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Forest Voice Fall 2004

Forest Voice 1988-2004ISSN 1069-2002Native Forest CouncilPO Box 2190Eugene, OR 97402541.688.2600Fax [email protected]

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No ThanksAll those who feel its OKto cut deals that leave uswith less native forests andclean water.

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Inspired? Incensed? Impressed?Please write:Native Forest CouncilPO Box 2190Eugene, OR 97402

Yes, I know that some of us are feeling like aliens in a strange

nd hostile nation where honor and integrity, principles andethics no longer matter.

While we are barely beginning to hear about the possibility ofmassive election fraud involving disenfranchised voters andcorrupted electronic voting; while we are wondering if theElectoral College will do anything out of the ordinary whenit meets in DC on the 12th of December; and what analysis,if any, will be done about the honesty and credibility ofthe offshore and secret counting of six million militaryvotes by Halliburton subsidiary, KBR; wondering whetheror not voters can persuade the Democratic Party leadershipto do anything about these election concerns that could orwould assure the general public that they can or should beble to have confidence that Americas democratic voting

process has not been and is not permanently perverted and

corrupted.

Just think about historys many little people, men, womennd even children, who overcame impossible odds toccomplish great things. We consider them heroes today butt the time they were just doing what they knew had to be

done and had the courage to do what was, at least to them,the right thing to do.

Just remember the young man in front of the tank atTiannamon Square who inspired so many.

Just think of the rather sudden and unanticipated fall ofthe Berlin Wall when a spontaneous and peaceful citizenuprising took place when people stood up and said theywould no longer accept the unacceptable status quo.

Just think about Richard Nixon winning re-election only tolose office a year later.

Just think about what happened because Rosa Parks got tirednd sat down!

Just think about recapturing the passionate ferocity of acornered rat let alone that of a protective mother bear.

Where is our once great capacity for profound moral outragend ferocity, our passionate sense of right and wrong?

Just think that that when the going gets tough, the tough getgoing. And if it wasnt tough, it wouldnt be exciting, andthey wouldnt be interested.

As to what we do now, the future is ours to lose. Democracyis lost unless we work to get it back and then protect it. Weseem to have thought that it was okay not to be involved inpolitics at the local, city, county state, federal levels. Thatwe didnt have to run for office or even help others who did.Meanwhile our adversaries did the organizing work, tookover our local school boards, committees, city, county, statend federal governments.

When the Going Gets Tough Unfortunately we have been complicit. Epitomized byhe League of Conservation Voters and their leadershipf representatives from the major environmental groups.

Under the direction of Bruce Babbitt and Jim Maddy theLCV some time ago decided to make saving nature merely

partisan issue to help Democrats get elected, even ifhey were merely less environmentally evil than some

Republicans. The LCVs Dirty Dozen list of politicalbad guys targeted for defeat, is never the worst of ournvironmental enemies but the least important, most

vulnerable and easily defeated.

The LCV still gives the worst and most extreme membersf Congress a free pass. Even though the Tom Delays of

Congress are the ones who deserve to be slammed, attackednd destroyed. Why? Because they are ones who arehurting America and all hard working American taxpayersnd citizens; Because they are aiding and abetting theannibalizing of our priceless and irreplaceable nationalorests, our trees, soil, air and water just so corporateontributors can get quick buck and public subsidy. Becausehey are the powerful leaders in Congress doing the most

harm. Because they have betrayed our Constitution andur Country.. Their implicit policy is to Rip It Up, Tear It

Out, Let Our Children Do Without. Money is their onerue God. And only the biggest and baddest corporationsnd the very rich count. Everyone else is dirt.

So lets take back the moral high ground. Lets draw up oursimple and undeniable Contract For America, 10 pointswe can all agree on. Lets support honest candidates and

hampions for our issues. Instead of quarrelling andighting each other lets find a line in the sand we can allgree on and take a blood oath if necessary and then fightccordingly with all the ferocity of a protective mother

bear. Sooner or later we will win.

No more Sophies Choices. No more deals. No moresellouts. No more negotiated settlements. No more ethicalnd moral tradeoffs and compromises. No more fraudulent

public land extraction, logging, mining, grazing, drilling.No more third world colony behavior. No more exporting

f American jobs and natural resources.

As Molly Ivins said (11.04.2004): So, fellow progressives[real conservatives too], stop thinking about suicide or moving

broad. Want to feel better? Eat a sour grape, then do

something immediately, now, today. Figure out what you cano to help rescue the country -- join something, send a littleoney to some group, call somewhere and offer to volunteer,

find a politician you like at the local level and start helpinghim or her to move up. Think about how you can lend a handto the amazing myriad efforts that will promptly break out tohelp the country recover from what it has done to itself. Now isthe time. Dont mourn, organize.

Molly Ivins, 2004.11.04ORDER YOUR BOOK OF AERIAL FOREST PHOTOSEvery citizen who is talking about Public land issues,national forests in particular should be armed with one

f our books of aerial landscape photos of our countrysnational forests. They are 56 pages of 11x17 images. Theyxpose the industries lies. They can immediately explainhe issue to media, politicians, and community groups.

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3Forest Voice Fall 2004

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Council

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 acreof publicly owned land in theUnited States.

Board of DirectorsAllan BranscombLarry DeckmanCalvin HecoctaTim Hermach

Advisory Board

Ed Begley, Jr.Jeff DeBonisErika FinstadDavid FunkRev. James Parks MortonLewis SeilerFraser ShillingKaryn Strickler

PresidentTimothy Hermach

StaffDebbie Shivers

VolunteersRick GormanJohn BorowskiWendy MartinDavid Porter

William Blair

InternJosh Rose

ForesterRoy Keene

Seattle OfficeSuzanne PardeeSeattle, [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

CONTENTS

ews and ViewsStudies show Artic Melting

The long-awaited Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report saysthe average Arctic temperature has increased twice as much asthat of the rest of the world over the past few decades.

The study is the biggest survey to date of the Arctic climate,conducted by 250 scientists from eight circumpolar countries.

Arctic temperatures could leap 7 to 13 degrees by 2100 -- roughly twice the global average projected by UN reports.Siberia and Alaska have already warmed by 4 to 7 degrees sincethe 1950s.

Earths climate is changing, with the global temperature nowrising at a rate unprecedented in the experience of modernhuman society, says the report.

Who wins from this? Oil Companies.TheArctic region, particularly offshore, has hugeoil and gas reserves, mostly in Russia, Canada,Alaska, Greenland and Norway.

Warmer temperatures would make it easier todrill and ship oil from the Arctic, the reportsaid. It did not attempt to quantify the costsof drilling and shipping Arctic oil and gas, orestimate how high energy prices would haveto be to justify drilling in the region.

Blocking Environmental Law suits

Oregon Senator Gordon Smith proposed legislation inSeptember that would end legal challenges to logging of oldgrowth forests in Oregon.

In his fight against radical environmentalists, Smith hasstated that he will do everything in his power to move forwardlogging in the areas burned in the Biscuit fire of 2002.

For more info on logging the Biscuit, see the article by ForesterRoy Keene on page 13 of this issue.

Japan to meet Kyoto Protocol targets bybuying rights to pollute from companies in2006

Japans government said Monday it will try to meet its target ofreducing greenhouse gas emissions promised under the KyotoProtocol on global warming by purchasing the right to pollutefrom Japanese companies.

The protocol commits 55 industrialized nations to makesignificant cuts in emissions of gases like carbon dioxide by2012. Following Russias endorsement on Thursday, the treatyan go into effect next year.

Tokyo, one of the treatys biggest supporters, has pledged a 6percent cut in emissions of greenhouse gases, which trap heatin the Earths atmosphere and are thought to be a chief cause

f global warming. But without major policy changes, Japans

missions are expected to continue rising.

ffort to save Madagascar rainforest paying off

ANDRINGITRA NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar - In a park thathas mountains resembling the Grand Tetons, a rainforest

supporting 14 species of lemurs, and a highplateau where wild orchids grow like weeds, themost critical factor in the survival of hundreds

f endangered species has been the behavior ofhumans.

Led by its president, the Indian Ocean nation ofMadagascar is racing to save an environment asprecious and fragile as any on earth. The outcome

f this negotiation will determine the survival

f some of the islands 13,000 native floweringplants, 316 native reptiles, and 109 native birds.It will also decide whether scientists still havethe opportunity to discover new species -- andwhether millions of poor people can earn a livingfrom Madagascars vast ecological wealth.

ussia ratifies Kyoto Protocol

The Kremlin said Putin signed a parliament bill late onThursday confirming Russias ratification of the protocol. Bothhambers of Russias parliament approved ratification of the

pact last month after Putin pointed the way. The U.N. accord,backed by 126 countries, will formally enter into force 90 daysfter the Russian ratification documents are filed with the

United Nations.

Olympic Park Violating Wilderness Act

Lawsuit to Block Pre-Fabs Being Helicoptered Into Wilderness

Tacoma, WA - Olympic National Parks decision to airlift pre-abricated buildings into designated wilderness is a violationf the Wilderness Act, according to a suit filed in U.S. District

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Environmentalists have given up toomuch by not being radical enough

By Wendell Berry20 Oct 2004

Ware destroying our country

- I mean our country itself,ur land. This is a terrible

thing to know, but it is not a reason for

espair unless we decide to continue theestruction. If we decide to continue theestruction, that will not be because we

have no other choice. This destruction isnot necessary. It is not inevitable, exceptthat by our submissiveness we make it so.

We Americans are not usually thoughtto be a submissive people, but of coursewe are. Why else would we allow ourountry to be destroyed? Why else

would we be rewarding its destroyers?Why else would we all -- by proxies wehave given to greedy corporations andorrupt politicians -- be participating

in its destruction? Most of us are still

too sane to piss in our own cistern, butwe allow others to do so and we rewardthem for it. We reward them so well, infact, that those who piss in our cisternre wealthier than the rest of us.

How do we submit? By not being radicalnough. Or by not being thoroughnough, which is the same thing.

Protection to the People

Since the beginning of the conservationffort in our country, conservationists

have too often believed that we couldprotect the land without protecting thepeople. This has begun to change, but for

while yet we will have to reckon withthe old assumption that we can preservethe natural world by protecting wildernessreas while we neglect or destroy theconomic landscapes -- the farms and

ranches and working forests -- and thepeople who use them. That assumption isunderstandable in view of the worseningthreats to wilderness areas, but it is wrong.If conservationists hope to save even thewild lands and wild creatures, they aregoing to have to address issues of economy,which is to say issues of the health of thelandscapes and the towns and cities wherewe do our work, and the quality of thatwork, and the well-being of the people

who do the work.

Governments seem to be makingthe opposite error, believing that the

people can be adequately protectedwithout protecting the land. And hereI am not talking about parties or partydoctrines, but about the dominantpolitical assumption. Sooner or later,governments will have to recognize thatif the land does not prosper, nothing elsecan prosper for very long. We can haveno industry or trade or wealth or security

if we dont uphold the health of the landand the people and the peoples work.

It is merely a fact that the land, hereand everywhere, is suffering. We havethe dead zone in the Gulf of Mexicoand undrinkable water to attest to thetoxicity of our agriculture. We know thatwe are carelessly and wastefully loggingour forests. We know that soil erosion,air and water pollution, urban sprawl, theproliferation of highways and garbageare making our lives always less pleasant,less healthful, less sustainable, and ourdwelling places more ugly.

Nearly 40 years ago, my state of Kentucky,like other coal-producing states, beganan effort to regulate strip mining.While that effort has continued, andhas imposed certain requirements ofreclamation, strip mining has becomesteadily more destructive of the land andthe lands future. We are now permittingthe destruction of entire mountains andentire watersheds. No war, so far, hasdone such extensive or such permanentdamage. If we know that coal is anexhaustible resource, whereas the forestsover it are with proper use inexhaustible,and that strip mining destroys the forestvirtually forever, how can we permitthis destruction? If we honor at all that

fragile creature the topsoil, so long inthe making, so miraculously made, soindispensable to all life, how can wedestroy it? If we believe, as so many ofus profess to do, that the earth is Godsproperty and is full of His glory, how canwe do harm to any part of it?

In Kentucky, as in other unfortunatestates, and again at great public cost, wehave allowed -- in fact we have officiallyencouraged -- the establishment of theconfined animal-feeding industry, whichexploits and abuses everything involved:the land, the people, the animals, andthe consumers. If we love our country, as

so many of us profess to do, how can weso desecrate it?

But the economic damage is not

confined just to our farms and forests. Forthe sake of job creation, in Kentucky,and in other backward states, we havelavished public money on corporationsthat come in and stay only so long as theycan exploit people here more cheaplythan elsewhere. The general purpose ofthe present economy is to exploit, not tofoster or conserve.

Look carefully, if you doubt me, at thecenters of the larger towns in virtuallyevery part of our country. You willfind that they are economically deador dying. Good buildings that used tohouse needful, useful, locally ownedsmall businesses of all kinds are nowempty or have evolved into junk stores orantique shops. But look at the houses, thechurches, the commercial buildings, thecourthouse, and you will see that moreoften than not they are comely and wellmade. And then go look at the corporateoutskirts: the chain stores, the fast-foodjoints, the food-and-fuel stores that no

longer can be called service stations, themotels. Try to find something comely orwell made there.

What is the difference? The differenceis that the old town centers were builtby people who were proud of their placeand who realized a particular value inliving there. The old buildings look goodbecause they were built by people whorespected themselves and wanted therespect of their neighbors. The corporateoutskirts, on the contrary, were built bypeople who manifestly take no pridein the place, see no value in lives livedthere, and recognize no neighbors. Theonly value they see in the place is the

money that can be siphoned out of it tomore fortunate places -- that is, to thewealthier suburbs of the larger cities.

Can we actually suppose that we arewasting, polluting, and making ugly thisbeautiful land for the sake of patriotismand the love of God? Perhaps some ofus would like to think so, but in factthis destruction is taking place becausewe have allowed ourselves to believe,and to live, a mated pair of economiclies: that nothing has a value that is notassigned to it by the market; and thatthe economic life of our communitiescan safely be handed over to the great

corporations.

We citizens have a large responsibilityfor our delusion and our destructiveness,and I dont want to minimize that.But I dont want to minimize, either,the large responsibility that is borne bygovernment.

The Dissent of the Governed

Iis commonly understood that

overnments are instituted toprovide certain protections that

citizens individually cannot provide forthemselves. But governments have tendedto assume that this responsibility can befulfilled mainly by the police and themilitary. They have used their regulatorypowers reluctantly and often poorly. Ourgovernments have only occasionallyrecognized the need of land and people tobe protected against economic violence. Itis true that economic violence is not always

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Compromise, Hell!

How do we

submit? By not

being radical

enough, which is

the same thing.

How do we we

have allowed

ourselves to

believe, and to

live, a mated pair

of economic lies:

that nothing has

a value that is not

assigned to it by

the market; and

that the economic

life of our

communities can

safely be handed

over to the great

corporations.the

same thing.


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as swift, and is rarely as bloody, as theviolence of war, but it can be devastatingnonetheless. Acts of economic aggressioncan destroy a landscape or a communityor the center of a town or city, and theyroutinely do so.

Such damage is justified by its corporate

perpetrators and their political abettorsin the name of the free market andfree enterprise, but this is a freedomthat makes greed the dominanteconomic virtue, and it destroys thefreedom of other people along with theircommunities and livelihoods. There aresuch things as economic weapons ofmassive destruction. We have allowedthem to be used against us, not justby public submission and regulatorymalfeasance, but also by public subsidies,incentives, and sufferances impossible tojustify.

We have failed to acknowledge this threatand to act in our own defense. As a

result, our once-beautiful and bountifulcountryside has long been a colonyof the coal, timber, and agribusinesscorporations, yielding an immensewealth of energy and raw materials at animmense cost to our land and our landspeople. Because of that failure also, ourtowns and cities have been gutted by thelikes of Wal-Mart, which have had thepermitted luxury of destroying locallyowned small businesses by means ofvolume discounts.

Because as individuals or even ascommunities we cannot protect ourselvesagainst these aggressions, we need our

state and national governments to protectus. As the poor deserve as much justicefrom our courts as the rich, so the smallfarmer and the small merchant deservethe same economic justice, the samefreedom in the market, as big farmers andchain stores. They should not suffer ruinmerely because their rich competitors canafford (for a while) to undersell them.

Furthermore, to permit the smallerenterprises always to be ruined by falseadvantages, either at home or in the globaleconomy, is ultimately to destroy local,regional, and even national capabilities ofproducing vital supplies such as food andtextiles. It is impossible to understand,let alone justify, a governmentswillingness to allow the human sourcesof necessary goods to be destroyed bythe freedom of this corporate anarchy.It is equally impossible to understandhow a government can permit, and evensubsidize, the destruction of the land and

the lands productivity. Somehow wehave lost or discarded any controllingsense of the interdependence of theearth and the human capacity to useit well. The governmental obligationto protect these economic resources,inseparably human and natural,is the same as the obligation toprotect us from hunger or fromforeign invaders. In result, there isno difference between a domesticthreat to the sources of our life anda foreign one.

It appears that we have fallen intothe habit of compromising onissues that should not, and in factcannot, be compromised. I havean idea that a large number of us,including even a large number ofpoliticians, believe that it is wrongto destroy the earth. But we have

powerful political opponents who insisthat an earth-destroying economy is

justified by freedom and profit. And sowe compromise by agreeing to permithe destruction only of parts of the earth,r to permit the earth to be destroyed a

little at a time -- like the famous three-legged pig that was too well-loved to be

slaughtered all at once.

The logic of this sort of compromisingis clear, and it is clearly fatal. If weontinue to be economically dependentn destroying parts of the earth, thenventually we will destroy it all.

Hope Notes

So long a complaint accumulates adebt to hope, and I would like to endwith hope. To do so I need only repeat

something I said at the beginning: Ourestructiveness has not been, and it is not,

inevitable. People who use that excuse aremorally incompetent, they are cowardly,

nd they are lazy. Humans dont have tolive by destroying the sources of their life.People can change; they can learn to dobetter. All of us, regardless of party, can bemoved by love of our land to rise abovehe greed and contempt of our landsxploiters. This of course leads to practical

problems, and I will offer a short list ofpractical suggestions.

We have got to learn better to respectourselves and our dwelling places. Weneed to quit thinking of rural Americaas a colony. Too much of the economichistory of our land has been that of theexport of fuel, food, and raw materialsthat have been destructively and toocheaply produced. We must reaffirm theeconomic value of good stewardship andgood work. For that we will need betteraccounting than we have had so far.

We need to reconsider the idea of solvingour economic problems by bringing

in industry. Every state governmentappears to be scheming to lure in a largecorporation from somewhere else by taxincentives and other squanderings ofthe peoples money. We ought to suspendthat practice until we are sure that inevery state we have made the most andthe best of what is already there. Weneed to build the local economies of ourcommunities and regions by adding valueto local products and marketing themlocally before we seek markets elsewhere.

We need to confront honestly the issueof scale. Bigness has a charm and adrama that are seductive, especially to

politicians and financiers; but bignesspromotes greed, indifference, and damage,and often bigness is not necessary. Youmay need a large corporation to run anairline or to manufacture cars, but youdont need a large corporation to raise achicken or a hog. You dont need a largecorporation to process local food or localtimber and market it locally.

And, finally, we need to give an absolutepriority to caring well for our land -- for every bit of it. There should be nocompromise with the destruction of theland or of anything else that we cannotreplace. We have been too tolerant ofpoliticians who, entrusted with our

countrys defense, become the agents ofour countrys destroyers, compromisingon its ruin.

And so I will end this by quoting myfellow Kentuckian, a great patriot andan indomitable foe of strip-mining, JoeBegley of Blackey: Compromise, hell!

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And, finally, we

need to give anabsolute priority to

caring well for our

land -- for every

bit of it. There

should be no

compromise with

the destruction

of the land or of

anything else that

we cannot replace.

It is true that

economic violenceis not always

as swift, and is

rarely as bloody,

as the violence

of war, but it can

be devastating

nonetheless.


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The welcome sign at PikesPeak, Americas Mountain,welcomes tourists (who canpay) to a virtual amusementpark on public lands. Photoby Mike Lee.

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Native Forest Council

2003 Ann al Report

The Native Forest

Council had an

incredible upsurge

in donations by

individual donors

in 2003.

Amid the campaign chaos in 2003, we at the Native ForestCouncil had to fight hard to get our simple messageoutsave whats left of our public lands!

W ve sent our message out at both the national and locallevel, attending conferences, speaking on local issues, givinginterviews to the local and national press, publishing aerialphotographs of our national forests, articles and the ForestVoice, working on legislation to protect public lands andontinuing to work on environmental education for our

nations students and teachers.

NFC Founder and President Tim Hermach, along with NFCmembers and volunteers, have attended conferences aroundthe country as well as right here at home in Eugene, Oregon.Tim has been speaking on a local level, speaking out aginastsalvage logging on Oregons Biscuit Fire and for the protectionf the Mckenzie River Watershed, which provides Eugenes

water.

Tim has given interviews to national and local press on issuesranging from the U.S. Forest Services squandering tax dollarsn logging, to corporate crime, to how logging fuels wildfires

(read about his frightening personal experience with fire onpage 12).

On the publishing front, NFC Advisory Board member Karyn

Strickler and Tim Hermachs expose, Liar, Liar ForestsOn Fire; Why Forest Management Exacerbates Loss of livesnd Property was published on CommonDreams and

Counterpunch, and was chosen as an editors choice by CrisisPapers. In 2003 we also completed our aerial photographyproject, compiling thousands of aerial photos of our nationalorests, clearly displaying the level of destruction on nationalorests on a grand scale. We sent books of these compilationsround the country, to members of Congress, Senators, and

national media, and have created a browser for them on ourwebsite. NFC has also continued to publish and distribute theForest Voice. (Youll find Karen and Tims expose, the aerialphoto project as well as past issues of the Forest Voice on ourwebsite: www.forestcouncil.org.)

On the legal front, NFC was part of a coalition that successfullyblocked, in Federal Appeals Court, a construction project inCalifornias Yosemite Valley, which would have damaged theriver that runs through the Valley. We have also continued toight for sane and just laws to protect our public lands.

NFC members and programs have been moving forward innvironmental educationJohn Borowski, NFC Advisory

Board member and high school teacher, has been givingeco-tours to students and using the Forest Voice in class andteaching students to think for themselves. Informative lessonplans are still available on our website (www.forestcouncil.org) for teachers everywhere to combat environmentalgreenwash.

We at Native Forest Council have been working hard to get outour clear and simple message, and reached many peopleourbase of grassroot supporters grew last year by approximately30 percent! A big thanks to all who have supported us in these

difficult times to keep going in the fight protect and preserveevery acre of publicly-owned land in the United States.

For ore information, go to www.forestcouncil.org o call ourEugene office at 541.688.2600.


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NFC Seattle hapter: WorkingHard to Save Whats Left

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EXPENSES

PROGRAMS

ADMINISTRATION

D RAISING

FUNDING SOURCES

CONTRIBUTIONS

OTHER

MEMBERSHIP

2003 Financial Report

unding Sources

Contributions................................................78%Membership...................................................17%Other.................................................................5%

xpenses

Programs .......................................................81%dministration...............................................5%

Fund Raising..................................................14%

Seattle citizens

have agreed that

we must take a

stand against the

environmentally

destructive

compromises

made between the

Green mainstream

and the Bush

Administrations

logging, mining,

drilling and

grazing cronies.

By C. David DivelbissOutreach Director, Seattle Chapter

In 2003, the Native Forest Councils Seattle Chapter has

taken significant steps in outreach, drastically expandingour supporter base and reaching more people than ever

before with NFCs clear and simple message: protect our publiclands.

Seattle citizens have been receptive to our message. Manyof them have agreed that we must take a stand against theenvironmentally destructive compromises made betweenthe Green mainstream and the Bush Administrationslogging, mining, drilling and grazing cronies.

We have focused most of our efforts on furthering the WildForest Sanctuary Act (formerly called the Forever WildAct), which would ban all extraction from federally ownedpublic lands, and on the Honest and Full Cost AccountingAct, which would insist the Forest Service give an accurate

economic inventory of Public Lands.

This year, we have identified more than 1500 Native ForestCouncil supporters and generated 4500 public comments inSeattle and its surrounding communities this year.

hanks to hard work by Benefit Organizer Joshua Knapp,we hosted a festive spring benefit concert featuring alliesAt the Spine, and Happy Savage. We have also appearedwith other organizations at other venues, such as DanceBush Out of Office, hosted by volunteers for MoveOn PAC.

Though we have been successful with the traditionalaudience, we are also planning future events that targetdifferent demographics to make sure that we reach a widevariety of the Seattle public. We have begun an activesearch for supportive foundations and business supporters,

spearheaded by Seattle Business Coordinater, Ananthaswami

Rajagopal Raj.

We are working hard to recruit new canvassers and volunteersin the fight to save whats left. Since last year, the staff hasgrown significantly, allowing us to do outreach in nearly allof the urban Seattle neighborhoods. Next year we will beginoutreach in Seattles suburban and rural communities.

Ultimately, our goal in Seattle is to continue nationalizingand maintain momentum in the fight to protect our publiclands. Seattles environmental community makes the city amust have in the fight against extractive industries. We inthe Seattle Office would also like to thank all members fortheir support. In the fight for every acre, every individualREALLY counts!

To contact the Seattle office, call 206.633.6043.Suzanne Pardee directs the Seattle Office, which is staffed by Outreach

Director, C. David Divelbiss and Organizers; Joshua Knapp, MarcChurch, Ananthaswami Rajagopal, Steve Kennedy-Williams, AmyGroesbeck, and our Intern, Somer Goulet. The current crew wouldnot have been possible without the hard work of past Canvass Co-

Director(s), David Estafen and Dan Frymire, as well as VolunteerMaple Breitbach and Canvasser, Robert Goddard; all of whose outreachhelped to acquire the current crew.


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8 Forest Voice Fall 2004

2003 Forest Council ContributorsWilliam and Cindy Adams

Sean Airlie

Jeff Alford and Brenda Barcelo

John and Janice Allen

Donald Allen

Jefferson Allen

Derek Allender

John and Dorothy Almklov

Stephanie AlterJones

Genevieve Amundson

Steve Anders

Cordann Anderson and RayoGoforth

Frank and Kim A

Elizabeth Anders

Steve Anderson

Michael Anderso

Ole Anderson Erand Maitri Ersso

Oceania Angels

Crystal Angels

Sidney Arnold

Patricia Atkinson

Peter AxelrodKay Bachman M.D.

Robert Bain

Deborah Baine and Richard Mead

Richard Bakal

Randy Baker and Amanda Feller

Linda Baker

Joe Balcuinas

Jana Balliet

Nicholas Banchero

Marissa Baratian

Joanna Bargeron

Martin Barnes

Carl Bauske and Veronica Vybiral

Robert Baxter

David BayerRobert and Shirley Bayley

Paul Beach Jr.

Stephen Bechtel

Kenneth and Lillie Becker

Glen Beebe

Inger Beecher

Chad Beeder

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11/16


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AFTING ECO-TO GIVEWAYOne lucky winner will receive a FREE guided trip for up to 12eople on one of Oregons wild rivers with Outdoor Ventures

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All guests are required to read and sign a notification of risksprior to the actual trip.

No purchase or donation required to be eligible. Native Forest Council will NOT trade or sell your name or

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Transportation and lodging costs are not included.

Fill in the following information and mail to: Native Forest Council, PO Box 2190, Eugene, OR 97202

Drawing will be held March 1, 2005. All entries must be received by February 1 , 2005.

Tell us about Outdoor Ventures.Outdoor Ventures is a river companythat provides educational services toboaters and rafters throughout thePacific Northwest. We are based inOregon and Washington. Our guidesare exceptionally knowledgeableabout the environment and ofcourse, safe boating on the river.

Why is Outdoor Ventures offeringriver float trips to NFC supporters?The Native Forest Council has

diligently fought for real protection ofwild native forests. The NFC refusesto compromise things that shouldntbe compromised. Outdoor Ventureslooks to ethical organizations thatcan demonstrate the application ofhonest sound science to river andforest management, communityreinvestment, and respect forenvironmental standards.

How does the river float trip benefitpeople?Taking people out on our beautifulPacific Northwest Rivers allowsthem to experience the river and theriparian forests first hand, allowingthem to form their own bonds. Plus,its fun!

When and where will the riverrafting trip occur?The Native Forest Council riverfloat is scheduled for the summer

of 2005. The daylong trip will be onone of Oregons beautiful rivers. Twowhite water rafts will carry up to 12passengers through pools, riffles andclassified whitewater rapids. Lunchwill be provided by the Native ForestCouncil.

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t the age of 97 Howard Pinnock has seen a lot of Oregon and a lotf Oregon change. Born in 1907 in Blackwell, Oklahoma Pinnock

moved with his family to Eugene when he was just three weeks old.He has lived in Oregon ever since.How have things changed in 97 years of development? Howardremembers driving milk cows across the Ferry Street Bridge to hisrandfathers ranch as a young teenager. In the days before pavement

he recalls seeing water wagons following the mountain roadwaysf Yellowstone, spraying water to keep the dust down during the

hot summer months. The corridor from Eugene to Portland wasntlways flat either. There used to be potholes and youd see ducks andeese in all these potholes, Pinnock says.

The town of Goodpasture was once not a town at all but a widexpanse of open farm land. Logging has changed significantly too.

Once the domain of handsaws and donkeys, the industry now reliesn trucks and chainsaws. Even the weather has changed. We usedo have a lot of snow in the winter and we just dont seem to have itnymore, he says.

Politics are different too. As one who voted for both Republican andDemocratic presidents, Pinnock watched this years election with

isgust. I think it stinks, says Pinnock. There is so much moneyspent and it goes on for months and months and you get fed up withit and want to throw it all out the window after awhile.

However, he says this will probably be the last time he has to enduresuch a dishonest presidential election.

Howard PinnockA Valued Friend of the Native Forest Council

Never give up, keep

working, and youll

live a good life.

-Howard Pinnock


12/16


STUMPS DONT LIE

The Davis Lake Fire:An Inevitable Result of LoggingHow corporations cannibalizing public assets for a quick bucknearly killed my family.

Printed in Spring 2003Forest Voice

No one told us thatas they removedthese priceless

publicly-ownedtrees they alsoremoved shade,and as a directand immediateconsequence

12 inches

underground thesoil temperaturewas increased

by 20 degrees inthe heat of the

summers.

The blazing heat created a suction so

strong that it ripped trees up by theirroots and threw the rescue jet ski 300

eet up in the air. My family and I were toldhat even if we had paddled to the middle ofhe lake, there would have been no oxygen

left to breathe and we would not havesurvived the fire storm.

For 50 years my family has been campingt Davis Lake in the Deschutes National

Forest, 30 miles SW of Bend, Oregon. Lastspring my mother and father, wife, twosons and I could have died there when wewere trapped by a forest fire in the EastDavis Lake Campground--a forest fire thatwas an inevitable consequence of too much

ishonest, if not cannibalistic, logging.

Over the years, my family has watched as thence magnificent east side forest, teaming

with fish and wildlife, was desecrated byplague of logging and clearcutting that

steadily crept across the forest, alwaysremoving the oldest and largest, most fire-resistant and most valuable trees first andleaving the forest ever hotter, drier, andmore flammable.

In retrospect, my lack of alarm in the 50 year ago periodmay be understandable. This type of logging was happeningverywhere. Less than 5 percent of our native forests remain

standing. Its just the way things were from the time we weresmall children. We were assured, even in grade school, by

both the giants of the timber industry and the Forest Service,hat the logging was sustainable, renewable, replaceable, andll around good for the forest and the people.

They lied on all counts, with potentially deadly conse-uences.

When my 13-year-old son, Ben, looked up from his fishingrod and spotted a finger of dark smoke rising straight up inhe sky near the campground, I told him not to worry; it was

bably nothing. But it turned out to be something, and afterpacking up and discovering the access road blocked by flames,we found ourselves trapped. We drove back to the lake shore,s far from the trees as possible, and waited, watchin the firelose in around us.

Lies. No one told us that those Ponderosa Pines, manyhundreds of years old--the ones they cut down--were productsof natures fire regime. That they were generally immuneto fire, provided vital shade, water & soil benefits, and wereirreplaceable. No one told us that as they removed thosepriceless, publicly-owned trees they also removed shade, and asa direct and immediate consequence, 12 inches undergroundthe soil temperature was increased by 20 degrees in the heatof the summer. No one told us that thousands of miles oflogging roads act as hot furnaces and wind tunnels throughour forests, worsening the impacts of forest fires. These werelies we discovered for ourselves on that hot day in May.

Interestingly enough, earlier that year in the Spring 2003 ForestVoice, the Native Forest Council had just published beforeand after aerial images of the Davis Lake area. (See belowand check our website, www.forestcouncil.org, for more.)We compared the national forest as it was in 1955 to what itbecame in 1995 (shown to left), from relatively untouchednative forest to a checkerboard of destructive clearcuts. Fromthese photos, we discovered that the fire that trapped my

family and me burned mostly where they had logged.

Thus i is beyond ironic to have our own lessons broughthome to us in the frightening reality of being trapped inthat very area as a forest fire started and spread to more than20,000 acres of the logged national forest.

Luckily, for my family and me there was a happy ending.Thanks to cell phones and a very rapid and professionalresponse from the local Sheriff and Forest Service fire responseteams, after a wait stressful wait of 2 hours, my family andanother were extracted in a 30 minute window as the firemoved on and before the winds reversed it back throughour campground, when the fire storm tore up trees from theground and removed the original rescue jet ski from its restingplace, ten feet from where my wife, kids, parents and I hadbeen waiting at the edge of Davis Lake.

Lies have consequences.

For more aerial photo compilations like the one at left, see ourwebsite at www.forestcouncil.org.

Photo taken by Tim Hermach from the stream where he and his boys were fishingbefore the fire.

Davis Lake is the lower left lake.

They lied on

all counts, withpotentially deadly

consequences.


13/16


By Roy Keene

The Biscuit burn: If only we could scour it with tractor, trucknd helicopter, log off every big charred tree, and fill the units

with hammered earth, slash and failed plantations. Then, ``Itould be green and full of life, again.

This is the agenda hidden in the timber industrys campaignpromoting the rehabilitation of a rare forest - a forest partiallyburned by a wilderness blaze the media called the gentle giant,n old, resilient forest rejuvenated many times by fire.

The industrys advertisements (the word logging is not usednce) claim that without rehabilitation, forest restoration may

take centuries.

In reality, the burned forest was restoring itself even before thefires of 2002 cooled. I was there days after a hot backfire litby the U.S. Forest Service blasted through my old homestead.Woodpeckers flitted from smoking trees to gnarled snags stillstanding from 1938s fires. Oaks re-sprouted, a bear browsednew grass and wild pigeons fed on seed fall. Rehabilitation waslready visible.

I recently led a Washington Post reporter on a tour through aproposed Biscuit salvage unit. Soil-stabilizing, nitrogen-fixingshrubs that set the stage for the next forest had taken hold.Native conifers were robustly sprouting.

The reporter didnt understand logging economics, but to me,s an experienced timber cruiser, this unit was a jackpot for

savvy purchasers. The Forest Service had grossly violated itswn riparian setbacks to facilitate logging the moisture-loving,

high-value trees such as sugar pine and Port Orford cedar.Furthermore, the Forest Services volume estimates appearedsuspiciously low. And, contrary to the whining over value lostto decay, most of the scorched trees were sound.

Equally dishonest hazard tree removal along the scenic IllinoisRiver road illustrates how heavy-handed logging damages arecovering burn. Hundreds of trees, few of them threatening,have been yarded over fragile duff and emerging coniferseedlings. If such destructive logging is conducted along themost toured road in the Siskiyou National Forest, how will tensf thousands of less visited acres fare?

Adding economic insult to ecological injury, the public willpay for logging the Biscuit just as we did for the futile fire-fighting (after throwing $30 million into the blaze, it wasrain that subdued it). Logging the Siskiyous last big burn, theSilver Complex, was estimated by the Government AccountingOffice to have cost taxpayers $700 to $1,100 per acre. Loggingthe Biscuit will be more costly, even by the Forest Servicesptimistic estimates.

The Bush administrations approach to fighting forest fires andpromoting salvage logging is similar to its war on terrorism.Expensive, ineffective frontal attacks are sold as crucial to oursafety. Then comes the post-fire logging, which usually onlyincreases fire hazard. Neither of these actions safeguard thehome front. Rehabilitation is aimed at extracting resources.The costs are grossly underestimated. Large corporations and

bureaucracies emerge as the big winners.

Logging the Biscuit fire area is an exercise in political plunder,not in democracy or prudent forest management. Hundreds ofmillions of dollars in public resources will be sold at a fractionof true value to timber corporations as a reward for the millionsthey have given to President Bushs campaign. This potentialwindfall explains their expensive ads attempting to sell loggingas rehabilitation.

Driven by myth and fear, the Bush administrations war againstforest fire is becoming increasingly deceitful, profitable only fora few, expensive for most, and woefully ineffective at protectingour forests.

Roy Keene of Eugene is a restoration specialist, real estate broker andvolunteer forest ecologist for the Institute of Wildlife Protection andwas a forester for the timber industry.

STUMPS DONT LIE

Biscuit Burn Salvage Logging Planis Harmful

In reality, theburned forestwas restoring

itself even beforethe fires of 2002

cooled.

Logging theBiscuit fire areais an exercise inpolitical plunder,not in democracyor prudent forest

management.Hundreds of

millions of dollarsin public resources

will be sold at afraction of truevalue to timbercorporations asa reward for the

millions they havegiven to PresidentBushs campaign.


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By David S. BroderWashington PostSunday, October 17, 2004

Its not true that people in Washington cantgree about anything. Across the policy

spectrum, theres a clear recognition that thepresent path of budget-making is unsustainable

- in fact, ruinous.

The Concord Coalition, whose leadershipincludes prominent Republicans, says that withrealistic assumptions but no change in policy,he federal debt will swell by a staggering

$5 trillion in the next 10 years. The liberalEconomic Policy Institute says that a budgetrain wreck lies ahead. The nonpartisan

Congressional Budget Office warns that it lookss if substantial reductions in the projectedrowth of spending or a sizable increase inaxes -- or both -- will probably be necessaryo avoid fiscal disaster.

The agreement extends everywhere except where it is most

important -- to the rivals for the White House and to themembers of Congress.

President Bush and his opponent, Sen. John F. Kerry, blithelyssert that they will cut the budget deficit (a record $413 billion

in the current year) in half within four or five years, but they arepurposely vague on how they will do it.

Meanwhile, Congress has retreated further and further fromny pretense of fiscal responsibility. When they went home toampaign last week, the lawmakers executed what Stan Collender,prominent budget expert, called a triple dive. They recessed

having failed to pass the fiscal 2005 budget resolution, all butour of the 13 regular 2005 appropriations and a needed increase

in the limit on the national debt, so the Treasury can sell bondso our creditors.

This three-part failure, Collender said, is the best evidence yethat Congress has become either unwilling or unable to deal withhe federal budget. It has abrogated its fiscal responsibilities atvery step in this years debate except when the decisions -- like aax cut -- were politically easy.

Tax cuts they can do. With bipartisan majorities, they passed a$143 billion bonanza for corporations of every sort, shortly afterxtending what the lawmakers were pleased to call a middle-lass tax cut of $146 billion. You might be surprised to learn, as

I was, where that middle class tax relief actually goes.

ccording to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities andhe Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center,

households in the middle 20 percent of the income scale -- themiddle class -- receive only 9 percent of the benefits. Their

verage saving will be $162. Those in households with incomesrom $200,000 to $500,00 will be $2,390 better off.

It is important to remember that these latest tax cuts are all being

financed with borrowed money -- money that at some point willhave to be paid back. That was the point made by Pete Peterson,

the former Nixon administration secretary of commerce, in aterrific piece that business reporter Paul Solman did for PBSsNewsHour With Jim Lehrer the other night.

Noting that todays deficits will burden future generations,Peterson said, The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind ofworld it leaves to its children. And as I think about the conceptthat were slipping our own kids and grandkids a check for ourfree lunch, I say were failing the moral test.

Morality aside, theres the little matter of piling up even moreIOUs instead of the savings that will be needed to finance theretirement and health care costs of the 77 million baby boomersnow approaching retirement. That responsibility ought to weighheavily on everyone running for federal office, but it is hard tofind a campaign where it is being discussed with any degree ofcandor and realism.

It would be nice to pretend that once next months election isout of the way, the winners will buckle down and address thiscrisis. But both Collender and Philip Joyce, a George WashingtonUniversity professor, suggest that the whole budget-makingprocess in Congress may be on the verge of breakdown.

As Joyce put it in an article for a forthcoming scholarly journal,The failure of the Congress to agree on a budget resolution forthree recent fiscal years -- 1999, 2003 and 2005 -- suggests thatthe budget process may be at a crisis point, and this crisis may beexacerbated by the uncertainty associated with the cost and theduration of the war on terrorism. If a consensus is not reachedon a goal for fiscal policy, the budget committees and the budgetresolution are in danger of becoming irrelevant.

This would be a dangerous time to lose the best tool for dealingwith our fiscal mess.

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iscal Ruin on the Horizon

The ConcordCoalition, whose

leadership includesprominent

Republicans, saysthat with realisticassumptions but

no change inpolicy, the federaldebt will swell bya staggering $5

trillion in the next10 years.

It is important toremember that

these latest taxcuts are all being

financed withborrowed money-- money that atsome point willhave to be paid

back.


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THINK ABOUT IT...

We import hemp that is illegal for Americans to

grow while we pay farmers to grow NOTHING

on over 100 million acres of farm land!

Our best wood is exported to Japanand Europe

1/2 of all trees cut in the US areexported as chips, pulp, or raw logs...along with American jobs.

1/2 of the volume in our nationsdumps is reusable but wasted woodfiber.

One million housing units per year aretorn down and thrown away in thedumps.

YOUR FORESTS AND JOBS

Never before in history have the citizens of the United States been faced with suchmass of evidence to support outsourcing reform, transparency in legislation and

he establishment of forest sanctuaries. Parks, preserves, reserves, monuments,nvironmental easements, conservation easements and setbacks have become

mere commercial storefronts. These matters must be brought forward on the publicgenda: 1) reconcile the outsourcing of jobs, livelihoods and resources belongingo the American people, 2) Mandate clear, concise, and honest language in each

nd every legislative Initiative, Referendum, and Act, 3) invoke legislation thatprotects Wild Forests as Sanctuaries from dishonest management, extraction andlitigation schemes. The scientific community is at odds, confused and dismayed athe aggressiveness of current management schemes that are hurdled through the

goal posts of greed, with reckless indifference toward the earths biosphere andpeople whose lives crucially depend upon its health. Each and every communitymember is compelled to break the veil of deception surrounding environmentalmanagement.

The Export Reconciliation Act provides sound export legislation to achieverevitalization of community based wealth, capital, personal incomes, viable

omestic jobs, public revenue, environmental resiliency, and fair consequencesor outsourcing and in-sourcing labor and industry that supplants domestic

businesses and income.

Transparency in Legislation Actprohibits attaching a rider to a bill, act, initiative,measure, regulation, and/or plan that is out-of-kind, defeats the spirit, intent,

ixity and meaning of other legislation. It promulgates penalties and consequencesor misleading, deceptive, and preemptive agency administrative public law rule

making.

The Wild Forest Sanctuary Act sets aside wilderness areas, that prohibit allxtractions of water, minerals, soil, timber, specialized forests products from the

last remaining wild forests, and de-certifies sustainable managed forest status

nd management rights that are not demonstrating actual sustainable naturalonditions in forest recovery projects and sustainable forestry production.

The acts, promulgated in concert with one another, defeat the ruthless aspects ofutsourcing the jobs, livelihoods, and wealth of every small community, whilereating real consequences and penalties for fake, fraudulent and duplicitous

legislation and management measures. The Act stops the change of Americaswild forests into arbitrarily negotiated assets belonging to foreign cartels, whosembition and fortunes are based on the radical exploitation of the American

wilderness. Compromise, capitulation, mitigation, and mediation of standardshave become the calling cards of the regimes that take all and offer a token back.

The Native Forest Council calls upon every responsible business, agencydministrator, credible labor organization, and voting citizen at large to financiallynd personally support the promulgation of these unique and powerful initiatives.

Saving the wild forest is saving you. The wild forest is the truth, but how muchruth remains?

Reconciling Outsourcing, Transparency in Legislation, and Honest Forest Sanctuary

Dispelling the

myth that the

environmentalists

are destroying

American jobs and

resources

We Support thefollowing bills inCongress:

Act to Save AmericasForests

NREPA

We are alsoworking on someother legislation:

Honest & Full CostAccounting

Forever Wild / ForestsForever

Corporate Death Penalty


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A native forest is a self-regenerating forest thathas never been cut or planted by humans.

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Save Our Disappearing Native Forests

Little more than 100 years ago, our national forests were first opened to logging. Since that tragic decision, 40 millioncres of national forest ecosystems have been clearcut. The worst part? Were paying them to do it. The destructionf our nations forests, rivers and streamsa living life-support system that gives us clean air, soil and watercostsaxpayers billions annually. But logging on national forests provides just 4 percent of the nations timber. A bann public lands logging would not affect the nations timber supply. It would, however, preserve our nations last

remaining natural treasures.

ZERO CUT.ON PUBLIC LANDS

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