—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
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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
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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.
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