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Daily scavenger hunt: Metal mystery
What the heck is this? As part of the local celebration
for National Historic Preservation Week, University
graduate student Christopher Bell is sponsoring a
week-long photo scavenger hunt, with prizes to be
announced.
The contest Correctly identify the location of the
photographed object on campus and provide a bit of
history about the object. The Emerald will print a
different photo each day this week — to enter, simply
send an e-mail to hpweek2003@yahoo.com with your
guess. Today's photo: Where is this located on
campus? What is it made out of? (Be specific!)
For a full listing of events planned as a part of National
Historic Preservation Week, visit
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ashp/.
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environmental laws by the Bush ad
ministration,” activist Andrea
Dorkin said. “It’s about addressing
the one group of people who have
gained all the power and showing
them not everyone agrees with what
they are doing.”
According to organizers of the
movement, the groups will use a vari
ety of educational, political and direct
action tactics to achieve their goals.
Dorkin said it takes all types of re
sistance to protect forests. She said
the level of involvement is not as im
portant as the involvement itself.
“If you’re not comfortable going
out and participating in a tree-sit or
employing cat-and-mouse tactics
with loggers onlpublic ground, then
write letters tb your representa
tives,” she said. “It doesn’t matter
what you do, just do something.”
Several “forest defenders” who
will participate in Gascadia Summer
have been practicing direct action
measures in public forests slated for
logging or fire prevention.
In 1999, the National Forest Ser
vice approved a tree sale in the Win
berry Greek watershed, located
about 50 miles southeast of Eugene
on Highway 58. The sale was intend
ed to replace another sale that had
been canceled because endangered
species were found on the acreage.
The Winberry site is in the midst of
an older forest structure, which in
cludes trees older than 300years. This
replacement sale spurred forest de
fenders to construct a tree-sit village in
the logging area. The tree-sit has been
in operation for four years, and accord
ing to forest defenders, it will not be tak
en down in the foreseeable future.
Perched in a fir tree, 150 feet off
the forest floor, a tree-sitter calling
himself Wiley Coyote said the site
had been quiet recently — notice
ably absent of the sounds of chain
saws and logging outfits.
“It’s really peaceful here,” Coyote
said. “We’re just trying to keep it that
way. These trees are valuable for
more than lumber.”
Coyote said the fire reduction
plans proposed by the Bush admin
istration are nothing more than fur
ther attempts to open public lands to
logging. He said the tree-sit at Win
berry Creek will continue through
out the summer and for as long as
forests continue to be threatened.
A recent report by the American
Lands Alliance said the HFI was just
a smokescreen for industrial logging.
The report states HFI would create a
permanent “Goods for Services” pol
icy where logging agencies would be
paid with large trees to remove
small-diameter trees and brush that
creates a fire risk.
ALA officials said a “Goods for
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Protesters have set up networks of walkways to save forests from clear-cut logging.
Services” relationship creates a “sit
uation where the economic value of
timber removed drives both the type
and location of the projects toward
the backcountry, where the larger
trees are found.”
This situation would contradict
what the plan was intended for —
protecting communities on the bor
der of forest land.
HFI also would repeal large parts
of the National Environmental Poli
cy Act, the major piece of legislation
requiring that all federal agencies
“look before they leap, or cut, by
gathering information and analyzing
the potential impacts of their deci
sions and actions on wildlife, water
quality and the environment,” ac
cording to the nonprofit public inter
est law firm Earthjustice.
The removal of NEPA require
ments would allow logging opera
tions access to the forest before ar
eas could be widely studied.
Members of the Bush administration
said the change is necessary because
in the past, environmentalists seek
ing to count every species present in
the forest were responsible for a de
lay in the implementation of fire pre
vention projects.
But lawyers from Earthjustice dis
agree.
“It is telling that the only piece
of the HFI agenda to have become
law is the one most desired by the
timber industry,” Earthjustice
legislative director Marty Hayden
said, adding that the quicker
agencies were allowed into
forests, the quicker they could be
gin realizing profits.
According to a federal analy
sis, the forest and forest product
industry donated #3.4 million
dollars to the GOP during the
2000 elections.
“This is about man and his greed,”
said Rick Gorman, a member of the
Native Forest Council, a nonprofit
environmental protection group.
“The administration is trying to use
fire protection as a guise to access
more public timber.”
Contact the senior reporter
at aimeerudin@dailyemerald.com.