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Native Forest CouncilPO Box 2190Eugene, OR 97402

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FC Grieves Losses in Gulf Coast

The Native Forest Council would like to express our sympathyor the people of New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast

hit by the horrors of hurricane Katrina .

ush Refuses Foreign Assistance DuringWorst of Hurricane

As the initial fallout from Hurricane Katrina became evident,nd the number of people trapped were being realized,

several countries offered to send direct assistance to the cityf New Orleans to help mitigate the human suffering. Thisssistance was offered in the form of food, fuel, supplies,octors and money.

More than a week passed before the administration finallyecided to accept some assistance (though still refusingoctors from Cuba and food and fuel from Venezuela, amongthers), as well as formally requesting assistance from the

European Union.

rotesters Shot at in McKenzie Tree-Sit

Treesitters protesting the Sten Timber Sale in the McKenzie

River area east of Eugene, Oregon report that on August 27n unknown assailant fired shots from a gun at people in therees, foll wed by arrows shot on September 10th.

Scientists Say Global WarmingContributing to Intensity of Hurricanes

The September 16, 2005, issue of Science includes an articlehat provides credible links between rising global temperaturess a result of global warming and the intensity of tropical

yclones. The study found a large increase in the numbernd proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 and. These increases have taken place while the number of yclones and cyclone days has decreased in all basins excepthe North Atlantic during the past decade.

PA Proposes Easing Reporting Requirementson Toxic Pollution

The U.S. government wants to quit forcing companies to reportsmall releases of toxic pollutants and allow them to submitreports on their pollution less frequently.

Saying it wants to ease its regulatory burden on companies, theEnvironmental Protection Agency recently proposed adopting

short form that would excuse companies from disclosingspills and other releases of toxic substances if they meet certainonditions.

ndangered Species Act Rewrite WouldCut Critical Habitat Provisions

Congress is considering proposed changes to the 32-year-oldEndangered Species Act that would get the government out

f the business of setting aside critical habitat for threatened

plants and animals. That would eliminate a central elementf the landmark law.

The overhaul of the Endangered Species Act was proposed byRep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif, the committees chairman.

Pombos bill also would compensate landowners if theederal government blocks their development plans to

prevent negative impacts on species, and would give politicalppointees the responsibility of making some scientificeterminations.

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Native ForestCouncil

The Native Forest Council isa nonprofit, tax-deductibleorganization founded bybusiness and professionalpeople alarmed by thewanton destruction of ournational forests. We believe asound economy and a soundenvironment need not beincompatible and that currentpublic land managementpractices are potentiallycatastrophic to both.

The mission of the NativeForest Council is to protectand preserve every acre f publicly owned land in theUnited States.

Board of DirectorsAllan BranscombCalvin HecoctaTim Hermach

Advisory BoardEd Begley, Jr.

Jeff DeBonisLarry DeckmanErika FinstadDavid FunkRev. James Parks MortonLewis SeilerFraser ShillingKaryn StricklerEd Dorsch

PresidentTimothy Hermach

Staff Debbie Shivers

VolunteersRick Gorman

John BorowskiDavid PorterWilliam Blair

InternsColette LazinskiSara Harkins

Forester Roy Keene

Seattle OfficeC. David DivelbissSeattle, [email protected]

Regional Representatives

Margaret Hays YoungBrooklyn, NY718.789.0038718.789.8157 fax

Wayne NortonGainesville, FL352.373.8733

Jason TamblynDuluth, GA678.969.7013

Kris MoormanAames, IA515.232.1316

ews and Views

Date: Thu, 10 March, 2005From: Joan Norman

Dear Tim,

Thanks for the wonderful stay at your office. I met somewonderful friends of yours and we all agree you are thegreatest.

As soon as I got home I went to the protest at the GreenBridge at the entrance to the Fiddler timber sale. At 6:45AM the next morning I was arrested for blocking the GreenBridge, while holding your book Exposing the Truth infront of me. The newspaper said that this book was writtenby THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC!!!!! . Im in the processof informing this STUPID newspaper: The author of thisbook is Timothy Hermach of the Native Forest Council.

Also I lost 8 years of my life by being arrested. [They saidshe was 72 when shes 80.] I thought you would like to knowthis.

Thank you for your hospitality and kindness.

Love, Joan

From: Novena UnderwoodParis, Arkansas

Date: 13 April, 2005

In January I received a response from the NationalGeographic t

o my letter about our National Forests. In thatletter were 4 addresses and yours is one of the 4.

I dont usually write th se kinds of letters, its usually family& friends. But this is important to me.

I am dismayed that Bush would open up our NationalForests to the loggers and let them deface our beautifulwoodlands and destroy our wonderful landscape. Is there

nything we people can do to stop this destruction?? Canyou help?? or tell me what to do in a big way??

ps. We need to quit sending our wood overse s for onehing.

LETTERS

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On July 23, legendary activist 80-year-old Joan Norman was killed in a head on carcollision on Highway 199 near the California border. Joan is dearly loved and revered

by many. The news of her passing sent shock-waves through Oregon and far beyond.

Norman spent a majority of her life as a tire-less defen er of nature and humanity. Sheshowed again and again that she was not

fraid to stand up for what she believed in even if it meant being arrested and spend-ing time in jail.

Her strength and conviction has been aninspiration to many in the activist com-muntiy, showing others that it isnt the folly

f youth that llows people to risk their ownafety and security to stand up for what is

right, but the necessary result of living and

aring.

Joan Norman - Farewell to a Heroine

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H e l p i n g O u rP e n i n s u l a sE n v i r o n m e n t( H O P E ) i s aC a l i f o r n i a - b a s e dnonprofit whose missionis preservation andprotection of the GreaterMonterey Peninsulas

nvironment and democracy through publicforums, debates, town hall meetings, research,

nalysis, and legal action.

In 1992 Monterey Peninsula activists would havebeen happy to achieve one victory a year, butnow we win four, five or even six issues in asingle evening at local government meetings, saysExecutive Director David Dilworth.

Dilworth advises those who want to protect thenatural phenomena that makes your heart beatfaster even when youre facing overwhelminggreed and power, embrace the legal system andmaximize your public participation.

When his organization takes on an issue theyshow up at every meeting and respond at everyomment opportunity. Often they are the only

group to weigh in on an issue. Many times they

have persuaded otherwise hostile politicians justbecause their arguments made common sense.

Politicians and even some colleagues criticizeus for weighing in on so many issues, Dilworthontinues. Congressman Sam Farr advised me to

just focus on one issue. Perhaps this is because wewere fighting so many bad things that he was onthe wrong side of including Farrs five years of foot dragging on co-signing the McKinney Leachbill to stop commercial logging in our nationalforests.

This persistence is joined with Dilworths belief that HOPE is effective because we combine thebest available science with the most powerful laws.Dilworths Rule of Environmental Law states that,

When your heart knows some natural phenomenamust be preserved, there is at least one law whichprotects it.

He contends that roadblocks to success occur becausemost environmental groups lack confidencethey can win. Worse, environmental science andlawsuits easily intimidate them. Perhaps thats whythey avoid conflict and try to reinvent the wheel.

Get unintimidated, says Dilworth. Theres noreason to be intimidated by environmental scienceor lawsuits. If you are intimidated by law or lawyers dont expect any government agency to take youseriously. Theyll just smile and ignore you.

Dilworth offers one way to gain confidence inusing our legal system. Activists need to realizethat judges are just lawyers in black dresses.

He has a term for intimidators. I call them DREGs:Developers, Resource Extractors and Governments.

What few activists understand is that DREGs arescared to death that people will speak out for thepublic interest against them. They know theyrewrong scientifically, legally and morally. Wevegot all those on our side. Think of all thefalsely misleading names of DREGs greenwashgroups. The reckless DREGs lie shamelessly.Mark Twain observed, A lie can get half wayaround the world while the truth is still puttingits boots on. The smarter DREGs understandthey must twist the truth around so that blackseems white. Its called doublespeak.

Dilworth goes on to say, most scientists willnot speak out, but you can get them to find youthe most powerful research. In the end yourjob is to put the law and the science together

nd make it understandable to the public.

For Dilworth, the concept is to show others thatthey can win even when going up againstpowerful world-class greed. Sometimes it feels liketrying to sip water out of a blasting fire hose, butyou have to fight, even when you know youregoing to lose, because you just might surpriseyourself.

The plan is working for Dilworths organization.HOPE has achieved hundreds of environmental

nd democracy (also know as public participation)successes (107 in 2002), from small to large. The

rganization is now making international newsfighting Clint Eastwoods plan to bulldoze andhainsaw 17,000 trees in the imperiled Monterey

pine forest for yet another golf course that heoesnt need.

Eastwood gave a rare public peek at his mean streakwhen he made the local papers front page forsnarling at Dilworth for protesting Clints PebbleBeach Company development, All youre doing istalking, but youre not planting anything. Get inthere and plant something.

Some final words of advice from Dilworth: Fightfor what you know is right, hope for the best,prepare for the worst, and expect nothing. You willbe delighted to find you regularly win a lot morethan you even dreamed of.

To learn more see -- www.1hope.org

We invite you to engage us in this idea...

Giant corporations govern, even though they arementioned nowhere in our Constitution or Bill of Rights. So when corporations govern, democracyis nowhere to be found. There is something else:when people live in a culture defined by corporatevalues, common sense evaporates. We stop trustingour own eyes, ears, and feelings. Our minds becomecolonized.

POCLAD invites you to work with us to changethis.

Lets start with what you and we have learned.Hundreds of small, low-budget groups can stopcorporations from poisoning a river, clearcutting aforest, breaking a law, busting a union, or bringingpropaganda into a school. This is extremelyimportant. Valiant and persistent organizinghas bettered the daily lives of millions, instilledconfidence and self-respect, and transformedcommunities.

But when the joy of victory fades, imperial

corporations remain. Slowed in one place, they

pop up in another. Theyre in our schools, townhalls, statehouses, and theyre in the U.S. Congress.They block sane, logical transitions in food, energy,transportation, healthcare, finance, forestry andmanufacturing. They fund think tanks anduniversities to frame public debate. They buyobedience and define societys values.

They also instruct and control the government.When they control our government fficials,judges, police, and the military all paid with ourmoney they make us into colonized subjectsall over again. The United States got rid of kingslong ago. Its supposed to be We the People now,or so we thought.

In the 1990s, we began to research and write aboutcorporate, legal and peoples movement history.We formed POCLAD in 1994 and since then heldover 200 Rethinking the Corporation, RethinkingDemocracy meetings.

Among other things, we realized that in our priorwork we had limited our goals and generally

restricted our efforts to regulatory and administrativearenas. Yet corporations never limited their designsand actions to anything. We learned that pastmovements for democracy r efused to let courtsand legislatures define corporations as beyondthe authority of the sovereign people.

POCLAD is not building a big national membershipoperation. We are nine activists working withindividuals and existing groups to launchdemocratic insurgencies that put corporationsonce again subordinate to We the People. Weare looking for people experienced in stoppingcorporate harms who want to rethink organizingstrategies, exercise democratic authority at the locallevel, and strip fundamental powers such as freespeech and due process from corporations.

POCLAD continues to develop vital research andanalysis for the years ahead: reading lists, pamphletson critical issues, a twice-yearly publication ByWhat Authority an anthology on corporationsand democracy, videos, powerpoint presentations,and workshops on strategic engagement. We helporganizers challenge the mass production and massmarketing of law and culture by artificial entitiescalled corporations. Help us contest the authorityof corporations to govern!

Call. Fax. Write. Email. Engage us.

POCLADPO Box 246S. Yarmouth, MA 02664-0246508-398-1145fax 508-398-1552

[email protected] www.poclad.org

Organizations Making a Difference

When they control ourgovernment officials, judges,police, and the military all paidwith our money they makeus into colonized subjects all

over again.

HOPE gives me hope forthe future of our Democratic

System.- Tim Hermach

Ti m Hermac wit t e A usters Un ran America F aghttp://www.unbrandamerica.org

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By Brett ColeIn 2003 and 2004 the Native Forest Council cre-

ted a series of groundbreaking maps of nationalorests using aerial photographs from the U.S.

Geological Survey. In what became a dauntinglyomplicated technical endeavor, I took thousandsf black and white aerial photos from a websitealled Terraserver and stitched them together to

represent large areas of public land throughouthe country, particularly the Pacific Northwest.

I then superimposed national forest boundaries,place names, and other information using a com-bination of GIS, image editing, and page layoutsoftware.

The result was incredible huge, sharp imagesf entire national forests, showing every clearcutnd logging road, with the lakes, mountains and

popular hiking areas labeled. These mapsshowed decisively the tremendous impacthat industrial logging has had on themerican landscape, and in particularlyramatic fashion the devastating effectsf 100 years of logging the mountainous

native forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Technology marches on, and in 2005 wehave Google Earth. At first glance thesoftware seems like it might be a gimmick,but it is in fact the real deal. The useran browse the entire planet, zooming innd out on images of varying resolution,rom fuzzy and garishly colored to highlyetailed and natural looking. The imagesre derived from color satellite photosaken from space, as opposed to the blacknd white film images used in the NFCs

2003-2004 project.

Google Earth goes several steps farther andprovides the user full 3-D control over theview. You can tilt, rotate, and pan the view.You can fly into canyons and soar abovemountains. With a flick of the mouse youan zoom out from the Oregon Cascades,

spin the globe around, and zoom in on aity park in Tokyo with enough detail to

see pigeons on the ground.

nd finally, perhaps the most mind-blow-ing feature of the new Google Earth is its

errain mapping. Using elevation data, it modelshe entire surface of the Earth in 3-D, and the res-lution of the modeling is incredible. Im a nature

photographer, and Ive shot in places like theCanadian Rockies and the Peruvian Andes. Brows-ing these areas with Google Earth the mountains

re stunningly realistic. Every one looks preciselylike my recollection of it.

For the purpose of educating the public abouthe state of the land, Google Earth is a revelation.

Never before has it been so easy to access recent

satellite coverage of the not just the U.S., butther important forest regions around the world,

like the Boreal forests of Canada and Russia, and

he tropical rain forests of Brazil.Its important to remember what youre seeingwhile using it. While it may seem like a fancyomputer graphics special effect and it is

Google Earth is showing you satellite photos,nd theyre all recent, none more than a year old.

Theyre a factual, indisputable overall record of he state of Americas forests, and in the forestonservation movement thats something hard toome by.

The depressing news is that the view Google Earthshows us is pretty horrible! In two days of brows-ing I was able to see shockingly bad evidence thatmade my opinion as a psuedo-expert in the field

y Forester Roy KeeneEarly in the 20th century, the last millennial

iants of the Pacifics richest forests were felled.Gone are the 20-foot-diameter cedars and firs,owering spruces, great pines, and nearly all of he behemoth redwoods. Squandered on shingles,

planking, siding, and packing crates, none of thesereat trees have been renewed.

Lesser trees surviving in the federal forest constitute,by default, todays old growth. A forest planreated by Clintons administration, Option Nine,

proposed to clearcut over half of these remnantroves.

Clearcutting old trees and replacing them with

insignificant seedlings continues to dominateederal forest management. The shame is that

most these irreplaceable old trees havent beenused for domestic wood products for decades.Purchased for hundreds of dollars and sellingor thousands as minimally milled export slabs,ederal old-growth timber contributes little to

local communities or taxpayers. Meanwhile, the

Office of Management and Budget reports that thisoolish logging continues to cost us hundreds of

millions of dollars annually.

So it is that in the 21st century the McKenzieRivers forests are still being mined for old trees.This goes on at a time when its streams hurt forlack of large downed logs, wild fires burn hothrough plantations and slash strewn slopes, andlk, owl and salmon futilely seek mature canopy.

good share of the McKenzies native forests belongo industry, most of it converted into monoculture

plantations long ago. This insidious conversionxtracts a toll on the watershed that is rarely tallied:he broad and continuing effects of pesticides andertilizers to support these plantations.

Public Interest Forestry tallied pesticide-use permitsissued by Oregons Department of Forestry over ahree-year period. Tens of thousands of acres of the

McKenzie watershed are treated with herbicides,insecticides, or fungicides annually, mostly in theprivate sector. The tally did not include fertilizers,

used at least as much, which increase algae bloom,raise stream water pH, and can fatally decrease the

xygen available to fish.

By converting our old growth vestiges intoindustrial tree farms, the Forest Service increases theneed for further fertilizers and pesticides in theMcKenzie drainage. This archaic and undeclared

impact will increasingly haunt our forests and thehealth of the humans who live downstream.

Roy Keene has lived and worked throughout the forestsf Oregon for 35 years. He founded Public Interest

Forestry, an organization dedicated to sane forestry. Roy has served as the Native Forest Councils Forester since 1991.

A Look at the Current State of the McKenzie River System and the Effects of Continued Logging.

So it is that in the 21st centurythe McKenzie Rivers forests arestill being mined for old trees.

NFC uses Google Earth to expose logging practices

The depressing news is thatthe view Google Earth shows

us is pretty horrible

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An Interview with Ingmar Leeby C. L. Cook

PEJ NewsOctober 1, 2005

http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=33

Can we finally stand together now, and startworking together against this monstrous, lying,voracious forest-destroying industry/governmentconsortium??!! Can we finally unite behind anuncompromising NO MORE OLD GROWTHLOGGING stance? Can we now go around theworld and without fetter, denounce and damagethe BC logging industry? - Ingmar Lee

[Chris Cook] Greetings again, Ingmar; Ive justreread your CounterPunch.org piece, Compromisewith a Chainsaw and the blood boils anew!In reference to your article, Id like to know themechanics of the Rain Forest Solutions Project(RSP)?

[Ingmar Lee] Its been impossible to understandthe mechanics of the Rainforest Solutions Project(RSP) because its been an entirely secretive closedcircle clique which has not communicated anyaspect of its strategies or end-goal vision. Its onlybeen in the last few years that its begun to cometo light amongst the larger enviro-community thata complicated machination between government,industry and the RSP enviros, namely Greenpeace,BC Sierra Club, Forest Ethics and the RainforestAction Network (RAN) has been going on.

[Chris Cook] These are icons of the environmentalmovement youre talking about. Theyve spentyears, millions of person-hours by hundreds of thousands. Now, they too are suspect?

[Lee] It is apparent that right off the bat, the envirosaccepted major compromises just to be able to sit atthe table with industry, the Weyerhaeuser, Interfor,Western, CANFOR and Norske Skog consortiumwith whom theyve been bargaining. Althoughthe RSP negotiators lost enormously in the Great

Bear Rainforest (GBR) negotiations and have notgot a deal which will protect the areas outstandingnatural biodiversity, they sacrificed VancouverIsland and the rest of BCs forests in exchange fordiscussions on the 22 million acre GBR.

[Chris Cook] We both have lived on VancouverIsland for many years, so perhaps our readers cantake this as a biased issue, but living on an island,in a geo-graphically finite environment, the effectsof industrial sized forestry is all the more stark.

[Lee] Over the past few years, weve seen all forestinitiatives being undertaken by the RSP ENGOs onVancouver Island shut down. The Sierra Club of BC,a long-time fighter for Vancouver Islands forests

shut down all of its Vancouver Island campaigns inspite of its head office being located in Victoria. Haveyou ever seen Greenpeace on Vancouver Island?RAN has got a huge international campaign goingagainst Weyerhaeuser, with the single exception of BC, because of the GBR negotiations. The loggingof Vancouver Island has run amok without a peepof complaint from the big groups. The WCWC[http://www.wildernesscommittee.org ] might send outa print-run of flyers once and a while or a petitionhere and there, or amass 40-50 people down at theLedge, [B.C. Legislature Buildings, seat of provincialgovernment, located in Victoria: http://members.shaw.ca/Glenndell2/GlennImages/LegBuilding.jpg buttheres been no concerted, organized campaignwhatsoever.

Its outrageous that in 2003, a road was pushedinto East Creek, the 85th of 91 primary watershedson Vancouver Island to face the axe, without theslightest complaint from organized enviro. TheVancouver Island marmot is virtually extinct in thewild due to voracious unconscionable logging, andnot a single group is there to defend it. In spite of

years of flyers and petitions by the WCWC, clear-cut logging in the Walbrans ancient forests hascontinued apace and East Creek is being destroyed.The only thing which has put a check on thedestruction has been volunteer, anarchist citizensgroups and First Nations staging direct-action civil-disobedience blockades.

[Chris Cook] Tactics has always been a bigdebate within the community of local and off-islanders concerned with forest practices and theenvironmental situation both here and throughoutB.C. The logic of one argument strives formainstream support, so fears alienating possibleallies through either direct action, or being seen tosupport those actions.

[Lee] The RSP compromise-collaborationistapproach, combined with funding commitmentobligations and charitable status has beendevastating to our forests and has completelyneutered our once-strong and proud forest-protection community. Volunteer activists arenow expected to show up to lick envelopes for

fundraising mail-outs at Big ENGO [EnvironmentalNon-Government Organization] offices and shutup while the professionals sit down and talk.Whenever citizens do take the initiative and getout there to directly confront the logging, notonly do they not receive a stitch of help from Big-ENGO, but they are denigrated and even sneeredat for being confrontational and extremist. BettyKrawcyzk rotted in jail for 10 months for standingup to Weyerhaeuser in the Walbran and wasignored, and the peace-loving vegan forest activistTre Arrow continues to languish in a BC jail, utterlyignored and even castigated by professional BCenviros. Hes been branded as an eco-terrorist bythe corporate media, and if he is deported back tothe USA, could well be destined for the American-gulag torture chambers at Guantanamo Bay.

[Chris Cook] British Columbia has an image in therest of Canada that roughly apes the stereotypesmuch of the U.S. has of California: A hang-looseattitude, essentially Liberal. In the salons of Ottawaand Toronto, we quaint Left Coasters, in thelocal parlance, exist in Lotus Land. But the B.C.

It is apparent that right off thebat, the enviros accepted major

compromises just to be able to sitat the table with industry

Big Timber and Big Enviro join forces to Sell-outthe Rainforests

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political reality is a long way from Berkley. [Lee] Whats also greatly disturbing is how this dealhas been manoeuvred in order to accommodate thepolitical ambitions of Gordon Campbell. Lets faceit, with the bulk of his election financing derivedfrom Big Logging, the Campbell government isbought lock, stock an barrel. Its so abundantlyclear that if Big Logging has bought into the GBRcompromise, that Campbell will follow suit. Its notCampbell who calls the shots in the BC forests. Yetwith all the current RSP down to the wire StandTall for the GBR ~write the Premier hype which

is blanketing the BC and international media, thecompromisers would have the people believe thateverybodys on board for the momentous dealexcept Campbell.

It was expected that he would endorse it in the leadup to the last BC election, to send voters the messagethat he had turned over a new Green leaf. Butthat Campbell political calculus was not to be andhe deferred the decision. That was a big mistake,as he really took a beating over his visionless,substance-devoid environmental stance and all hismost rampant pro-logging industry MLAs like RodVisser, Gillian Trumper and Bill Belsey all wentdown to defeat. Stan Hagen only eked in by theskin of his teeth. Its clear that British Columbianspunished Campbell for his myopic and destructivetreatment of the BC forests.

[Chris Cook] Victoria, Vancouver Island, and thewhole of B.C. is an international tourist destination- the old Social Credit Party ads remind: SuperNatural British Columbia. - and those visitors luckyenough to connect with the soaring natural worldsurviving here tend too to feel a responsibilitytoward it and have mounted huge boycotts againstforestry practices here; is that sentiment still strongover there?

[Lee] When I was touring Germany, Denmarkand Sweden in November 2003, lecturing on theVancouver Island Clearcutting Massacre I stoppedin at the Verbrand Deutsche Papierfabriken officesin Bonn which is the major conduit through whichBC forest products flow into Germany. I went thereto plead with the VDP executives to stop purchasingBC forest products derived from ancient forests andI showed them graphic current evidence of what

Weyerhaeuser and ilk were doing to our forests.Their response? They pulled out a fax, fresh sentfrom the Gordon Campbell government, that allwas well in the BC woods because of the momentousRSP/industry/government negotiations which hadsettled all the GBR issues. The fax even mentionedthat the parties had settled on the protection of just 21% of the GBR tract, and now the War in theWoods was over. Campbell was saying to his majorglobal wood-product customers that it was nowethical to purchase such product from BC, and theRSP enviro-endorsement guaranteed it.

So all this nonsense about getting the people towrite to Campbell begging him to sign is just asmokescreen to build as much momentum of support for this pathetic deal as possible. The ideais that if Campbell is seen to be balking at signing,then there must be some impressive environmentalsignificance to it. So then when he does sign, theRSP enviros will claim that theyve achieved amonumental victory in bringing on board one of the most ruthless forest-destroying Premiers in BChistory.

[Chris Cook] They will have converted the mostblatantly pro-corporate agenda this province hasyet known?

[Lee] What a horrific bunch of Greenwash bularky!Campbell signed on to the GBR deal long ago,and all this dragging it out is simply to catermost optimally to his political agenda. The foot-

ragging has also allowed the companies to getmajor head-start on destroying the area under

Campbells awful Forest and Range Practices Act,nd to dither over the as-yet undefined Eco-

system Based Management which is just moreGreenwash for the destruction of intact primevalorest. Just like the scam of variable retention

logging took that wind out of the citizen actionso stop clear-cutting 10 years ago, the scam of ompromise-collaborationism between BIG ENGOnd the government/industry consortium will buyhe industry another 10 years to finish off the GBR.

By the time the BC public recognizes how severely

hey were hoodwinked that magnificent Great BearRainforest will have been reduced to another BCsteaming stump-field.

The crux of the problem is simple: The GBR dealGreenwashes the further destruction of intactprimeval forests. These are the final repositories of he Earths most magnificent biodiversity. Less that

20% of the planets ancient forests remain intactnd theyre going fast.

The solution is simple: NO MORE LOGGING INANCIENT FORESTS

[Chris Cook] Thanks, Ingmar; but allow me oneurther question, please: Recent developments

here, and I know youre currently on the otherside of the world, but the on-going Canada-U.S.softwood lumber trade dispute is turning. In thewake of the recent disaster in New Orleans and the

reat need there to rebuild, a growing chorus of industry voices in the United States are clamouringor the ditching of U.S. tariffs long levied against

Canadian, and especially B.C. wood imports.Whats your understanding of the cross-border

ispute, and how does its fate effect the future of British Columbias forests and the creatures callinghose woods home?

[Lee] As far as Canada/USA goes, to anyone wholooks, the USA is going down, and once theChinese call the debt home, and fuel prices double,he crash will make the fall of the Berlin Wall

look like a picnic. All around the world, Bush hasutterly ruined the already widely unpopular USAreputation. I have hardly seen any Americans at

ll since Ive been on the road here in India, androm the local sentiment, I can see why. WearingUSA flag anywhere is asking for trouble big time.

Even in Victoria, one hardly sees a USA flag onhe millions of American tourists who are now

swarming to Canada, quite rightly afraid to golsewhere in the world for their vacations. I take

it as a personal duty in Victoria to remind anyoneI see wearing the USA flag, that what it represents

round the world today is: attack, invade, occupy,orture and massacre, and it says See Me, ~Im inotal support of George W. Bush and his globalomination agenda.

No ethical or sane American will wear a USA flagutside the United States.

[Chris Cook] Canada is so tightly tied to the UnitedStates: Theyre our biggest single trading partner byar, and weve invested so much time and effortrawing up trade agreements it seems improbablehat this country would ever take a stand against

American trade, or their odious foreign policies.

[Lee] Canada absolutely must tear up the quislingMulroney NAFTA scam, and shut off all thesouthbound oil, water and forest spigots. If wemust sell our resources instead of keeping them

round for our grandchildren, there are manythical places around the world thatwill pay just as

much or more.

[Chris Cook] Its just come across the wires:Campbell has not, and says he will not sign on tothe deal all those environmental groups have spentso much energy crafting, afterall.

[Lee] And now we see that Campbell hasntsigned the [GBR] deal after all, although the ever-compliant RSP, grovelling once again, has extendedhis contract by another two weeks!Therefore if Gordon Campbell has refused toendorse the Great Bear Rainforest consensusreached between the RSP and the logging industry,that has to be because thats what industry toldhim to do!!

Todays [Oct. 1, 2005] non-announcement is ahuge coup for the logging industry, which will havegained 7 years of complete acquiescence from theRSP groups to gut and destroy Vancouver Island andother forests around BC without complaint, and toget a big head start on trashing the GBR. Campbellsnon-endorsement of the deal will further set backthe agreed-to 2009 compliance date by whichtime GBR loggers were to have switched fromclear-cut destruction to some vaguely defined EBMlogging system.

Its as rotten as that folks, - the GBR discussionstied down the most powerful voices in ENGO, satthem down behind closed doors for 7 years, suckedmillions of dollars out of the movement, neutereddirect forest activism, and seriously divided theenvironmental community.

Weyerhaeuser, Interfor, CANFOR, Norske Skog,Western and their Gordon Campbell lackey hasruthlessly backstabbed their RSP partners and thecentral coast First Nations.

Today was Campbells deadline, but the only peoplecelebrating at the Champagne Party are loggingcorporations and their government lackeys.

Can we finally stand together now, and startworking together against this monstrous, lying,voracious forest-destroying industry/governmentconsortium??!! Can we finally unite behind anuncompromising NO MORE OLD GROWTHLOGGING stance? Can we now go around theworld and without fetter, denounce and damagethe BC logging industry.

Or how much more lying, expense, scamming,grovelling and embarrassment are the RSP groupswilling to endure, and expose our community to,over this dreadful, rotten deal?

Disgusted all around, Ingmar.

To learn more about forestry and other ecological issueson Vancouver Island and British Columbia, check out

Ingmar Lees writings on PEJ.org.

Ingmar Lee is a Vancouver Island environmentalist,whose activism encompasses Nanaimos toxicwatershed, the too few wild places left on the island,and the protection of its endangered wildlife.Hes been a loud and persistent voice for changeacross all media, an unflinching critic of corporateirresponsibility and governments refusal to fulfilltheir duty to the people of British Columbia andfuture generations. Hes a graduate student of Asianand Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, currently studying in India. Ingmar spentmore than two decades working in the coastalwoods of British Columbia as a tree-planter, andestimates hes planted more than a million trees.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, a weekly publicaffairs program, broad/webcast from UVic. He alsoserves as a contributing editor to PEJ News. This e:mail exchange took place between late Septemberand early October 2005. Interview questionsare post-write insertions, included to create aconversational flow.Goog e Eart Map s owing t e Great Bear Rain orest

The crux of the problemis simple: The GBR dealGreenwashes the further

destruction of intact primevalforests.

Campbell was saying to his majorglobal wood-product customers

that it was now ethical topurchase such product from BC,and the RSP enviro-endorsement

guaranteed it.


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By William BlaThe negative affect iNorthwest sh runsproduction may be calc e BILLIONS of lost sh.

The letter above shows us that the Army Corpof Engineers, among others, are well aware thathatchery sh are being released into our rivers andstreams unmarked. For all practicle purposes, thesesh become wild sh in the eyes of the public,and the law. This also inates the numbers of wildsh returning to rivers from the ocean, leading usto believe that endangered sh are having recordruns.

Calling unmarked hatchery production sh wildsh means that timber production under suitableharvest, thinning, re recovery, restoration, [and]

healthy forest initiatives can be increased. Theunmarked hatchery production sh are countedand conveniently reported as wild restorationstocks in habitat conservation planning. As anindicator specie for sustainable forestry, this meansthat operational goal values are working.

The practice of not marking hatchery productionsh creates an articial surplus of sh returning tocollection stations. The surplus sh eggs distributedto aquaculture operations are generally sold off the top [surplus quotas of sh and their eggs areset prior to and regardless of the strength of thereturning sh run]. While the agency and mediaspokespersons claim crisis, un-spawned adult salmonlay dead under Oregon and Washington dams andat the sh intake channels into hatcheries.

n to treat hatchery

sh the same. The court handlers fully

understood that all increased forest, water, air andgeographical impact standards could be rolledback if the hatchery salmon, an indicator specie,were counted into wild stock assessments. Co-mingling the hatchery/wild sh accounting wasused to bolster sustainable development. To coverfor de-listing, a block of unmarked hatchery fry,smolt or broodstock sh are merely planted in aspecic stream index. The presumption is that thelocal habitat conservation plan or recovery measureis a success. On the McKenzie River, you can catch& release an unmarked hatchery sh touted as awild red side trout.

Planting small fry in dammed regulated riversystems is stupid science at best. The odds against

ss ul exodus to the ocean arepoor. The scientic abuses are exacerbated by thestate licensing and regulating recreational sportshing derbies and recycle sh programs on

endangered runs in partnership with Northwestsalmon and trout clubs.

To add insult to injury, Treaty Indian shers areforced to accept hatchery surplus sh at hatcheries,rather than sh at usual and accustomed shingplaces as afrmed by U.S. District Court Judge Boldtin 1974. The hatchery mindset ends with the statesposition that surplus sh and eggs sales are goodfor the state governments economy. For every actof pollution it is said there are subsidies, and thisholds true in the facade of efciency surroundingthe sh hatcheries, recovery and restoration.

William Blair is an auditor for Infraspect EnvironmentalSciences & Community.

Unmarked Hatchery Fish in Dexter Rearing Pond, Willamette River , Oregon. Photos - W. Blair / R. Grubb

Unmark ?


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by John BorowskiThink about these two realities for a moment.The brutal images of death in New Orleans couldframe an ecological and social discussion of urgent priorities needed to guarantee social andenvironmental sanity for our children. On theother hand, the Bush administration warningnews outlets that photographs of the dead areforbidden. Why? Think it over.

The headlines of the Metro section of the Oregonian(8/29/05) read Poll: Restore Scorched Forests. Asurvey finds about 75% of Oregonians favor loggingwildfire areas and planting seedlings, issues longdebated. How could a survey find results that are sodiametrically opposite to the cries of forest activiststo leave these burned areas alone? Think it over.Truth is often most obviously found in imagery:be it the unnecessary death of American citizensbecause of wetland destruction and their socialclass or the stumps of giant, healthy trees removedin the name of fire restoration. Images of both,shown to even the most average of citizens, stir

emotions and conjures up immediate questions.

On behalf of the Native Forest Council, I spent thelast six months creating a PowerPoint production,images that are intended to open the flood gatesof public outrage and action. The images that areindelibly etched in my mind are the scenes wefound at the Fiddler timber sale in the SiskiyousNational Forest. During the first week of August,activists Justin Rohde and Lisa Shelton of theSiskiyou Project gave me directions to several timbersales at the Biscuit site. On a clear Sunday evening,we arrived and camped out on the boundary of a wilderness area. The forest was beautiful, someof it burned by a natural tool of succession, yetmagnificent all the same. Simply put: fire is natural

and needed. We were in the midst of Fiddler timbersale, a process that the general public has beentold is remedial. The morning light illuminatedan area of complex forest reduced to tatters. Mywords can do no justice to describe the outrightdestruction, eroded soils, and buthered remains of a natural forest. What I couldnt describe verballyis transformed into timeless reality by my camera.One look at these photographs shatters all themyths of restoration, leaves no doubt of the liesof politicians and some in the Forest Service, andbegs an enormous query to every forest activist.Why arent we using these photographs to ignite afirestorm of citizen cognizance and action?

Ground zero at the Fiddler site sits next to theBabyfoot Lake trailhead. My friend Michael andI surveyed a steep hill, denuded of trees withshattered fragments of trees everywhere. Howwould Mother Nature repair such a pillagedremnant? Even driving slowly, fine dust, the soilthat took thousands of years to form, filled theair. Ironically, on the edge of the site, a sliver of natural forest stood, seemingly daring salvage

boosters to wake up and smell the Ponderosapines. It was burned, it survived, and nature haddone its job. Step out of this little slice of paradiseand we felt the temperate climb a good 20 degrees.You cannot describe this destruction, because thereader cannot view an image that now stays withme forever.

We took picture after picture, testament to a saga of timber Public Relations and missed Public Relationson the behalf of ardent forest defenders. In severalpictures is the sign to the Babyfoot trailhead. Thiswas a pleasurable stroll into a 352 acres BotanicalPreserve. Law and a punishable offense forbidlogging and collecting plants in this preserve. Yet,we saw stumps? Late in August, the Forest Servicewould admit that between 10 and 17 acres of thisarea had been mistakenly logged. In the day andage of GPS and sophisticated science, the illegallogging of one tree should be viewed as a disaster:here, somewhere between 250 and 300 trees weretaken. Where were the front- page photographs inthe Oregonian, USA Today or the NY Times Smallarticles in newspapers often buried several pagesdeep do not and will not awaken comfortablynumb citizens.

Journalists and poll takers cant remember a storythat has awaken the American conscience likethe New Orleans flood and Hurricane Katrina.Photographs of dead Americans, most of thempoor, have outraged citizens. The images of elderlyblack men and women languishing in the squalor

of the New Orleans Convention center withoutwater and food will stay with many forever. Even

news reporters from the Fox News Channel speakopenly and almost intelligently of the folly of destroying some 1,900 square miles of wetlands inLouisiana in the last 70 years. The environmentaland social equity shortcomings of the Bush regimeare now captured in photographs that can bepulled up again and again to shatter their lies andtheir excuses. These photographs are now part of avisual history.

The Native Forest Council urges all activists to usevisual imagery as a catalyst of change. Photographsdo not lie. Photographs often do not need anaccompaniment of verbiage. They are worth amillion words. We as caring environmentalists,citizens, parents and humans must share thesephotographs. They must enter the media, schools,civic groups and churches. Every politician, be

it local, state or federal, must be asked aboutdeforestation and the big lie of remedial logging,and these questions must be accompanied withthe irrefutable evidence of photographs. We canaccompany the often-confusing questions aboutecological principles with the clear and concisestory of photographs. I want to see photographsof the Fiddler timber sale on the floor of the U.S.Senate, on the Larry King Show, and on televisionadvertisements.

We are in the fight of our lives: peak oil, escalatingextinction, frightening climate change. We mustgo on the single biggest public relations offensiveever mounted, armed with photographs. Just likethe Bush folks at FEMA: industry will try to forcea black out on visuals that are too real. Whenthose attempts are breached, try to picture thechange we can force.

by John BorowskiThe Native Forest Council wants Americans toknow that tree farms re not forests and that itis past due to discuss the tragedy of short rota-tion forestry and converting national forests intomonocultures.

The HONEST Education Campaign is now releas-ing, Forests Are Not Tree Farms, a detailed look

at forest succession, the ecological pitfalls of monocultures, and the ecological ramificationsof industrial logging. This 175-slide PowerPointpresentation can walk a teacher, citizen activist orcivic minded taxpayer through forest succession,the differences between tree farms and forests,posing the question, why are we squanderingnational forests in the name of fleeting profit?

Scripted for easy use and meaningful discussion,Forests Are Not Tree Farms has incredible shotsof old-growth dependent wildlife, aerial shots of massive clearcuts and compares the successionof a native forest to a tree plantation. The 1000-year journey of how red alder forests evolve intoclimax western hemlock forests is presented ina clear and concise fashion. Teachers can access

n additional study guide with helpful hints andmphasis on how to organize a lesson or lessonsround this production.

Contact NFCs Education Coordinator John F.Borowski at [email protected] to receive your freeCD and study guide. You can fill in the coupon

below for additional information. Forests are theEarths watersheds, wildlife reservoirs and air-sheds. These pictures can equip citizens and theirchildren to force a national dialogue on how toprotect our nations 200 million acres of nationalForests and shatter the myths of how tree farmsare forests!

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ative Forest Council

004 Ann al Report

For over 90 years, the message of equal rights for women rumbled throughthe halls of our government. Sometimes loud and sometimes faint. Year

fter year, a slow process of education gave light. Finally, in 1920, lawmakersheard the people and passed the 19th amendment giving women the rightto vote.

For decades now, the message of Protect Our Environment has echoedthrough the halls of our government. Sometimes loud and sometimes faint.In 2004, the booming drums of war and global terrorism has made thesound of our words faint.

We know from history, however, that it is imperative to keep our message of UNCOMPROMISING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION in the ears of ourmedia and lawmakers. Year after year, the slow process of education WILLultimately give light.

In 2004, thanks to your support, the major focus of Native Forest Councilwas the process of this education through media opportunities, the

evelopment of curriculum, aerial maps and PowerPoint presentations beingpresented to hundreds of outlets and thousands of people nationally.

With this focus on people, we also attended and spoke at conferences, metwith people of all ages, economic groups and persuasions and worked to getthe word out and inform our fellow citizens of the dishonesty and damagethats being done to our public lands in our names.

The Seattle Chapter of the NFC expanded its campaigns beyond theHouse members to Washingtons Senators to make sure they listen to theoncerns and solutions of those who support NFCs efforts. Tireless worknd extraordinary member support have ensured that true environmental

protection has a voice in Washington State. Working hard to protect and defend the forests that the American Publicpays taxes on every year, the Native Forest Council has sent its message all

ver the country to save and appreciate the natural areas we have for morehan just their monetary value. We depend on these forests for clean air,lean water, food, shelter, and overall well-being. Thousands of other lifeorms live in our forests, and we cannot survive without them. The more

people who speak up, the more acres of forest can and will be protected foruture generations. The voices are growing, and they will continue to grow

until they are heard.

For two decades, Native Forest Council has kept the voice of our environmentringing through the halls of government and with your future support ourvoice will turn into a mighty shout that will finally preserve the last of ourwild and native lands and begin to recover those weve lost.

For more information, go to www.forestcouncil.org or call our Eugene officet 541.688.2600.

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