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.
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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.
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