Controversial speaker to lecture on Old West
■ William Cronon, alternately
attacked and applauded
by scholars, will address
landscape painting
By Kristy Hessman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The topics of history, geography
and environmental studies will
come together Thursday night in a
free, slide-illustrated lecture given
by University of Wisconsin-Madi
son Professor William Cronon.
In “Telling Tales on Canvas:
Landscapes of Frontier Change,”
Cronon will investigate 19th centu
ry American landscape painting
and its relation to the human view
of nature during that time. The lec
ture will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thurs
day in Room 177 of Lawrence
Hall.“Cronon is one of the leaders, if
not the leader, in the discipline of
environmental studies,” University
landscape architecture professor
Kenny Helphand said. “His books
are provocative, important and
beautifully expressed.”
Cronon’s lecture is part of the
Oregon Humanities Center’s 2000
2001 Robert D. Clark series, an en
dowed lecture program that seeks to
promote public discussion on the
natural sciences, the history of Ore
gon and the interface between sci
ence and social and cultural affairs.
“Anybody interested in the
American West from any point of
view, whether literally or legally,
would benefit from the lecture,”
Help^iand said.
A professor of history, geography
and environmental studies, Cronon
is considered by many University
professors to be one of the most in
fluential thinkers in the field of en
vironmental studies. His has writ
ten several books on the impact of
human development on different
landscapes, which have been criti
cized by some environmentalists
and scholars.
“I believe that the controversy has
a lot to do with critics misunder
standing the way Cronon talks
about wilderness,” said Peter Walk
er, a University geography profes
sor.According to Walker, critics fo
cus parts of Cronon’s essay “The
Trouble with Wilderness; or, Get
ting Back to the Wrong Nature” that
they believe puts wilderness areas
in a negative light.
In addition to the fields of envi
ronmental studies and geography,
Cronon’s work also applies to land
scape architecture, art history and
American history.
The combination of disciplines
that Cronon’s work embodies is the
main reason why Julia Heydon, as
sociate director of Oregon Humani
ties, invited him to speak. “He is
someone who bridges the gap be
tween the humanities and the social
sciences,” Heydon said. “He is
someone of interest for a number of
people.”
The humanistic prospective that
Cronon takes in his research could
also be useful to individuals in the
areas of the physical sciences, such
as biology and chemistry, Walker
said.
Bush, Gore disagree over
facts, messages, details
By Ron Fournier
The Associated Press
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —
A1 Gore said Tuesday, “I’m
opposed to big govern
ment” and promised he
would never expand the
federal bureaucracy as
president. Rival George W.
Bush said voters shouldn’t
believe it.
Gore said he had worked
for eight years to reduce the
bureaucracy — federal em
ployment is down about
one-sixth during the Clin
ton-Gore years — and he
said he would try to shrink
the government to the
smallest share of the econ
omy in a half-century.
Bush would have none
of it. “He wants to increase
the size and scope of the
federal government,” the
Texas Republican said two
weeks before Election Day,
as both candidates cast
wide nets in search of com
pelling homestretch issues.
Gore, the Democratic
vice president, was cam
paigning in his home state
and Bush was visiting
once-friendly Florida — a
sign that this closely fought
race has pushed both can
didates to the brink, even
in their political backyards.
Revisiting an old issue,
Bush said President Clin
ton’s impeachment is a
chapter that Americans
“would just rather forget,”
but he warned that Gore’s
boss could become an issue
if he doesn’t stop criticizing
the GOP ticket.
“If he can’t help himself
and starts getting out there
and campaigns against me,
the shadow returns,” Bush
said playfully, fielding a
question about impeach
ment from a suburban
Chicago voter before flying
here. “I may say something
in defense of my record,
but it’s time to move on.”
As if on cue, the govern
ment announced a record
$237 billion surplus for the
fiscal year just ended and
Clinton quickly hailed it in
an appearance promoting
Gore’s run for the presiden
cy..
Three of four tracking
polls suggest the race for
the White House has nar
rowed in recent days after
Bush appeared to be open
ing a lead over the week
end. But polls suggest vot
ers still have concerns
about both candidates, es
pecially Gore’s personality
and Bush’s stances on sev
eral issues.
Anxioug for any edge,
Gore’s team also distributed
copies of a new report that
raises questions about
Bush’s education record in
Texas. Researchers at Rand,
a California-based think
tank, suggested that rising
state test scores in Texas may
be misleading because the
students didn’t do as well on
national tests.
Bush aides denounced the
report with help from a
Texas Democrat who is tour
ing the nation on the gover
nor’s behalf. “It’s utterly
false,” said Sandy Kress, an
education advocate.
In the battle of TV ads, the
Republican National Com
mittee entered the fray over
Social Security, defending
Bush against Democratic
commercials that say he can
not divert $1 trillion to pay
for personal savings ac
counts while still paying reg
ular Social Security benefits.
“Why does Al Gore say
one thing, when the truth is
another?” an announcer asks
in the GOP ad. A second
commercial says Gore is ex
aggerating about Bush’s
Texas record, too.
The tax-and-spend debate
is a recurring theme: Gore
calls Bush’s tax-cut plan
risky and Bush calls Gore a
big-government Democrat.
Protested Eagle Creek timber
sale under scientific review
By John Hughes
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Inde
pendent scientists will re
view an Oregon timber sale
that has been the subject of
protests for 18 months and
determine whether the sale
should go forward, Agricul
ture Secretary Dan Glickman
said Tuesday.
If the scientists determine
the 1,030-acre Eagle Creek
timber sale in Mount Hood
National Forest should be
changed or canceled, “then
appropriate action would be
taken,” Glickman said in a
letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D
Ore.
Protesters have targeted
the planned sale, saying it
will harm wildlife, expose
remaining trees to damaging
winds and contaminate
drinking water for about
185,000 Portland-area resi
dents.
Several of the activists oc
cupied the proposed sale
site this summer, sometimes
living in tarp-covered forts
150 feet high in the trees and
in mesh “pods” suspended
over gates. The Forest Ser
vice cleared out many of the
activists in a pre-dawn raid
on July 7.
“Several” protesters re
mained at the site Tuesday
as part of their 24-hour-a
day, 7-day-per-week vigil to
prevent the sale, said Tre Ar
row, a spokesman for the en
vironmental group Cascadia
Forest Alliance.
Forest Service regional of
ficials in Portland have con
tended the sale will not
harm the environment and
that it is needed to fulfill the
Northwest Forest Plan, a
document directing use of
Pacific Northwest forests in
the wake of fights over the
threatened northern spotted
owl.
Wyden in July asked
Glickman to suspend the Ea
gle Creek sale until the For
est Service officials could
determine whether they an
ticipated blowdown as a
consequence of the sale and
— if so — to document their
anticipation.
A blowdown is how
foresters and conservation
ists refer to swaths of
downed timber sometimes
caused when logging opens
the forest to winds.
Wyden said Tuesday he
still believes the sale is
flawed.
“I am very hopeful that
the next administration will
clean up this mess and re
store public confidence in
the management of our pub
lic lands through an open,
scientifically based public
process,” he said in a state
ment.
Glickman wants Forest
Service Chief Mike Dombeck
to set up the independent re
view team, including scien
tists from inside and outside
the agency, and said the panel
should complete its work by
April 15. Plans to log the site
are on hold from Nov. 1
through May 31.
Patty Burel, a spokes
woman for the Forest Ser
vice’s regional office, said re
gional Forest Service
officials “welcome this op
portunity for an independ
ent review.”
Arrow said he would have
preferred that Glickman can
cel the sale and that he
hopes the panel will take
such a step. “I am every ex
cited Dan Glickman has is
sued this letter,” he said.
In 1996, Vanport Manu
facturing of Boring bid $10.4
million to log 1,030 acres in
the Eagle Creek area. Since
then, Vanport President
Adolf Hertrich has ex
pressed concerns to the For
est Service about the amount
of blowdown that occurred
in an area logged in 1997.
Vanport has logged about
40 percent of the areas under
contract. The remaining log
ging has been thwarted by
protesters.
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