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Eugene wetlands receive funds ■ Congressional funds will aid a local environmental program that works on saving wetlands By Sue Ryan Oregon Daily Emerald The West Eugene Wetlands Pro gram will receive $1.5 million in funding, thanks to Congress's ap proval of the Interior Appropria tions Bill. “[The bill] funds each depart ment within the government," said Kristine Greco, an aide to Rep. Pe ter DeFazio, D-Eugene. The monies are earmarked for the Bureau of Land Management’s real estate budget and will be used to buy 3,500 acres of additional wetland properties along the Ama zon Creek in and near Eugene. The bureau is part of a coalition that ad ministers the wetlands program. “The money will go to priority acquisitions,” said Scott Duckett of Eugene’s mitigation bank program. “The goal is to form large, contigu ous blocks (of wetlands) and get closer to connecting to Fern Ridge Reservoir.” Ed Alverson, an ecologist with The Nature Conservancy who is working with the city on the pro gram, said the $1.5 million ap proved for 2002 is the next install ment in congressional funding that, over the last 10 years, has been used for land purchases in Eugene. The coalition, which started the program in 1992, includes the city’s public works department, the Bu reau of Land Management and The Nature Conservancy. The program aims to create a viable eco-wetland system to meet public and private uses of the area. It protects approximately 8,000 acres of wetlands, which are de fined as land where water exists at or near the surface of the soil. The Eugene wetlands provide habitat for birds and an environ ment for many endangered plants species, including Bradshaw’s lo matium, the Willamette daisy and Kincaid’s lupine, Alverson said. “A number of native plants listed (as endangered) are found in only a few remnants of prairie wetlands in the Willamette Valley,” he said. “And these wetlands are one of those areas.” DeFazio requested that funding for the wetlands program be in cluded in the bill, and said he was pleased with its passage. “The West Eugene Wetlands Pro gram stands as a national model for creating a balance between envi ronmental protection and develop ment,” he said in a statement. The bill also provides $500,000 for Waldo Lake in the Willamette National Forest. The money for Waldo Lake will be used to im prove sanitation conditions at the lake in order to protect its water quality. Sue Ryan is a community reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be reached at sueryan@dailyemerald.com. Arab-Israeli conflict escalates again By Michael Matza Knight Ridder Newspapers BETHLEHEM, West Bank (KRT) — Intensifying the broadest inva sion of Palestinian territory in more than a year of violence, Is raeli troops pressed sharply into Bethlehem, killing two Palestini ans in a gun battle not far from Manger Square. The Israeli army said Palestini ans threw a bomb at an Israeli tank near El Aida refugee camp in Beth lehem on Sunday morning, setting off a fierce exchange of fire in which the two men died. A third, unidentified Palestinian man was killed when an Israeli tank shell exploded in nearby Beit Jala. The Israelis say they entered Bethlehem and Beit Jala to stop Palestinian gunmen from firing on Gilo, a nearby Jewish neigh borhood. Elsewhere in the West Bank, the incursions were de signed to apprehend Palestinians planning attacks on Israel, Israeli officials said. Palestinian militants have waged a suicide bombing cam paign against Israel since an upris ing against Israeli occupation erupted almost 13 months ago after peace negotiations collapsed. PHOTO 1 SPECIALS] OCTOBER 22-28 20% OFF: BLACK & WHITE PROCESSING 3 x 5 - only $4.80 4 x 6 - only S5.59 Please allow 5-10 working days. 35mm film, glossy only. Prices, are for 24 exp. Advertise in the ©0£ Classifieds At least 23 Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in fighting last week and Sunday after the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine took responsibility for the assassination Wednesday of Israeli Tourism Minister Re havam Zeevi. The group said the killing was to avenge the Israeli assassination of its leader, Mustafa Zibri, in August. Israeli troops responded by de ploying tanks to cordon off seven towns in the Palestinian-con trolled West Bank. In Bethlehem, Israeli tanks took up positions out side two hotels, which they com mandeered. Six tanks overlooked Bethlehem from surrounding hill sides. In addition, Israeli troops and ar mor have entered Ramallah, Tulka rm, Jenin, Nablus and Qalqilyah and Beit Jala. The incursions are the largest assault by Israel against the Pales tinians since it started turning territory over to Yasser Arafat’s autonomous Palestinian Authori ty in 1994 under interim peace accords. The United States has been urg ing the sides to end the fighting to avoid rocking the international an titerrorism alliance, including Arab and other Muslim states, that so far has backed U.S.-led opera tions in Afghanistan. On Saturday, the State Depart ment issued a statement that said in part: “Israeli entries into Pales tinian-controlled areas are not helpful, complicate the situation, and should be halted.” On Sunday, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell telephoned Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to urge an end to the fighting. Yet each side continued to blame the other. “The end game which (Sharon) is now pursuing is to destroy the Palestinian Authority and to de stroy the peace process,” top Pales tinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said in a television interview Sunday. “The state of Israel has the right to defend the lives of Israelis. We don’t have an interest in staying in the Palestinian cities. That’s not the goal of this activity,” Israeli cabinet secretary Gideon Saar said. “If there will be quiet, we’ll pull out.” © 2001, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CAREER Explore your options. Find your direction. Now is the time. The Career Development Internship Program (CDIP) provides a unique opportunity for undergraduates to explore their career options. Internships are available in a variety of areas. Now is the time to get started! 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