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\
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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
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