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About The upper left edge. (Cannon Beach, Or.) 1992-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1993)
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I/L A recent Thursday started w ith coffee and conversation on the porch Osburn s porch can be like a piano, all the seats in a line and sometimes downright musical, but this particular morning the talk was of the scheduled harvesting on Cavenham property up behind some of our friends homes Dismay was eipressed at the certain danger to peoples water sources Someone observed that Tillumixik Head is honeycombed w ith new logging roads This particular Thursday we left town at noon to witness an expression of concern about our behavior in the forests, one day before Dill Clinton and AI Gore were to hear from three panels of invited citizens It rained on some 75,000 plus who did not come to party They stood shoulder to shoulder in the downpour and the only rudeness we saw came from the national press Singer Carole king, who has lived in Idaho for 16 years and actively supports the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, gave the first press conference and proved an informed articulate spokesperson She and others who followed throughout the afternoon voiced disappointment that Clinton had taken no action on subsidised tim ber sales and grazing and mining fees Rick Bailey, from Joseph, and Mary Obrien represented those concerned w ith the preservation of Hell s Canyon and the interests of environm entally minded citizens from east of the Cascades Their hope is that federal policy changes w ill be designed to protect more of the land than was considered at the Forest Summit Margie Mckee of the Pitt River Tribe made it clear that Native Americans interests had been largely ignored, and that they had been invited to this gathering almost as an afterthought During their lim e before the press, she and others spoke to the heart of the issues before the Clinton Administration Ms Mckee explained that to their people, life was not easy and they had to respect the earth so the people could survive Emma Mitchell, also from California, said it was a matter of life or money Winona LaDuke. an internationally respected speaker from the Ojibway of northern Minnesota, described the relationships between peoples, lands and ecosystems She focussed on our country s remarkable level of consumption Calvin Hecocta spoke passionately of our need to become j the products they describe I are nation of caring people to » are about imp<xlant Taint neccessarily so as those not yet born to speak for those the song says beings who cannot and to defend the We are tiny frail critters busily land destroying the place they live The following day we watched Making the requisite changes in our the Forest Summit on television One voracious appetites is going to mean of the impassioned defenders of the changing the way we live see and limber supported communities said, think and hear and die Interesting in effect. Sure, science has to be part times, as the Chinese say and the Year of the solution, but only part of the Rixister is as g<xid a year as any. I m afraid the idea that science is and better than most an option is foreign to me Science is the endless search for knowledge about everything Its ,h e truth You ? can t sign up fix part of it ¡L — W’e know the importance of ram forest (here read old growth ancient forest, etc I in lixal regional and \fe M A* global terms W’e re talking about our planetary lungs, and in our p jr t of the world these remaining areas give CO«*««! TtD *041 MCMK »«At. M«4 birth to half a thousand species M AY M AY Decimate used to mean losing one out of ten In terms of our oldest, most complex forests, one tenth is all that • W • 1 ) II to 24 • r 4 04 • « 0» 4 44 remains W'eve irreparably altered 2 2 12 04 a iv » A 44 • 4 11 42 4 4 M much of what we inherited because 2 t A Awrt 12 A4 2 22 I BI t f 4 10 we didn t know any better Now we 24 ; 41 4 42 J M 2 4 » 44 1 . . 2 1 10 41 do, and we can t hide from the truth 2 t 4 »J 11 14 20 • 0> 12 t t behind the comfort of what used to » 44 20 12 Vhw 1 II 2 I 2 4» 14 l»i J 0 4 be 2 4 • 14 2 42 2 2 4 23 10 0 ) 40 We ve used it up as has been our 4 )1 to M 42 14 tv» A I J 4 4 11 12 ’ 4 4 52 way. and we can t just move on this 12 25 44 20 Thu 4 21 t t 4A 4 4 ?1 2 « 2 11 time There s no place to move on to 1 to 20 22 twrt 4 02 2 It t li 20 21 A • 44 4 11 We used up Michigan and Wisconsin 2 t 24 Mon 2 >4 4 22 4 it I M 1 1 25 tv» 1(J 04 n 0 4 10 04 4 00 . • 2 2 ?4 Mt - W AC 0 5 I t 04 and Minnesota and we ve been doing 2 2 4 42 22 thu I t 14 2 1 24 2» 5 12 0 15 12 12 it here for a hundred and fifty years, Sat 2 4 • 23 t 22 1 12 2 4 10 $Mn In r is 2 12 and guess what? 4 1 .*4 • 0' 2 20 4 2 • 00 • 24 4 t » 4# » 44 We have to rapidly alter forest related activities harvesting, reforestation milling, manufacturing, engineering, recreation the whole ball of wax Beyond that, we must pay mind to the mad level of I he scrappy Cubs look so g<x>d cconsumption in our culture to which this year, we dare to predict a Ms LaDuke refers You might wonder pennant w ill fly at Wrigley this how few people actually discover a fall, hut not before the beer cups need Dx something then think about fly in the bleachers t his summer* exactly what it is they want and make (or buy) the darn thing A lot of folks get inundated w ith advertising and begin to unconsciously assume that the (ingles and bells and whistles (and I S O »04» P A C I 4 K M A t M t l » 44 mt 2 4o 1 42» BASEBALL 04 0 4 1 1 I 1 1 4 1 4 2 1 2 4 2 4 24 20 04 1 1 1 4 1 2 1 4 2 1 2 2 2 4 2 2 2« 2 4 2 4 2 4 24 2 2 0 4 04 1 2 1 2 o r r>£ The Edge of the forest, when I was a child, was the edge of danger Lions and tigers and bears lived in the woods, and ate little children and the only one around to save them was the woodsman w ith his ax Now, as I attempt to pass fix an adult. I find myself rixiting fix the lions, tigers and hears, and hoping that the little children w ill save me Irom the wix>dsman and his ax Last month s Fixrest Summit was the first actual event that the Upper Left Edge sent repixters to cover Of course, we couldn t get clearance to talk to President Billy, but apparently Freedom of the Press still w ixks on a small scale, and we did get press passes to Woodstock II (The Wix>ds an MTV Special! I Among the folks in the Media area was Denis Hayes, who invented Earth Day and whom we had met working on Earth Day 20 now he directs a foundation that is chanellmg 75 million into improving the environment of the planet A real nice guyl Mr Hayes tells us there is a movement afoot to put the solar panels hack up on the W'hite House! An idea we endtxse* Carol king spoke to the media types about her w<xk in Idaho, and Earth First* decided to hold their outlaw new's conference while Neil Young was singing Timing The media was busy being self im pixtant, and messy we were busy being amused as we watched several A type individuals in $600 suits and $900 raincoats humming along to songs that once had meant something to them, though it appeared doubtful that they could remember what But As others have said, it was more than ,ust a free concert, it was a sharing of a experience and the re enfixcing of a commitment All the usual suspects were there, but the unusual thing was there were closer to 90,000 than the 50 or so repixted in most of the media, and there was no violence, and Front street was closed, and it rained, and rained, and people kept coming, and no one left and when the folks in back couldn t see they chanted Umbrellas Down, Umbrellas Down* and the folks in front put their umbrellas down, and the folks in the back chanted Thank You! Thank You," And it made this old unrepentant hippy s eyes mist over more than once, hoping that maybe that spirit which once stopped a war could save a planet this time Peace, and as my old friend Lonesome Wayne used to say. Save the Trees. Save the Grass, or the (xx)d Lord s gonna kick ycur assT * UrrtK UH MAY 1TT3 ]