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—Your local Sierra Club:— ‘Grassroots’ set-up yields expansion Will Oregon’s last wilderness areas be left in the timber industry’s hands? Not if the mem bers of the Eugene Sierra Club have their way. The dub plans to fight to pre serve wilderness areas in the Wil lamette National Forest from the grassroots all the way through to the canopy. The Eugene dub may be suc cessful in this effort due to the grassroots organization of the nation-wide Sierra Club. “Unlike other environmental groups,’’ states Holloway Jones, University librarian and former na tional board member of the dub, “projects are implemented by local people who understand the power structure and the particular needs of their environment." Fadeley urges compensation for victimized “Society has for too long been concerned about criminals, but not about the victims of their crimes,” Nancy Fadeley, Democ ratic candidate for Congress from District 42, told a Demo-Forum audience Monday. The victims, who Fadeley said are more apt to be disadvantaged, presently have no redress, and she wants to see the situation re medied. Her two areas of concern are the financial and emotional well being of the victim after the com mission of a crime. To remedy the financial prob lems, she is proposing that the State of Oregon, in a 50-50 deal with the federal government, pro vide up to $50,000 restitution to victims. She cited a bill pending in the U.S. Legislature that would es tablish this kind of a system as the impetus for her proposal. She also noted that the State of Maryland has a restitution program pres ently which resulted in claims last year of $1.5 million. While she is still studying fund ing methods for the program, Fadeley mentioned as two possi ble sources a small charge — ap proximately $5 — levied against criminals at the time conviction or possibly taken from the State General Fund. For the emotional trauma caused by crime, she proposed the state set up a “victim advo cates” program modeled after a similar program in Multnomah County. This, she said, would pro vide support for the victims through the entire criminal justice process, refer them to appropriate community services and provide notification concerning what hap pened to the criminal. The courts, she said, should also put more energy into insuring that criminals already charged with making restitution follow up and actually make it. Fadeley is opposed in the race by Republican candidate Vance Freeman. The national board of directors consisting of 15 persons creates broad national objectives which each chapter must follow. The chapters are broken down into semi-autonomous groups which work on specific environment related problems in that area. Originally created to fight for the protection of wilderness areas and other forestry issues, the dub now has broadened its scope to include every facet of the envi ronment. Nationally, the Sierra Club has been involved with the Clean Air Act, wilderness area protection and the Bureau of Land Manage ment (BLM) Organic Act. The lat ter, recently passed by Congress, gives the BLM basic regulations for administration of its lands. This will have impact in Oregon be I cause the BLM has never had clear-cut regulations governing the 30 per cent of Oregon land which it controls. On the local level, the group, taking in Douglas, Lane, Crook, Deschutes, and Coos counties, is mainly concerned with land use planning, saving French Pete, and city projects such as the 1990 plan. The Eugene club was created unofficially in 1960 and was rec ognized in 1968. It has recently become involved with urban prob lems including highway expan sions, the Willamette Greenway project, and the movement to save the South Hills. Working with the forest service on Willamette National Forest land use planning is the group s current interest. The Sierra Club plans to hold public information meetings and review the forest service plan when it comes out. Kurt Kutay, a member of the club, forsees that the plan will "propose to log almost all of the Willdemess areas, which are the last undeveloped areas in the na By SARAH McDONALD Of the Emerald tional forest.” They plan to en courage the forest service to pre serve these areas, especially 24 areas at lower elevations. The timber industry in Oregon is also involved in this conflict. “They overcut their own lands,” says I Kutay, “and now they want to come into the public lands.” The Sierra dub has a policy of working with the industry to discuss and resolve matters of this nature al though there are usually major dif ferences of opinion. Another service of the dub is to initiate outings. People are taken on these outings by members of the dub to enjoy the forest and wilderness. Monthly programs are also held to inform the community about upcoming events and to get feed back and advice from the public. The dub will soon be starting a membership drive to encourage people to join. There are now ap proximately 2,400 members in Oregon, and 165,000 members nationwide. While its still free* Jen* Malara, Student “I had C’s in high school. After Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics. I was able to maintain an A average.” Chris Walsh, Engineering “It's boring to read the way most people are taught. 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