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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1992)
EDITORIAL Sacrifice today for river’s tomorrow Good news folk.s. It looks us if l-ane County voters may be bucking the American political norm by con sidering issues today that will affect tfit*ir future. An initiative designed to protect the banks of the McKenzie River has received enough signatures to gain a place on the May l'.l primary election ballot The McKenzie River Scenic Area Initiative would restrict bridge building, pesticide use. boat dock con struction. dam operations and mining along the river Considering the McKenzie is the drinking water source for Eugene and surrounding areas, this is a great idea Among various tac tics, the measure would pro tect water quality via county rural land use plan amendments. It’s also a winner because it would guard one' of Oregon’s most prized rivers from the1 environmental degradation plaguing darn near every square inch of land, water and air in this country. The catch7 The measure would include restrictions on property owners dictating how much vegetation thus could remove and where they could build fences, park their c ars and set up satellite dishes. No doubt these folks will have a justifiable bone to pick with measure supporters. Who wants to be told what they can and can't do on f/je/rland7 Unfortunately, these landowners need to bite the bullet and abide by the- restrictions; the- position of their land sets them up for this unpleasant reality It's a fact that nearly every river in this state, let alone the country, not bordered by at least 70 degree angled slopes has been engulfed by human "progress " It’s this progress that is most responsible for the degen eration of the* natural environment, both along the Me hen/.ie and beyond. It's great to see the foresight of those who wrote and now support this measure Building and develop ment along the McKenzie needs to be stopped now for the river's survival Residents along the river will have to make sac ri lues should the measure pass, but event they shouldn't mind too much. After all. it's the river they love that will be protected through those sacrifu e\ (frcf’on Pails P O aoi USA tUGtNf ORtGON §740) I1-*! CVwgon Ott.'y I •**«#*! » p«.4v %f*id iUx> U ,,-*f(x#gf' * ’«iai •! ' ' • j ,f»* a* tx*» y«KV and I A!« f»>\>'VJAy tK. ig ”'<«* au-mmor fry ;'*> <>«v* DaN i " ura*3 f* !*fc‘ ■-*g >.'o • - ^ in# l)fvv<if*.^ jl I rj«Kv« !*>• | ^.mi op*r«u» . tdApAotVa-M^y a/ !?» t ►•*, •,»*■*. ■*» » • •..**» *»*. <»• •*» X>C o* ”>0 I ft) U«r*Hy\ai Unajn aril I a "w*'cxx o’ Ihm Aw*. «ttud »’«»*.♦. I''# J marAKl <% pf*VOfO pfO^«tKty ! 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JOBS 106S JOBS l T“r ilClC is srua Bears, owls get one-gun salute THE FINE PRINT > BY RENE DECAIR The killing of .1 bear Lin! fri li.iy oliir again shows flow ptxiple find i! much easier lo look down the barrel of a n than lo look for solutions A KM) pound blur k f« ar prog nant with two lulls was shot outsail! of tlohurg bv Orogon Department of fish and Wild 11ft- olfii luls lioi ause as offi i lals said, sfio was lux oiliing a nuisant o Fills samo hour was relocated bs wildlife off’u lals last sum mer after she w as i aught eating garbage a! a summer ( hurt h tamp fish and Wildlife polity ullinvs for relocating animals only om e I ho hour hail not harmed any humans, nor had she kilhxi any livestoik, hut her presence Was perceived as a potential threat, so they shot her as she took t oy er ill a tint ket of briars Americans like neat and tidy ends to problems When things hying or otherwise, start to become a problem yy e eliminate them The only life We seem to val ue is human life, and that is even questionable as yve contin ue In kill eat 11 other (Wouldn't the bear have bix'll refloated again' No." officials say That s not pole y And, more importantly they say hears are highly intelligent She yy.is developing a pattern of coming into town to look for food She was bei oming less air,nd ul people So they gave her a r c .iso n I o bi> afraid Y e p , sounds rational to me Thin re more adaptable to people than people are adapt at :r In then; one wildlife oil I i ml said His office received a Ik iti t 100 complaint calls Iasi \ ear concerning black hears But ‘id percent of the time, he said, they are nuisance com plaints' from people who dis lover the hears eating their pet's luod or getting into their garUige It s ama/ing how (ear of the unknown can move people to action Olfii nils claim that the ns enl killing was necessary because it <ou/d /lace changed from a nuisanr e situation to a hazard as one, a wildlife official said I he officials turned their own tear into what essentially comes down to an ait of mur der l ive other bears have been killed under similar circum starn es situ e last spring four In t iti/ens and one by officials These actions show a blatant disregard for wildlife, and are unfortunately not isolated inci dents We re all familiar with the spotted owl controversy, and regardless of how people feel about the issues surrounding it. it is sii kening to think people would snoot .m onuungerotl spet it's, .is several people did two years ago. apparently in protest over decisions made to protect the bird And. of course, there are the bumper stickers many people so proudly put on their cars and trucks that say, "I like spot ted im Is fried I find it hard to understand how otherwise rational people can turn their tear (fear of per haps losing their jobs, in tin* case of the owl. or an unfound ed fear of danger, in the case of the bears) and turn that into violence against an innocent animal I thought humans were sup posed to In smarter than other animals We re not putting our superi or intelligent e to use when we fall prey to our own fears and cease to look for alternative na\s to deal with our prob lems What will we tell our kids w he n all t he beurs. ow I s. whales, apes, rhinos and all the other beautiful animals tan be found only In zoos, if at all? To teach kids the alphabet, teachers now say, " A' is for apple. It' is for boar” and so on I olfer .1 few alternatives for the future ” A Is for apple, It is for butchered. 'C is for caged. 1)' is for dead and X' is for x-Unction Kene l)r<,'jir /s the bmerald's community av.sm rate ttlilor IP UIE WAD TO 7*KE IN A MILLION /W^iGPAN73 <\£XT y£AR 'N V/ftOJN/A, .fF J! UJhJICH GROUP wv'OULD £ASl£R TO ASSlM/LAT£ CAUSE LESS PPOBttMi >en 1 : AMO f J MR. BIK44NAN, ISMT rWAT WWAT THEY USED TO ASK ABOUT IRISH CATWOLICS 7 Li t ^ £ ■