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Peace like a Rainbow
by Maddy Brown-Clark
Observe the colors of my life
Some dark, some light
Some dull, some bright
A gray sky turns blue
In sight so colorful and true
After the raindrops of life
Fall on you
Soon you’ll know peace
Like a beautiful rainbow
Happiness Is
FORESTS, from page 10
Hayes said, “you have got to create
some incentive for something other
than ju st cutting a tree.”
Incentives such as carbon credits
for maintaining understories and old
growth and subsidies or monetary
incentives for taking care of our
w atersheds and wildlife habitats are
a potential way to make Phase V
more attractive to other tim ber
producers, he said.
Another force that could push
forestry practices into th e future is
the consumer. If this happened,
Hayes said, it would resem ble the
way changes in agriculture came
about.
“Food didn’t change overnight,”
he said. “People worked on it for
decades and decades, and a lot of
th e early adopters struggled, and
now you can go to Fred Meyer and
th ere’s a beautiful, organic spread of
produce.”
This change happened because
businesses succeed only if they
listen to th eir consum ers, Hayes
said. But now, he said, “the
dominant message is: We don’t
know where our wood is coming
from; we don’t care w here our wood
is coming from; ju st keep it coming,
and keep it cheap.”
Hayes recently sat on th e Oregon
Board of Forestry, a seven-member ,
citizen board th at implements forest
policies. Stakeholders on the board
often had conflicting views, but he
understood w here tim ber industry
representatives w ere coming from.
“Big industrial owners are in a
corporate structure that, regardless
of w hat th eir personal values might
be, puts pressures on th e leaders to
always be maximizing short-term
profit,” he said. “They are looking at
short-term results, often at the
expense of not giving adequate
weight to th e long-term
consequences.”
He said ultimately, there needs to
be a cultural shift where people
begin to engage with th e future of
their forests.
“People should be much more
aware of how th eir life is directly
impacted by the forests we have,”
he said. “W hether it’s opening the
tap and getting a beautiful glass of
w ater o r having cool clean air or
dealing with climate issues,
providing adequate habitat for a
variety of other life th at we have a
responsibility to, I think people
underestim ate how much th eir life
depends on forests, and I think if
you became more aware of that,
then you might be m ore engaged
with figuring out how to possibly
shape it.”
ACROSS
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4.
Have a bite
6.
Tree fluid
7.
Cake ingredient
8.
Three-ply cookie
9.
Hook's henchman
12. Ground grain
14. The gift o f __
16. Tease or ridicule
17. Francis or Kevin?
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Affirmative!
2.
Type of fritter
3.
Analyze or try
4.
Cake ingredient
5.
Tres
8.
Deal
10. Potter's practice
11. Nosh!
13. Lafe rapper; abbr.
15. __ appetit
by Eileen Vizenor
Trying new things in a new state.
Being brave to explore new friends, family
and fishing.
Learning about one’s self, both strengths
and weaknesses.
Braving M other N ature’s sub-zero tem ps,
and. the mosquitos of summer.
Riding the rails through six states, and
viewing th e Rockies up close.
Setting my feet back iii Ortigofr. Working K r
back at Street Roots and the Red Doors,
for these people are our family and friends.
Yes, happiness is all of these things.
Happiness is being back in PDX!
emily@streetroots. org
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