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Hikers lace up in support
of Warner Creek fire ecology
■ EVENT: The fourth annual
hike gets underway Saturday,
but festivities go from Friday
to Sunday
By April Carmichael
Freelance Reporter
To most people the weekend
usually means relaxation, a break
from the routine. Not so for ac
tivists and concerned citizens
who hope to save Warner Creek.
The Warner Creek Fire Ecology
Hike is a three-day, 16 mile event
that takes place in protest of the
Salvage Rider and with hopes of
generating public support to estab
lish the Warner Creek Burn as a
natural research area.
“Warner Creek really needs to
be preserved for the sake of re
search. Fire is part of the natural
eco-system process, but every
where it happens, they fire sal
vage, so we know little about it,”
one of the organizers of the hike,
Lacey Phillabaum, said.
This is the fourth annual hike in
support of Warner Creek.
The festivities go from Friday,
Aug. 9 through Sunday, Aug. 11,
but the march itself doesn’t begin
until Saturday.
The hikers will tramp through
the arson-burned fire perimeter of
the Compatch Roadless Area near
Oakridge, Oregon, which includes
Warner Creek. The hike ends at
the Oakridge Ranger Station in
Oakridge, where a peaceful rally
will be held.
The march isn’t going to be too
arduous, Phillabaum assured.
Hikers just need to bring some
thing warm to sleep under, good
hiking boots and water.
“It’s like a plush thing, for peo
ple who wouldn’t normally get
out and hike,” Phillabaum said.
“People’s packs will be transport
ed, and food will be provided. ”
“For me, Warner Creek’s impor
tant because I have the strongest
sense of place, and I feel connect
ed to it,” she said. “Politically,
Warner Creek’s been at the front of
the political movements for envi
ronmental rights and has been the
first in many cases.”
In late 1990, Warner Creek was
designated a recovery reserve for
the northern spotted owl.
In October of 1991, an arsonist
set fire to it, resulting in 9,000
acres being burned, 3,000 of
which were intentionally back
burned by the Forest Service in a
vain suppression effort that cost
nearly $10 million.
Because an arsonist ignited
Warner Creek, it was immediately
open for logging.
“The big loophole in the law
was that if you go out and set fire to
a forest, you can then go in and log
it legally,” Phillabaum said.
The environmentalists began
waging a legal battle to protect
Warner Creek. And, according to
Phillabaum, they were winning
until the Salvage Rider was intro
duced in September of 1995. It ex
empts timber sales from all envi
ronmental laws for two years.
The response to the Salvage
Rider by activists has been a con
tinuous blockade on the road to
the sale. A blockade that has suc
cessfully halted the cutting.
Evidence: It is a turning point
in human history,’ Carl Sagan
■ Continued from Page 1
From the totality of the tests on
particles a billionth the size of a
pinhead, he said, “the simplest ex
planation is that they are the re
mains of early Martian life.”
McKay said the conclusion is
drawn from more than two years
of study of a rock, called Allan
Hills 84001. The 41/2-pound rock
is thought to have formed on Mars
4.5 billion years ago, been blasted
out of the planet 16 million years
_ago and then landed in an Antarc
tic ice field 13,000 years ago. It
was picked up in 1984 by a Na
tional Science Foundation group
that regular searches the polar ice
for meteorites.
A team led by McKay, includ
ing scientists from NASA, Stan
ford University, McGill Universi
ty in Canada and the University of
Georgia, examined thin slices of
the potato-sized rock and found
minute objects that closely resem
ble fossilized bacteria.
They also found chemical com
pounds that they said could have
been deposited by microbes living
in the wet climate thought to have
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existed on Mars more than three
billion years ago.
McKay said the organic matter
was found deep inside a crack in
the rock and that more of the mate
rial was near the center than to
ward the outside. This suggests,
he said, that it formed there before
the rock was jolted away from
Mars and is not contamination by
Earthly microbes.
William Schopf, an expert on
ancient bacteria from the Univer
sity of California, Los Angeles,
said that the NASA team scored
well in proving the source and age
of the rock, and in proving the
presence of organic material.
But, speaking at the news con
ference as an “optimistic skeptic,”
Schopf said the researchers failed
his “subjective confidence rating”
in proving that the microscopic
bits of matter isolated from the
rock are really the remnants of life.
Among the proof required, he
said, are electron microscope
studies that show the presumed
microbe fossils do, in fact, have
the cell walls that are required to
hold “the juices” of life.
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