Coll1fflffl - JANUARY 1996 Dear Reader s Cascadia Times enters its second year of operation, it continues to Agrow, mostly by word of mouth. Our reader should take credit first for seeing a need for this paper, and then for nurturing it along by introducing it co new readers. To date, our paid circulation is above 1,700, and we estimate several times that number see Cascadia Times every month. Please consider renewing your subscription if you haven't done so already. This column in recent months has ralked about Ca ·cadia Times Online, which continues in development in part• nership with West et. CT Online is free with your subscription. Among the ser• vices we are now offering is interactive reader mail. Send your letters to casca• Fi~hv Science· [email protected], and we will consider it for publication in our paper as well as dis• tribute it to other CT Online subscribers. Hom Scieatists~fndanqer the Salmon To receive this service, just drop us an email message to [email protected] •' ,:/. .:,,., :',:j:?· ,'t• •\ :':::,.._ ~<"-fc tv~ and we will sign you up. Please be sure to include your email address in the text of btJ ·"; !aql::· ,~ ...... KD. ~. ,, efste., " in..... your message! Also starting this month, we will be . .. . f:;PA~~ [Qt} . -.,\ibc-':~.,,. asking readers each month to respond to a question or issue that will be posed in our Dear Reader column. The question for Caseadia'Times lndex:Ourfirst\,eari;'rei,e~ /' PAGE. January is: How should the environmental movement be responding to the so-called "logging without laws" rider? THE USUAL STUFF We will publish some responses in the paper, and the others in CI Online, FIELD NOTES: Harbor seals. too many roads, BRAINWASH: 7 which also will include a preview of the Alaska Land trusts. Feds sue redwoods raider. upcoming issue, some news content, a cal• CASCADIA CALENDAR: Thunderbolt salvage sale 3 14 endar of upcoming events, and a column on computer technology and the environ• GREEN TECH: : BARBED WIRE: Funny. salmon's always on 14 ment written by larshall layer of WestNet. the menu where these guys eat. GROUND TRUTHING: Logging without Of course, this doesn't mean chat we by PaulKobersteln : .. : :· 3 shame. by Kathie Durbin .16 aren't interested in letters that arrive the old fashioned way! TAK~ NQTE: New Hanford hazards. banking . MAIL: :,. 17 Special thank to all of you who have -an the ehvironrrient, pronghorn antelope;' helped us throughout the year, and espe• cially Pete Wege of Grand Rapids, Mich., clean s,reams initi~tive : 5 REALITY CHECK: ....•...... , 17 and Greg Kafoury of Portland. · · BOOK REVIEW:,ln the Dark,Woods. .-:c: Correction: A photo caption in our .CAflTO~ BUZZ: The.:latest oil' spiU 6 · ·1 .. · t · •·8· · Reviewed by Kathie Durbin .:; ...... :······ .. :··············1 December issue misidentified two indi• i .. 't ·~ . . . ", viduals who are advocates for sustainable :· '<~.,,o ·Ql-~

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By./. T Reid J,: Harbor seals are the lase resident marine mammal .pecies in San Francisco eals are as much a part of San Bay, breeding and feeding year-round in Francisco as the Bay. Like the Bay, its waters. There has been no growth in S their health is in serious trouble. harbor seal populations since the early A study of blood samples taken from 1970s, unlike the steady increase seen San Franci co Bay harbor seals has found elsewhere off the California coast after the elevated levels of toxins commonly dis• implementation of the 1972 Marine carded by agriculture and oil refineries. Mammal Protection Ace, the Institute Researchers with California Stace says. In 1991, seal number dropped University and Earth Island Institute sharply ac a primary pupping area in the found levels of selenium at significantly South Bay, and numbers have not yet ful• higher concentrations than samples taken ly recovered. The number of seal haul-out from seals in southern Puget Sound or the sites in the Bay have decreased substan• Monterey coast. In San Francisco Bay, tially in two decades. selenium originates from oil refinery dis• While the findings are bad news for charges and agricultural runoff. seals, they also affect other species chat Moreover, the researchers found consume food from the Bay, including PCBs in seal blood at double the amounts humans. In 1994, the California Water associated with a population collapse on Quality Board found high levels of PCBs Europe's north coast in 1988. Harbor seals and other toxins in eight fish species. in the Baltic and Wadden seas (located At lease one species, white croaker north of The etherlands) suffered from (also known as white cod) is consumed by elevated levels of organochlorines, PCBs both humans and seals. The study said and ocher dioxin-like compounds. The the fish accumulates "extreme levels" of effects made the seals vulnerable to a coxic organic pollutants. virus chat killed 20,000 animals, or 65 per• Unocal 76 is the largest source of sele• cent of the population. nium pollution in the bay, and also dumps Has pollution weakened immune systems in San Francisco Bay harbor seals? "PCBs and related environmental dioxin, according co Citizens for a Better contaminants are threatening the viability Environment, a Bay Area group. The The oil industry's record in San tigation by an environmental law group, of Bay harbor seals," says Dianne Kopec, group says Unocal violated its selenium Francisco Bay is only part of its environ• Trustees for Ala ska, which found the oil associate director of Earth Island Institute discharge permits by 455 percent in the mental performance in the West. ln company committed 4,000 violations of its and a co-author of the study. last eight years. Alaska, LJ nocal was the target of an inves- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 BARBED Funny. Salmon's Always on the Menu where These Guys Eat WIRE By Paul Koberstein asn't 1995 a pennant year for the Wise se guys?. They won it all: Lovely pensation and due process." Funny, salmon'. always on the menu where she eats. logs falling once again in the orthwest, national parks closing down Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-AK, for Exposing Environmental Wackos in the Wtwice, and laid-off heriff's deputies in Siskiyou ational Forest kicking Executive Bathroom. Murkowski produced a list of Clinton appointees on the tree-hugger butt at Sugarloaf. Senate floor in July. "Mr. President," he said, reading from notes, "this list shows "Wake up you liberals!" Rush must be saying. "1995 is over and planet earth is that the environmental community in America is bigger than many of our corpora• still alive and well! Look in the sky! Do you see a hole in the ozone? l don't! ow tions. This group has indoor plumbing. They do not have to put up with honey that Mr. ewe, God bless him, there's an environmentalist!" buckets. Many are Clinton administration officials who used co work or hold posi• The hottest action of the year was in Congress. where: conservatives cure into tions with these national pressure groups. The budget director, Alice Rivlin, associ- 25 years of liberal legislation like pit bulls. Barbed Wire ated formerly with the Wilderness Society; Secretary of the memorializes their feast with the first annual Hungry Interior, Bruce Babbitt, League of Conservation Voters; Dog awards ... John Leshy, Solicitor at the Department of the Interior, Let's give Sen. LaITy Craig, R-ID, honors as Pee "Mr. President... This group has National Resource Defense Council; Bonnie Cohen, Detective of the Year for helping solve the murder of a Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Sierra Club; Brooks calf in Idaho. Craig pinned the crime on a gray wolf indoorplumbing. They do not have Yeager, Director of the International Office of Political introduced by the .S. Fish and Wildlife Service into an Analysis, Sierra Club; George Frampton, Assistant Secretary Idaho wilderness. A subsequent investigation found the for Fish and Wildlife, Wilderness Society; Donald Barry, calf died before the wolf got ahold of it, but who cares? to put up with honey buckets." Deputy Assistant for Fish and Wildlife, World Wildlife The wolf was shot at the scene. Craig got after federal Fund; Dcstry Jarvis, Assistant Director of National Park agents who went co a rancher's home looking for the Service, formerly National Park and Conservation smoking gun: Said Craig on the Senate -floor in March: - Sen. Frank Murkowski Association; Rafe Pomerance, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 'When I chink of a 74-year-old man being intimidated by State, Environmental Action; Lois Schiffer, assistant armed federal land management officials, I think of my dad, and it makes me a lit• Attorney General, League of Conservation Voters." tle angry." Rep. Don Young, R-AK, for Fighting Child Abuse. "Eventually the working Rep. Helen Chenoweth, R-ID, is Fishing Guide of the Year, for telling class, the poorer people, will realize that (the) Endangered Species Ace i saving Congress the best places to catch the salmon. Where's that? Hint: or in her scare. crickets over saving babies." Many people do not know that Young is one of our fin• "Right now," she said on the Hou e floor in larch, " ome of the best salmon fishing er ornithologists. "The spotted owl was never proven co be endangered," he said in can be found in the Great Lakes, an area chat was once considered polluted." As for an interview with the Bureau of ational Affairs. "Every effort will be done co Idaho's missing salmon, she notes: "The issue really is nor the fish. The issue really propagate it, even artificially, so it will not be threatened or endangered very long." is control of the land, control of the land without due compensation and just com- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Barbed Wire continued from page 3 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Rep. Wes Cooley, R-OR, for Thinking Globally, Acting Locally. Cooley exclude just one part of the picture," . introduced a bill authorizing water theft in Ryan says . Highways and streets are sumps for the Umatilla Basin of Northeast Oregon. automobile-related pollution, contribute He pushed another bill letting motorboats to flooding and encourage people co live run three extra days a week in Hells in the· suburbs. Canyon, and another permitting pesticide The logging road network has pro• use by farmers leasing land on federal liferated since 1960, NEW says. In wildlife reserves near Klamath Falls, Ore., Oregon, the road mileage has more than and Tule Lake, Calif. And during a House tripled, while in Idaho and Washington hearing on the Endangered Species Act, the number doubled. British Columbia he told a Louisiana environmental activist, has the largest forest road network, "I would sugge t you don't come to 240,000 km (150,000 miles), followed by Oregon." Oregon, 73,000 miles; Washington, Sen. Slade Gorton, R-WA, 22,000 miles; and Idaho, 33,000, accord• Ecologist of the Year for his timber salvage ing to official counts. But the true tally rider, which makes environmental laws may be much greater, EW says, because U.S. Forest Service record• keeping "is often flawed." About one in five roads is not listed in official invento• "I would suggest ries, and closed roads remain passable by The number of places where seals haul themselves out of San Francisco Bay has decreased motor vehicles. over the years. · "Some of the most serious impact on you don't come to logging activity comes from the roads, not water quality permits between 1987 and the logging itself," Ryan says. "We have Oregon." 1992. Last February, the Trustees filed thousands of Forest Service roads that are suit against Unocal, Marathon Oil and absolutely no benefit to the land." Shell Oil for water quality violations. Northwest Now National Foresrs in the Northwest -Rep. Wes Cooley Immediately after the suits were filed, average 3.5 miles for every square mile of the Environmental Protection Agency Has More Roads land, more than twice the road density (to a Louisiana initiated an enforcement action against known to cause elk, wolves and grizzlies the three companies. The companies Than Rivers to suffer population declines, according to environ mentalist) recently agreed to a settlement calling on the "Road-Rippers Guide to National them to pay $895,000 to fund an inde• Forests," a recent book by Keith pendent program designed to monitor all oads are celebrated in rhyme and Hammer. When forest roads erode, they sources of pollution in Cook Inlet. Called fable, but in forests they're trou• destroy the clean, gravel-bottom stream Cook Inlet Keeper, the program will Rble, tripping up salmon, bears and habitat salmon and trout need. Bull trout begin this summer in the mold of other the taxpayer. are particularly vulnerable. illegal. Hey, with Clinton in charge, who successful keeper programs in Puget "Roads are basically time bombs," ln Oregon and Idaho, roads have needs 'em? In March, he told The Sound and San Francisco Bay. says David Bayles, conservation director caused erosion at least 100 times the nat• Associated Press," Everything we have in For its part, the industry is fighting of the Pacific Rivers Council. "They go ural rate. NEW says, "Even as roads here is consistent with what this very its negative reputation as a polluter with off when we stop maintaining them, and block the movement of many native green, very environmental administration an aggressive media campaign. For exam• they go off during big storms. They may species, they open remote areas to ple, on Nov. 27, Chevron sponsored the hunters, exotic weeds, and diseases." has said are its own goals. It seems to me it be the worst problem we have in the for• airing of "Adventures with CC Otter and One victim: Port Orford cedar, found only would be awfully difficult for the presi• est ecosystem." Sharkster Shark," on the Fox TV net• During a storm, forest roads intercept in southwest Oregon and northwest dent to veto a bill that allows him to keep work. It's a story about two characters groundwater. Every little flood becomes a California. This highly valuable tree is his own promises." who must leave their home because of bigger flood in a heavily roaded land• endangered by a root rot that spread along Rep. Richard Pombo, C-CA, water pollution. The villain responsible scape. And, according to a new study by logging roads. Rancher of the Year. Pombo, a fourth-gen• for the pollution was not the oil industry Northwest Environmental Watch, a "The public does not yet know that eration rancher from Stockton, headed a Seattle-based think tank, the Northwest the single biggest thing we can do restora• House panel to charged with rewriting the now has more miles of forest roads than tion-wise is go after the road system," Endangered Species Act. Pombo wants "Chevron teaching us streams. These roads damage watersheds says Bayles. "As bad as a clearcut is, and spread pollution. clearcuts grow back. But roads are, in the law to declare all cow habitat off limits • to any other animal not on the menu in The study, the first-ever survey of some cases, permanent sources of trou• about the environment is ble." Vacaville. He stood on the House floor in roads' environmental and fiscal impacts Recent storms have caused roads to May and said, "Several years ago, as a cat• on the Pacific Northwest, estimates that the region has at least 330,000 miles of blow out in the Idaho Panhandle and tleman in the Central Valley in California, as absurd as Joe Camel logging roads, more than all streets and coastal Washington and northwest I was faced with the frustrations of dealing highways combined. If you add in Oregon. The result has been large land• with the Federal Government and the teaching us how to avoid 370.000 miles of automobile roads, its slides, cu Ive rt blockage and buried ever,growing bureaucracy, and as I became enough to circle the globe 20 times. streams. more and more involved with what was "Our region is famous for screams The solution? NEW sa:1s build no going on with our Federal Government, I lung cancer." filled with salmon and trout, but roads more roads, remove existing roads and cut made the decision to come here and to filled with cars and logging trucks are per• off federal subsidies that pay to build for• fight for the property rights of the people haps more accurate symbols of the est roads for the benefit of private timber that I represent and the people across this Northwest today," NEW says in a report companies. Ryan said the $90 million in country." - Mary-Beth Baptiste written by staffer John Ryan. annual subsidies could instead put people to work taking the roads out. For these Hungry Dog winners, the "We decided that roads themselves The taxpayer also subsidizes the work will continue in '96. This year, are a major environmental problem," or any other corporate polluter. J nstead, it Ryan says. "Not just because they accel• automobile, while allowing it co pollute Congress will pass an Endangerment of was a careless man named "Mr. Sludge." erate driving or promote more logging, for free. Northwest Environmental Watch c Species Act that really works. It will pre• A coalition of environmental and but in and of themselves. Many people thinks the family car shouldn't get a free i:i c serve jobs and the environment. It will children's advocacy groups organized a don't have any idea that roads themselves ride, either. c., recognize chat extinctions are good things. boycott of the program, asking parents, are a major environmental issue. Most The full report is freely available on cDO u However, Pombo has been willing to teachers, children and school authorities people just aren't aware that we have the World Wide Web at compromise with the preservationists. to "say no" to corporate polluters playing "http:\ \www.speakeasy.or\new". For -o many more miles of roads than we have ~ Along with Murkowski, he's agreed to the role of environmental educacors. streams." more information, contact EW at 206- store the DNA of their favorite living "Chevron teaching us about the The study was based on published 447-1880. C things in an outhouse on the White House environment is as absurd as Joe Camel information on public roads, and esti• teaching us how to avoid lung cancer," e"' lawn. mates on private roads. It looked at all ~ says Mary-Beth Bapri te, a spokeswoman kinds of roads, not just those in forests. for Earth Day Resources, a San ( Special thanks to Rick Bortnice) "All sorts of roads have big environmental 0 Francisco-based group. • impacts, and it didn't make sense to Field Notes coNr1NuEo------ba ed in Homer on the Kenai Peninsula, .. was the first formed in Alaska. It holds l" ... Donors Pour about 600 acres on the scenic bay border• ing Katc'1-mak Bay State Park. The Great Land Tru tin Anchorage i · not far beyond Dollars into the development stage, and a crust is being fort ed in Fairbanks, according to Alaska to huv Saylor. el SEAT,, in overnber, wa still just a pup, awaiting approval by the Internal Sensitive Habitat Revenue Service of its tax exempt status New Explosive Hazards at Hanford that it must have to buy or accept proper• New explosive radioactive hazards are troubling the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The ty. It organizers hope it will become a by Bob Tearz Department of Energy site in southeast Washington recently said 25 radioactive waste coordination center for the entire tanks require continuous monitoring for their potential to ignite. The tanks will be Southeast peninsula, providing tru t ben• reserving ecologically important or • added to Hanford's "watch list." bringing the number of tanks on the list to 75. These efits co residents of remote regions that simply beautiful land is the goal, but tanks contain 500,000 to 1 million gallons of waste created in the processing of plutoni• don't have the population base co main• the irony of the growing land trust um for nuclear bombs. The waste includes nuclear materials plus potentially dangerous P tain a local organization. movement in Alaska may be its mo t concentrations of flammable gas, organic explosives or ferrocyanide, and may also "The concept is outheast-wide," enjoyable element. As the state's congres• have. high. ,heat content, the, DOE says, The action is a response to the· 1990 Wyden~ Saylor said, and that idea is already sprout• sional delegation does it damnedest to amendment requiring the DOE to put controls on storage tanks that have the potential ing reality. Be ide an island and a main• remove protection and open unique for releasing high level waste to the environment. The law is named after its sponsor, land piece of property in the Juneau vicin• lands across the state to development, ity under consideration for acquisition, Rep. Ron Wyden, D·OR. capitalism is becoming the tool used to SEAL is in discus ions with the city of prote r chem. Craig on heavily logged Prince of Wales Hart Mountain Antelope Suffer Decline Alaska's c.:ongr ssional delegation I ·land. Pronghorn antelope are in trouble at Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge in may he the greatest boo ster · for the cre• The city wants co develop an indus• Southeast Oregon. The number of antelope fawn has decreased 51 percent from levels ation of trusts in the state. As their efforts trial pore at Crab Bay. The project would in recent years, and is now well below levels needed to maintain the pronghorn popu• to unprotecr Tongass Forest and Arctic fill an 82 acre parcel of eel grass land that lation, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The culprit is the coyote. But !'reserve land generate nationwide public• the Alaska Department of Fi h and Game the service also points out that the coyote is benelitting from conditions that damage ity, wealthy environmentali. cs are looking says is important habitat to intertidal antelope habitat •· cattle grazing and fire suppression. The service is in the second for ways to stop them. speci ·. The city has proposed splitting year of a 15 year restoration project at the refuge. "There's a land trust starting almost the plot, allowing use of a portion for the ever. week. It's a movement," declared port project and donating the rest to the Deborah Saylor, one of the founders of Banking on the Environment trust. The department's biologi ts have Southeast Alaska Lands (SEAL), a Plans for the first bank in Washington focusing environmental restoration and commu• indicated preliminary support for the Juneau-based trust. nity development have received regulatory approval, U.S. Bank and The Shorebank compromise according to Saylor. A land tru t is nothing more than a Corporation of Chicago have announced. U.S. Bancorp is enabling Shorebank to enter aylor's in olvernent in the estab• legal organization that either owns out• the Wasbington market by transferring the charter of one of its subsidiaries to lishment of SEAL i · personal as well as right or holds "in tru st" property under Shorebank. Shorebank will establish ShoreTrust Bank, in collaboration with Ecotrust, a public-spirited. Her family was forced to the terms of a document chat imposes spe• Portland-based conservation group. Shorelrust will work with communities throughout subdivide land along the Columbia River cific limits on the u e of the land. Washington to create economic opportunity and jobs through the development of envi• that belonged co her grandparents when In the most drastic cases, where, for the family couldn't afford inheritance ronmentally restorative businesses, including those that reduce waste, save energy, e ample, the turf in question is known to costs. improve agricultural practices and reduce chemical. use -.« For more in.formation, call be critical habitat for some flock or family "le' painful to go there," he ay Ecotrost (503) 227-6225 or ShoreBank (312) 753-5630. of critters, the trust can limit or even ban today. • human access. Oregon Initiative to Fight Pollution More commonly, cenic properties Aq Oregon coalition has launched an initiative campaign to fight water pollution can be converted to what amount to pub• caused by livestock. The Clean Streams Initiative petition, which must gather 90,000 lic parks without the often bitter develop• valid signatures by July 5 to qualify for the November 1996 ballot would prohibit live- ment vs. protection debate that ensues Feds File Suit stock from roaming in and along polluted waterways where their presence would when a government agen attempts to create an official park or preserve. Against Redwoods degrade water quality. The Bend-based coalition backing the campaign argues that Hunting or fishing, hor eback-riding and livestock are the leading threat to the state's waterways. "Cows destroy streamside nowmobiling can all be p rmitted, or pro• vegetation, trample stream banks and defecate in our streams," coalition member Bill hibited, depending on the agreement Raid r Hurwitz Marlett of the Oregon Natural Desert Association said in a recent fund-raising letter. between the tru t and property owner as "The result? Eroded stream banks, silt covered stream beds, water temperatures too long as the allowable access isn't fee• By Davirl K11/ifer high to support salmon and trout and high levels of fecal coliform. In short, cows based and the land isn't commercial! have made many Oregon streams unfit for fish and for people." The Clean Streams developed. he vhady past of Charle Hurwitz Initiative would phase out grazing in riparian areas over a 10-year period, targeting "This thing i really customizable. is finally arching up with the cor• the state's most polluted streams first; provide tax incentives lo livestock operators You can write up the conservation ease• T porate exec and former savings who protect streams; and help restore thousands of river miles degraded by livestock. ment any way you want," aid Bart and loan chit:f. Hurwitz, best known in Sponsors hope to begin collecting signatures in January, after the Secretary of State Watson, another SEAL founder. Cascadia as the guy who raided the red• resolves challenges to the initiative's ballot title. Opposition from the livestock indus- Like any effective capitalise t ol, woods to pa off junk bonds, is facing new .try is expected to be intense. for more information, contact the Oregon Clean Streams tru ts also benefit the individual. Parents charges that could tumble his timber -~~l_nitiative, 16NW Kansas Ave.,J}~O!I, QB..2ZZQ1, or calU541) 3&9;8361.._.. ---- have protected their children from inheri• empire in northern California. tance ta es that could otherwise result in Hurwitz is chairman of MAXX M, loss of the land by placing it under a con- the Hou ton, Texa , based conglomerate that owns the Scotia, Calif., -ba eel Pa ific ervation ea ·ement that reduce its tax• OTS filed 13 separate claim again t $500 million, an amount believed b Rep. able value. More aesthetically, donating Lumber. He also i a key figure in the col• the respondents for violations of numer• George Miller, D-CA, and ochers as lapse of nited Savings sociation in land, or elling it co a trust at the lower val• ous federal regulations and for multiple roughly equal to Hurwitz' potential liabil- ~ Houston, which cost the government's uation allows an owner to know his or her unsafe and unsound practices. The icy in the S&L case. ~ S&L insurance fund $1.6 billion. land will be protected from development agency is pursuing an unspe ified amount Hurwitz controlled United Financial, ~ On Dec. 26, the Federal Office of long after they're not aroun I co do so. of restitution. In addition, OTS is seeking whi h in turn, controlled United States ;::: "This is pretty popular all along the Thrift upervision filed charges against $889,000. in ivil penalties. Savings from ar lease 1985 until its failure. ::t political spectrum because it's without MAXXAM, lurwitz and several ocher Veteran orth Goa c environmental- nited Federal is currently in involuntary I government regulation. I r's just an agree• parties the a 1 ib d h failure of um ncy Sa)S cenm Ute tot e bankruptcy. United Savings, with assets of ment between a landowner and a tru st," ists ay they are pleased that the l .S tax• C noted Watson. MAXXA I' iced Saving in 1988. One of payers will have an opportunity for finan• $4.6 billion, failed and wa placed in 'sr Despite these benefits, and long time which contaiq.,rime assets is the property forest the la cial restitution from tho e involved in one receivership on December 30, 1988. t 2 use of mi cs across the Lower 48 Scates, . h '1S the 3,000-acre Headwaters of the biggest saving and loan failures in chat time, nited Savings was more than ~ grove in c d there are only three active trusts in Ala ka, 1rgesr unprotected redwoo $500 million short of it minimum regutu- '< E ureak w hc . the 1980's. In addition, they are hopeful including the fledgling SEAL. Signs indi- . ' world located JUSt east of these charges will add further fuel to the tory capitol requirement. • ~ env1ronmen re numerous prate ts by -o cate that may soon change. proposed 'debt for nature" swap they say (J\ over the SCUists and concerned citizen The Katchemak Bay Land Trust, could preserve the Headwaters forest. have taken p ieduled forest destruction The forest's value i.as been estimated at ace in recent months. MORE ON PAGE 6 0 Field Notes c o N r I N u E o area, the judge had more than enough evi• An Unkind Cut dence t prove lack of rationality, says Boyle . Logging road blowouts in the mid- FEDERALJ U06E ALLOWS !OAHO 60's dumped nearly three feet of dirt into SALVAGE SALE 0ESPDE STA66ERIN6 parts of the South Fork of the Salmon Ai.NON f MPACTJ River, destro ing what had once been the most productive spring/summer chinook Hill salmon pawning grounds in the Snake Ry Warren (lormaal! River y uern, if not the entire \Vest. fter en plans for the propo ed that debacle, federal agencie wrote a man• 'hunderbolt salvage logging sale agement plan for the Boise and Payette Fir t, there was the 1989 Ex on reporter the price of bread, gasoline or n central Idaho came out last National Forests that banned logging in Valdez pill. Then E xon milk. "I don't have the answers," he pring, John McCarthy felt sure it could be the watershed until the depressed salmon pilled billions of dollar, in said. , or could he locate Bosnia on the stopped in court. After all, the plan to log populations recovered. Thirty year later the cleanup. , ow ther '• globe. Smith is using th· catasrrophi · -orne 3,500 acre of forest would take pla ·e the Forest Service admit that any re tora• performance to great advanta e in his on fragile, land slide prone slopes overlook- tion of the water hed has been minimal. third spill - in Con ,res . I I · ing critical salmon habitat. Other federal Annual salmon runs have numbered in the l '.S. senators have received $43( ,000 in TV and radio ad . ~encie · unanimously opposed it. Even the hundreds, compared to tens of thousands campaign contributions from th· rt I and Boi e and Payette ational Forests' own three de ades ago. gas industry since the 1989 Ala k,111il Wyden, in turn, is scoring points b attacking Smith's environ• plans prohibited it. "There's no wav it could Bur the Forest rvice contends the spill. All five voted co open the I have with toad an · sale of tree burned in a 1994 fire will lead to [ational Wildlife Refuge co drilli mental record. His food pro• ppeal and a legal r-"'"-r:---.nr...------~ improvements in Bennett Johnston, D-LA, Ren cessing plant has been repeat• hallenge," say salmon habitat, with Campbell, R-CO, Rod Gram , R- edl fined by the state for polluting 1cCarthy, conserva- $1 million dollars Bob Smith, R-NH, and John Wa a nearby stream, and as president of the 1011 director for the from the sale ear- Oregon Senate Smith upported hi par• oise-based Idaho marked for restora- VA. Two-thirds of the American I ty's anti-environmental agenda. Smith .onservation League. tion projects. oppo e drilling, according tu a . t" also rpoke at a recent Wi e Use confer• "It wouldn't even And Boi e York Times/CNN poll. Only 20 p ent ence in Portland, the Western tare JM s the laugh test." Cascade orp., the are in favor. Except for Hawaii's l 1 That was before company that Democratic senators, all western I Coalition Summit. :ongre 'S passed the bought the sale, voted against drilling, with all salvage rider, a law claims the logging en. Larry Craig, R-ID, has introduced Republican in favor. I ·signed to speed up can be done with- legislation that would make permanent utting of burned and out causing envi- s of press time, th· question re 1 ins some of the "logging without laws" ride, J1 ea ed tree by .us- ronrnental damage. whether President Clinton will \ \•• any igned last summer by Clinton. The ·nding environ- "\ e think the Federal Lands Forest Health Protection ntal laws, while Fore t ervice has a budget plan containing retie R ·I 1 ' verely limiting the good plan," ays measure. On Dec. I , Clinton did make and Restoration Act, S. 391, would hin• po sibilit of fighting Doug Bartel , a good on hi promi e to veto Con)!.1 ,' der efforts to protect endangered rhe ale, in court. company spoke man. EP and Interior budgets. 'aid ( 1111ron, . pecie , allow for logging of live trees M Garth McCarthy di - "The ultimate te t of an budget I and limit citizen appeals. I urned how ·everely agrees, blasting the what kind of world it leaves for f I when, in a decision Forest Service' scud- Rep. Don Young, R-AK. wants to generations. If we balance the bu I handed down Dec. 11, ies. "It' not that their open the refuge ·ystem to without investing in our hildrcn I I pro• I .S. District Judge science isn't good motorized recreation, grazing tecting their environment, it me· Edward Lodge in enough," he say . and farming. Hi' National Roi se rejected the "It's that their ci- are really borrowing from the ne 1 • ·n• Wildlife Refuge Improvement ct, lCI;s uit against the Forest Servi e over the ence i ignorant." eration without ever paying them b.i ·k. ale, one of the fir t suits filed under the lim- Moreover, 1cCarth says the ale will Protecting the environment is on if the HR 1675, i dubbed by conservationi ts it d challenges allowed by the sal age law. cost taxpayer money. Boise Cas ade most important ways to uphold tl\1, , al• as the "Refuge De itruction Act." Wes With that defeat, and one a week later bought the 13 million board feet with a bid ue." linton noted the EP bill v iuld Cooley, R-OR, has added language chat I a imilar Montana case, any cracks in the of $1,050,710. The Forest Service will cut enforcement by 25 percent and ut would permit the use of pesticides on I •gal door may have been lammed hut. spend about $1.8 million, including about ·afe drinking water aid co I cal gl , rn• refuge land· leased for agriculture. The "' l'his was for sure our best shot," says $1 million to prepare the sale and another ments by 45 percent. The Interior l ill bill comes at a time when the ervice is kCarthy. "If their experts are omnipo- $800,000 for replanting tree afterward. moving to ban pesticides on the Lower would have allowed increa ed cl , 1 ut• I nt, we're probably screwed." Mc arthy says it would be cheaper simply Klamath and 'Iule Lake refuge lands. The National Iarine Fisheries to keep the trees standing. ting in the Tongass National Fo 1 111 rvice, l .S. Fish and Wildlife ervice lcCarthy u peers another purpo se Ala ka, eliminated an ecosystem u1<.I • Cooley i also trying to open Hell nd the Environmental Protection Agency for the sale. The South Fork water hed in the Columbia Basin and plac ·d 1 Canyon to more motorized traf• all opposed the logging plan. NMFS, the contains hundreds of thou ·and of acres of moratorium on listing more endan • ·red fic, both in the river and in agency charged with protecting endan- roadie s fore ts, including the proposed . pecies. gered almon in the Snake SY tern warned Caton Lakes wilderne area. "They wane adjacent wilderne s. His HR that .the ·ale " ... i likely to jeopardize the to get road building and logging back in the Many polls show the American I ub• 2693 would allow car- on the rontinued existence of Snake River South Fork," he ays. 'It's just their tactic lie is not happ with Congr •ss' Oregon rim of the Canyon. nether spring/ ummer chinook salmon." to get at the big trees." bill would expand jet boat business in anti-environmental agend 1. But Lodge ruled that regardles of dis- Bartels says that is up to the Forest the river. , grcement~ with other cientists, the Service. But, he says, "If you look at Forest Bue word hasn 'r reached '- ·n. Rob Dole, R-KS, the leadin t un- l•o.rest Service "was entitled to rely on the Service health condition , the Fore t Sen Conrad Ru;ns, R-l\n: is pushing tender for the GOP pre sidenriul I 11d. !'pm1on an~ analysis of its own experts." S~rvi e has got big is ues for green thin- 'B 11 S 1, whi h would ell off 270 mil• • I hat effectively gave the Fore t Service rung when the get co it." "The only one objecting co the Int •1 ior lion acre administered b, the Bureau I 1 • rte blanche, ays tcCarthy. Boi , ational Forest pokesman bills is \ ice President Gore," Doi · id. Lodge also 'Ct a diffi ult standard for Frank Carroll refused to omrncnt on of Land Management to individual rates. What states will do with the land f rrure court challenge , particularly f r ~lcCarth)"s allegations because of the The cost of running for the Senat I i not determined. but Al Bishop, a ales freed from review by other agencies ongoing appeal of the court decision. clo e co a million dollar , but for fh 1 uler the salvage rider. "The e beginning The plaintiff appealed Lodge's deci• Republican in the Montana Senate buck , a map and a trip to the gn , · ~ s were the ones I felt nronge t about, siun to the 'inch Circuit Court of Appeals, make rhis prediction in Time: "If the ·core, Ron Wyden, the Democrat · 1 the I ·:3use of the agency comments," ays but the trees may be gone before the .tare gets the lands, they will go on the race for Oregon's vacant Senate · nsten Boyle, an attorney with the Sierra appellate court acts. Barrels says logging sales block." nd who would be the lub Legal Defeo se Fund, which repre- should begin early this pring. might not be in such deep troubl · I his buyers? ccording to the 1ontana :>... ~ ·need the ICL and The Wilderne s With the prospect of a succes fol legal race against Republican Gordon S111'th ~ Society. The suit attempted co show that c~allenge dimming, McCarthy i turning for the Bob Packwood seat. Apparcnrl Wilderness Association, corporations, Ji the deci ion wa "arbitrary and capricious," his hope to the court of public opinion. the eight-term congressman from wealthy individuals, land peculators, a l:gal term Boyles defines as "without any "Our next job," he say , "i to make sure Portland doesn't do the shopping at his subdividers and Hollywood celebrities. 111 A rational explanation." the public knows what is happening house because he couldn't tell a T\' V Given the history of logging in the their national forest . " • Congress Still Passes the Pork DOLLARS GOVERNt!ENT IS SPE,YDI\G LE S, BUT TIMES AREN'T LEAN FOR EVERYONE NONSENSE By Robin Klein

he new GOP Congress vowed cue cuts cuts, but just look at the After each congressional chamber rejected funds for the B-2 bomber presents being dished up to friend of both Republican and and the Seawolf submarine, negotiators from the House and Senate were T Democratic members. De pice promises, 1995 has proved to be able to approve both $493 million for additional bombers that will even• pork-bu iness as u ual. While many co n trover ial programs such as health tually cost taxpayers $36 billion, and $700 million for another sub that and environmental aid are on the axing block, juicy subsidies are slipping will eventually cost taxpayers $2.4 billion. on b . reve Gold rein, in a Dec. 24 article f r the Philadelphia Inquirer, Other Defense projects which bear mentioning include: $3.85 million hiohlighted just a few. for family housing and wastewater treatment plans for Hawaii; over $40 million for Pacific missile range improvements and support; $2.6 million $40 million wa appropriated in the Energ and Water bill for the to transfer Bryant Army Heliport to the Army National Guard at Fort development of advanced light-water reactor although no new nuclear Richardson, Alas.; an additional $10 million earmarked for C-130 opera• reactor ha been ordered and built in thi country for 22 years. Funds go tions; an unauthorized add of $88 million for unrequested C-130 aircraft; co such familiar nuclear kingpins a \Ve tinghou e and General Electric $30 million for the Allegheny Ballistics Lab, which was specifically co help them appl for licenses for the new reactors. rejected by the Armed Services Committee; $2 million for a natural gas Sen. lark Hatfield, R-OR, added a $15 million budget line to the boiler demonstration; and $1 mil lien for brown tree snake research. 1996 tra n portation pending bill to reduce the debt of the Port of Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, says these expenditures have little to do Portland, upposedl for the purpo e of off erring the loss of business with defending national security. "1 can imagine that the brown tree now that laskan oil i being shipped abroad. i o oil comes through the snake is a threat to the very vitals of this nation," he says, "but I do not Portland port, but the hipyard doe a bustling ship repair business. Now know, nor have I ever heard, that the brown tree snake posed a threat to it appears vessels will make repairs at Japan port , bypassing Portland. our national security. Hatfield views this appropriation a an is ue of "national security," but In the Energy budget, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-CA, managed to others view it as a cla ic example of bringin 7 home the bacon. transfer some $700 million from Defense environmental cleanup projects griculture received a present in the form of an increase from $85 to a Scar Wars space defense contractor in his home district in San Diego. million to 110 million for the Market Promotion Program established in What's more, the contractor also does cleanup work, but prefers the Star 19 5 to help US companies promote their food overseas. The big win• Wars job because the profit margins are bigger, according to a high level ners are giants like Pill bury, Gallo, Campbell, and McDonald's. Last Energy Department official. year, for example, Gallo ines got $2,550,000, Pillsbury $1. 75 million to In the Defense budget, Hunter is leading the charge to bring back promote themselves. Over a billion dollars were distributed from 1986 to Star Wars space defense research, which he says will cost only $5 billion. 1993. "In the context of the 5-year defense plan, that is roughly .004 of the Washington State's enators and Rep. Norm Dicks added a $10.4 total defense numbers, .004 of the budget. So that is not a number that is million line to the military construction budget for the building of a new going to crowd out readiness or modernizing our military." fitness center at the Puget ound Naval hipyard and Base in Bremerton that would include badminton, squash, aerobics, and paddleball facilities. n 1994, Newt Gingrich said in the Contract with America: "In two An existing center already has racquetball court , basketball court, years, the public will have a record to look at, and they will know weight and aerobics rooms, pool tennis court , and athletic fields. Critics I whether Republicans really were different when they took control of claim the windfall i unnecessary. There are also at least 10 other health the people's House for the first time in 40 years, or if they slipped easily clubs within 15 minutes of Bremerton. into business as usual." Judging by the record so far - halfway to con• $15 million wa added to the Defense bill for the Alaskan-based tract term - the business of pork in Congress is indeed usual. High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project, or HAARP, a strange And, no need to remind you who is paying for all this fat still sneaki• project which uses "a spooky mixture of high energy radio- . ly at large - you, me, and all the other taxpayers. physics employed for exotic military surveillance purpos• es" according to Popular Science magazine. The project, pushed and coddled for the niversity of Ala ka by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK, will employ huge antenna to direct intense beams of focused electromagnetic radiation at the iono phere, burning "hole ' in it and creating an artificial lens in the sky that could focus large bursts of energy to higher altitudes.

BUCKING BHBBITT Chuck Cushman, a leader in the anti-environment Wise Use movement, was passing this flyer around at the fifth Western States Coalition Summit in Portland Jan 5-6. The summit brought leaders of resource extraction industries such as tim• ber, oil and gas and mining together with conservative legisla• tors and members of Congress.The purpose: to plot a further legislative assault on environmental laws and regulations in the areas of endangered species. mining law, grazing, forestry, oil exploration and wilderness. This flyer's attack on Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt was typical of the message advocated at the conference: the Clinton administration's efforts to pro• tect the environment has cost people in rural areas their jobs. While some timber workers have been laid off, studies show protecting ecosystems has boosted the West's economy. 0 other toxic messes ... by G.B. Veer man August The Lead Hazard: The More We Learn, the Heavier the Problem Looks ... by Michael Castleman August Alaska Strengthens Gutted Water Quality Rules ... by Bob Tkacz October Are Men Becoming an Endangered Species' The Chemical Threat to Mankind ... by Michael Castleman November A is for Accuracy: CBS' 60 Minutes Finally Vindicated on Alar Story ... by Paul Kobersrein November Laying Waste ro Dirty Clothes - toxics in your clothes ... by G. B. Veer man November

Save Headwaters Forest in California Redwoods Nuclear Hanford Cleanup - budget cuts e ... by Richard Johnson October cleanup plans Salvage Logging Conflict Heats Up Klamath uclear Orphans - importing for National Forest ... by Kathie Durbin October fuels into Pacific orthwesr por July More Activists Arrested in Defense of Hanford Whistleblowers - violatio Ancient Forests ... by Paul Koberstein November of Hanford employees ... by Mic July Clearcut Controversy: Should Oregon Voters Take the Money and Run: Commc Require Sustainable forestry? ... by Maya Muir December Industry Laps Up Biggest Subsi Most Private Forests Belong to Big Outfits Nonsense ... by Robin Klein July ... by Orna lzakson December Whistleblower Lore at Liverrnore a 'July TV Cameraman Bruised by Cops at Sugarloaf uclear Navy Fights Pollution Inquiry in Puget ... by Orna lzakson December Sound ... by Paul Kobcrstcin September Hanford Advisory Board Saves Money - and works for a safer environment too, Dollars Nonsense ... by Robin Klein October ~r~~[~Xumbia Kills a Dam, Saves Its Salmon - O'Leary Flunks Openness Test at Hanford November expansion of Kemano hydroelectric power project State Department Blocks Safe and Smart Plutonium stopped ... by Dennis Morgan April Policy, Dollars Nonsense ... by Robin Klein Power Play: Two Citizens Make a Difference in Bartle with Industry Heavyweight - PacifiCor J. uge hydroelectric project on the orth Umpqua River... ' May Indigenous Peoples Wind Power ... Paul Kobersrein, May Split Decision: Indian Treaties Cover Shellfish, . -. · l'.~ji,i May

July It's now the 'Arctic Oil M,i;J,~~;;:i:::!~;~ :;~;""'~ ~j Healing an Island Wilderness - British Columbia's Haid~ ,.:u The Big Dirty: Is Cen Gwaii, the Queen Charlottes ... by Kathie Durbin Hundreds of Washin ust The Guardians of an Island Forest Birds vs. Blades: Wildlif Haida: ... by Ben Parfitt Case Against Wind Pr· ber September Indians Fight for Share of Offshore Fishing The Biggest State Money C ... by Julie Whipple world's largest company tow October everyone works for Big Oil, but e Too Close to Home: Logging Threatens ative WayL ... by Bob Tkacz December of Life in the Alaska Rainforest ... by Kathie Durbi May

Wildlife Labor I Missing Lynx .... by Paul Kobcrstcin April Hanford Whistlcblowers - violations in civil rights'.r of Hanford employees ... by Michael O'Rourke · July British Columbia Kills a Dam, Saves Its Salmon - expansion of Kemano hydroelectric power project Whistleblower Lore at Livermore ... by Jean Tepper July stopped .. , by Dennis Morgan April Environmental Injustice Plagues Urban, Rural Communities US and Canada Fight for the Last Salmon - labor, community must fight against corporate greed and ... by Paul Koberstein May for health and protection of the earth , Point of'·./!ierll':·,,,.,:,,,n,,,,.,;,,,~ . , Power Play: Two Citizens Make 1rt~,i!fe:tm1001lf'' : .. by Kikanza Ramsey; Labor Community and.s'tratcgy,{jFR,l;;;;;: ,.;"'' ,~ 111 Los Angeles Ju~ with Industry Heavyweight -,N:c1liCor '· l .... ·:-:;, ,w,,, ,.,~ project on the orth Umpquf · · I--. ··:~_:.~·.·.· ..·· ..:-:-· ~ {I Too Close to Home: Logging Tljl'e 0 I _~.~.,-.:~;:<~'ly I Way of Life in the Alaska R '' r~~~~K~!!~~~~y evill Eschen ,) 'it ,,_:,;_•. ' ..:.~ .".:.~.-_-_' · Scientists Call for Stricter Logg · 9,]MiJ,,£igpiiJlg?,A,9{frak Re~hri.~~-CjlS"'",.;A\' ~-.,,, < .. Southeast Alaska Salmon Ru Eug Route "l · Cascadfa"-" \ Big Fish, Little Fish - ck M December by congressional plan to turn \ ... by John Rosapepe ,_,_,,.j~: I Playing Garnes with Bull Trout /Ct··~•~• 111•<,!j .~ '"f ,

Bay Area Women Suffer Highest Rates of Breast What if You had a Timber Salvage Sale and A Seed Catalog Guide to Conservation Cornpone Cancer, eek Answers ... by Jean Tepperman OctDber Nobody Came August ... by Joel Preston Smith August Paving Paradise: J ation's Mo t Extreme Property Bikers Versus Bigfoot in the Dark Divide September Say Goodbye to "Ecosystem Management" Rights Measure Awaits Washington Voters Did Clinton Read the Fine Print? October ... by Denzel and ancy Ferguson September ... by Scott Brennan Making Politicians Pay the Price for Voting Cyber Warriors: Building the Network Cascadia's hining Lights: Eight Leaders to Watch Against the Environment ber ... by Paul Brainerd October in '96 ... by Kathie Durbin and Paul Kobersrein December Reaching Out, Reaching In ber The Fraser: A Test of Our Resolve ... by David Suzuki November Health Ancient Forests Imperiled by Greed: Wes Cooley and Breast Cancer - new studies indicate Paul Koberstein's Don Young arc Determined to Ravage our Natural Young and Reckless likely induced by environmental factors Resources. Whose Interests do they Really Represent? dioxin , other organochlorines and medical x-r Who's Behind the Bombing at ' ... by Russell Sadler December which are large! y avoidable .... by Robin Klein r · April A Sophisticated Rush Limbaugl When Working Out is Hazardous to Your Health \ / SLAPP Suit Stings British Col Book Reviews ... by Jo Osrgardcn «»-~ y May Even on a Clear Day It's Hard t Fire at Eden's Gate: Tom McCt1lf!ft1 The Beef Against Meat ... by Michael Castleman \'<' June Clinton Stands by Brent Walth ... reviewed by April Before You Invest in Bottled Water, Have Your Water 'j Imagine o More GPA. Ir's Easy if You Try The Economy 11[ Nature: Rethi11kni Tested ... by Michael Castleman ¥ July Snake River Salmon are in a Death Spiral, Too October C,11111ect1'1111 Between Ecol11gJ1 and The Lead Hazard: The More We Learn, the Heavier Sleepless (Over Salmon) in Portland November by William Ashworth ... rcvic Northwest Passage: The Great ,. the Problem Looks ... by Michael Castleman August Michael Harcourt's Legacy December Elderly Face Special Environmental Risks by W. Dietrich A Co111111m1 . ... by Michael Castleman September the People 11[ the Pacific l'{pfthYfititt ... reviewed by Susan Wickstrom Rethinking Bovine Growth Hormones and Milk Guest Editorial Point of View ... by Paul Koberstein October A Toast to a New Voice for the Northwest - a cheer to the The Prairie Keepers: Secrets of the Grasslands, by Marcy Houle ... reviewed by Brita Gordon July Arc Men Becoming an Endangered Species? launching of Cascadia Times and a plea to reverse the The Chemical Threat to Mankind damaging trends in our rich Northwest Railroads and Clearcuts: Legacy of Congress ·s 1864 ... by Michael Castleman November ... by Charles Wilkinson, professor of law and author April Northern Pacific Land Grant, by D. Jensen and G. Draffan with J. Osborn ... reviewed by Paul Lindholdt August ow Hear This, Make Noise About oisc - lower Why Salmon Don't Fit in Corporate Boardrooms grades and poor hearing among youth are often ... by Angus Duncan, former member Northwest Power River Teeth, by DJ Duncan ... reviewed by Pete Lavigne September the results of our noisy environment ... by Michael Castleman December Planning Council May More Tree Talk: The People, Politics and Economics of Timber, Clearcuts and Volcanoes ... by Christine Colasurdo June by R. Raphael and /11 Timber C111111try: Working People '., Environmental Injustice Plagues Urban, Rural Communities - Stories of Enuironmcntal Conflict and Urban Flight, by B.B. - Technology labor,community must light against corporate greed and for Brown ... reviewed by Maya Muir October Paper Mills Transform Waste into Motor Fuel.. .by Phil Adamsak June health and protection of the earth ... by Kikanza Ramsey, Ovm111ry: Zero, Retil Life i11 Tim/1er Coulllry, by R.L. Heilman Wind Power ... by Paul Kobcrstein May Labor Community and Strategy Center Los Angeles July ... reviewed by Allison Baker November Building Waste: Help Your Contractor Make Less of it ... by Marnie McPhcc June Use Sex to Save Crops - pest control using bug hormones instead of pesticides ... by G.B. Veerman July Clip & send this form and a check to Gas Guzzlers - using bacteria to clean up oil and other toxic messes ... by G.B. Veerman August Cascadia Times Ozone's Revenge - ozone, a promising weapon to 25-6 NW 23rd #406 destroy fossil fuels in the ground ... by G. 8-. Vcerman September Beware of Genetic Engineering ... by G. B. Veerman October Portland, OR 97210-3534 Laying Waste to Dirty Clothes_..:. toxics in your do ... by G.B. Veerman November Economics Free Lunch on the Farm - spotlights irrigatio subsidies, Dollars and Nonsense ... by Robin Kl April Milking the Taxpayer - dairy subsidies and bovine growth hormone BS1; Dollars Nonsense ... b R May No. I Amount I Roads to owhere - spotlights timber subsidi ... by Robin Klein June Take the Money and Run: Commercial Nuclear (x) US-$3.00 CA-$3.50 $ Industry Laps Up Biggest Subsidies of All, Doi ... by Robin Klein July (x) US-$3.00 CA-$3.50 $ • Making a Fortune on Five Bucks a Day - 1872 • Name Mining Law, land giveaways and royalties, Dollars n US-$3.00 CA-$3.50 • August (x) $ 00 Nonsense ... by Robin Klein • n Fix the EPA, Don't Axe It: Budget Threats to • - (x) US-$3.00 CA-$3.50 $ c:, Clean Air, Water and Public Health are Real, Dollars • ;: and Nonsense ... • by Robin Klein • .....- Hanford Advisory Board Saves Money - and works for (x) US-$3.00 CA-SJ.SO $ • a safer environment too, Dollars Nonsense • s: ... by Robin Klein 00.... (x) US-$3.00 CA-$3.50 $ • Address State Department Blocks safe and Smart Plutonium • 0 Policy, Dollars Nonsense ... by Robin Klein November • (1) US-$3.00 CA-$3.50 n (X) $ • (1) • 3 • O" Kathie Durbin' s GroundTruthing US-$3.00 CA-$3.50 $ (1) Burning Nature's Libraries; If We Don't Like What (x) • ...... Science Tells Us, Should We Make Science Go Away? April • US-$3.00 CA-$3.50 •

pecifically, the Council entirely dismisses the n spite of heroic efforts to stop it, the idea of reclaiming the Columbia system, or signif• S icant parts of it, from the clutches of the party that for decades has controlled it - the hydropower annoying drumbeat of extinction for industry. In a significant concession to Big Hydro, the Council rejected widely supported proposals to make the river safer for baby salmon co swim in - either by Pacific salmon is getting louder. All kinds releasing higher flows down through the system, or drawing reservoirs co lower levels. Instead, in an of tricks have been tried. Experts from all admission that the river cannot be made safe for fish, the Council recommends putting them in trucks and barges and hauling chem around the dams. over the world have been called for advice. "There is no convincing evidence that higher flows would be helpful," the report says. "More stud• ies arc needed, but drawdown does not presently Sadly, nothing, not hatcheries, not tree planting appear to be an important mitigation option." Perhaps, as the Council says, chis is a conclusion based on evidence. Or, as some suggest, does the con• or cattle fencing, not even the Endangered clusion have something to do with the fact that Don Chapman, a hydro industry consultant, was the lone hydropower expert among members of the panel? Species Act, has worked. Experts from environmental groups, states and Indian tribes were left off. loreover, it's widely believed that Chapman him• The most telling measurement of the Pacific Bay, Calif., co the Fraser River in British CoJumbia. In self wrote sections of the report dealing with Columbia salmon's sickness is taken in the Snake River, where a general, it found that salmon have disappeared from River hydro issues - an allegation Chapman denies. remnant of what once numbered in the millions is 40 percent of their historical range in California, However, the report not only embraces the very ideas barely hanging on. The public is paying $500 million a Oregon, Washington and Idaho. It found chat coastal the hydropower industry has been paying Chapman to year for grotesquely unsuccessful recovery efforts. populations are better off than those spawning inland, articulate, but key passages in the report match almost Three years ago, Congress turned co one of the and populations at the southern fringe are ac greater word-for-word statements Chapman has made in the most prestigious scientific bodies anywhere, the risk than northern populations. Species that rear for up past on behalf of his hydro industry clients. As one Nacional Research Council, for a way out of che to a year in freshwater, such as spring and summer critic wryly observed, this situation smacks of the kind salmon dilemma. The Council, a branch of the Chinook, coho, sockeye, sea-run cutthroat and steel• of ethical breech that might have occurred had Judge National Academy of Sciences (founded by Congress head, are generally extinct, endangered or threatened Ito picked Johnny Cochran co serve on OJ's jury. in 1863 for the purpose of rendering scientific advice over a greater percentage of their ranges than species "If Chapman didn't have more than a decade of in circumstances just as this), convened 15 select sci• with shore freshwater residences, such as fall chinook, utility baggage, maybe he would have written about ....00 entists and goc to work. Finally, in November, it hand• chum and pink salmon. Finally, it said often thriving :E improving the river for fish," says Lorri Bodi, a Seattle ed down a 400-page report. populations are composed largely of hatchery fish . attorney for American Rivers, a conservation group. .:: The report unraveled no mysteries. It founds Still, the Council's analysis varies little from a c The Council denies these charges. Says David i5 many causes for the decline in salmon numbers, none 1991 report from the American Fisheries Society, c Policansky, the Council's staff director, "We made sure ~ of which are at all new. Its recommendations venture "Pacific Salmon at the Crossroads," which specified that the committee as a whole is not biased," he says. 00 c little beyond what is already being done. Some see 214 salmon runs chat are in danger. "The committee wrote the report. ft would be incor• c., this report as representing a most prestigious seal-of• The solution to the downward trend, the report rect to say any member wrote any component." approval for failing salmon policies. But not Congress states, is rooted in rehabilitating damaged ecosystems Chapman himself brushes aside the criticism, call- or the media, where the Council's pronouncement was as well as protecting pristine ones. The Council makes ing the report "an independent review by scientists ~ greeted as though it had been printed on stone tablets a strong case for gutting unnatural salmon production selected by the NAS." And, he adds, "It would be ~ and delivered by Moses. Said Oregon Sen. Mark in hatcheries, cutting salmon harvest, and banning log• incorrect to say any member wrote any component. r -c Hatfield, "The verdict is in. The National Academy of ging, grazing, agriculture and mining in rivers where would not claim authorship on anything. I submitted

4,·1. 801. di agree , ith the Council conclu ion . n editorial in The Oregonian aid hi - torian looking back a century from nox will blame che report's critics if the 70'1. salmon zoe extinct. "Thar includes fi h biologi ts or environrnentali t who have s·1. egoes ( ic) larger than their mis ion,' the paper aid. . 4.01. The Tacoma New Tribune wa e en more blunt. le said the 'pre erva• tioni ' who support drav dov ns are •rt. espousing "a theology of guile and expi• so·1. ation for the original sin of blocking the ri er ith dams," and, "B the light of ome ' almon advocates ' if a recovery plan doesn't make human uffer '.3"1. enough, it's not acceptable." s for the report, the Tacoma paper nai el said it " hould lay the barging v . drawdown debate to rest once and for all. ' '301. ln face, the debate just got hotter, 2·1. hile man_ e perts ay they are troubled by que rion of ethi• Wcal conflicts, they prefer to focus on what they claim are the report's technical problems - in ocher words, its 1·1. treatment of questions of science. When it comes to Columbia River salmon, the question that perplexes sci• entists the most is how best co move baby fish downstream. Their journey must cake them from their birthplaces in llJ8't 1984. 1988 llJIJD l1JIJ2 small mountain streams to the expansive The dark bars show the percentage of salmon smolts that return to the Snake as adults (for example. the rate in 1968 was 6 percent). Pacific Ocean. They can reach the The light bars show the percentage of smolts that are barged (in 1992. almost 80 percent). Barging hasn't slowed salmon's decline. ocean (itself not alway a friendly place Bue the panel's chairman, Dr. John issues." Moreover, according to a source Washington, Dr. Thomas Quinn and Dr. for fish) by leaping over dams, eluding J. Magnuson, a fisheries biologist from close the Council's team of scientists, Dennis Lettenmaier. voracious predators, escaping disease the University of Wisconsin, says in the the group chat wrote the hydropower The public, which paid for the and avoiding warm (thus deadly) water. report's preface chat individual members section consisted of Chapman and two study as part of its hefty salmon-recov• Or they can take their chances on a "met in pairs and trios on specific professors at the University of ery tab, has reason to ask some ques• barge ride around the dams, compli• tions here. Did the National Research ments the federal government. Council produce the honest, indepen• Which route is better? The Council dent answers as promised? Or did it pass says the data support barging. on a mixture of science and electric The Council reached this conclu• ~westNet. ' ~ . ~ , sion even through there has never been industry propaganda? There's no ques• nie Onlfmftommuntty for People with a Passion fo~ cascadia tion the report is good P.R. for the a biological test of reservoir drawdowns, hydropower industry. But could it also a leading proposed method of improving be good science? river conditions as an alternative to barg• WestNet is,.a ·regional online service that makes it easy to find the best ing. The Council used the results of a information on ·conservation and community in the West. It's an online redictably, the hydropower indus• computer model produced by community where people work together to protect the places we· love. try was thrilled with the report. University of Washington scientists P And why not? 1 he "verdict" working as paid consultants for the would save the industry billions. As for Bonneville Power Administration and salmon, no one's quite sure, but more the Columbia River Alliance, an indus• 7 Fo!Mr-s than a few experts fear that if the try group dominated by aluminum com• :: :.::::::::::::::::-:;::.:::::::.:::::::.·:::::::::::.:::::::.:::::::.::::.:::::: . {'r Council's recommendations are fol• panies. However, some critics say this f model is suspect, given that the EPA, I lowed, extinction is a pretty good bet. Significantly, the Council does not claim which sells hydropower produced at ··• :: ,m t]!! ~i : t!t • chat its ideas would save the salmon. federal dams on the Columbia, is hardly A media blitz followed the release an independent player in the salmon of the report. Hatfield and his controversy. And among all the players ··~·· ••.•. t.!!!..l Jl! ••••••••• : •• : •••• Republican col.leagues in the Senate, in the debate, none is more partisan than the aluminum companies. :;lil:.·.·::::::;:: . : : Ill" ... ~:::: : : ?. : : : : . : llil. . ·,.· : . : : : : : : : : : : : Slade Gorton of Washington and Larry :: ::: . . . J...... ::, ::: ...... ·•·...... Craig, dashed off sound bites to The National Research Council could have turned to models devised by ..D~...... t~..... \ : . 'w'uttn1L-SS:::: ~ : : : _E-tt.twor-long::::::::::: reporters and held briefings for other members of Congress. "The report indi• the Northwest Power Planning Council -Htiif : : : : : : : : : ~: :. : : : • : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : cates that there is little evidence at this (an agency representing the states of \~u.s/( : : '.::: : : ; ;,;c: : : ·~Lists~v: : : : : : '.: : : : : : : : : time to rely solely on such controversial Oregon, Washington, Idaho and ...... ::::::::::::: ' ' ' ' . Montana) or the Columbia River Inter• :E activities as reservoir drawdowns and .:: )C.I : : : : :w·,.. :s· · £N: ·e· :.1.· :;:::: :•~:: significant increases in river flows," said Tribal Fish Commission. Neither of .\(i--.:j(: : : : : : · · : ·: ReAr the recent round of budget cuts to government science Prt!grams . spilling water over the dams." Spill is water deliberately dis• ' . . . ,Re.s~~rdlers for.anolher northern California timbert~R)P~, Si~IJ'@:. , destgned to protectthe en\linmmenLTho~gh "1!!se expertu:!aim to sin~ly,) charged over dam spillways, rather than Pacific. hm beiri uncritically ~d in thi'.new; m;dia ;fnd ~ recent'tiook i,, Gregg betieve their own data. Harper's says they are little more than interchangeable discharged through turbines, with the Easterbrook. :A Moment on the 'Earth;" forlheirrlisearch ~provitig" ~ spiltted ~ . ornaments on the hood of a high-pOMjred engine of disinformation: Morewer. intent of reducing salmon mortality. The is not in d;mger of ,'xtinction; In fa,;t,,lhe ilata PtOYes no more than U!e owl is doing i thei(pronouncements are amplified in the IIU!dia. drowning out the toncerns ofthe Council report says spill can sometimes « fine in some ~ung ~d stands. ~ut ~~ fl!e d~ d~r·t d!sproye is;;~ · ?mfjwity, of scienti~ whose views, ~arper's ,says. ~are mitrgi~lized:· be helpful in improving survival. But the . ,:i·. '.··.'· ·"·.' '·. . . report does not specifically recommend using spill as a mitigation measure. Bob Heinith, a fisheries biologist for sions, are worth quoting: Chapman argues chat river flows can at least. He was hired co draw attention the Columbia River tribes, is one of '' ... Transportation alone, as presently help salmon move through the away from the role of the darns, there's many scientists who accuse the Council conceived and implemented, is unlikely Columbia system, but chat's not the only no question about chat. He's done a of ignoring data that doesn't agree with co hale the continued decline and extir• factor. He says the young fish often cake pretty good job torturing the data to Chapman's point of view. pation of listed species of salmon in the their time moving downstream, depend• make it confe s what the utilities want• For example, Heinith points out the Snake River Basin ... " ing on how quickly their bodies mature. ed co hear." Council report made no mention of a This study led the American His arguments are considered co have 1994 incident in which 90,000 baby Fisheries Society co conclude, "We can some merit. embers of the committee find salmon were killed at McNary Dam confidently state continuing the status "I think he is a fair arbiter of scien• the Chapman controversy awaiting transport on barges. quo operation of the lower Snake River tific face," says Dr. Phil Mundy, a fish• M annoying."J don't chink it's fair More significantly, he says, the hydropower system will cause extinction eries biologist with a Ph.D. from the to call Don an industry consultant," says report dismissed calculations by the of Snake River salmon." niversicy of Washi ngcon. Mundy head• Dr. Quinn, a fisheries biologist at the Snake River Salmon Recovery Team. ed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife peer University of Washington. "J would put The team's report shows that until about o understand Don Chapman's review team chat challenged salmon his professional reputation up against 1968, between 3 and 6 percent of young leading role as an advocate for barging policy as a recipe for extinction. anybody." Quinn finds it "extremely salmon return to spawn as adults. The T the electric industry, consider a Policansky says Chapman was presumptuous" that anyone would ques• survival rate has been less than 1 per• federal court case in 1994. At issue were appointed to the National Research tion the report on the basis of cent since 1976 (see chart, page 12). these very questions of darns, salmon Council panel because of his strong cre• Chapman's credentials. "Eicher be has This is important because by 1977, two and whether the fish should be barged dentials as a scientist. But in the view of extraordinary powers of persuasion he key events occurred: the last of four or moved downstream in some ocher others, the Council's choice of Chapman could pull the wool over our eyes, or the major federal dams was completed on way. On one side were the states of has undermined the report's value as a National Academy of Sciences is so irre• the Snake, and the government began Oregon and Idaho; on the other, federal cool co help resolve scientific dispute. sponsible one person could write one barging fish in earnest. Other data from agencies chat run the Columbia's hydro r nstead, i t fuels skepticism that there chapter." the Recovery Team's report shows that system. Federal Judge Malcolm Marsh will ever be a fair, independent assess• But it is also clear that if the the number of baby salmon produced in in Portland ruled in favor of the states, ment of scientific face concerning the Council had selected scientists with no the Snake has doubled since 1968. All saying the Columbia dams were "coo decline of Columbia River salmon. ties to the hydropower industry, the together, these data suggest that the fish heavily geared coward a status Angus Duncan, a former member of "Supreme Court of Science" could have were much better off before the last four quo ... when the situation literally cries the Northwest Power Planning Council risen above the questions raised here. dams were built and barging begun. out for a major overhaul." and a leading expert on salmon policy, The most serious problem caused Heinith claims the Council was not The staunchest defenders of the ays, "I chink certainly having Don on by the report probably won 't be to the even-handed in its treatment of face. For status quo are the industrial users who there as the apparent expert on main• reputation of scholars. Instead, the fish example, As evidence, he points out that benefit from it, most prominent of stem migration at best presents a pretty will suffer, says Pac Ford of Idaho Rivers the report rejects drawdowns because which are electric utilities, both public clear appearance of a conflict. He has United. "The Clinton administration is there is no "unequivocal" data proving it and private. They've waged their resis• spent a lot of time writing reports for headed toward continuing to back off works. Bue the Council endorses barging tance campaign in the courts, in the (the hydropower industry) as their senior from helping fish. This report is part of even though it acknowledges at best media and before public agencies. retained biologist. l chink the (Council) what they will use. l don't think science only "limited information" is at hand. The utilities resist changes to dams did both itself and possibly Don has much co do with what's happening. "This is an extreme double stan• that would cost them money. Economic Chapman a disservice by retaining him It's about power." dard," Heinith says. "The preponder• complain , however, are weak rhetorical on the committee as its expert on main- The issue gees back co salmon and ance of data shows improved survival weapons when the issue is salmon Stem migration. It's hard to disassociate their shrinking numbers, which suggest extinction Th h . · . with drawdown , higher flows and lower . 1. us t eir mam weapon ts his clients from his contributions to that priorities have been misplaced, says Ted ~ travel times." science. l d' hi f industry's nd the ea mg arc rtect o report." Strong, executive director of the ~ Many experts say the best analysis "Don should have recused himself Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish ~ of the effects of barging salmon is a 1994 been Don science-based arguments has A bi Chapman. from the this NAS panel," said Ed Commission: "Rather than more scien- peer-reviewed study for the U.S. Fish tific study and debate, what the salmon and Wild life Service. The study's find- science fr logist with a Ph.D. in fisheries Chaney, a longtime nemesis of has WOrk~m Oregon Stace, Chapman Chapman. "He has a conflict of interest need right now is an action plan that ing;~, which directly contradict the d for PacifiCorp and an indus• that is beyond comprehension. Don has involves all sections of society." National Research Council's conclu- try group; the Pacific Northwest Utility served as the spin doctor and apologise • Conference Committee, among others. for the salmon killer. s for the last decade Greenl[:I!D•------Cascadia Calendar Automakers Push ''Hyper-Car'' as Alternativeto Electric Vehicle /Jy Paul Koberstein

ust as California is tantalizingly close Critics of the delay say an , retreat co having a new high-tech, low-pol• on the tough rand the state ha taken in lution growth industry in electric favor of zero-erni sion vehicle means lhides, the state is considering a plan chat California will continue to ha e the electric in to scrap a mandate requiring that electric worst air quality in the nation. Hundreds whtch sells energy produced at dams, is in such deep financial vehicles make up 2 percent - or 20,000 of potential job also will be lost. - of the cars sold in California in 1998. But the electric car is not univer al• str~i~s~a~·i:;t:~~y not survive. Northwest governors have If unchanged, the percentage would ly admired a en ironmentally correct. It ca11;t(l fo.r ~ reg!f'rt!1'"fomtn,,tqifiB:£!J;;~,~:;"~s"for the BPA. The increase to 5 percent in 2001 and to 10 consumes electricity, which mu t be pro• Columbia s salmon and energy resourtessa percent in 2003. duced somewhere, mostly at nuclear, Proposed chan'~e n's The oil industry and the automakers hydro or fo ii plants, each of which has ,.,l stormed in protest when the rate Air significant drawbacks. Even o, the elee' Resources Board passed California board esti• me tion, call the the rule five years ago as a mates that electric car No ouncil, (503) 222-5161. way to meet tough Clean F d Ch l d contribute less than 1 per• Air Act standards that go . or • rys er an cent as many smog-form• into effect by 2010. Now General Motors are ing pollutants as internal they are on the verge of combustion car . The getting it scrapped. Some biggest challenge, howev• say the timing couldn't collaborating with er, to electric cars is the A new 29-minute vide be worse. The board hybrid car. een by ome loggin wants to gut the program the federal govem• as the better approach. just as the technology to The h brid car incor• andf make electric cars work is porate both electricity maturing and automakers ment on a plan to and fo sil fuels, and can have finally resigned go 300 to 400 miles per themselves to producing build a prototype by gallon, or make the trip the car needed for ·the from Los Angeles to New future. The technology 1998. in hopes of York on a single tank. [ has come a long way Dubbed the "hyper-car" since GM unveiled the putting a hyper-car by Amory Lovins of the T 1versrt-y o,;,. z regon J Impact, a sporty electric Rocky Mountain E ;&uonmental Law Conference is sec for March 7-10 at cht two-seater, in 1990, and Institute, it has the back• the Ultralite, a four• on the market by ing of Ford. Chrysler and law;,,school in Eugene. The conference is for students, seater, in 1991. Recencly, GM which, according to actit:ists and attorneys worldwide. For more information, o ll Ford and Chrysler 2003. Environment Magazine, ( 5 03) '35'i)f.,l8gfiho,;,email411laarla:itM'ia:ter®ige.,a:pc~o:Ee;,:B,W!m1:m@TI· announced development are collaborating with the of a battery than can federal government on a ~t recharge in six hours, plan to build a prototype He'' rs' Sch Annual Western Ancient Forest Activist rather than eight. by l 998, in hopes of -Co rence i\i1'tie:iEie.b1ms?,;,~~Jn Ashland, Ore., at Southern The board would make zero-ernis- pumng a hyper-car on the market by Oregon State ~niversity. Foi'~'~te'?nftmmati call (541) 482- sion vehicle manufacturing voluntary 2003. 445 or email lieadwa · instead of mandatory, and would delay The hybrid car, driven by electric implementation until the year 2004. The motors mounted to each wheel, depends board's staff is recommending that on a motor-scooter ized internal-corn- automakers be allowed to get credit for bustion engine to generate power rather meeting the zero-emission rule with than batteries. Hybrids are made from E vehicles other than those powered strict• composite materials that are 75 percent ly by electric batteries. The acramento lighter than steel (a potential drawback, Bee says Gov. Pete Wilson supports a raising questions about their safety in plan to abandon the timetable altogeth• collisions) and as much as 80 percent er. The board will make its decision in more aerodynamic than regular cars. February or March. As Lovins wrote a year ago in Car companies could get credit for Atlantic, "Striking innovations have so-called "hybrid" vehicles that have occurred in advanced materials, software, both electric and traditional gas-powered motors, power electronics, microelectron• engines on board. 1 he emission-free ics electricity-storage devices, small electric engine would be used for urban engines, fuel cells, and computer-aided ao driving, where air pollution is worst. The design and manufacturing. Artfully inte• .... driver would shift to the gas-powered grated, they can yield safe, affordable, :::E Fo 'f:. a es at son salvage logging an e 'logging .:: engine for highway trips, where an inter• and otherwise superior family cars get• c with6~fili~~" rider, subscribe to the new open email conf nal combustion engine operates most ting hundreds of miles per gallon." i5 c ence spon:ored by WALL - Witness Against Lawles efficiently. Lovins says cars are getting more u ao Lo~ing. This is an open list, so your ann The auto industry has lobbied hard than 600 mpg with the best ideas now in c u act ~:i -vt. . for the delay, according to the San the lab. In 1994, a four-seater, 1,500- els Francisco Chronicle, which quotes John pound Swiss prototype was reported to Wallace, director of Ford's el eerie vehi• achieve 90 mpg cruising on the highway; tic cles program, as saying, ""We would pre• at urban speeds, powered by its 573 fer not to offer a vehicle with a SO mile pounds of batteries, it got the equivalent range provided by a battery that weighs of 235 mpg. 2,000 pounds and coses over $4,000, but "Hypercars," Lovins says, "not that is the best we can do. · have one imported luxury sedans, are the biggest • Publicize your euent in [ascatfia Times. Send information to Cascadia Calendar 25-6 HUI 23rd P shot at a successful EV laun h; prema• threat to Detroit. But they are also its Portland OR m10. 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i.m RQP-e,r.':I, Q,IJ,•i):wi'.!.C.KOO oo~r;,. '.!. ':l,t_t;:.e,9-, r;,;w.d east of Pore Orford, Oregon, in a driving December according to 1990 specifications, which required only creams or wildlife, ic mu. t go back and "unmark" those rainstorm, following the blue-and-white plastic rib• skimpy buffers along the steep-sided creeks that flow sales, returning them co their original specifications, ln he'd tied co branche to mark the route into the into the orch Fork of the Elk. even if that means skimpy or nonexi tent stream Boulder-Krab timber sale. Traversing this wild country The unstable slopes of the Elk are the reason buffers. In the wescside spotted owl forest covered by is no summer stroll. The nit One boundary lay three Gordon Reeves, one of the Forest Service's top President linton's Northwest Fore t Plan, it is arguing steep-sided valleys and three raging creeks beyond the research fish biologists, warned in the strongest term (and Hogan has agreed) char auctioned sales must go nearest logging road. On the way in, the gray-bearded back in 1990 against logging here. Reeves told Abel forward even if they violate the standards and guide• Rogers pointed out the slump of a natural landslide, still Camarena, acting upervisor of the Siskiyou National lines of the plan itself. And it i arguing that the agen• clearly evident decades after the hillside in the Elk Forest, chat he risked ruining the fisheries of the North cies may not consider "impacts, site-specific or cumula• River watershed gave way. Fork, which at the time produced more almon per tive," of any sale covered by the rider. 'Io the north, the surging Umpqua River flowed mile than any other U.S. river Reeves was aware of out• The timber industry apparently has decided chat it latte-brown with silt from recent logging. But 85 per• side Alaska. will act in its own self-interest and go for everything it cent of the national forest land within the 60,000-a 're Reeves also objected to timber planners' misuse of can gee, no matter the effects on irreplaceable nacural Elk River drainage remains wild and pristine, and on research data he him elf had collected on sedimenta• resources like the Elk Ri er fishery - and no matter chis morning, despite everal days of coastal flooding, tion in the Elk Ri er watershed in a way that deliber• how badly ics image is tarnished by this orgy of greed. the Elk ran clear, wife and cold through it canyon. ately understated the risk the ales posed. "I cold them. It's le easy to understand v hy the Clinton ad min• Bue for how much longer? That is the question on 'No, chi i inappr priate,' " Reeves said. "There's no i Cration hasn't acted to halt the de truction. President Roger ' mind this stormy morning, a the brutal reality way I'm going to let my research be used in that way'." Clinton, who grossly underestimated the industry's of the "logging-without-laws" rider hit home in the Last September, the .S. Department of greed and cunning when he izned the rider la t um• Oregon South Coast watershed he has worked 20 years Agriculture gave Reeves its Honor Award for environ• mer, ould insisr chat Congress rescind it as the price of to protect. mental protection, the hizhe t award of it kind, for signing the 1996 Interior appropriation· bill. Rep. On Dec. 13, the day before Rogers guided me into 'contributing co the basic science understanding of fish Elizabeth Furse ha provided another vehicle in her the roadless Elk River san cuary, Rogers' lawyer, Patti and riparian ecosy tern cien e and for developing new "Restoration of Natural Re ources Laws on the Public Goldman of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, approaches co managing riparian and aquatic ecosys• Lands Act of 1995," which would rescind the rider in its argued before a federal judge in Eugene chat the tem in the V e tern United Scates." entirety. He could throw the weight of hi office behind Boulder-Krab sale and Elk Fork sale in the Elk River Bue Reeves said chat since Occober, when the it. He ould also insist chat his J ustic Department fight drainage were not co ered by the rider and chat the Department of Justice bowed co pressure from timber the timber industry's ever-broadening legal interpreta• Forest Service therefore was not required to award industry lawyers and ordered the Elk River ales resur• tions vigorously in court. them. Because the agency cancelled the sales voluntar• rected, "I have not been invited co gee involved." He In read, though the president has made a vague ily in 1991 to ettle an earlier lawsuit, she said, for says he feels the same way about the ale today that he promise co "fix" the rider, his attorneys are letting the Congress to order chem to now go forward violates the felt in l991: "You don't go to the heart and sol)! of what worse of the sales go through unchallenged. The separation of power provi ion in the U.S. Constitution. you have left" for timber. I orthwest Forest Plan, whi h Clinton could have tout• For one thing, the judge in that earlier case told the Although the 'logging-without-law ' rider was orig• ed as the most ignificant environmental achievement Forest Service chat before the sales could be reoffered, inally touted as an emergency mea ure co restore forest of his administration, is unraveling. deanwhile, as the it must do a new environmental review and hold a new health, the timber companies that are parcie to chis lit• Northwest' winter rain· cum hillsides to mud, ancient auction for bids. The agency has done neither. Instead, igation have now dropped all pretense of caring about forests are falling. Elk River is next. Will he lift a finger ju t last year, it obliterated the road to one logging unit forest health, the fish in the stream or the wildlife in to prevent chis craged ? and replaced it with a hiking trail. . the woods. Peel back the rhetoric, the pseudo-science But the Clinton administration chose not to fight and the kinder-and-gentler image the indu try ha Contributing Editor Kathie Durbin con be reached al ok the sales in court, and U.S. District Judge Michael attempted to cultivate with a saturation national ad [email protected]. Hogan who e rulings co date indicate he con ider the campaign and you glimpse naked, shameless greed. rider to be as broad as the timber industry wants it to be, bru quely cue shore Goldman' con ticucional argu• cross the West, environmentally destructive sale ment. Hogan had signaled his intent the previous week re going forward under the ru e of alvaging the by releasing the one unit of the Boulder-Krah sale that crests back to health. The Elk River sales are lies within the South I· ork Coquille River drainage. only two of the mo t egre iou example'. The indu try Scott 'Timber Co., the high bidder in 1991, wasted no i now arguing in court that if the Forest Service modi- time reacting to the ruling; within days, freshly felled Douglas-fir and Port Orford cedar giants lay nestled in a tangle of boughs and limbs near a gravel logging road. For that particular patch of old growth, the argument was over.

n 1991 Rogers, a former timber buyer for a South Coast company who forsook the business to found I Friends of Elk River, thought he had achieved a lasting victory in his campaign co protect the Elk, its fabled salmon runs and the wild country around it. Now, incredible a it seems, the sale have come back to haunt him. None of this makes sense. The Elk ha been rated the most productive salmon stream on the Pacific Coast outside Alaska. It is a wild and scenic river, protected by federal law. 1 he remaining 146 acres originally slated for logging are roadless and lie within a key water hed and an old-growth forest reserve. Under President Clinton's Northwest Forest Plan, they would be pro• tected from logging. Clearcutting them would yield just 8.5 million board feet of timber, but would erase 222 acres of old growth forest that protects critical habitat for coastal coho and chinook salmon, steelhead trout and threatened marbled murrelecs. Yet the Northwest Forest Resource Council argues 1~m11.. ~------• support the Columbia Hills project. Wind Power Better Stopping good renewable projects SEACC Not Associated Than Wind Power is will mean more pollution for the next with Goshawk Lawsuit for Next Generation 20 to 30 years. The Columbia Hills wind project. are the region's first To the editor: To the editor: step toward sustainable electrical gen• The Southeast Alaska Your article on birds and wind eration. Without chis beginning there Conservation Council, a coalition of power in the November issue high• will be no next steps, no change in 15 volunteer grassroots groups in 12 lights some interesting issues, but the rush to dirty, depleted airsheds Southeast Alaska communities, is not doesn't mention the most significant and the consequent habitat destruc• associated with a lawsuit recently point. The real issue in this region's non. filed by several Lower 48 environ• mad rush to gas to generate electrici• The Columbia Hills Wind Project mental groups and other challenging ty, and the air and habitat destruction is about the next generation. the U.S. l• ish and Wildlife Service's this causes. ' decision not to-list the Queen While the Columbia Hills wind Peter West Charlotte Goshawk as a threatened project was being studied, sited and Renewables Northwest species last spring. The Wildlife permitted, 1, 100 megawatts of gas• Portland OR Service cited insufficient scientific fired power planes were built in the and commercial information and the Northwest. These plants spew nearly I• orest Service's promise co set aside 5 million tons of C02 per year - the Business as Usual Will habitat for goshawks as the two main pollution equivalent of over 950,000 reasons for not listing the bird as cars every year. Ruin Salmon threatened last June. Next year, 500 MW of gas-fired Since that decision, however, power planes will come on line in To the editor: political pressure from the Ketchikan Oregon along the Columbia. Another Darns are killing the Colombia Pulp Co. and Alaska's congressional 240 MW plane will be completed ear• and Snake River salmon runs. To illu• delegation has forced the Forest ly in 1997 in Vancouver, Wash. 1 his minate this fact, consider the sockeye Service to walk away from its promis• region's airsheds are choking; soon salmon run which once returned to es to cake immediate steps to protect enough we could literally lose sight of the Stanley Basin in Idaho. These all old-growth dependent wildlife. the Columbia Gorge. fish would travel some.900 miles up Sen. Ted Steven's radical efforts At full potential, the Columbia the Columbia, Snake and Salmon to increase clearcutting has resulted in Hills wind project could displace rivers from the Pacific, typically as 15- citizens groups from far away decided annual emissions of over 270,000 tons pound specimens. They would occu• into go to court co protect wildlife in of C02, 2,240 tons of S02, 1,060 tons py the clear alpine lakes at the base of the Tongass. This lawsuit is s last• of NOx, and 1, 150 tons of methane Idaho's 10,000 foot high mountains, ditch effort caused by Stevens' from using fossil fuels to generate both as adults and as newly hatched extreme actions. Stevens is crying to electricity. srnolts, rip away the Forest Service's authority Your article leave the impression Even as late as 1955, with several to manage our public lands for bal• that wind power at the Columbia rnainsrern Columbia River dams in anced multiple use. These groups Hi! Is is inappropriate and that the place, 4,361 sockeye returned to believe a lawsuit on the ESA is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service oppos• Redfish Lake alone, according to only way co scop his radical charge to es wind power. Neither is true. Idaho D Department of Fish and increase subsidized logging at the USFW policy supports wind pow• Game records. But the con truction of expense of wildlife. We want folks to know that er, and this is clear in a follow-up to the lower Snake River dams in the the Plenert letter you cite. Despite 1970s, following the construction of SEACC is not associated with this this overall support, there is a double the mainstern Columbia dams in the lawsuit. While we care about the standard that remains in effect. It is 1930s, 1950s and 1960s, has nearly future of goshawks and wolves, we far easier to build a gas plant than any wiped out these runs so that now, don't feel the management of the alternative source. While wind pro• every run of the Snake River salmon Tongass should be focused on a single jects are scrutinized to extreme detail, and steelhead are either already critter. We are extremely concerned Plenert's energy office at USFW has extinct, listed as endangered under about the bigger picture: the current been silent about the impact on birds the Endangered Species Act or con• rate of logging will have serious nega• and habitat from pollution from gas sidered for listing in 1995. tive impacts forest-wide on deer, bear, plants. The summer steelhead the salmon and other wildlife. I'he wind project at Columbia Grand Ronde River tell the same sto• With the Forest Service giving Hills have been studied, revised and ry. Even into the late 1960 , this run everyone a chance to comment on reviewed in a very public process for of 3 to 7 pound sea-run trout provided how the Tongass will be managed almost three years now. The project exceptional sport for anglers who pur• into the future this winter and spring, area was selected after two other sites sued them. Bue the construction of we encourage all Southeast Alaskans were studied and rejected. The cur• the lower Snake River dams in the to actively participate in this public rent project is to be pha ed with 1970s saw the collapse of this wild, forest planning process. Let the development beyond the first phase native steelhead so that now, the run Forest Service know that you would contingent on the results of additionaJ of steelhead that still makes it into rather have a forest full of deer and avian studies lasting two years and the Grand Ronde is maintained large• bear scat than stumps. approved by USFW. ly through stocking huge numbers of It is up to us to keep our forests There is no going beyond the inferior hatchery fish. healthy. Old growth trees provide the first phase without the approval of Claims of impending economic vital habitat for Tongass fish and USFWS. There are more environ• doom if measures are taken to let the wildlife and meat, money and a spe• mental controls and protections rivers run more like rivers are simply cial way of life for Southeast Alaskans. placed on this project than any other not valid, due to the immense impor• Buck Lindekugal energy development in this region. tance of the commercial and sport Conservation Director, SEACC Like any human endeavor, fishing industries to our region econo• renewable resource technologies are my. Conclusion such as these may Juneau, AK not without impacts. In contrast to the please some industry users of the riv• impact of fossil fuels, renewables pale er system, but they will certainly by comparison. The key is to keep mean death for the once mighty the tradeoffs to a minimum and make salmon and steelhead runs and the sure the benefits far exceed the co ts. impoverishment of us all. Because of the environmental assur• ances and clean air benefits, 17 envi• Alex H. Uber ronmental and energy activist groups Portland OR Arts & OOHUIG~------B O .0 K 11 E U E W Alston Chase's Forest Fantasy

by Kathie Durbin invent modern ecology. 1n his essay "Round River," published in 1953, Aldo e's baaaaack! This time Alston Leopold wrote: "The outstanding dis• Chase is giving us his spin on covery of the twentieth century is not H Cascadia's epic battle over the television, or radio, bur rather the com• fate of the old-growth forests. Bue if you plexity of the land organism. Only chose hope to make it through chis opus by the who know the most about it can appreci• former Harvard philosophy professor and ate how little is known about it. 1h e last neoconservacive syndicated columnist, word in ignorance is the man who says you'll have to suspend your disbelief of an animal or plant, 'What good is it?' and swallow your indignation. Chase If the land mechanism as a whole is wrote the controversial 1986 book good, then every pare is good, whether Playing God in Yellowstone, which we understand it or not. If the biota, in blamed environmentalist for the dying che course of aeons, has built something trees of Yellowstone National Park. He we like but do not understand, then who describes In A Dark Wood as the culmi• but a fool would discard seemingly use• nation of 22 years of wanderings in less parts? To keep every cog and wheel search of "unknown lands." is the first precaution of intelligent tin• Unfortunately, when you close the cov• kering." ers on his latest book, you're left co con• In the ancient forests ofCascadia, clude that the forests of which he writes those cogs and wheels include the coho are still, to Chase, cerra incognita. salmon and the marbled murrelec, the Alston Chase, ht A Dark Wood: The As a journalise and historian, Chase Pacific yew and the northern spotted Fight Over Forests and the Rising makes a fine scholar of philosophy. This owl. 7yrcmny of Ecology, account is laced with references to In chronicling the history of the old• forest over millenia, there is actually no Hegel, Naess and Locke. But if you growch preservation movement, Chase Houghton Mifflin, 1995, 535 p. (421 such thing as a natural old-growth forest, accept his cake on the forest wars, you spends a disproportionate amount of ink pages of text plus notes, sources and and therefore no defensible reason co haven't been paying attention to current on Deep Ecology and its best-known index), $29.95. leave any of it for future. generations. event . Scare with his preface, in which proponent, Humboldt State University The unspoken implication here is chat he declares that In A Dark Wood "is a professor Bill Devall, and on Earth deep connection to the wild forests clearcut logging is the ecological equiva• tale without heroes or villains, in which First!, a movement chat apparently so around chem chat motivated chem co do lent of wildfire, a conclusion fire ecolo• the bad guy isn't a person at all but an seized his imagination it blinded him co the grunge work of forest protection - gists vehemently reject. idea." And what is this treacherous idea? the critical role played by grass-roots work chat still has nor conferred perma• There' little dispute among Why, "ecosystems ecology," a concept activists over 20 years. To judge from nent protection on the last unroaded foresters, scientists and environmental• Chase uses interchangeably with the Chase's account, Devall's writings on the fores cs. ists that aggressive fire suppression over term "biocentrism," and which he is interdependence of all living things pro• Chase reveals a breathtaking misun• the past century was a huge mistake and convinced threatens the very founda• vided the manifesto for the forest preser• derstanding of what drives the forest chat fire muse be reintroduced into the tions of western civilization. "An ancient vation campaign, and Earth First! waged preservation movement. Its fatal flaw, he ecosystem. But Chase's view, lifted political and philosophical notion, that campaign almost singlehandedly writes, is chat "it reseed on an unjustified straight from the rhetoric of the timber ecosystems ecology masquerades as a until the national conservation groups conviction of certainty ... Jc forgot that industry and the Wise l se movement, is modern scientific theory," he writes. jumped on the bandwagon in the 1990s. environmental beauty, like art, lay in the char ecosystem management threatens "Embraced by a generation of college In face, while Earth First! activists eyes of the beholder; chat ecology is a forests by leaving chem to decay or burn students during the campus revolutions drew national publicity co the forest tool, not an end in itself; and that nature wichouc human intervention instead of of the 1960s, it had become a cultural wars, it was grass-roots acciviscs who did is merely one among many values, not managing chem co provide wood prod• icon by the 1980s. Today, not only does the mundane political work of fighting the supreme source of all that i· good ... uces. In fa c, the opposite i true; it was it infuse all environmental law and poli• for wilderness protection, bird-dogging It fought for wilderness because its sup• ignorance of ecosystem processes in the cy, but its influence is also quietly the development of national forest plans, porters liked co hike, but rationalized Intermounrain West thac led to their changing the very character of govern• driving the logging roads, reading the chis fight as a struggle to preserve mismanagement through fire suppres• ment. Yee, as I shall show, it is false, and scientific reports, appealing the timber 'ecosystem health.' It sought co save sion and high-grade logging. Similarly, ics implementation has been a calamity sales and filing the lawsuits. Though birds because these feathery creatures neglect of the role chat forest ecology for nature and society." some of them probably did read Devall, are pretty but justified chis goal in the plays in the life of rivers contributed tO Bue forest preservacioniscs didn't it was not his esoteric writings but their name of spurious 'biodiversity .' ,, the crash of coa tal salmon runs up and In face, the march of logging roads down the Pacific Coast. with severe eco• and clearcucs up the mountain ides of nomic con equences for the commercial New on the shelves at Powell's the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s and fi hing industry. And the failure of forest 1980s made it impossible for activists co managers to assess the cumulative forget chat "nature is merely one among impact of disper ed clearcuts across the Epitaph for many values;" wilderness preservation landscape led co the listing of the north• A Desert Anarchist The was never primarily about hiking trails; ern sported owl. the Life and Legacy American West "ecosystem health" was a term invented In face, the most astounding omis• 00 Dee Brown ..... of Edward Abbey by the Forest Service and appropriated ion in Chase' book is his utter silence :E In a spirited telling on the destructive ecological and eco• Jomes Bishop, Jr. Dee Brown illuminates the by the timber industry; and no one ever ..= Through Abbey's own writings nomic consequences of industrial log- c history of the old West wanted to save the spotted owl because and personal papers, Bishop through the struggles of ing. Like mo c outsiders, he romanti• i6 gives us a pe.netrating. compel• ic was "pretty;" petitioning for it listing c Native Americans, settlers, cizes the life of the logger, but misses c., ling, no-holds-barred view of and ranchers. was a lase-ditch effort to save the 00 c the life of this American South• remaining roadless forest .. the real cause of the logger's plight - u west iconoclast. Chase's premise i chat lea, mg unsu tainable loggina, first on indu cry forests - any forests, apparendy- in a land. and then, after \\'orld War 11, on unmanaged state is not only unnatural public land· administered by the Fore c and unethical but dangerous to b or, His Service and Bureau of Land POWELL'S BOOKS AT CASCADE PLAZA POWELL'S BOOKS AT POX 8775 SW Cascade Ave., Beaverton · 503·643·3131 · B00-466-7313 Portland lnternotionol Airport· 149-1950 logic seems to be chat because wildfire, Management. including fires set deliberately by How can a book purporting to tell POWELL'S CITY OF BOOKS POWELL'S BOOKS ON HAWTHORNE 1005 W Burnside · 503-228·46> 1 · 800·878·7323 3723 S[ Hawthorne, 503·238·1668 · 800·354-5957 indigenous people, helped shape the the rory of the old-growth wars omit mention of the Northwest's damaged creams, di mini shed salmon run , eroded ly, over centurie . But it's quite a leap to ~------, oil , fragmented fore t canopy, and conclude that naturally functioning I CASCADIA CLASSIFIEDS I wholesale conversion of complex plant forest have no intrinsic value, that they I and animal communities to plantation are expendable, and that it is somehow I Name mon cultures? How can hase declare sinister to care about preserving any of I that what threatens the forests is a cult of them for posterity. I Address et:m,y rrern worsnrp "W1len 1J1e re-a', Yrrt'c:''d1: h, trre u.-a, ~v. ~.,, 1.ir:, "d.1,1,·ifi@r:.tv1 J.i,• .. 'C:fty is so vi, iblc? How can he imply that a losophy and Wise se doctrine, you have Phone movement to save the last forest strong• to wonder: Did Alston Chase ever fly holds poses a ruinous threat to the o er the mountains of the Pacific HEADLINE lorthwe t econom when the region's orthx est or take a ·olitary, ob ervanc ______O Bpt O llpt e onomy is booming and the timber walk through an ancient forest? If he did• industry continues to hold the most pro• n't, how could he pre ume co write this Message ductive timberlands, managing them with book? If he did, how cou Id he believe the little regard for ecosy tern management? , ord he wrote? To appropriate a timber industry motto, the Iorthwcst will never run out of man• Kathie Duroi» coveredf orest issuesf or aged forests. The Oregonianf rom 1989 to 1994. Herfi rst hase i correct on one point: book, Tree Huggers, will be publisher/i n Scien e can't always "prove" the inherent SeptemberbJ • The Mountoi11eers. worth of ecological system in a human Amount Enclosed ~~~~~~~~~~- time frame. The value of obscure plants and creatures may reveal it elf only slow- L------~ JOIN THE CLASSIFIEDS CASCADIA

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