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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
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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
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W’e know the importance of ram
forest (here read old growth ancient
forest, etc I in lixal regional and
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planetary lungs, and in our p jr t of the
world these remaining areas give
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of ten In terms of our oldest, most
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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
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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
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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
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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
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