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Since 1900 | Volume 106, Issue 42 | Tuesday, October 26, 2004
★ AMERICA VOTES 2004 ★
Forests’ futures in voters’ hands
Measure 34 proposes that Tillamook and Clatsop forests abandon
mixed-use management and instead reserve half for restoration .
Danielle Hickey | Photo editor
“It’s a unique plan in that it’s based on struc
ture instead of age (of trees),” Foreman said.
The plan’s goal is to maintain certain percent
ages of different types of tree structures, with
about half of the forests in “complex structure”
which resemble old-growth forests, Foreman
said. When a section reaches the complex struc
ture stage, it is maintained at that stage until an
other area also reaches that stage before it can be
opened up for other uses like harvesting. He said
this was one main difference between this plan
and measure 34’s 50/50 plan.
“We want to maintain it at half, but it may not
always be the same half,” he said. He added that
the plan not only provides revenue, but also
healthy habitats.
But Wilier says that plan is not enough.
“It doesn’t provide for biological and ecologi
cal protections,” Wilier said.
Guido Rahr, the president of the Wild Salmon
Center, said his organization is supporting the
measure to protect healthy salmon habitats in the
Jillamook forest.
“Our mission is to protect the last wild salmon
rivers on the Pacific Rim,” he said. The Tillamook
forest has five healthy rivers, he said
Rahr said there are enough trees to satisfy dif
ferent purposes.
MEASURE 34, page 6
BYAY1SHAYAHYA
NEWS EDITOR
Oregon’s forest management is in voters’
hands with ballot Measure 34, which
highlights ongoing debates and compet
ing ideologies on the most effective ways to uti
lize natural resources and also conserve them at
the same time.
The measure seeks to balance timber produc
tion with resource conservation and preservation
in state forest management, particularly the
Tillamook and Clatsop state forests. Proponents
say the measure will “secure the greatest perma
nent value” through balancing the “protection of
drinking water, conservation of wildlife and
salmon habitat, expansion and protection of
recreational opportunities, restoration of native
forests and watershed preservation with sustain
able timber harvests to provide the greatest eco
nomic, social, environmental and health bene
fits” to Oregonians.
The measure’s proponents feel it is the most ef
fective way to achieve healthy forests, stating that
the current forest management plan for the area
does not do enough.
“The essential issue here is that the state’s plan
is an intensive logging plan," said Chuck Wilier,
spokesman for the Coast Range Association,
which is a founding member of the Tillamook
Rainforest Coalition that is in support of the
measure. More than 85 percent of the forests have
been tagged for logging in the last 25 years, ac
cording to Oregonians for a Balanced Tillamook.
“The greatest permanent value
economically and ecologically comes from our
plan,” Wilier said.
The measure’s proposal has been termed a
50/50 plan because it ensures that half the forest
land is set aside for conservation and the other
half is open for other uses such as logging, Wilier
said. He added that it is not feasible to pursue
both goals on the same acre of land. While the
state’s priority has been harvesting, the measure
would create equal balance between timber pro
duction and water, species and environmental
conservation, he said.
Oregon Department of Forestry’s spokesman
Jeff Foreman said the current Northwest Oregon
State Forests Management Plan was approved in
2001 after seven years of extensive planning.
A rainbow, viewed
here from the top
floor of the EMU, ap
peared over
Willamette hall Oct.
18.
Erik R. Bishoff
Photographer
RAINBOW OVER CAMPUS
EMU show
sheds light
on cancer
awareness
The third annual "Best
Dressed Breast" fashion show
was held Monday in the EM l i
BY KARA HANSEN
NEWS REPORTER
One in eight women will be diagnosed
with breast cancer at some point in her
lifetime. Men are susceptible to the
disease, too.
About 350 University students and com
munity members learned these sobering
statistics as well as ways to decrease their
chances of getting breast cancer at the
third annual “Best Dressed Breast” fashion
show Monday night.
The event wrapped up October’s Breast
Cancer Awareness Month. While people
cannot control some of the potential risk
factors of the disease, such as age, genet
ics and gender, University junior and peer
health educator Erin Baldwin said the
event was aimed at raising awareness of
factors that can be changed.
“It’s important for people to know the
things they can change in their lives to
substantially reduce their risk for breast
cancer,” Baldwin, the show’s emcee, said.
“A lot of college-age women don’t know
the risk factors.”
These factors include smoking ciga
rettes, being exposed to certain pesticides
and eating a diet high in saturated fat, she
said. In addition, women who drink one
alcoholic beverage per day face an in
creased risk of getting breast cancer, ac
cording to the American Cancer Society,
while women who drink two to five drinks
per day increase their risk substantially.
Physical activity, however, can reduce a
person’s risk of getting breast cancer.
Studies have shown that exercising one to
two-and-a-half hours per week can reduce
the risk of getting breast cancer by 18 per
cent, according to the American Cancer
Society.
Breast cancer will cause an estimated
40,580 deaths in 2004, killing 40,110
women and 470 men, according to the
American Cancer Society.
“It’s important to adopt healthier habits
now,” Baldwin said.
Nearly all of the show's 11 models —
University students and faculty, as well as
community members and one baby —
have known someone diagnosed with
breast cancer or have had a personal expe
rience with the disease.
They sashayed down the runway in
fashions that ran the gamut. Nine local
merchants lent an array of clothing that
ranged from track jackets, workout gear
and sweaters to glittering cocktail dresses
and gowns.
The show’s emcee provided informa
tion about risk factors and detection meth
ods as models showed off the clothing.
At the end of the night, the outfits went
back to the donating stores, which includ
ed Deluxe, Lemon Juice, Sporthill, Buffa
lo Exchange, Folkways, West Moon TYad
ing Company, Sweet Potato Pie, REI and
Greater Goods.
The American Cancer Society, the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and
BREAST CANCER, page 6