) 277-:,)7IH W (70~l) ,~S-4:1ill HH5-fiflH3 I::lillfllrl':--I Inrllrmation Ct'llln' (:111:1) 1'liH :;1 \llIntla OR WASHINGTON, D_C. FLORIDA Neil Cobb Terry J,'Harris \\"1· ... 1'·1'11 SlllltlllOn I:-oland:, Rmulie Hawkins :J2H MOl1ldair NF: ]Oti North Adam~ Street A I..-\SKA Ws:Hl S\\-1'1;lth Ct Alh.l1qtwrquc, NM X7 HHi :~21l01 Rockville, MD 20fl!;() Fairbanks - Tom Pogsoll t.;ailw..;,·illp. FL (;;0,,) 2/T-"HflT (301)7(;2-1:312 :-,1::2lltL-lli t ~lO-J) -J9.-)-n20:~ Santa Fe - Rue Christie F:lirhallk.....-\h: P~l;tll GEORGIA WEST VIRGINIA Julia Heinz RI. 7 Box 127-C J.R. Spruce .Jlllwau - R_ FarnE"U :Jtlj Park An' SE Santf' Fp, NM R7GO I \lox 222-A RH I (!)()~) HELP STOP THE PI)H 17'-)1J _-\llalltil. GA :303U 9HH-42H4 Ridgeley, WV 2(;7~3 .11I1WiHI. .\l-\ ml~l):~ l·W-O .li'l-:W21 NEW YORK (304) 738-2212 Kt'lUl~· Rochester - Gary Bennett Lake -: Judi Thunl10nd HAWAII 127 Vm;sar WISCONSIN KANGAROO SLAUGHTER Sial' Hl1lll('_ Box :;:1"; Will Small RCK'hester. NY 141;07 EagJe-Eco-Runners EF! ~t'lIl\~ Litke..\h: HP·'-;-:l Box n:3 (71(;)4lil-07fI7 Tim Byers· by Peter Rawlinson, Senior Lecturer in Zoology at La Trobe University ARIZO:\A :\Itllliltain '-iE'\\". HI 9H771 1109 B Fremont who recently gave evidence in Americaat conservation hearings on the Troy - Ralph Melma Stevens Pt, WI ~44H I Pablo Dt'serieto ILLINOIS 251 Liherty Stre"t kangaroo. 1: \:-IIlI.-l-J (715) 344-8237 t1 Chicago - Chris Sherbank Troy, NY J21HO OR Cindy Minnick Ttlt· ... dll. .-\Z ~.1717 IRI.) I\' School St r;;IR) 272-24flli (71~) 344-72:'3 llill:!) ' ..... ~·lI~:lll Chicago. 1L 60657 In the 1950s an extensive kangaroo industry developed, initially to Thlly - Milton Bieber ARI\_-\:\S.-\S (:312):34R-44:30 Madison - .Bob Kaspar Stt.'vens Road RD II} :10~ North Sixth Street provide cheap meat for pet food, but later to provide fur skins and T..-\. Aldaron Prairie Grove Group EF! Tully, NY 13429 \..... ~7 \orth .1;.Kk:,oll Madison, WI 53704 leather for the export trade. Don Johnson 01;;) f;9(;-H072 «(;08) 241-942f; l.illk HIl(·k ..\R 7~:W:3 WoodsidE' Farm By 1970 over 1.5 million kangaroos were being killed each year to NORTH CAROLINA C-\L1FORXIA IR41 South River Rei Pembine - Coldfoot Creek supply the industryand the United States had becomethe major importer D,'s Plaines. IL 600lR Andrews- Route I .-\I'cata - Bill Dcyall Hank & Mary Fonda of kangaroo products. j'llB ~I (:1l2) 296-7R(iO Pemhine. WI 54156 Route I, Box MOB (715) 324·fi422 Publicconcernabouttheextentofthecommercial kangaroo slaughter .\r(";\IiI. L\ f1:)021 Urbana - Bill Enos Andrews, NC 2H9(l( 1"';1>";) :-i:!:2-~1:311 120(; East Michigan (704) 321 -40Hf; Southeast - ·Meri Kuehn caused the newly-elected Whitlam LaborGovernment to ban the export 113 Washington St. 8t'rkclc~· - Ed Hcskc l·rballa. IL 61801 of kangaroo products on 1st April 1973. (217):3!\-l-90 16 Asheville - Jay Gertz ./ Inm Ridge, WI :'3035 .11 Ilt'l :\1<". 120 Hil(h Valley On 30th December 1974 the United States Government took comple Ilt'rkd,,\·, CA ~q ,l1S WYOMING :)~!-l-l-t!-i IDAHO Alexanelcr, NC 2H70 I (-JI:) Boise - Paul Fritz Jackson mentary action to: Box 1772 Star - Ron & Sue Correll Hiroshima Svendsen Chico - ~Iitch W~'ss Star Farm RL I, Box 7H A-I 1. Ban the import of kangaroo products; PIlB I:l,:l Boise. ID 8:3701 Box 2lfi(j Star. NC 273~(; .Jackson, WY &'300 I 2. Placethe Red, Eastern Gray and Western Grey kangaroos 011 the U-S (·hieo. C\ ~l.~n:!7 (2118) :384-9907 :~":!-:31)'j"S (307) 733-4793 Threatened Species list_ (!lIb) Bonner's Ferry - Jerry Pavia OKLAHOMA Box RJ2 ForrestJohnson Sundance These actions initiated heavy lobbying of the Australian and U.S. Fresno - llichael Bordenave 1402 Reoc'('Ca Lan,' ~,-\FE Harry Longbauglt ~~~;el;~l~,~1~ ID 8:3HII~ Norman, OJ( 7:1O(i!) POB WJ:, Governments by kangaroo processors to have the respective exportand :l771 Cirde Drin:- West (40~) 3fi4-~I;;;;~ Sunelance, WY H2'729 import bans remoYed. They also lobbied to have the three major Fn•...;nel. C.-\. 9:370-i Sandpoint - John Anderson OREGON EARTH FIRSTI commercial species removed from the U.S. Threatened Species list. ~ll1rin 8450 Sunnyside Rd Count)· - Tim Jcft'rlcs CorvaJlls - Lynn Cochrane STATE WILDERNESS :!2 (·lall:- Cirde Sandl)oint. ID 8:3864 The Australian GoveJ11ment started to capitulate in 1975 and the (208) 26:3- I752 744 NW 27th COORDINATORS Fililfax. CA R49:3l1 ('orvallis, OR fl7330 The following peoplearccoor export bans were progressively removed on a State by State basis. 14 I·,) 4."i-'4:3:l Southeast - Rod Adams (~0:3) 7~3-li4Hli ,linatinl\the developmentofEF! After the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor Government in November Placcnillc - Jakc Blue & 87 Louella wilderness proposals and com Blackfoot. ID 8.'3221 Eastern Oregon - Ric Bailey menLo; to agencies in their re 1974 and the election ofthe Fraser Liberal National Party Government, 8t'ck~· Windmiller POB fiO:, IIt,x (' (208) 785-2182 spective states. If you'd like to the kangaroo export industry was allowed to flourish and expand. .[oseph, DR fl7H4(i coordinate wilderness studies· Lo(u:oi. fA 9;)(,51 KANSAS By 1980 the industry had returned to its 1970 level ofoperation with (!llli) ll~li-m)',n Eugene - Marcy Willow for EF! in your state and com Manhattan - Neil Schanker ments to the \lLM, Forest Serv Inl Thurston 2!)!) 1 Emerald Street. 1.5 to 2.5 million kangaroos being killed and processed each year. Sacramento EU!!l'ne, OR 97403 iee, etc_, please let. us know so Dennis ~lcEwan Manhallen. KS 66502 wecan listyou here. Ifyou'd like Throughout the period 1976 to 1981 the Fraser Government and U.S. (913) 532-58(;6 (:'03) :342-7040 :l-i:.!..l '·011 Bauer Wa\· t.o help with such studies and skin and leather processors exerted extreme pressures on the U.S. Sacramento. C.\ 95:281 Oskaloosa - Daniel Dancer Grants Pass - cc)mments, contacttheStateWil Government to reopen the lucrative U,S, market. (Hili) 4X7-I:F6 Sleeping Beauty Ranch Steve Marsden dl~rness Coordinator listed for Oskaloosa. KS 6liO(;(; (iHi() Monument Drive your state. These pressures were resisted until May 1981 when the U.S. Fish and Santa Barbara Grants Pass, OR ~7!j2fi Matt Buckmaster MAINE (:'0:1) 474-02:'9 ARIWNA Wildlife Service announced a partial lifting of the import ban. Ii'ill-J Sueno .\pt. B Brunswick - Gary Lawless Pablo Deserieto On 10th November 1982 the Fraser Government formally petitioned (;IIIt'la.·('.-\ ~J:311i POB IHli Portland - Melinda Lee Box 401:'4 Thcson, AZ 8:'717 (Sll.'» ~JliR-Rk 12 Brunswi"k, ME 04011 POll :'fl4 (1;02) Rll2-0H30 . the u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service to: (207) /2!)-"OI!:3 Sh"l"\"HKI, OR fl7140 1. Permanently lift the import ban on kangaroo products. OR (;'03) li2H-2HJ4 CALIFORNIA Nancy Morton Lawrence Worchester Harrington - Charles Ewing 2;lO West 7th Avenue 2. Remove the Red, Eastern Grey and Western Grey kangaroos from !t:l'-I ('amino del Sur RP I PENNSYLVANIA Chico, CA 9~92fi the U.S. Threatened Species list- bl,' \·isla. CA R:3117 Harrington, ME 114643 Philadelphia - Lisa Jo Frech (flW) :143-(;M7 (XII.-)!JfiS--J"'I:-; 2:13 Plymouth Road In response the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a proposal to MARYLAND (;wyne,leI Valll'y, PA 1f1437 IDAHO Santa Cruz- Leonard J. Kerpelman Howie Wolke lift the import ban and delist the three species in the Federal Register on .Iean Brocklebank 2403 West Rogers SOUTH DAKOTA Box 2:l4H April 8, 1983. - -11~I)jin·~t. Baltimore, MO 21209 Kathy Glatz .Im·kson, WY 8:300 I Sallia Crllz. 1·.\ 950{)O (301) 367-S855 POB I~:,H (307) 73:3-~:J43 (-JlIS) -J:2(j-!I~I)(i Pine Riel!!e, SO ;'7770 The Australian Conservation Foundation is requesting help from MICHIGAN (liO;,) H(;7-:'H74 MONTANA San Die~o - Linda Svendsen Kathy Chaney Howie Wolke us. conservationists to stop the slaughter. They point out that after the JIlIn ~:!:1Ii 4 Woodland Rd. TENNESSEE disastrous 1982-3drought(the worst inAustralian history) there were Lt'IWadia. C.-\ 921)·q Houghton, M[ 49931 Charlotte & Carl Leathers NEVADA -J:lfi-:J9~i Dave Foreman (lil!l) (906) 482-f;409 107 South Bellevue Drivc' massive kangaroo die-of{s and the total population is now only 10 Nashville, TN 3720:' 2:30 W 7th Ave San Francisco - MINNESOTA (Iii:') :352-fl71(; Chi,·o. CA H592(; million (there were die-of{s of 7(JX, in the main shooting areas), Letters Phillip Friedman Tom Lewanski (flJ(;) ;14;1-(;547 (4()¢ airmail) protesting the kangaroo slaughter should be sent to: :!:~"fl ()rlpga St. '3718 Columhus TEXAS f~-i NEW MEXICO Sail Francisco. CA 122 Minneapolis, MN 55407 DallasfFt. Worth ( 11.-.)lili:)-C1i4-t Don McJ>Owell Karen Brown Robert Hawke· Editor MONTANA 2fi40 Patricia Ln #20r :,rX) Princeton SE Apt. 3 San Luis Obispo Billings - Randall Gloege Garland, TX 75041 Alh"querque, NM H7Wf; Prime Minister Sydney Morning Herald .1t-8n C. Gordon 343 North Rimroad (~O~) 277-:'7Hi W Parliament House 235 Jones Street I~ 114 Il ~Iill SI. Billings, MT 59102 Terlingua - Sail Lllis ()hispo. fA 9:1401 (406) 256-0965 Rio Grande Guides A_. OREGON Canberra, ACT 2600 Broadway 2007 Box 57 Ric Bailey Smwma County - Bozeman - Mike Bond Terlingua, TX 708:'2 POB(i():, AUSTRALIA NSW AUSTRALIA K't·n D'Antonio 16320 Cottonwood .Joseph, OR fJ7H4(; 11I1011hn· JIli Bozeman. MT 59715 UTAH· Foft·.-;f\·ilh:. CA Hi}-J:3(i (406) 7li3-4507 Escalante - Robert Weed UTAH Barry Cowan Editor ( 7lJ'i) SSi-Bloi CalfCreek Box 60 Spurs Jackson Minister for the Environment The Courier Mail Missoula - Barb Steele Escalante, UT H472li Box 21;221 ('01.0RA [)() Rt I Box 44K Salt Lake City, UT H412(; Parliament House Bowen Hills 4006 11.." ....·1' - Richard Ling St. Ignatius, MT 59S65 Logan - George Nlckas (HOI) 3:':'-21M 11I~(I I:tlh "1\ Canberra, ACT 2600 Queensland AUSTRALIA (406) 745-3212 372 E. :'OON. Itllllldt'r. ('I) S():~():! Logan, UT H432 I VERMONT AUSTRALIA NEBRASKA Linda Hay Ht'IIH'r - Nina Churchman Jack Ellis Moab - Bob PhlIips POB32 11!ll't'ari 4316 Pacific POB 381 WestminsterStations, VT 05159 ,Editor I h'lIn·'I". ('I) XO:!f):l Omaha, NE liS 105 Moah, UT 84~32 (H02) 722-317S t:U):l)'i:?:.!·;;o:m (SO I) 2:'9-83:'3 'The Age NEVADA WASHINGTON llurnn.:o - Stt"vt" Rauworth Park City - Judi Bell-Marcy Ric Bailey 250 Spencer Street S.-I!l:~ II\\"\". Ii:.! Jomayne R:. Stevens 1i5 Vine Street POB 21:'9 Melbourne 3000 1~Il;ldll.l·t) S Il:li Reno,. V fl9503 Park City, UT 84060 WYOMING (·:ltl:tlSS·I-!ISli·1 (801) 649-3:'20 Howie Wolke Victoria, AUSTRALIA Page 8 Earth First! December 22,1983 .e ..... _ ....
CANYONLANDS NUKE DUMP ACTION MAY BE 'BLACK ROCK DESERT WILDERNESS IMMINENT Our spies warn us that the Department of Energy may Nevada's Black Rock Det'ertis one try to slip into the Davis Can of the starkest, most pI istine and ORE.GON yon areanextto Canyonlands mindbending wildernesses in North National Park in Utah this America. Parts of it have only NovemberorDecemberto be recently been explored with Roger gin test drilling for the nat Scholl's pioneer float trip down the ion's first high level nuclear Quinn River and the discovery of waste dump. Earth First! is the Quinn River marshes in the pledged to confront the DOE heart of the vast, burning black to blockade ANY activity for Rock playa, Even given the Bureau the nuke dump near Canyon of Land Management's restrictive ,') lands. We are watching. Ifyou interpretation of "roadless," they would like to participate in inventoriedoverhalfa million acres l non-violent direct action at in one unit(stretching for 70 miles) Canyonlands or help in a sup as a roadless area. Otherhuge road l port capacity, please contact less acreages surround the Black c; Bob Phillips, POB 381, Moab, Rock and are separated from each 'A l UT 84532 (&01) 259-8353 or other only by poor dirt truck trails. L.' Spurs Jackson, POB 26221, One ofthese units, Blue Lake in the , 1 Salt Lake City, UT 84126 Pine Forest Range, holds a glacial F' (801) 355-2154. cirque and alpine lake, 01 Unappreciative of the out R C"", SOUTHERN UTAH standing wilderness values of the Nl area, BLM has opposed wilderness I NEEDS YOUR HELP designation for the Black Rock AI Desert until -recently when they The Canyon Country from Deso proposed a measly 174,300 acres of I lation Canyon t.o the Escalante, from wilderness out of the already cut Grand Gulch to the Kaiparowits down half million acre Black Rock I needs your help. Bob Marshall's Desert roadless area. Conservation nine million acre wilderness is groups in Nevada have made an I under relentless attack. If t.he likes unfortunate compromise and are ofCal Black and the Utah congres supporting only the BLM recom J sional delegation have their say, mendation. This has been all the there will be no protected wil encouragement needed for the f derness here now or forever. The small miners and aRVel'S to scream, time is now to fight for slickrock "NO wilderness." and badlands. The recently estab The Winnemucca BLM District lished Southern Utah Wilderness has IR Wilderness Study Areas Association invites everyconcerned t.otalling 1,118,467 acres (many citizen t.o participate in the sa.ing outstanding areas were previously ofthis wild heritage. We will stop at eliminat.ed from consideration). '.~" ~.3~~1t1,m ac,.~ fr:} nothing short of every feasible TllPY are only recommending .. BLAde 'R()CI('Oe.~I!.T appeal and legal battlein defense of :l40,394 acres .in 9 units for wil wl'-bEo1it:NIOS PRo1>OS..L. this wilderness. We need to take V+'i~eJ this message to the nation and we the Black Rock). Establishment need your help and support to do conservation groups are proposing this. Ie" you wish to receive our a pitiful 1)87,700 acres for wil newsletter and alerts or to help in dNness. The four:wheel-drive and this bat.tle in any way, please join hulldozer crowd are opposing a,ny ART FOR 1985 EARTH FIRST! CALENDAR us. Bend $10 or whatever you can afford to: wilderness. We're alreadythinking a~outthe 1985Earth First!Calendarand new Southern Utah Eart.h First.! has proposed an NEWS FLASH dates and quotes are being compiled. Ifyou have any suggested dates Wilderness Association approximat.ely 2.3 m.illion acre On December 13, the Oregon or quotes for it, please send them in. We also are soliciting original art Box 348 Wilderness Area in nort.hwest. Natural Resources Council filed a for the '85 calendar along the lines ofthat in the 1984 calendar. (Sorry, Escalante, UT 84726 Nevada c('ntered on t.he Black Rock RARE II suit for the entire state of . we can'tpayfor art but we will give contributorshalfa d~zen copies of Desert.. This t.rue wilderness could Oregon. Details next issue. the calendar.) Deadline for material is March 21,1984. Send to: Earth he designat.ed merely by closing a First! 230 W. 7th Ave., Chico, CA 95926 Thank yOH, Robert Weed handful of low grade t.ruck t.rails Attn: Dave Foreman separat.ing t.he individual WSAs and NORTHERN ROCKIES Clive Kincaid other roadless areas. There are no ROAD SHOW Grant Johnson connicts of any signiticance wit.h Howie Wolke and Dave Foreman such a vast wilderness in t.his area. have recently completed a three week-long tour of Montana and WHAT YOU CAN DO Idaho presenting t.i}e Eal't.h .First! Write a letter today to: I message t.o groups in Billings, Frank Shields Bozeman, Helena, Kalispell, District Manager Missoula, Sand Point, McCall, Boise, Bureau of Land Management Ketchum, Salmon, Idaho Falls and 705 East Fourth Street Pocat.ello. Local EF' groups have Winnemucca, NV 89445 been formed in many of these communities and EF! wilderness • Tell him thatthe Black Rock is proposals for Idaho and Montana a wild region of international are being firmed up. Howie Wolke significance. has also just returned from the • Urge him to take a visionary MOntana Wilderness Association approach and recommend a vast convention in Kalispell where he wilderness that will combine represented Earth First! on a panel areas and close roads. discussion about the future of • Support the Earth First! pro wilderness preservation. Wolke and posal for a 2.3 million acre Black Foreman also met. with Forest Rock Desert Wilderness Supervisors and Forest Planners in (bounded by Highways 34, 49, 8A, many of t.he National Forests of 140 and the Jungo Road) with a Idaho and Montana, Howie and corridor to the Summit Lake Dave would like to thank all the . Indian Reservation. Parts of folks who helped organize the Sheldon NationalAntelope Range community 'meetings for the Road are included in the EF! proposal. Show. If you would like to become • Send a copy of your letter to active in an Earth First! group or your Senators(US Senate, Wash project in the Northern Rockies, ington, D.C.) and Representative check t.he contact listing for the (House ofRepresentatives, Wash one nearest you or get in touch These forested mesas were eliminated from the Paria-Hackberry W.S.A. by the B.L.M. becauseof the ington, D.C.). with Howie in Jackson, Wyoming. potential for chaining operations. Photo by Clive Kincaid. Page 9 Earth First! December 22, 1983 SINKYONE ,STRUGGLE CONTINUES by Mike Roselle 1':0 rll, 'Fir,,'.'lil'!r/ '"ga IIizerMike issued against"John Does 1 through . No""II" lio" "111'111 llie .1illl ill Ihe 200"). Sillk.'!o//(' or"o or HIIIII/whlt al/(! Lon gave us the good news as the Jl"IIf!rwilio ('(lIlIllie" Oil llie ClVli police threw him in the bus with us. ./il/'llio ('(HI'" /II'/)Iill.'! /01'11/ COII We had snatched victory from the "'·I'I'oli'i/Ii.~I" ill llie Sillk!Jolie jaws ofdefeat! ,\//iolll'" 01/(/ IiiI' Elll'irollillellllli Meanwhile, the march on Ft. 1'rol,,'"iOIl al/(I !JUril'lIIllt iOIl Celltl!r Bragg proceeded. A parade permit (1,'I'f(')..fiyh( <:!.IiJrts by Georgia was issued and 50 people marched ('Iwitil' tilll/lI'r (,OIlI))(lIIy to log olrl with banners in support of the '/I'lJ/1'1I1 Her/woods ill tI/l'Sal/!J Bdl Sinkyone. A rally was held at (;ro!'e. Hi" .first re}Jort 011 till! Georgia-Pacific's corporate office. "I/(·'·<'''.~/ili blockade Oct()bl!r 7 a lid GP was on the defensive. They tried n "/lw"lIril'II (,III}Jom r!J rl!stra illillg to explain to an increasingly o/'(/,'!' a)I)lI'aret! ill thl! N(iI'. 1 EF'. skeptical public that they cared li,rur/r/iliOlia/backgmlllld, se/' IIII! about the community, the land and S'·)II. 1·] EF'. Till! .till/owillg is the Redwoods. Since Sally Bell was No,"el/e:" ri'llort Oil rl irecl actioII a lid temporarily safe, there was no civil /1"/0/ IIlllllelll'l!rilig sille!' October disobedience planned for the I, demonstration. In all, there were 12 arrests and 9 Soon aftE'r thE' Sonoma County citations issued for trespass. All I )i~II'ict Court in Santa Rosa issued were released without bail on their a '1l'l1\porat)' Restraining Order own recognizance. We were ag"inst GE'orgia-Pacific' regarding Sea lions on Sinkyone Beach. Photo by David Cross. arraigned in DistrictCourtin Willi ts "ulting the Sally Bell Gro\'e, GP on November 19and ourcourtdate attol'lle~' .J'd·pd Carter filed for a Sheriff's deputies and two large efforts, we were losing the·grove. and booking process and others in was scheduled fo/' February 14. Our ('hangE' of YE'IlUe so the actual buses in which to hold prisoners. Everywhere was the whine of the chase. The rest of our group able attorneys, Mel Pearlston and I,m'suit against GP and the Cali GP company men and security chainsaws, the sound of falling headed for the sound of other Ron Sinoway, are currently trying fornia Department of Forestry personnel were also on hand a\orig Redwood giants and the static of chainsaws in the directIon of the to convince the county to drop the \\'ould be hE'ard in a court more with a few California Department police radios. They were dropping Medicine Tree. charges or face expensive legal frit'ndly' to the giant timber of Def()rest.ation agents. From all Sally Bell and there was little we The Medicine Tree was the one ,action by the defendants. compan~"s interests. sides they entered the grove in force could do to stop it. saved in the nick oftime during the On Nove~ber 3, Judge Phelps On October 21, the venue was and quickly secured the logging At about 3 o'clock a retreat was first action on Oct. 7 (see Nov. 1 heard arguments from EPIC's legal changed by Judge' Bettinelli to zones. This was impressive, butnot sounded and a 'meeting called on EF.'). Most of us felt that this tree staff on their request for a l'kiah, in Mendocino County (GP's intimidating, and looked like an the Usal county road which was was the heart of the grove. When permanent injunction against mill is located in this county), and a expensive way to harvest timber. neutral territory. Everyone in the the tree huggers arrived at the Georgia-Pacific and the California trial date ofOctober 25, Friday, was Unafraid and even more deeply grove evaded arrest and broke scene, itwasalreadythree-quarters Department' of Forestry. After set. This left the TRO in question. committl:'d, we went to work. through police lines to the "free cut through, hydraulic jacks were refusing to allow any testimony .Judge Bettinelli felt it was still in To prevent everyone from being zone" where support people in place, and the big tree was ready from expert witnesses on cumu effect but GP lawyer Carter did not. arrested at once and keeping in cheered us on and welcomed us to bedropped. Steppingin between' lative impacts, archaeological sites, Although the legal argument con mind that we were there to stop the back to safety. After everyone was the chainsaw and the tree, Lon water quality and other important cerning venue as opposed to logging and not just to make a accounted for and the names oftne Mulvaney attempted to halt the issues th:it the plaintiff's were trying jurisdiction was confusing, orte statement, we abandoned our arrested confirmed, we retreated to cutting. He was assaulted by an to raise, Judge Phelps struck down thing was clear: If Georgia-Pacific stationary tactics of the previous Four Corners, across the county ax-wielding logger and escaped the motion for an injunction. He thought they could slip in and drop action and broke into smaller line, to regroup, strategize and injury only by moving quickly. He did, however, extend the TRO long the Sally Bell Grove, they would. mobile groups. A cat and mouse prepare for Tuesday. Morale and was then arrested; cuffed and led enough for EPIC to file an appeal in GP had already proven that they game broke out and everywhere' unity were still high. We weren't ' away. But before Lon was out of the California State Court of couldn't be trusted when they had was the sight of coppers chasing ready to give up yet. sight ofthe still-standing but badly Appeals in San Francisco. That earlier promised not to cut until tree-huggers. Most of the deputies The Tuesday morning circle was damaged Medicine Tree, shouts appeal was granted on ovember!:l spring and then sent in the chain were outofshapeand didn't have a held at the gate to the grove where could beheard echoing through the , and a stay against further timber saws on Oct. 7. An occupation was chance ofcatching us. The few who itwas legal for us to assemble. There trees, callingfor the logging to stop. harvesting in the Sally Bell was necessary and we began preparing were in good shape, still couldn't, volunteers for the action formed a EPIC's lawyers had won a TRO in issued until a trial date could be again for Direct Action. but they tried harder. The thick smaller circle inside the larger one. the District Court in Ukiah and all set, probably in February or March. Our monitors reported no logging underbrush allowed a person to We sang a few songs and centered timber harvesting was ordered to The battle goes on. through the weekend and we set disappear from sight atalmost arm's ourselves before making plans. ceaseas of3:00 PM byJudge Phelps, up our encampment Sunday night, length. Itwas soon apparent, none Although our numbers were about a visitingjudgefrom ShastaCounty. Oct. 24, on GP property. Thirty-five theless, that while this was great the same as the day before, our In an additionaldecision atthesame The March 21 issue ofEF!will report ofus were in the grove before dawn fun, it wasn't stopping the logging. plans were different and our time, Judge Phelps granted a TRO on Sinkyone court d~velopments. on \'!onday morning. What followed The ioggers, who had previously commitment was greater. If things against further trespassing on GP was more like a nightmare thari a refused to cut in the presence ofso went as badly as the previous day, land in the Sinkyone (this was peaceful protest. many people for safety reasons, did we would withdraw and regroup, GP had fully expected our a complete turnaround. Logging and go to Ft. Bragg twenty miles to p!'('sence since our opposition was commenced even in the occupied , the south where we would march no secret. At a cost'of over $9,000, areas as GP's concern for oursafety on GP's office and seize it (that's they responded by hiring over 50 was proven non-existent. Mary Hill right, I said se'ize it.'). This later (aka Mem) was pinned under a proved unnecessary. fallen tree after she occupied the The affinity groups entered the bed the loggers had prepared for it. grove under conditions similaF to It was feared she was seriously the previous day. Things didn't go injured. Loggers and deputies used much better. The logging was con chainsaws to free her. Mem was tinuing - but at a reduced rate. evicted, but not arrested, and Someone had, hidden one of the friends took her to the hospital loggers' springboards, a device used where she was treated and later to elevate the feller above the released. The exact extent of her massive ~edwood root system, and injuries are still unknown but'she no logging would take place in the is now, up and about, and con upper grove that day as a result. sidering legal action. Someone had also used the old Three women were arrested in "toothpick in the padlock keyhole" the lower grove. One, who gave her trick which delayed entrance into name only as Sally Bell, had to be the grove by the police by'almost carried out in a stretcher at con an hour. siderable effort by the police after I was arrested early in the day she went limp in an extrernely with my affinity group members Leo ' inaccessible spot. She and another and Don while we occupied an area woman were charged with resisting in the lower grove. The rest of our arrest in addition to trespassing. group quickly disappeared when Sinkyone blockaders make plans. D\'lIlollsl ration in Ft. Bragg. :.J'hree more women were arrested the Sheriff's deputies arrived. We Photo by Judi Quick. had agreed on this plan in hopes of I'hot 0 hy .J udi Quick. that afternoon, bringing the day's total to six. But in spite of all our tying up some officers in the arrest Page 10 Earth First! December 22,1983 scraps ofmeat and grain, clothes to WILDERNESS AND WILDLIFE keep warm, a hut and a few tools to the Annenberg Estate with mani cured lawns and trees, a fleet of by Tom Stoddard and shrinking habitat has a one limousines, an army of servants word cause - man. Man has (themselves affluent), custom absolute dominion over the earth made designer clothes, wild animal Editor's Note: Ibm Stoddar-d is a until he finally will destroy it. Man furs to embellish the women, the popular- prize-winning r-esear-cher is not an endangered species but a mostexoticand delectableoffoods, and author- ofjazz littffatur-e. He creeping plague infesting wildlife an armada of aircraft and enough has author-ed many ar-ticles and and wilderness with the stench of buildings to cause most public two books on the su~ect. His book, death. Only man can endanger him monuments to blush, every human Pops Fosterthe Autobiography Of a self and only he can endanger impinges on the earth's reS(IUrces. New Orleans Jazzman (lE Press), everything else. If there were no won theASCAPaward. 1bmis also humans on earth there would beno Someone must look at man and a for'1neT Vice President of Wells problem preserving wildlife and his ubiquitousness and say Fa-rgo Bank and is now an inde wilderness. ENOUGH! STOP! We so-called conservationists must throw aside pendent businessmanand investor. Primitive nomadic hunting man our hair shirts and beggar's cups Sever-al years ago, 1bm began had a happy harmony with nature. writinga seTies ofessaysonvarious He took only to eat, keep warm, and demand that wilderness and subjects to hisfourchildren (Jana, make tools and implements and to wildlife be saved. That we truly Hilary,AntigoneandMarcus). The have a few trinkets. He was limited must conserve the earth for creatures other than man. We must one on wilderness and wildlife is by what he and his pack animals essentially presented heTe in its could carry from place to place. He use our bodies, our energies and entirety. His view is a radical one. appreciated his place in the natural our money to stop the false siren of He promises to expand some ofthe environment and lived harmo progress. No other species can compete with us - we can crush ideas in the near future. This is niously in it. spentseveral million retrying mass preservatifm. To digress for a Part One ofa three-part seTies. Early civilized man (agrarian them with our bulldozers, poison murderer .Juan Corona), the sex moment, though, I believe it p; man) covered the landscape with them with a Pandora's Box of change operation ofa transsexual, important for every human III As you know I have been a wild his crops, cabins and castles. But chemicals, fill in the wetlands and keeping four small families on wel compete in their career, for mate;,. life and wilderness conservationist scourges, disease and wars kept the swampswith ourdebris, and scrape fare for a year or purchasing the style, resources and success. Yet for a number of years. I decided it population under control. On the and build until there is no place for same ten acres of wetlands. It is almost all of the children of th,· would be worthwhileforme to write whole his impact was tolerable. any other species to hide. We must easy to see how we are draining well-off and rich have no sue" out a statement of what I believe Modem man since 1900 has examine ourselves and our future away the life ofour wilderness and opportunity. They are born with s( and how far I think we should go to becomean awesomescourge riding or we will have the entire Earth wildlife while we are bent on much money or so much is turned preserve wildlife and wilderness. It the wings of science, personal looking like Calcutta, Mexico City, squandering our resources on over to them by parents. grand may help you to understand why I productivity, medicine, accumu New York, Cairo, London and Sao useless counterproductive silliness. parents and family members that am leaving most of my assets to lated wealth and unbridled repro Paulo. We must be able to deal with Everytime we ecofreaks hearsome all their needs are satisfied for that cause. I have also found itvery duction and survival. He has fundamental human taboos, fears, thing like the government is several lifetimes. Who cannot get a self-enlightening when I have to covered thelandscape like a plague religious beliefs and survival spending six billion dollars buying mate with two hundred million write my thoughts down and make - pollutingthe air, earth, rivers and mechanismsorweshall becomethe farmers' wheat to kE'ep the price dollars? Even Bunker Hunt can do sense ofthem to others. I hope this oceans; reproducing like"flies in lonely inhabitants of a devastated high and "help" the farmer (that it. These human inheritors become is a closer look at the current prob summer; paving the earth with barren earth cursing the spread of translates into buying his vote) we the equivalentofourdomestic dogs, lems and some solutions (plus a homes,pipes,roads,buildings,play crime, assault, disease, murderand must convert that into wildlife and cats, parakeetsand so on. They have few miscellaneous thoughts). grounds, airports; concreting rivers filth as we look out only on other wilderness dollars. food shoved at them every moment Each ofus has to make a decision and building dams; and keeping sad sick humans. The extinction of I suggest that we could convert they're hungry, they are mated (or about what is important in his/her nearly every human born alive a species of plant or animal (now the money to constru~tive use by not mated or spayed)at the owner's life (including how important our regardless ofits ability to survive. occurring hourly) leaves us purchasing the wheatland and whim and are treated to the cornu own life is and how much effort we Each additional human on this lonelier and lonelier passengers on taking it out of production - then copia ofmodern medicine. There is should exert to save it - no heroics earth means an additional demand spaceship Earth. allowing the land to become wil no challenge, no competition, no for me when I'm ready to go, and drain on the earth's resources. Philosophically some humans derness and habitatfor wildlife. But feeling ofhaving done it by yourself thanks). Next to my personal loved Itconversely means less habitatand must be willing to say that non wildlife and wilderness do not vote - inheritors are the lap dogs of ones I believe the preservation of resources for plant and animal humans are as important as and our lawyer-politicians are only humamty. wilderness and wildlife is most wildlife, it means more rape of our humans. They at least deserve the interested in their own reelection. Another analogy would be like important. wilderness. From the simplest habitat to attempt to survive. We ecofreaks must find ways and animals kept in a zoo except the The horror of wildlife extinction primitive requiring only a hearth, Consider a moment how zealously political clout to convert the people who burden their children we protect the scumbag life of a wasteful use of our money to with large inheritances putthe cage political assassin or a mass worthwhile ends. And money is a bars up for their children. The murderer in the United States and good measure of how well we are children will never know defeat but how carelessly we snuff out an serving these ends. Every ecofreak neither will they ever know sweet entire species of plant or animal. should be alert to ways we might victory. At best they will be sla\'es Today we countfour billion humans changegovernmentfunding slightly to keeping the family estatE' on earth and less than two hundred or dramatically to help save the together and passing it along. Or snow leopards, and yet we bustour wilderness and wildlife. they might realize their burden and asses to save John Hinkley, Jr. and r am always appalled at how dilemma and spend their liws John Wayne Dacey. What sad religious leaders can quote from trying to block their impotence with dementia. But enough has been holy books ad nauseam about booze and drugs. Worst of all they written to lament the passing humans and their needs or a cause might become licentious wastrels passenger pigeon, dodo and Cali they are taken with and are pn' loading themselves with drugs. fornia Condor, and enough tears moting. Or to build an edifice to depravity and perverted diversions. shed to drown the remaining their complex. Or to regulate and gorillas in Africa. What is needed is regiment human behavior. But The well-off and rich do han a plan and action. neverhave I heard onediscuss what some alternatives to ruining the, ,. In order to have some measure of man is doing to the wildlifE' that progeny. And, thf:>Y can als;, 1Wtl understanding ofhow foolishly we God or the gods surely must have save the plants, Wildlife and wil- fritter away our resources on inane put on Earth. Are they worth a few dernt'ss in rhe pre-cess. S(~me of" and hopeless activities we must words from our so-called religiou" thesie' alternatives are: have a common denominatorwe all leaders? Surely the Christ.ian. I) Leaving money to conservatjon understand. I propose that money Mohammedan, Buddhist, Shintoist, groups for general purposes or be the denominator and will use it Judaic or Zoroastrian holy works specific projects like publishing. to discuss various factors. Money and scholars must have given some memorial libraries, preservation of can be used to buy a limousine, pay thought to the matter or are they a species of plant or animal or a for a child's liver transplant, hire a hopelessly anthropocentric? Or multitudE' ofother projects. scientific researcher for a year or were they written so long ago that 2) Set up a memorial endowment buy ten acres ofwetlands for wild they simply could not conceive of to provide income t'ach year for a life habitat. Let's say each of the today's problems? I hope God did specific or general purpose. above costs $100,000 and we can not intend for us to destroy all of 3) Buy a wildlife property and only do one of them in the coming the magnificent wildlife and wil- leave it to a conservation group to eraoflimited funds. I would choose derness she created. memorialize a loved one or let a the lastone(unless it were my child The well-off and rich (rich have group buy a needed property to who needed the transplant - and multiple millions, well-off have a save a plant or animal in the nan\(' that is an emotional not a rational million or so) have a particularly ofthe person. decision). good opportunity to memorialize 4) Spend some of their lifE'timt' Consider, however, some negative themselves, savetheirprogeny from acquiring ecologically importanl side possibilities such as keeping the burden of money and keep the properties and leave them to a ("on- two thugs in prison for a year, government out of their pockets. servationgroup -likeaccumulating allowing the retrial ofa rapist on a Their legacy can mean important an artcollection. Agift to wildE'r!wss Sinkyone Coast. Photo by David Cross. technicality (California recently wildlife habitat and wilderness is a forever gift. Page 11 Earth First! December 22, 1983 , he California gray whale is probably the most widely by David Rinehart recognized whale species GREENPEACE IN SIBERIA In North America, or at least on the west coast. Millions of people have seen the whales' great migration from their breeding grounds in Mexico to their summer home in the Bering Sea. At one time whaling threatened the very survival of the species. But the population has made a spectacular . recovery, thanks to the governments of Mexico, the United States and Canada, which have given the gray whale total protection from hunting. This protection ends when the whales reach'Soviet waters in the Bering Sea. Here, they are still chased by whalers, harpooned and towed into a shore station, butchered and used for animal food. The Soviet government claims its gray whale hunt feeds the Soviet Inuit (Eskimo) population, but it is difficult to find anyone outside the Communist bloc who believes this. A prime reason for this skepticism is the six-fold increase in the size of the hunt since the mid-50s, when mink ranches were introduced in Siberia. Acres of animal pens above the Soviet whaling station at Loren, photographed in 1981 by Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, offer tacit proof the whale meat is being used for commercial purposes. . Unfortunately, the suspicions and circumstantial evidence have never been enough to force the International Whaling Commission to cite the Soviets for breaking its rules. Emboldened by years of unhindered operations, Russia, along with Japan, Norway and Peru, declared last fall they would not abide by the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling. As this year's IWC meeting neared, Soviet Destroyer bearing down on Rainbow Warrior. Photo by GreE:mpeace. conservationists everywhere prepared to fight the objecting nations-and The Soviet authorities seemed Greenpeace made plans for an soldiers had taken our cameras, our but the steady harassment made it unsure of how to deal with us. The unauthorized visit to the Soviet Union. film and our freedom, impossible. Weakened by his struggle, day we were captured, the major told When the Rainbow Warrior's second he was suddenly knocked out of his us his government had decided to joined the crewmembers of the mate drove one of the infIatables in to inflatable by a tremendous backwash; send us to Seattle. The following day Rainbow Warrior in Nome, see if he could bring us back to the as the crew of the Rainbow Warrior he announced the chief judicial officer I Alaska for the voyage to ship, the Soviets had their sixth - watched through binoculars, he was was in the process of deciding Siberia. They were tired after a prisoner. The squad commander on hauled up a rope into the Soviet whether we'd be tried as criminals. He grueling three weeks of monitoring the the beach used one of our radios to helicopter. told us the going rate for border Japanese gillnet fishing fleet, but in tell the remaining Rainbow Warrior Seven expedition members were violations was one to three years in a just a few days they were anxiously crew, "The Soviet government invites now in Soviet hands, But when the Siberian prison, And lest we take our loading the boat for the short trip you to come ashore:' but captain Peter Rainbow Warrior reached the barracks accommodations for granted, across the Bering Straits. Willcox turned down the one-way trip. abandoned inflatable, churning around he informed us that in the real prison TWo dozen people gathered on the Convinced he could not negotiate the in full-speed circles, crewmembers we wouldn't get such good food ..... or ship's bridge as we approached the prisoners' immediate release, he found an important tool .for their the use of a table, a chair, or even a U.S.S.R.'s 12-mile territorial waters. headed the ship for friendlier waters. friends' recovery. Hidden at the bed. A!thoughno ships, Soviet navy or Already a huge Sikorsky military bottom of the boat was the campaign We spent our days trying to s,leep, otherwise, appeared on the radar helicopter had begun buzzing the film, valu.able evidence of the capture waiting for each next meal, telling screen, it was clear our arrival had not Greenpeace vessel, making it clear the and chase, every joke we could remember and gone unnoticed: we were surrounded escape from Soviet waters would not With this documentation in hand, prying the authorities for any sort of by dozens of gray whales. It was hard be uneventful. On the radar screen, the crew turned its full attention back prognosis of our situation. The last for us to imagine that some of these two ships were approaching fast, The to the escape, The Soviet warship, was particularly frustrating: every time huge, graceful animals would soon be Rainbow Warrior, built for fuel unable to pass the Rainbow Warrior we asked what our fate might be, we slaughtered for mink feed. economy and not for speed, pushed and unwilling to use its weapons to heard a different story. By the. third In July, dawn comes early to the on, but within an hour of leaving the stop it, maintained its pursuit for a I day we simply stopped asking, waiting Arctic Circle. By 4 a.m. I was in one Siberian coast a Soviet navy ship was harrowing 10 hours, Finally, with the instead to see whether we'd be taken of three inflatables speeding through on the horizon. U.S. territorial border in sight, the to an airport or a courtroom. dense fog' toward the Siberian coast, In any form of racing it's the best Soviets turned around and headed for As it turned out, we saw neither. now only a few hundred yards away. driver, and not necessarily the fastest home. That evening, all around the the Five days after we were first As we approached the shore, we vehicle, that crosses the finish line United States, the capture of the imprisoned, our guard informed us we wondered what our reception would first. Willcox and the crew cut and Greenpeace Seven was made public. would be boarding a Soviet research be. Would we be turned back, or wove their ship in front of the Soviets', vessel that would take us to an at-sea taken on a staged tour to be shown putting all on the line to avoid hile all this was going on, rendezvous, We had no idea who that all the whale meat really was capture. They would stop, they agreed, the six of us on shore would be at the receiving end - angry going to the Inuit people? Again, we if a first warning shot was fired, a risk W. were discovering that State Department officials or an were surprised to find no one waiting that became increasingly likely as the being captured by the Soviet army abrupt Coast Guard crew. As we for us at the base of the whaling chase weilt on. wasn't all that bad. We were treated approached the meeting place and station. Afraid that capture was inevitable, courteously by the Soviet soldiers, were finally allowed on deck, we were Five of us went ashore to film and the crew decided to send an inflatable who saw a half-dozen unarmed ecstatic to see the Rainbow Warrior, pass out literature to incredulous Inuit back to Alaska with the film taken protesters, including two women, as a our laughing colleagues waving from workers who were unloading coal from the boat. Jim Henry, the Rainbow curious aberration of a decadent the bow. from an old barge. It was a beautiful Warrior's first mate, volunteered for capitalist society, and not as any sort On board the Rainbow Warrior, we morning; as the fog lifted we were the risky mission. of threat. Although our verbal were surrounded by journalists and able to photograph more and more of But the Soviets saw through this communication was limited, the TV camera crews, Of the many the whaling station and the animal plan, As soon as the small boat was international language of a smile and a questions we were asked, one of the pens above it. launched, the Russian helicopter wave served us' well with everyone we easiest was "Do you think you made a All at once, the quiet of the morning swooped toward it, pulling up just met, from yomig schoolchildren to a difference?" The answer was an was broken by the sound of a Soviet short of touching it and sending up stern major, who after a couple of unqualified yes, The IWC's nearly 50 army truck speeding down the hill. huge waves. For several hours Henry hours finally reciprocated our percent cut in the Soviet Union's Within minutes, a squad of teenage tried to distance himself from the ship, greetings, Page 12 Earth First! December 22, 1983 AUSTRALIAN JOHN SEED TO JOIN EARTH FIRST! ROAD SHOW
John Seed on 1984 ROAD SHOW ,Joined by rainforest expert.John ROAD SHOW PROMOTION Saving the Rainforest Seed from Australia, the 19R4 Eati.h First! Road Show crew of Dave Foreman, Cecelia Ostrow and Mike Over 450 enthusiastic people wel Dave Foreman on Roselle is about to hit the road on a comed the Earth First! Roadshow tour that will take them to univer to Berkeley in .January 1983 in spite byEd Heske Saving Wilderness sities and communities from Cali of the winter rains. There are a lot from the U.S. fornia to Florida to New Hampshire. of people here who were ready to The theme of the Road Show will hear the kind of things Dave Fore An eye-catching black-and-whilp Forest Service be the Preservation ofWild Forests man and Company had to tell them. poster was designed by .Jean Her - from the tropical rainforest under Digger's speech, in fact, drew a stan zegh, a San Francisco EF!er, and 40 attack by multinational COl'pora ding ovation from the Berkeley copies were posted in Berkeley Cecelia Ostrow & tions to the national forests of the crowd. The music was both moving where they were most likely to be United States under attack by the and arousing, and many people seen by sympathetic eyes. Outdoor Nagasaki Johnson U.S. Forest Service. stayed well after the main show to equipment stores, bicycle repair With Wilderness The Road Show is currently sing along with .Johnny Sagebrush shops, bookstores (especially ones scheduled from ,January 31 to and Cecelia Ostrow. Everyone who known for good natureioutdoors Music MaKch 5. Seed will presf'nt a full attended the rally left encouraged, sections), co-ops, coffee shops. color/sound film of the Terania cursing Wattand his kind, and inter restaurants and record strJres with DRAFT SCHEDULE FOR EARTH FIRST! Rainforest Blockade in Australia ested in finding out more about this windows on heavily used stre~ts ROAD SHOW DURING FEBRUARY 1984 "Give Trees a Chance" and discuss hard-talking bunch of ecoradicals were primary targets. The Berkeley called Earth First!. Ecology Center put up a promin<'nt place date contact & phone thl'eats 10 the world's rainforests and the development ofan interna How did all of t.hese people find EFI display (thanks to Karen Pic Chico, CA .Jan. 31 Nancy Morton (916) 343-6547 tional network to combat the out about the Roadshow? In the kett) and notices were posted in the Albuquerque, NM Feb. 3 Neil Cobb (505) 277-5897 destruction. Dave Foreman will Bay Area there's so much going on offices of t he various other envi ron Springfield, MO Feb. 5 Sue Skidmore (417) 882-2947 discuss the Earth First! campaign all the time that it's hard to grab ment-ally oriented groups with Knoxville, TN Feh. 7 Gordon Burghart to save the National Forests from anyone's attention. The University's which the East Bay is 10ad~c1. On Atlanta, GA Feb. 8 .Julia Heinz (404) 525-2271 the U.S. Forest Service and, in his bulletin boards get stripped every top of that, a lot of plain old "snip Gainesville, FL Feb. 9 Ronnie Hawkins (904) 495-9203 hellfire and brimst.one fashion, lew days-and-anything you post is ing" was done. Almost 700 xer0xcd Washingt.on, D.C. Feb. 12 Lee Few (703) 361,2239 encourage conservationists to fight likely t.o be buried under a pile of flyers were stapled up on bulletin Terry Harris (301) 7(j2-1312 t()J'wildcrness and natural diversity notices and flyers within 24 hours. boards, telephone poles, fences, ~utgers Univ., N.J Feb. 14 Stacey Washko (201) 821-9647i with ethics, passion, vision and The San Francisco Chronicle trash cans - you name it - during 821-8644 courage. Oregon folksinger Cecelia reprinted Stewart McBride's OlLt t.he two weeks before the Roacl Yale Univ., CT Fel>. 15 Louisa Willcox Ostrow will perform hersongs such s'ide article on Earth First! in the show. The UC campus was blitzed Univ. of Mass., MA Feb. 16 Shana Frank (413) 253-7667 as "Talk to the Trees," "Sounds of Sunday paper two weeks before the with flyers three or four times. Dur Kc'pnc, NH Feb. 17 Bruce Thompson (003) 835-6575 the Forest," and "My Sweet Oregon Roadshow. That was an incredible ing the two days before the rally, r~ochestcr or Home." help. Tim Jeffries, the Marin EF! notices were taped to the doors of G~'lwseo, NY Feb. 18 Christopher Ross In addition, the Road Show crew contact, arranged for radio publi the school libraries and buildings Lpwishurg, PA Feb. 19 David Hafer hopes to meet with Earth First!ers city on KPFA a'i well a'i an interview with lots ofclassrooms. Announce Yellow Springs, OH Feb. 21 interested in forming local EF! with Dave Foreman. Phil Friedman, ments were written on the black Madison, WI Feh.22 Bob Kaspar (GOS) 241-9426 groups and taking action on a the San Francisco contact, got no boards of major lecture halls in the Ashland, WI Feb. 23 Tom Galazan variety of issues. A tentative tices into the Yodeler (Sierra Club science buildings. And finally, a gliz (;rinnel,IA Feb. 25 K Sippy schedule for the Road Show (ollows chapternewsletter), Ba.y Guardian zly bearwearingan EF! camouflage Boulder, CO Feb. 27 ,Jeremy Kaplan with phone numbers for contact (local free newsweekly), and var hatappeared in Sproul Plaza on the Salt Lake City, UT Feb. 28 Ken Sanders (801) 355-2154 persons. Help in promot.ing the ious other places where they'd be UC campus duting lunch hour pass F.ugene, OR Mar. 1 Marcy Willow (503) 342-7040 Road Show is needed in each area. likely to reach potential Earth ing out EF! propaganda (make that Arcata, CA Mar. 2 Bill Devall (707) 822-8136 Jf you'd like to help, get in touch First!ers. A disc jockey from KALX "enlightening literature'''') and Berkd('y, CA Mar. 5 Ed Heske (415) 549-1424 with the contact. This schedule is (the UCB radio station)was conver Roadshow Flyers. This bear was rough and sul'1ject to change. A final ted to the cause and made several also seen in several of the biology schedule will be mailed out in announcements on the air. The rest labs and some of the locaI coffee .January. was just plain legwork. shops giving outRoadshow notices. Another GOO handouts WNe distri FILMS buted by this crazy critter. Seven hundred flyers is a lot to Give Trees A Chance - post. And a lot of people helped (Nightcap Blockade in Australia) post them. One good way to both get help with publicity and get inter ested people committed to coming Cracking ofGlen to the rally is to give out stacks of flyers. If someone seems panicli CangonDamn larly interested in EF', ask where they live, givp them a stack of IU-l i" flyers and a.,k ~hern to PHt them up in appropri:l'-e places around th~'ir neighborhoud or in their fa\'orire hang-outs. This gets posters up in minke catch was spectacular proof of places you probably wouldn't get the tremendous international pressure to, and once someone has im'esred our protest had generated. a little energy like that, they tend to Seven months after Greenpeace feel they really should show up. sparked an intense outcry against With luck, they blingfiiends. Thin,b(s whaling in Peru, that country like bear suits are great attention announced the withdrawal of its getters, and a sympathetic costunw objection to the whaling moratorium. store owner might even give you a The Soviet Union campaign may well reduced rate if you plead poverly, have the same effect. Commercial non-profit, worthy cause status. whaling is an anachronism in the Xeroxing or offset printing gets 1980s, and until Japanese, Norwegian pretty cheap ifyou have' it done in and Soviet whaling fleets are bulk(several hundred). Money can converted to other marine enterprises, be saved on handouts by fitting I wo their governments will continue to per page, then cutting them up wil h face international condemnation. As a paper cutter after printing. close as we are to a final victory for whales, we cannot let up the fight. • Ed Heske is a zoologist (lm/Jiml mice) alld tile EF! cOlltlld ill /1,,1' David Rinehart edits the Greenpeace keley. He likes to lI'eal' /WIII' suits Examiner in Oregon. John Seed (shown with Earth First! flag at Franklin River Blockade) will aroulld the UI/il'ersi(/j (!r (.IIIUi))' join the Road Show for a coast to coast tour. Ilia cnmpl/s. Page 13 Earth First! December22, 1988 'The thesis of the Ethic is that ecology becomes deep. But those of' present attempts to stop environ us in the Earth First! movement BOOKS! mental destruction are only stopgap will question his attitude of non measures - they merely "prolong "the contem involvement, his decision to head the agony." What is needed is a fun off into the woods instead of stick damental change in.the way we porary'real' ing around to battle the exploiters. "except for ... the view ourselves and our relation I think he is correct in that we can ship to the rest of the living world. world is unreal." notchange the system from within, I'r()~ress is Our Most. Kozlovsky believes that "the Ameri and in his criticism of"environmen Important Pollutant procreant urge can way oflife is criminal" because talists in a hurry, using the des (An Ecological and Evolutionary we live in excess ofour needs. Since tructive system of air transporta Ethic, by Daniel G. Kozlovsky, ofeach gene free enterprise capitalism is a tion to fly to ... conferences on how lH74, Prentice-Hall Inc., Engle growth phenomenon, and "growth tostop pollution, orinundation with wood Cliffs, NJ) Another prominent message in pool as it does for the sake ofgrowth is the philo airports, or sonic booms." We must Reviewed by Reed Noss the Ethic is that, through a bizarre sophy of the cancer cell," then cultural evolution, Homo sapiens admit that, like it or not,. we all its damnedest "thecontemporarycivilization must participate in the process of .. y(' gods. a hippie scientist" is has somehow become "out of con be stopped" if we are to have a destruction to whatever extent we how Stl'wart Brand characterized text." We have artificialized our to adapt satisfactory and sustainable man produce or consume in the eco ('("ologist Daniel G. Kozlovsky in The surroUl1dings to the point where earth relationship. But Kozlovsky nomie sphere, or depend upon :Ve.r1 Whole Earth Catalog. His we do not recognize ourinterdepen is not an activist, and this will be civilized, industrial society. It is a J'('Yi('w of Kozlovsky's book was and survive, dence with the natural environ unsettling to many Earth First!ers. trap that is damn hard to escape. laudatory. and this one will be too. I ment. This leads to a mass cultural He believes that"this feeling ... that But I would like to talk with Dan iiI's! read All Ecological a lid Euolu evolution has no psychosis, an identity crisis where we must try to change the world for Kozlovsky about Earth First!. Com ti()l/(lI~lj Ethic in 1975, and it was "the contemporary 'real' world is the better that we must work for pared to the established environ more influential to me than even A purpose. unreal." No wonder we are uncom perfection that the country or mental groups, we are relatively S(/Ild COI/Ilty AllI/allae by Leopold fortable, for, as Dan writes, "the mankind has some purpose to outside the system, as Bill Devall's or Abbey's Desert Solitaire. It is Nordo we." selective processes thatcaused you achieve, this entire Protestant, classic contrastofdeep ecology and one of the most important and to develop, body, mind, society, the indeed Western, ethic this environments that called you into shallow environmentalism has re\'('rent expressions of deep ecol impetus is the cause of our prob made clear. Defense of the Earth "g:.: ever to emerge from a scientific being, were vastly different, natur lems. " His personal solution is to we love is a gut-level response, an ('co!ogist. ally and socially, than the environ remove himself from the socio extended form ofself-defenseand a Dan Kozlovsky was a well-known ment to which you are now economic madness, to earn and regrettable necessity. It is also a a"i1<1emic ecologist at the Univer exposed." This essential discomfort spend as little as possible, because grass-roots movement of ordinary sit:.' of Wisconsin, although no one As for ecology, Kozvlovsky offers arising from life in a wretched "the less you achieve, the less you people defending their home could understand why he was tak a major challenge to the organism techno-environment makes us need work at anything, the fewer are the against the onslaught of industrial ing so long to get his Ph.D. His environment dichotomy. Since all to "trip" on something to keep from ramifications of your existence ..." madness, not a high-class cadre of seminal 1968 paper on ecological living organisms are constantly going mad. Most people trip on For that reason, with the beliefthat suit-and-tie professionals out to efficiencies (in transfer of energy exchanging materials with the material gadgetry, on hedonism, on you can't change the system from make some bucks off the ecology through the food chain) is widely environment, "we should be care self-fulfillment, on the American ful of what we dump into the within, Dan Kozlovsky went out dream oronJesus. Kozlovsky main fad, or a bunch of socialite recrea cited in ecology textbooks. He was into the woods. tionists guarding their playground. accepted by his colleagues as a first environment, because, physically tains that all these trips are and psychologically, tomorrow it's ."bummers" arid are destructive to It would be nice to just head back rate scholar. Yet science was not into the woods and live simply and' sufficient for Dan. In An Ecological likely to be us." On a related theme, the individual, to society, and (most I must quote this whole paragraph: importantly) to the environment. A peacefully (which is what Kozlov a/ldE!'olutionaryEthic(hereupon skydio after leaving this influential referred to as the Ethic), he writes Had an old yellow cat, Fart non-destructive trip must be based boy, once upon a time, and on a close personal relationship book behind), but then who is left that the "dreary abstractions" of to defend those woods?There have his zoological texts had not pre when he lost the capacity to with Nature. It would require maintain his personal organi "provide the "learning to share and doing with to be warriors! Nevertheless, it pared him to understand and would be enlightening for us all to appreciate the wonder of life. zation, I buried him in my out." It would demand that we be garden and planted one of opportunity for exposed to an environment to heed Kozlovsky's warning and not Observing a swarm oftiny Hymen let ourselves get caught up in striv optera on his arm while studying, my favorite herbs above him. which we are adapte'd, so that we Now when I use that herb (it an infinitely can realize fully our animal and ing, purposing, fighting, changing. he asks, "Is it true that your micro There is a real danger we could end scopic life is as beautiful and grew lush and beautiful), his human nature. Dan asks that we atoms become part of my pleasurable love inhibit only two of our unlimited up no different from our enemy. meaningful and important as Instead, let us do what is necessal'Y mine"" The essays in the Ethic body and my brain, and in a capacities - "the ability to repro true fundamental sense, I duce and the desire for materia! to defend our Earth, but without repeatedly answer this question in affair with life any notion of triumph. Just do it. the affirmative. But would most have my Fart-boy hack things." Sounds fair enough to me. Kozl~vskY scientists? I talked to a zoologist again. and the earth." It is clear that Kozlovsky's Ethic Onefinal thought: sug who was a colleague of Kozlovsky This seems to me an ideal way to is an ethic of deep ecology. It is gests that "the invention of indoor at Wisconsin, and he told me that comprehend immortality. In the based on a scientific understanding plumbing was a monstrous step in Dan dropped out right before he ecological-evolutionary paradigm, ofNature, butbreaks the necessary the reduction ofhuman awareness was to be awarded his Ph.D. He body, mind and soul are one. Thus. science-technology link. Under of natural phenomena, in the abil inter~ then moved out to the woods with our thoughts delive from the standing, not manipulating, is ity to recognize ourselves as eart.h an undergraduate girl and built a actions of matter and "when we where it's at. Yet Kozlovsky moves animals." We should all piss out log cabin. Last heard, they were mess with the environment, we TheEthicis organizedappealingly beyond science by seeing, feeling, doors so that we can still hear the owls. living off the land, bringing in a mess with souls." Kozlovsky has no as a collection of short essays, 65 smelling, touching, savoring and little cash with occasional carpen use for the dualisticJudea-Christian Notes sprinkled with quotations loving Nature for its own sake. Not try work, and expectinga baby. But worldview. He writes that, "The from Walt Whitman, Aldo Leopold, for knowledge, and certainly not Reed Nos" is a prqfessio1ULl ecol why would a scientist with so much assumptions of Christianity are H.D. Thoreau, Loren Eiseley, Gary for exploitation. This is where his ogi,st. "potential" just drop out" As Dan responsible for the fundamental dis Snyder and many others. The con explains in the Ethic, "Those who respert we show our bodies ... only tents arc in five parts: Evolution, are so busy at the 'frontier' are so Christians and other psychopaths Ecology, Animism, Humanism and far removed from the phenomena can be in a hurry to suffer and die." Naturalism. The beginning essays they think they are explaining, so This is just one of many passages are as good an introduction to evo furfrom the realfrontier; which is where Dan comes down hard on lutionary biology and ecology as I've to IIllderstand how good itfeeLs to Christians. He writes elsewhere read anywhere. They succinctly stu lid in the middle Q(the phenome that he is convinced that"such reli· , explain that no supernatural expla lion and know you are a part qfU gious ideas and all other supersti nations are needed to understand ... "that he said "to hell with them" tions and ignorance are the prin-' the ofigin and evolution oflife, that andle~ , cipal obstacles to understanding "the harmony ofthe living universe ourselves." Does this mean he is not the wisely planned work ofa rejects a spiritual approach to Nat creator, butthe productofthe inter ure? On the face of it, yes. Perhaps action of natural forces." The "Is it true that the Ethic inadequately explores implication is that"exceptfor ...the alternative religions that are more procreant urge ofeach gene pool as your nlicroscopic Earth-oriented: But Dan does offer it does its damnedest to adapt and an alternative. Itis simply to "seek a survive, evolution has no purpose. whole heaven on a whole earth." Nor do 'we." Dan goes on to explain life is as beautiful This is a naturalistic alternativeand that the developmentofthe human it is a reverent one. Throughout the mind has allowed, in one small and meaningful book, Dan's profound love and instance, the evolutionary process respect for Nature shine through. to become conscious of itself. This and important as He calls for a human ecology that is"an immense preciousness,"for it would "treat all the substances of suggests that "the greatest human mine?" the earth as sacred" and "provide dignity follows from a respectful the opportunity for an infinitely ness ofeverything that is as mean pleasurable love affair with life and ingful as ourselves, thatis, theentire with the earth." living world." Page 14. Earth First! December 22,1983 A Review of the Letters (cont) Works of Barry Lopez, by Four Dollar 3m Dear Ea,rth First! You've finally revl'all'd what a The bookjackets call him a natur namby-pamby, candy-ulill'd outfit alist writer, perhaps from a mis you really are. understanding of his viewpoint. I 7.3 million acres ofwildl'nH'ss [or think the. term humanist may be Idaho? Hell! The Forest Sl'rvin' more appropriate because it is admits to at leas! Rmillion roadlPss through human perspectives that acres here, and you can het your he sees Them. sweetasset managements that'h('y They will never again appear the haven't found four or five million. same: Rivers, Deserts, Birds, Snakes, Close the Magruder Corridor·) Bears, Wolves and Fish; Rain and Gee, I'll bet you guys don't likl' Sun and Cities and ... Humans. Now James Watt either, huh? What ahout they are all something else, some the thousands of miles of deficit thing evanescent as they were not timber sale roads that erode our before, but ... still more living and hills and foul our rivers attaxpayer's present ancl real. expense? There isn't much, if any, His stuffis not for everyone, it is profitahle timber left in Idaho, folks. too rarefied. It is too much like the These logging roads are subsidized thunder and ice that cracks and by you and me. This industry wel erodes our own beings, the primal fare has been reported by Pauline awareness that frightens us into D. Plaza to be $138 million nation ignorance. It hrings one uncomfor wide in 1981. tably close to that unnamable, The way they are slicing apart untouchable and unmanageable RARE II land up here, there won', sort of feeling that exhilarates and be anything left by the time you clarifies like an unexpected brush come up with a courageous pro~ with death. posa!. Entire RARE II units haY<' Someofhis work, as in the collec been logged to oblivion since 1978. tion of stories in Winter Count, Got that? Zero acres remain. Zip. seems to be simple and lucid things You didn't even list roadless areas that are as easy as breathing. Some that the ForestService ignored dur of the other stories such as those ing RARE II. For starters, ever hear found in Desert Notes and River: of Lime Cre~k? 60,000 acres or Notes are more complicated, more House Mount.ain with 13,000? But inextricably tied to oddly deep don't buy into the Forest Service human experiences ofthought and figures. They didn't even inventory IT" ~ ~lIIble. Whf'\ 1*1'" it> emotion, with the purpose of them several million acres, and many of Sacred Cows at individuals, but against the live The authors point out that we of not immediatelyapparent, although the inventoried acreages represent the Public Trough stock industry which is routinely the public are notjustsubsidizinga each ofthem is a beautifuljourney, only a fraction of the true roadless by Denzel and Nancy Ferguson, decimating our public lands. measly few percent of American mystical, real and readable. The area of a unit. For example, entire Maverick Publications, Bend, Seeking an answer to the dra beef production with our natural wonderful delights ofeach as a sep pristine drainages were excluded Oregon, 57.95, 1983 matic decline in refuge waterfowl heritage. To make matters even aratestory are reward enough. They be~ause one primitive jeep trail Eastofthe Malheur National Cat production (150,000 in 1948 to more galling, Uncle Sugar, strike are each a sensitive and gutsyques went up a creek bottom. tle, er Wildlife Refuge is the little 21,000 in 1974), the authors found that euphemism, I mean we are lin tion: The whole of them, the larger Don't forget about desert wilder hamletofDiamond, Oregon. Itnever it to be inverse to cattle grazing ing the pockets of these privileged body, conveys the other world rea ness in all this forest wilderness was much and it's less now. A com (74,000 animal units in 1948 and cattlemen. These modern cattle lity and one is notaware until after noise. The administration is still sit bination filling station Gust regular) 125,000 in 1972). That begat other .barons are just spruced up robber wards of what Lopez is saying, if ting on several hundred thousand and a store with a limited selection questions. For example, just why barons. indeed the whole message is now acres of bare lava in the Great Rift. ofnonperishable items. You can get the hell are 450 linear miles· offence Ifreading Dietjor a Small Planet before us. I think it is not. There are absolutely no economic a beer and some junk food. One needed to manage a 286 square didn't make you a vegetarian, Sac Forthose who can converse with conflicts with lava flows. The cows night in Diamond, the authors of mile national wildlife refuge? red Cows at the Public Trough a stone, make love to a river, hear can't even walk on it. Sacred Cows at the Public Trough Beginning with the rise of the should make you at least limit your the thoughts of strangers some We also have about 10 million were "physically ejected" from· a livestock industry (and the decline carnivorous desires to non-public times better than their own, and acres between paved roads on the public dance. The ejectors were of vegetation, soil, streams, fisher grass-fed beef. find ancient friendship with wild Owyhee Plateau alone (including local rednecks. The ejectees were ies, biggame, small game, non-game A chapter is devoted to examin things ... orthose who wantto: Read Nevada and Oregon). Talk about a directors of an educational field and recreation), the authors tell a ing the cowboy mystique which all ofLopez. Forthose who think all thanklessjob. The enviro-troops in study station on the nearby refuge. fascinating ·tale of deceit, fraud, has plagued our country and even that is silly, who think the universe southeast Oregon and Idaho are Their crime was trying to get greed, land rape, arrogance and the world. This romanticization i.s can be mapped: Don't bother. For busting their tails to save the big some of the cows off the Malheur gross violation of the public trust part of the problem facing conser Brother Lopez: May you see and gest block of unprotected wilder ("bad water") Refuge. The hatred which has gone on and is still going vationists who seek to reduce cattle hear and write forever. ness in the lower forty-eight. How continued(and escalatedto the ulti on to this very day. The Bureau of . numbers on the public lands. The about some foreign aid? mate threat: death) but rather than Livestock and Mining (incorrectly Fura while I thought us inovioroo Marlboro man is not only haiar men and their bureaucrats. The heeding the suggestions, the Fer known as the Bureau' of Land mentalists up here on the wilder dous to your health, but to the straight environmental groups gusons became more resolute. Management), the cattle industry ness frontier could expect some health ofyourenvironmentas well. won't do it. It's simply too radical a The Harney County Cattlemen, and local government officials con help from you hot-tubbin' C'alifomia Some Earth First!ers I know are concept for them. (Remember, The the Oregon Cattlemen's Association tinue to conspireagainst the public. dilettantes, but it looks like we're subscribing to the Marlh()ro myth. Wilderness Act currently allows and even a now U.S. Congressman (By the way, this alliance against still on our own. While it may be an Edward Abbey livest.ock grazing.) Butthose groups named Bob Smith couldn'tgetthem the environment and taxpayers far Well, kiss my privatizations <1lld esque reaction to debunk the will come around ifsomeone starts fired. The Lord knows they tried. It predates the era of James Watt at go stand in front (If a bulldozer if stereotype of wilderness lovers the battle. When the American pub was burnout rather than intimida the Interior Department.) that's how ~'ou feel about Idaho.. (apartment dwelling, posy-picking, lie realizes the daily horrors that tion that finally got to the Fer The book debunks several myths Sierra Club cup-toting, Volvo - Sweet dI'ea illS. gusons. The authors retired to a ofpublic land grazing. Iwasshocked are occurring on our public lands, driving, brie-eating elitists), they the mainline conservation groups Rillirock small spread along the Middle Fork to learn that grazing pressure is should realize that by wearing their will stumble over each other to (Dea I'RiIII /'01'1\: Buy. !JOII better lIut on the John Day in .the Blue greater now than it ever has been. pointy-toed boots, Stetsons and let HO'll'ie heal' y{J1I callillg hilll U Mountains. Or that cattle, far more than hunt finish the battle and get the credit snap-buttoned shirts and carrying for removing the cows. But Earth "Califol'lIia Dilettollte." He's Iw/'('r The Forces of Darkness thought ing pressure, have decimated big a pinch ofchew beside their gums, First! has to start it. even seen a hot-tub. lIIuch less sit ill they'd won. However, the Malheur horn sheep; pronghorn and elk. If they are contributing to the canoni one. Indeed, we i
In III(' mid- Ul70·s. it seemed like they're conservative is not very them to write theircongressmen to IIll' ('O( .rs BI"('wing Company could enlightening. Many of us have par block passage ofthe civil rights act. do no wrong. They were selling all ent.s who are conservative. Nor is But the company does eventually III(' heel' th('y could make and they t.heir anti-union attitude unusual. yield to external pressure. For (I(.minaled their markets wherever Union busting is quite chic since example, in 1971, they finally t Ill'y dlOSl' to sell. They owned the Reagan took office. The fact that started hiring women for the better laQ.wsl brewery in the world and they support political candidates of paying production jobs. That was Wl'I"(' number four in sales. Incre a like persuasion would probably wonderful.. And about two y~ars dihly. this was achieved on one of draw a yawn and to say they take later they even got around to Ihe low('st advertising budgets in an active interest in right wing providing some restrooms for them. Ihe industry. All the indicators political action committees is Things got so bad back in 1976 \\'l'I"(' up. enough to put many to sleep. But that the Federal Equal Employment WdI. almost all. There was that much ofthis activity has significant Opportunity Commision filed suit litlll' problem with the Teamsters and devastatingeffects about which against .Coors for intentionally in Oakland. They had struck and we should be informed. engaging in unlawful employment Wl'rl' no\',' calling for a boycott. How The Coors people first started practices. When the suit was filed ('wr. it was nothing that an old drawing public attention in the only 3% ofall Coors employees were uniOll strike breaker like Coors late 1950s when they forced con black, 6% Chicano and 7% women. couldn't handle. cessions from the striking Brewery This, in spite of the fact that Chicanos apparently started this Workers, Local 366. Union give substantial minority populations hoycott business, mostly over backs were extraordinary in those live in the surrounding area. Coors' discriminatory hiring days. Since then, the company has Aboutthesametime the Colorado practices. Individual unions fol orchestrated the dissolution of Health Department charged Coors lowed "uit. Then in 1977. following union after union (19 so far, says with polluting Clear Creek. The an unsuccessful strike by the Dave Sicklerofthe AFL-CIO) and it Federal Trade Commission nailed bre\H'IY ",orkers, the AFL-CIO continues to exhibit a singularly them for violation of the anti threw it" support behind the unenlightened attitude towards monopoly laws. The California "preading movement. organized labor. boycott was just beginning to take It was the beginning ofhard times Interestingly, labor isn't neces hold and Anheuser-Busch was from "'hich they have not yet fully sarily concerned about wages so starting to chew slices out ofCoors' recovered. much as human rights. Coors' use markets. . founded by Joe Coors. It's a right a thousand here or there - to the The Coors company has been of the lie detector in selecting and The Coors legal problems were wing think tank which puts out organization. Politically, it's around for more than a century. In interrogatingemployees is a case in serious, but not catastrophic. Most position papers on almost every generallyconsidered to bea little to 1873. Adolph Coors, a' German point. A rational person wonders businessmen would have licked thing. It seems to have been estab the left ofthe Ku Klux Klan. immigrant, started the Coor~ whatcould begoingonata brewery their wounds and carried on. But lished to help pass so-called right to Besides these five, Coors brewery on the banks of Clear to justify lie detector testing. The not Coors. They resented govern work laws, knock down regulations investors contribute to scores of . Creek, just west of Denver. Today, wonder grows deeper when it's ment intervention into their affairs. which fetter big business, throttle other conservative organizations an extensive complex of dreary revealed that the questions have Since the laws didn'tsuit them, the back programs for the disadvan throughout the nation. concrete buildings broods over the related to sexual preferences, laws would have to be changed. To taged and abolish the minimum After all the years of sowing, valley and the town of Golden, a political attitudes and even how do that required taking control of wage. harvest time finally came in' 1980. depressingly unimaginative monu often one changes their underwear! the United States government. The Mountain States Legal Foun Coors had been backing Reagan ment to its founder. The use of the lie detector was This sounds preposterous. but dation (MSLF) was founded in 1977 since 1968 and his election to the However, the Adolph Coors Com only one of the irreconcilable dif these people were used to having by Coors and a few other like presidency was a dream come true. pany has done well over the years ferences between managementand things their way. They are fiercely minded conservatives. Joseph Joseph emerged as one ofthe most and is now one ofthe largest family labor, however. Coofs was also independentand wish to controlall Coors, chairman ofthe foundation, influential members of Reagan's owned and controlled businesses pushing for the right to conduct aspects of their business. For selected<'James Watt to be its first millionaire "kitchen cabinet." For a in America. Adolph Coors, Jr., son searches of employees' property. example, they carry vertical diver president. The MSLF has initiated time he was spending every other ofthe founder, ran things for many They wanted employees to submit sification to an extreme. Theygrow legal proceedings against pollution weekend in Washington, helping years. Now his sons, Joe and Bill, to a physical examination upon their own hops in Germany, rice in and consumer laws. It has fought shape the new administration. both in their mid-sixties, are the demand and they wanted a free California and barley in Colorado. the Department ofInterior to open Thanks to Joseph, we had Anne senior officers of the corporation. hand at scheduling overtime. They make their own aluminum up wilderness areas such as the Gorsuch running the EPA, Bob Four 4th generation family mem People there were beginning to feel cans and transport their product Bob Marshall in Montanafor oil and Burford atthe BLM and Jim Wattas bers are assumming responsible like they. were owned. Bill Coors on their own trucks to their own mineral development. One of its head ofthe Departmentofthe Inte positions within the organization didn't help matters with statements distributors in 25 states. Their most recent cases was a challenge rior. Fortunately, we've gotten rid and are presumably ready to take like, "I carry the big stick and I horizontal diversification includes to Idaho's ratification of the Equal oftwo ofthese three, but there are over when Joe and Bill finally intend to use it." real estate, livestock, ceramics and Rights Amendment. (Joseph Coors so many more, moled away, that decide to relinguish control. They don't particularly like oil and gas leases. They even have has been very consistent in his one feels like the whole adminis But this apparent American minorities either. Virtually all have their own construction gang. And opposition to women's rights, dating tration should be tented and fumi success storyhas a darker side and been discriminated against to protect it all, they have an back to his years as a regent at the gated like a house infested with to understand this you have to blacks, Chicanos, women - you int.emal security force larger than University of Colorado. There he lice. As recently as August, 1983, know the Coors family. name it. Back in the 1960's Bill Golden's Police Department. They lobbied against distribution ofbirth Joseph's wife, Holly, was still Cnfortunately, getting to know ('oors is said to have assembled his leave nothing to chance. It's cor control information to women providing nominations to the them isn't that easy. To say that empluyees on company time to urge porate survivalism on a grand scale. students. Coors' contributions to DepartmentofInteriorfor positions The combination of diversifi organizations suchas Stop ERA and on the Colorado Advisory Council. cation and close family ownership Phyllis Schlaffly's anti-ERA Eagle At the local level the Coors people has a not unexpectE'd consequence; Forum reinforce the image.) I operate pretty much as they please. it generates a whole lot of dispos The National Right to Work For example, they now have a per able cash. And if you want to run Committee is one of a number of mit to discharge the effluent from things in America, lots of cash is new light organizations interested their brewery, the aluminum can what you need. in labor matters. It's a highly plant and their porcelain enamel Nobody has ever accused the specialized organization dedicated factory into Clear Creek. This will Coors family ofbeing stingy political to the prin<;:iples of union busting ease the load on the Metro Denver contributors, but in the 1970's they through legislation. SewageTreatmentPlant.But,need really spread a lot of seed money The National Conservative Poli less to say, the four communities about - sowing, if you like. They tical Action Committee (NCPAC) is downstream are not too pleased ,:,,_,;",,1 11 supported unknown candidates in the nation's largest political action about the change. One must ~.Uh their bid for the Colorado State committee. Itspecializes in negative remember, however, thatCoors had t'ktt *!t Legislature; people like Anne Gor media campaigns using methods of a brewery that was mucking up such, Steve Durham and Bob simplistic repetition with a mmimal Clear Creek three years before It Burford. They founded and/or regard for truthand accuracy. These Colorado was a state. *" it\: funded organizations such as The campaigns are usually directed at By the way, loyal Coors drinkers Heritage Foundation, The Mountain liberal Democrats. (Frank Church, needn't fret about the quality of States Legal Foundation, The George .McGovern and Harold water that's used for their brew. National Right to Work Committee, Hughes are some of the Senat0rs The celebrated "pure Rocky Moun ~t NCPAC has gunned for.) . tain Spring Water" is now drawn ~ The National ConserVative Political WA.'Ti lP Action Committee and The John The John Birch Society is pro from wells housed in concreteblock' Birch Society. The list goes on ad bably the best known ultra-conser buildings on company grounds. nauseam, but these five will suffice vative organization in America. These structures are reasonably Jy;; to illustrate the Coors philosophy. Coors claims to' have donated secure against potential contami (;oJtS}Clt The Heritage Foundation was felatively small sums of money - nation from Clear Creek and the Page 16 Earth First! December 22,1983 nearby nuclear weapons facility at college campuses to rescind the Rocky Flats. boycott. It's doubtful that, except for What happened? Mike Wallace is CAT TRACKS public opinion and its effect on usually the key figure in these by Chim Blea sales, the company would worry interviews. But the Coors brothers are not easily intimidated and they much about such things. For exponential curve - the classic bio were shrewd enough to prepare for What Are We example, it took public pressure to Fighting For? logical population curve which ends Wallace by hiring a PR firm to guide make them finally stop filtering in only one way: a sudden and pre them through this ordea,l.. They What are we fighting for? Are we their product through asbestos. cipitous drop. Hopefully our col spent 60 thousand dollars Jor this working towards a Golden Age of Nor is the proximity of the Deep Ecology, Reinhabitation, lapse will spare most of the rest of service (three times the annual weapons plant likely to be a matter the biosphere and the living planet AFL-CIO boycott budget). Nobody Appropriate Technologyand Peace? of concern. Bill Coors is a staunch Most of the essays and articles I will recover from its dreadful bout had prepared so carefully for 60 advocate of nuclear power. In a read in and other pub with humanpox with a minimal Minutes before, but it paid off Earth First! recent editorial for the Rocky number of pockmarks to show for handsomely. lications dealing with environ Mountain News he wrote glowingly it. The company, through the sieve mental and similar "progressive" on the subject. Characteristically themes seem to follow that line. There are many ways this col of the lie detector, had already (right wingers are always putting lapse could come about. The most \. 'acquired a pro-Coors work force. They' urge us to reach out to our their foot in their mouth), he con fellow human beings to show them obvious at this time is nuclear war. Thus, turning 60 Minutes loose on \ \7 cluded his editorial with this the error ofhigh-consumptive, cut I think this is unlikely given the the grounds was not a serious comment: "Maybe it's only a.coin just trying to stop the humanpox concern. So the PR people turned off-from-nature lifestyles. We are materialistic rulers of both the cidence that many of the visible United States and the Soviet Union. which is destroying it. I'm going to their attention to Bill and Joseph told weare onthe horizon ofa New leaders of the anti-nuclear power More probable are economic die. That's immaterial. nut life, themselves, grooming them for the Age, thatthe old paradigms will fall movementare identifiable with the collapse, famine, disease and the hopefully, will live on. piercing questions that Wallace away and a new worldview is com New Left - the most active wing of Earth striking back (earthquakes, (In a future Cat Tracks I will dis might ask. A director was brought ing. Education, moral leadership the American Communist Party in volcanoes, weather changes, etc.) cuss how this philosophy picks the in from New York to grill them in and deeper questioning of oursel America." or a combination of these. issues on which we should work the 60Minutes style. The emphasis ves as human beings and inhabi The negative impact ofthe Coors tants of this earth will lead to a This grimmer, darker, but more and those we should forget.) organization is not confined to the was on turning answers to poten tially damaging questions into revolution in our relationship with accurate view ofthe human experi immediateClearCreek/Goldenarea Chim Blea is a long-time a'ildm' statements which would enhance Gaia and to a new harmony on ment leads to a different answer to either. The Coors Energy Company tless activist. Her nom de plunle the viewers image of Coors. The Earth. the question of this column: What recently bulld.ozed a road into a (nom de guerre?) is the namegive/I. settingwaschosenwithcare. Hours I like to dream too. But in reality are we fighting for? Wilderness StudyArea(Little Book to the mountain lion by the natives were spent selecting the chairs in Ecotopiais notjustaround the bend We should befighting to preserve Cliffs) that effectively destroyed the ofBaja California. Her controver which the brothers would sit. They and a little further up the canyon. I and protect as muchnaturaldiver area's wilderness value. They sial column, Cat Tracks,. appears mustn't look too stiff, but they see two majorproblemswith hopes sity in as many places as possible contributed heavily to campaigns irregularly in Earth First!. shouldn't appear to be slouching for this greatand positivechange in fro'rn the ravages of humanpox which brought about the defeat of worldview and lifestyle among until our disease has run its bottle bills in Colorado and Cali either. The rehearsals were video taped, played backand re-run, again human beings. course. fornia. And, in Virginia, they've The first is time. You can read the For those ofus within the human Letters (cont) purchased 200 acres of land about and again. By the time Wallace arrived, the statistics elsewhere. But we are ra pox who have somehow mutated 800 yards outside of Shenandoah pidly deVastating natural diversity into. antibodies for the Earth, we "Dear EF! National Park where they plan to two Coors brothers were savvy, well-rehearsed, single scene bit part and the basic life functions ofEarth. should resistthe ravages ofhuman I think it would be great to have a build another brewery and can There is not enough time to peace pox wherever we can so that when column for young readers in EF! manufacturing facility. These plants actors. They outflanked the oppo sition and outfoxed 60Minutes, and fully transform industrial, over this dread fever of the Earth's fi because this struggle will surely will foul the air with coal smoke populated human civilization into nally breaks, there will be grizzlies includeeven more generation's than from a stack almost as hi~ as the they apparently swayed many of the viewers as well. something that can and will live in and whales and redwoods and con those before us and ours. I find the Washington Monument. The permit peace with the rest of nature. We dors and pupfish and rainforests 5-year-old in our household fre for these plants was approved over Perhaps only a cynic would men tiOl\ it, but right after the Coors are in thefinal crisis ofthe unhappy and prairies and coral reefs to come quently asking me about Earth the protests of the National Park human adventure. back with the health of the Earth. First!. She loved the photos in the Service. story, stations in Washington, Idaho and Montana' broke for a com Then there is the human experi This view has major implications past issue with kids in them. If Just outside of Denver is Lowry ment itself. How long have noble for,strategy and tactics within the anyone is interested in a column Landfill where the Coors company mercial- aCoors commercial. Some of the information in this souls worked for peace, freedom environmental movement and for young readers, theycan contact seems hell-benton creatingits own and plenty; for an end .to war, within Earth First!. If the utopian me and I'll try to put something Love Canal. It's a toxic waste dump article is 25 years old. Coors might argue that the historical perspec oppression and poverty? Centu vision ofDeep Ecology, Reinhabita together. Have you considered offer site which was closed recently due ing a collection of"Mutterings from tive does not truthfully reflect what ries. Millennia. And have we gotten tion, Appropriate Technology and to overflow and groundwater con any closer? At no time in human Peace is true, then, yes, indeed, we Mama Rue"? I found her writings tamination. Coors denies having is happening·today. But the fact remains that Coors history have so many suffered from should live exemplary lives to on earth religions most informative used the site for hazardous mate oppression, hunger, poverty, andthe encourage others to follow our and succinctand would like to read rials. But, according to John Minkoff refuses to come to terms with the legitimate grievances of its labor threat and actuality ofwar. We fool enlightened path. We should edu them aU together. of the EPA, Coors dumped several ourselves, I fear, with human arro cate our ethically-adolescent sib - Roger Brooks million gallons oftoxic liquids there. force. They continue to buy self servingpoliticalinfluence. Theyare gance when we visualize human lings, we should seek the methods POB 175 Ofthe 175firms who used thedump beings filling the role of the cere and tools of appropriate technol Newport, OR 97365 site, Coors and one other company insensitive to women's rights. And they look upon the natural envi brum in the body ofthe living Earth. ogy and reinhabitation. Dear Earth First! are claiming confidentiality about The eminent American historian, Butifthe Golden Age is a fantasy, what they dumped. ronment as a consumable resource At last! After a lot of searching ratherthan a life support system to William H. McNeill, had a far more if human beings are really a pox, and inquiry, there was your address' The mere closure ofthe site didn't accurate view of the human role then we who are antibodies should preventCoors'continued useofthe be conserved. in my October Canoe magazine. Whether we like it or not, every when he wrote in' Plagues and merely resist the ravages ofthe dis Since first hearing of the activities facility. In a Janu!1ry 1982 meeting Peoples: ease using whatever tools and between Coors, theattorneyfor the can of Coors bought supports this and perspective of Earth First' I political- philosophy and this view ... it is not absurd to class tactics that are effective in saving have been· interested in becoming dump site, and Steve Durham of the ecological role ofhuman natural diversity. In this sense, the the EPA,anagreementwas reached ofthe world. involved. Boycott Coors. kind in its relationship to end does justif.1J the means so long With influences like Watt loose in which let Coors store 46 more other life forms as a disease. as the means are consistent with drums of liquid wastes with the - Gracias, our world (he may be "gone," but Jose Jeduc Ever since language allowed the end which is natural diversity the man who hired him isn't - yet) I private understanding thatthe ban human cultural evolution to and a world cured ofthe humanpox. against burial would be lifted in strongly believe that a force lik{' WHAT YOU CAN DO impinge upon age-old proces In practical terms, this means Earth First' must exist - and grow. February. • Don't buy or drink Coors. ses of biological evolution, using all the "tools" Dave Foreman Ifyou'veJorgotten Steve Durham, The old cliche of fighting fire with • Tell bartenders, etc., why you humankind has been in discussed in his introduction to the fire coines to mind. Outfits like the he's one of the political unknowns don't drink Coors. a position to upset older section on non-violence in the Sep Coors helped elect to the Colorado Sierra Club, and Audubon have • Tell 'your friends why they balances of nature in quite tember 23, 1983, Earth First!. But their place for sure, but it's going to legislature. His environmental shouldn't drink Coors. the samefashion thatdisease in a strategic sense, it means thatit philosophyis best understood from " take more than what they can do to • Get "Boycott Coors" bumper upsets the natural balance is not so important to make a moral get the job done. a statement attributed to him stickers and silent agitators from within a host's body ... statement, to convince the general where he said that if he were to This little backward cornerofS.E. Earth First! and use them. Looked at from the point of public with our courageous and Texas I find myself in these days is find an endangered species on his • Write Joe and Bill Coor!l, view of other organisms, ethical stance, as it is to just stop land, he'd stomp it out so it would not the most environmentally en Adolph Coors Co., Golden, CO humankind therefore resem the goddatnned destruction. Stop lightened place in the world, but not influence what he could do 80401 and tell them why you are bles an acute epidemic the road. Stop the clearcut. Get the with his property. it's worth working on. boycotting their beer. disease, whose occasional cows out. Save the grizzly. Save that - BeauII/o/lt This artiele would not be com lapses intolessvirulentforms one redwood. Stop toxic waste plete without mentioning a recent of behavior have never yet dumping in that one stream. Resist. 60 Minutes story about the Coors sufficed to permit any really Resistance restrained only by what Company. The reader is reminded stable, chronic relationship is strategically and tactically most NEXT ISSUE that the segmentwas advertized as BOYCOTT to establish itself. effective in the short term. a look at the boycott, but the Coors We are a disease, yes. But a dis Thisviewnaturallyleans far more * Oregon RARE II suit people were given 90% of the air COORS ease that isjustabout to burn itself towards monkeywrenching in the time. They used the time so effec out. Ifgraphed, human population dark than to noble Gandhian direct * Saving Rainforest in tively that Coors has since pur • Bumperstickers $I postpaid. growth, technological development, action or political lobbying. I am the South Pacific chased rights to the tape and is • SilentAgitators, tenfor $1.25 impact on the planet and produc not trying to win a place for myself *. Smoke Bombs! using it with devastating effect on postpaid. See OrderForminback. tion of toxins form the same in heaven. I'm already there. I'm Page 17 Earth First! December 22,1983 DEAR NED LUDD VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS FOR THE SERIOUS ECO-RAIDER
PART ONE - ELECTRICAL BACK-UP LIGHTS Somt,times you just don't want Ifyour vehicle is in proper work tilt' dome light in your vehicle to ing 'condition, every time you put ('ome on in the "dark ~f the night" it in reverse the back-up lights will or those bright"tell tail" brake lights come on. It usually is not worth the to flash as youstopinanout-of-the time to override this circuit. Each way spot. The careful monkeywren manufacturerincorporates this sys ('her may be interested in the fol tem ina different way. The back-up lowing alternatives to factory wir switch for most automatic transmis ing. (I would suggest that a wiring sions is on the lower steering diagram be located for yourVehicie column and is usually incorporated before you start any modifications, with the neutral safetyswitch. Most and that you ask for help if you standard transmissions use a send have no electrical knowledge.) ing unit in the transmission. The best way around the whole mess is DOME LIGHTS to wire a new back-up light on the Dome lights come in useful at vehicle and disconnect the old sys times for map reading, finding the tem (just remove the bulbs). I use a monkeywrench underthe seat, etc. 'couple oftractor lights which I find But the damn things also come on more useful anyway. when the door is opened. The best COIL LOCK-OUT SYSTEM way around this is to disconnect (illustrated) the door jam switches - either There have been times when I've unclip them from their housings or wanted to either feign mechanical cut and tape the wires (make sure failure or disable my vehicle. This no "open" or "live" wires can touch is when a coil lock-out switchcomes ground). Most cars and trucks have in handy. a light switch with an instrument I like,to put mine inside the dri light dimmer that when rotated all COIL LOCK-OUT ver's compartment in a panel with the way up will turn on the dome the rest ofmy "auxiliary switches." light - evenwith thedoorjamswit With theswitch off, the engine will ches disconnected. turn over but will not start. You should be careful not to flood the engine (keep your foot offthe gas AUX, HEAD LlG-HT TO pedal) or to run the battery down. (TRAc.rOR' L.lfrHT) With the switch on, electricity hits the coil and the engine will start. This switch is also handy when --HOOD you're going to leave the vehicle USE SMALL. for hiking, camping or "whatever." R)f'-RIVITS If the unit is to be left for a long O~ period of time it's wise to discon SH(ET MtT1-L nect the battery and to somehow sc.RE\"IS ,0 lock the hood (be creative). The F'AsTEN ON illustration should be self C.OIL explanatory. Remember to solderand insulate AUXILIARY HEADLIGHT all connections. (illustrated) - Good Hunting The use ofa small "tractor light" Mr. Goodwrench as a secondary headlight is a good POWER IN way to navigate at night at slow to FROM I GN. SWl1tH Mr. Goodwrench isa professional moderate speeds without using the mechanic somewhere in the West. headlight switch, which usually More ofhis tips will appear infu runs the tail and marker lamps as ture editions ofDearNed Ludd. well. Tractor lights are low inten • sity lights commonly used on farm and construction machinery and can be hadat mostauto parts stores. A hood can be constructed out of almost anything and should be added to the light(see illustration). BRAKE L1C:rHT LOCK-OUT- Large size tin cans or a small piece of sheet metal will work well as a POWER IN hood. Paint this shield flat black. LlerHT- LJ6'HT IS oN WHEN The hood will stop excessive up USUALLY FROM FUSE BRAKE L.lerHTS ARE and side glare while the lamp is in BOX "'OT ""ORKIt.k:i(rv~&'~ oFF) use. TRY TO FIND A BLUE' LeNS -CHECK RADiO BRAKE LIGHT LOCK·OUT SHAcK (illustrated) A switch to lock-out the brake lights can easily be installed. Most brake light switches are located on or near the brake pedal. The illus DEAR NED LUDD is a regular tration shows a typical switch and feature in Earth First! for how to wire it. Remember not to. STDP TOGGtE discussion of creative means of It'ave the brake lights off if you SWITCH effective resistance against the art'n't "on the job." It's a sure pull forces of industrial totalitar ovpr and ticket (I have a warning ianism. Neither the Earth First! light on mine). Also remember that .movement nor the sta,ff of Earth ~ear BRAKE' L/ClHT all other lightS will still work.- SWITCti First! necessarily encourage any turn signals, emergency flashes, tail one to do a:ny ofthe things discussed lights (see auxiliary headlight), etc. in DEAR NED LUDD. Page 18 Earth First! December 22,1983 HE·O-WEH-GO-WEK "Once a home, now a memory" BAD CHILI
it was a garden party To fish the brool~ for trout ogain the garden was small I revisit hills, once a home but there were some swings and think about Oneida Indians, to sit on the written history, devastated the captain began long removed from New Yorl~ State. to tall~ about the conference Driving an abandoned road I enter THE WATER DEAR that had tal~en place the secluded valley, stopping at in LA the rusted bullet-ridden sign A creature dwarfed by a gross blade, where the suicide potion "Narr9w 13ridge". Unshattered-- my return sa ugly it sends a shiver (we are preparing to evacuate yet, the sun banl~s in'a thundercloud, down the devil's spine, so cunning at the drop of a hot) the horseflies gnow through sweating flesh it can live four hundred seasons idea and trout flies blow on a gust without a single drop of water, was tried from box into weeds. "Once a home, a freal~ that could sUNive on Mars. by the organization now a memory"... I catch no more it was not the clear than a chub, and echoes of a warbling May And man, will he learn to endure translucent red that later when I pulled the foot-long brool~ie out. the deserts of his own mal~ing. figured in the stories The car won't start. The wind adopt to on asbestos diet, (specific doses in gloss viols) ignites. The home one seeks shall wait. a freal~ that can survive on Earth) it was home mode chili a little thin Walt Franklin Joe Smith but lethal Rexville So n Fro ncisco
N. Cole ARMED WITH VISIONS Son Frarcisco
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THE CHINESE CHAMBER OF POSSIBILITIES POEM -for Jock Hirschman
I thinl~ of the Chinese poets their ombitions and longings amongst the bomboo groves and mountoins in seNice to the emperor and in exile. the temptation of Ouddhist quietude the Monqols at the frontier~ and the traditions of society and poetry imprisoning and ennoblinq them
Sitting in the Owl and Monl~ey Cafe watching the rain and listening - I heard that a polite man in New Yorl~ City will get out of on elevator if only he and a woman are riding in it. so that she will not fear to be roped in those long seconds riding up or down in the minds chamber of possibilities
Jacl~ Hirschman said to a woman about to I~iss him on the cheel~. "Don't give me I~issesl Give me socialisml" With all this violence and fear driving us aport, seperate elevators. separate cars, separate apartments. we will all bein exile consumers of maNels eventually The sound of cheat gross shadows on stones. Rustled by a morning breeze No other sound Chrysalis Allen Cohen Son Francisco Oremerton Page 19 Earth First! December 22,1983 A SYMBOL' FOR, .'r save.ta EGO-GJERRILLA"THE DlSCAtMlNAl]I'-II..'~....• ~Dyule "STEBL>WG .. SILVER, 'tS«EY" WRENCH '-6PB:FvLAPEL PIN OR 'tEaUCE.Wl:m, , NO. 100 - WITHOUT WRITING , "8-29. si.1IM~ ~ NO. 101 - WITH WRITINli NO. 105 . .'- '14.50 ,WRENCH, POsTPAID. . ~ SHOE· 'ASSOCIATES'~ ~(l8OX f3I5 CORTEZ, COLORADO' 8I32l SEND CHECk OR MONEY--oRDER Howie Wolke's WILD HORIZONS' "cOYon" HO.IOb EXPEDITIONS SOUTHW EST PH0 TO 'CAIMlN FNl&".-R.UNllU NO. 104 NOTECARDS: 5 Black & NO.IOZ ~lll<'lOAIseltn.SAL.' __""'J.2. Gil ided Wildc'r'ness White Scenes - Chaco Canyon, 1------!!!~~------~==5E=Nf)~Oi=[C~K:::OR~I4O=I>lf~'(::;(lAJl(R~-- Backpacking Kiet Siel. Gran Quivira. Long T-SHIRTS BASmALLCAPS TO Emphasis on small groups and Canyon, Monument Valley. INK PRINTS ON WOM~NS INti PRINB (W WHirr FRlJ/T SAll "'Item- ,~.t«J"S adventure in endangered $3.25 per set. Price includes corrON/poLY "FR(NCHClJT" LICHEN .... a co mmuni ty of organisms, NEW ADDRESS! P. O. Sox 25 living and growlng together \Volf Creek, CR 97497 for mutual benefit. './d are, or try to c(': I,.,e are NOT. or try n':lt to ot!: on envi ror,I1'l"1ro';:a 1 sanctuary t yoical ,'e sour'c£ exoloiters; on i"t£.ntlemal cOrTfTlunity ...... •... a random cv:;'lection; a =u-ope;"::~ive corporation .•...... •competitive; lonc-trust-bound prooerty-soeculative; a wildlife refuge •...... •. 0 pet hoven; G smallish group, by choice numerous, populous; ,; reverent towaru all life..•...... destructive; ,> conservers (·s~aring, raoairing, i: shoring, caring") •....•....wasteful consumers, profligates; , (at times) fun-loving and 1 ighthe:lrted.•...••...•.... always serious; res~orsible, integrative...•...... hedonistic. self-indulgent; non-violent, sensitive•...•..•.•••••blunt; inTERdeoendent ...•...... •••.•...••self-sufficient; far-sighted, thotful. deliberate ..••volatile, impulsive; 'i gardeners (small-scale) .....••.•.••. farmers. 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California DesprJ. I'ri\'al izat i, '11, • Am·tralian Rainforest. ,------, LlTHA .June 21. 1981: Wildprn(',s War III I (lregon. Wilderness Prespl....p Systf'Il' & "lap. EF' & Watt At Lake Foul. Franklin 1{1\"r ': \'ict,ll)' (Auslralia). Ed Abhp~': ('onsci,,),,·,' of Ihe Conqu('J'"r. . I MAR()~ Sppt. Z:3. 191;:3: nrf'g"ll H.-\RE II Suit. C lregon Wilderness Hparing. Sink~'lIn,·, \. EF' Idaho Wildprnpss Proposal. Earth Fir,I' & I'\nll-\'jol('IH'P - A nisC"lIs!--illll. BaltIC' fill' II,,' Hpd\\'oods. Stiles lin Dignily, I SA''lII.-\I;\ ;\()\', I. HlR:3: Sink\'lllH' Blllckaol,', i Forpsl ~'ild('rn('ss C'amp:::si,gn. l{(Iinfo!'l·... ' Illllw··rs. Bald Mounlain in H<'lrnsp,·"J. Earth Firsl!: Tlw Firsl '1'111'1'<' Ypars. H,'\'i,,\\ III I (~()}/S(JI'I'olirHlHirJ/(·.rJN. ~alt ('I"(;>'PK;.:t'" an Epi(' 1_. P(l(,Ill. 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