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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1976)
Congress may save Oregon wilderness By SANDRA PETERKORT Of the Emerald A new skirmish is underway in the fight for wilderness preserva tion and the battlefield is Kalmiop sis. Kalmiopsis is a wilderness in southwest Oregon about 20 miles from the coast. Interest is being focused on annexing two areas north and south of the already ex isting 78,850 acre wilderness tract. Kalmiopsis is presently under the jurisdiction of the Siskiyou Na tional Forest. According to Bob Deadmond o the forest service, researchers an working on the draft environmen tal impact statement for the north ern Kalmiopsis annexation. Meet ings with local citizens were hel< last May and the report should b< finished by June. Five alternatives are expectei to emerge in the report, say: Deadmond. They range from de signating the area as wildernes; to allowing full commodity produc tivity. According to Dave Brown of th< ASUO Survival Center, the an nexed area would include th< CHARTERS TO EUROPE SEE US ! 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Thursday, Feb. 5th at 6:30 P.M. and again at 8:30 P.M. Friday, Feb. 6th at 6:30 P.M. and again at 8:30 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 7th at 10:30 A.M. and again at 1:30 P.M. Monday, Feb. 9th at 6:30 P.M. and again at 8:30 P.M. Please be on time! If you are a businessman, student, housewife or executive, this course which took 5 years of intensive research to develop, is a must. You can read 7-10 times faster, comprehend more, concen trate better and remember longer. Stu dents are offered an additional discount. This course can be taught to industry or civic groups at “Group rates’’ upon re quest. Be sure to attend whichever free orientation that fits in your schedule. f Lower Illinois River in the north i and rugged mineral-bearing coun try in the south. House resolution HR 6344, in . troduced last April by Congress man Jim Weaver, could convert ! the two areas into a combination of wilderness and wilderness 1 study areas. The resolution, how > ever, remains in the House Public Lands Subcommittee. ’ Peter Sorenson, Weaver's legislative assistant, gives several reasons for the resolution’s lack of ; progress. He says the subcommit tee is tied up with the Bureau of « Land Management Organic Act and its staff has done less re search on the Kalmiopsis issue. The public in general knows little about the resolution, according to Sorenson. Meanwhile, new groups are forming on the Kalmiopsis issue. Judy Stull, a member of the Kal miopsis Coalition, explains that one of her goals is to inform peo ple about the region. She says that the southern part of Kalmiopsis is of geologic and historic interest. The area was mined during World War II when soft metals and tin were needed for airplane manufacture. Now the area produces mostly iron ore, she says, although some gold has been found. She stressed conservation of the area because even though it contains no rich mineral deposits, high prices make mining the Kal miopsis worthwhile. Mining could seriously erode the hills as the area is dry and rugged, she warned. In contrast, the northern Kal miopsis is considered valuable not to small-time mining opera tions, but to timber concerns It is also suited to recreational use "It’s wilderness that you can reach all year long," Stull says, adding that the Illinois River has created deep valleys, that re main unburied by snow through out the winter. According to Stull, this is important since most of Oregon's wilderness areas are covered up during the cold sea son. The whole Kalmiopsis area, named after a species of heath discovered there, is the habitat of flora unlike that found in the rest of Oregon. Because of its serpentine son and the fact that Kalmiopsis was unscathed by glacial action, plants survived there that died out elsewhere, according to Stull ‘Solicit student input’ SUAB sets issues forum In an “attempt to open contact . between the SUAB and the stu dent population,” the Student University Affairs Board (SUAB) will conduct an Issues Forum Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. in the EMU, room to be posted Dave Walsh, SUAB chairer, hopes to "take suggestions and grievances that students present and begin working on them,'' The forum, which will be at tended by most of the 18-member SUAB, will be a place for "stu dents, individuals and groups to come with particular things they feel strongly about," Walsh said Some of the SUAB members will speak to students on issues they're working on, including ak cohol in the dorms, changes in the PE requirements and vacancies Priced from $200.00 Convenient Credit Terms Because of its lasting beauty and value, a diamond ring is the perfect symbol of love. 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Robert Grudin, chairman of the general humanities committee, sees the program as an opportun ity for students to develop a di verse curriculum in the Western institutions of philosophy, histori cal events, literature, and great re ligious and artistic ideas "I feel that students who take this program will be a tiny minority of really informed BA graduates," Grudin remarked. We hope to at tract students with a higher than average level of motivation be cause this will not be a situation where students and advisors can get by with just one fleeting meet ing Students have the right to ex pect educated answers." Specific interests can push the focus of the major into specific di rections. Grudin views the general humanities degree as an alterna tive to narrow courses of study and believes that students can tailor their degree to a particular job. He suggests this degree would provide a sound basis for graduate work in law, govern ment, literature or the social sci ences. 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