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Dear Residents & Future Residents
of Cannon Beach
My blood doesn't get boiling that often these days. In
the thirty years since the Sixties, I've fought my share of
fights for truth, justice, and something other than the
American way. I wouldn't have missed it, it was a
wonderful-dance. But that was then, and this just isn't. To
all things a season, 1 guess, even righteous fury.
To be honest, I don't have the time and energy anymore
to tilt at the windmills of the human comedy. I'm an old
dog now, more than content to lie on the porch, one eye
open, while the arrogance, greed, and bald stupidity of life
shuffle past like characters in a cheap novel whose end will
scarcely be a surprise. You might si / I've dropped out
again. I like to think I’m tending my own garden, getting
with my people, and taking it on down. I'm a peasant and
peasants have always done that. They're the only ones with
the time and peace of mind.
But every so often, the sleazy bastards do it again: come
up with a scam so vile and pathological even old dogs are
driven to go for the throat. Heard about the
Gorton/Johnston rewrite of the Endangered Species Act?
What Gorton/Johnston does, or hopes to do, is ritually
gut the sanest, most enlightened piece of legislation ever
enacted by any government in the history of humankind.
The Endangered Species Act was an idea whose time had so
clearly come that even the Congress of the United States --
arguably the greediest, most venal and self-serving cabal ever
assembled on the planet - had to agree that, as a working
philosophy, manifest dominion over nature has its limits.
When you think about it, no admission by corporate
government, not even that all humans are created equal, is
any less likely than this.
But twenty years of the sort of restraint and
deconstruction good stewardship demands have weighed
heavy on profit and loss statements. The pigs, small
surprise, are squealing. Respecting life is all well and good,
but doing it at any price is no way to run a business.
Gorton/Johnston is corporate America's counter offer to
doing the right thing.
In the Gorton/Johnston vision of the best of all possible
worlds, species other than our own would be protected as
long as our interests come firs,. The corrupt insanity of this
proposal should be obvious to the average grade school
student. If we’ve learned nothing since Rachel Carson wrote
'Silent Spring', surely we've learned that life is a web, a
delicately balanced continuum of species and environment
that is the living organism we call Earth. Details might
vary, but the big picture seems clear. Gorton/ Johnston
promises, in the name of balanced interests, to preserve and
protect other life forms as long as they stay the hell out of
the way of free enterprise.
Once trie urge to vomit has passed, the slick rationality
of Gorton/Johnston is something to behold, a real piece of
work. While it admits to the notion of endangered species,
it balks at mandated recovery. In an editorial scrawled in the
Oregonian, David Reinhard speaks for moderation and a
return to family values.
"I'm just a bit old-fashioned when it comes to public
policy. I think humans - not beasts of the field, plants,
fish and other critters - should be central to it."
The amen' Mr. Reinhard omits is central to
Gorton/Johnston. In the name of reason, future decisions
about which species arc actually endangered would be
buttressed by more data and subject to increased peer review.
In English, this means buried in numbers and nibbled to
death by the paid squirrels of science. Given the uncertainty
underlying all of nature, if you insist on doing the one right
thing, you wind up doing nothing. There were, lest we
forget, once salmon.
For species making the cut, the government A-list
certifying they’re disappearing into the fossil beds,
Gorton/Johnston is right there with a stacked deck. Instead
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When the first cabins were built in our beautiful town,
no one gave a thought to conserving trees. This was a rain
forest. Trees were huge and abundant. I'm sure those folks
would be shocked to see how few of the ancient trees are
left!
Unfortunately, the time has come when we cannot be so
luxuriously ignorant of the changes taking place here. An
astounding number of new homes are being built in our
small town. Along with this new construction, of course,
goes the clearing of lots. Some lots have trees that are at
least 85 years old. (In this day and age, that's really old!)
Please, when building a new home or business, if at all
possible, leave the trees. Many architects would be thrilled
with the challenge of designing a house that is in harmony
with nature. Not conquering it. If you don't care to take
that route, look for lots without big, old trees. I'm sure our
local real estate agents would love to participate in keeping
Cannon Beach TREE CITY, USA.
This town's green spaces are shrinking fast. We live
with a false security because we are surrounded by forest, or
should I say tree farms. Those trees are owned by
Cavenham Industries, and believe me, folks, the hills are
alive (or is it dead?) with the sound of chain saws. We have
little, if any, control over how they decide to deface the area.
When you walk north on "the beach of a thousand wonders",
just look up to the lovely patchwork clear cut on historic
Tillamook Head, and you will understand what I mean.
I implore you. If you are blessed enough to live in one
of the most beautiful places on earth, please, take
responsibility for keeping it that way.
The Eagles sang it very well: "They called it paradise, I
don't know why. You call someplace paradise, kiss it good
bye."
Thanks for listening;
Andrea Rowe
Come to Cannon Beach for the
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All Summer 1995!!
See this awesome display of industrial forestry
from the comfort of your $300-a-night motel room.
Don't miss this once in a lifetime chance to see the
tree farm harvest. It only happens once every fifty
years! See trees planted by school children mowed
down, hauled off, to be made into toilet paper.
Bring the kids, let them watch the big yellow
dinosaur-like machines from the beach. Watch
historic Tillamook Head get its bi-centennial
haircut! (No need to pack the fishing poles, and
don't drink the water, but otherwise fun for the
whole family.)
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BASEBALL
As this is written, the Cubs have the lowest
ERA in Major League Baseball, and lead their
division in the National League. This is due in
part to batting coach Billy Williams and pitching
coach Ferguson Jenkins, both former Cub players.
They do a promo spot for the team, where they
reminisce about never winning a pennant, only
once coming close. "Sure would like to win one
this year", they say. The motto for the Cubs this
year is, "We're working on it." We here at the
Edge wish them luck.
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