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Environment: 2002 Biscuit
Fire frames current concerns
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“Unless we go and clean up,
there’s going to be another fire,” he
said.
However, other candidates support
the roadless rule.
“We need to protect our roadless
areas,” said Paul Holvey, the Democ
ratic 8th district state representative
candidate. He added that the state
must practice “sustainable” forestry
that will not only ensure jobs, but
also forest health.
“I really believe that there is a bal
ance there, that we can have an econ
omy that uses natural resources in a
sustainable manner and that protects
the environment,” he said.
He said fellow Democrat Peter De
Fazio, who is running for the U.S.
Congress, has proposed an “excellent
plan” for forests that will adequately
address forest practices and jobs.
This p'an, named the Northwest
Rural Employment and Forest
Restoration Act, would require the
Forest Service and the Bureau of
Land Management to prioritize forest
management by thinning and treat
ing nearly two million acres of
crowded second-growth stands and
to protect native old-growth timber,
according to a press release from De
Fazio’s office.
The plan would also ensure about
500 million board feet of federal
timber harvest a year and avoid the
appeals and litigation associated
with old-growth logging, according
to the release.
“It’s ridiculous that we continue to
fight over the small amount of old
growth left in the Northwest while
workers, mills and communities
struggle to hang on,” DeFazio said in
the press release. He also said the For
est Service estimates there are six bil
lion board feet of commercial timber
in second-growth stands that need to
be thinned “and most of it could be
done with little or no controversy”.
Apart from forests, Holvey said he
is also concerned about land man
agement and the state’s watersheds.
He said he will work for efficient sys
tems that prevent the contamination
of water in the state.
“We really need to do a better job
of monitoring the water system,” he
said.
Democratic candidate for state
Senate Floyd Prozanski said he also
supports DeFazio’s plan, which
would not only stifle fires through
thinning and proper management of
stands, but would also boost the
economy. Prozanski said he would
also encourage alternative materials
to make paper, such as industrial
hemp instead of wood fiber.
Prozanski said he is also con
cerned about working for high air
and water quality.
“We want to make sure we have
clean drinking water and clean air
to breathe,” he said. He added that
he may also consider revising the
recycling law in the state so that it is
more inclusive of different types of
containers.
On the other hand, the Republican
state Senate candidate Jim Feldkamp
campaign believes the amount of liti
gation on environmental cases is hin
dering progress.
“The courts are supposed to be
used to resolve disputes, but there’s
a lot of abuse of the system,” said
Scott Jorgensen, Feldkamp’s
spokesman. He added that the Forest
Service is spending a huge chunk of
its budget dealing with lawsuits.
Citing the Biscuit Fire case, Jor
gensen said lawsuits have prevented
the Forest Service from cleaning up
the affected area.
“Dead timber is laying there ‘til
now because the case is tied up in
court,” he said.
Jorgensen said there is a need to
use common sense approaches that
balance the needs of the environ
ment and people’s ability to make a
living and that previous policies have
harmed both people and animals.
Giving the example of the Klamath
Basin water wars in 2001 — where
the federal administration turned off
irrigation water to more than 1,400
farmers, leaving it for suckerfish and
coho salmon — Jorgensen said peo
ple were not only deprived of their
livelihood, but thousands of fish died
as well.
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Bei Dao: Reading organizers
hope poetry inspires listeners
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worried about my writing. When I
first showed my earlier works to him,
he was scared and asked me to burn
it. I did burn it, but I kept another
copy. Most parents were very scared
at that time,” he said.
Because of his outspoken writing,
Bei Dao was exiled from his home
land China for many years. Since
then he has traveled to many differ
ent countries, teaching and intro
ducing Chinese literature to the
Western World.
“1 had taken part in a conference
on Chinese culture in San Francisco in
the spring of 1989,” he said. “That
was a month before the Tiananmen
Square incident. But when it took
place, I was not allowed to return to
China. I was separated from my wife
and daughter for six years. So for six
years we kept constant contact
through phone and writing.”
This reading event was organized
by the Mountain Writers Series, an
organization that is sponsoring Bei
Dao as he travels around America,
giving readings of his poems. They
had contacted the head of Asian
studies at the University of Oregon,
Maram Epstein, last spring.
“When I heard the name Bei
Dao, I was all over it. I mean, this
man is an important cultural figure.
He alone represents something to
someone,” Epstein said. “He repre
sents the ideal of poet statesmen,
for his poetry established a whole
new school of poetry ... that be
comes the voice of descent and is
filled with modern images.
“I am hoping that people who at
tended this reading will take away the
responsibility of artists who speak for
themselves. And for all of us scholars,
it is not just about scholarships and
being in the same room as Bei Dao.
But rather it is understanding the po
litical power of literature. I hope that
people will be inspired and speak
their conscience,” she said.
Professor Larson said she hoped
people who attended Bei Dao’s Tues
day lecture, “Underground Literature
in Late 60s China,” would reach a
greater understanding of his poetry.
“I hope that people can contextu
alize the history through his poems,
for it is not easy for people to under
stand.”
Rachel Lee is a freelance reporter
for the Daily Emerald