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DAILY GRIST
10 Nov 2000
Environmental news from GRIST MAGAZINE
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1.
FOR THE CRATER GOOD
While George W. Bush and Al Gore continued to duke it out over the
White House, President Clinton exercised his executive authority
yesterday by creating a new national monument in northern Arizona and
substantially expanding one in central Idaho. The Vermilion Cliffs
National Monument in Arizona -- 293,000 acres near the Colorado River
north of the Grand Canyon -- is the 11th monument Clinton has
created. Clinton also added 661,000 acres to the 54,440-acre Craters
of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. Western Republicans have
complained bitterly about Clinton's monument designations, which
altogether have protected more than 4.6 million acres, while
conservationists have praised them. Enviros are now pushing Clinton
to make the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska a national
monument, particularly because Bush has said he wants to open the
pristine area to oil drilling.
straight to the source: Arizona Republic, Judd Slivka, 10 Nov 2000
<http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/1110cliffs10.htmlil_t0.shtml>
straight to the source: Las Vegas Sun, Associated Press, 9 Nov 2000
<http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2000/nov/09/110900257.htmlml>
do good: Take action and tell Clinton to save the Arctic Refuge
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2.
PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY SUNSHINE STATE AWAY
The presidential race has come down to Florida. Funny thing that one
of the only significant actions taken by the Republican Congress in
the last month was to set aside money for the Florida Everglades.
Wonder why? Grist cartoonist Suzy Becker has a theory.
catch it only in Grist Magazine: Ha. -- by Suzy Becker
<http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/ha/ha111000.stm00/nov/09/110900257.htmlml>
3.
THE GREEN-CH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS?
Some enviros and others who voted for Ralph Nader are now regretting
their choice, fearing that it gave George W. Bush an advantage over
Al Gore. In the chat room on Nader's official website, John Ruth,
who said he voted for Nader, wrote this to the Green Party candidate
yesterday: "Mr. Gore (despite what you have said) is NOT an
environmental clone of G. W. Bush. Because of your actions and
statements prior to Nov. 7th, we are on the brink of a Bush
presidency. No money, no support, no respect for you, Ralph, ever
again!" Julie Quastler voted for Nader in Portland, Ore., and said
she didn't regret it, but she did lament, "Bush is probably going to
be our president, and Nader didn't get his 5 percent. It seems like
a lose-lose end result in some ways." Other Nader backers are proud
of the Green Party's showing and say that the poll results sent a
wake-up call to the two major parties. Green Party supporters in
Sebastopol, a small town in northern California, are celebrating a
real victory: Two Green candidates were elected to the city council
on Tuesday, joining one Green incumbent to make Sebastopol the second
town in the U.S. ever to have elected a Green majority to the city
council.
straight to the source: New York Times, James Dao, 10 Nov 2000
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/politics/10NADE.htmlov/09/110900257.htmlml>
straight to the source: San Diego Union-Tribune, Associated Press, 9 Nov 2000
<http://www.uniontribune.com/news/uniontrib/thu/news/news_1n9green.htmlhtmlml>
4.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNESTO
In an effort to protect the winter nesting grounds of monarch
butterflies, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo expanded a forest
reserve in central Mexico yesterday. Local residents and giant
logging companies have been cutting down lots of trees in the area,
and a recent study indicated that 44 percent of the monarchs' winter
habitat had been damaged or destroyed in the past 29 years. The
Mexican government has teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund and the
Mexican Fund for Natural Conservation to establish a $5 million fund
to compensate the reserve's 60,000 inhabitants for their lost logging
rights. Zedillo said, "We trust our neighbors to the north will be
able to redouble their efforts to protect the monarch butterflies'
route," which could be interpreted as criticism of widespread
planting in the U.S. of genetically modified corn suspected of
harming monarchs.
straight to the source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, Associated Press,
10 Nov 2000
<http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=82904096tmlml>
5.
DOMBECK RULES!
U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck officially instituted new
rules yesterday requiring that ecosystem health be the No. 1 priority
in managing national forests. The agency previously required its
managers to weigh ecosystem health equally with other concerns such
as logging and public access. The new rule prohibits cutting timber
at unsustainable rates and eliminates the logging quotas set for many
forests. The shift is a big deal because management plans for
two-thirds of the country's national forests are due to be revised in
the next three years. Enviros praised the change, while loggers and
the BlueRibbon Coalition, a group supportive of off-road-vehicle use,
had angry reactions.
straight to the source: Portland Oregonian, Michael Milstein, 10 Nov 2000
<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/0096tmlml
/11/lc_61rules10.frame>
straight to the source: Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, 10 Nov 2000
<http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environ/20001110/t000107867.html096tmlml>
6.
CHAIR-ISH THE THOUGHT
Much to the distress of environmentalists, Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Utah)
is poised to become the next chair of the House Resources Committee,
which deals with all bills related to wilderness, public lands,
endangered species, and mineral resource extraction. The current
chair, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), also widely disliked by enviros,
will step down from the position at the end of the current
congressional session because House rules prohibit members from
chairing a committee for more than six years. Hansen said one of his
first priorities would be to change the Endangered Species Act; he
wants the economic impact of species listings to be considered. He
asked, "If they find a slimy slug in the middle of New York City, are
you going to close it down just to protect the slug?" Hansen also
wants to alter the Wilderness Act to give Congress less time to
decide whether to protect areas as wilderness.
straight to the source: Salt Lake Tribune, Jim Woolf, 10 Nov 2000
<http://www.sltrib.com/11102000/utah/42031.htm0001110/t000107867.html096tmlml>
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