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Breaking News -- Fire on whaling ship, Greenpeace offers help

Greenpeace — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:37:00 GMT

Friends,

Onboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Southern Ocean - campaigning against an illegal whaling hunt- we find ourselves in an unexpected situation. The vessel we had been searching for - the Japanese factory whaling ship Nisshin Maru - issued a distress call after a serious fire broke out on board. The blaze is thought to be under control, but tragically, one crew member has been lost.

The Nisshin Maru is now disabled and carries approximately 1,000 tons of oil and sits 100 nautical miles from the largest Adelie penguin colony in the world. An oil spill or chemical leak would be a major ecological disaster in the Antarctic, and there may be bad weather soon.

To help avoid further tragedy, Greenpeace has offered our ship, the Esperanza, to tow the whaling ship out of the Southern Ocean. We'll keep you posted as the situation unfolds.

The whale hunt is most likely over for the season, but the whales still face a serious threat. The government of Japan has been lobbying hard to overturn the 20 year old ban on commercial whaling, and this May the International Whaling Commission is meeting in Alaska for a vote. Now, more than we need folks like yourselves to defend the whales.

Greenpeace has set up a new online community site called I GO, at http://whales.greenpeace.org/us. If you register on there you'll have an opportunity to message with Greenpeace campaigners on the ship, to meet other whale defenders, suggest and vote on campaign ideas, see excellent videos and keep up with the news from the front lines. Please consider signing up, creating a profile and introducing yourself in the US Whale Defenders forum. This site will be an important place to demonstrate broad national and international support for whales.

Whales are an amazing and irreplaceable part of our ocean environment. Their intelligence, grace and beauty make them ambassadors of our increasingly endangered seas. In the 1980s, however, whales of many species were being driven to the brink of extinction by rampant and uncontrolled commercial whaling. The moratorium on commercial whaling was a great victory for ocean wildlife. But the whales need us now more than ever. From now until the International Whaling Commission's vote in May, whale defenders need to take action to prevent the resumption of commercial whaling.

for the earth,

-erik

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New Marijuana Channel on YouTube!

Casper Leitch — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:50:04 GMT

There is now a Time 4 Hemp Channel on YouTube you can surf!

When you get time, please visit the site, and if you
like what you see - become a SUBSCRIBER to the
channel.

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Channel:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Time4Hemp

Upon arrival, you'll notice a lisiting of Videos I've
posted from the Time 4 Hemp Series, along with other
contributions, sorted into playlists and located under
Favorites.

If you are not a member of the YouTube Community, it
is free, quick and easy to join.

A Time 4 Hemp YouTube group has also been established.
Please visit the site.

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Group Site:
http://youtube.com/group/Time4Hemp

I would be very greatful if you were to check out the
new sites and tell all your friends about them. With
any luck, a lot of people will benefit from the
educational value of they offer.

Keep Strong!

Casper Leitch
Host/Author: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

Time 4 Hemp Cell Phone Website:
http://www.Time4Hemp.com/cell/index.htm

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Video Channel:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Time4Hemp

Great products can be located in the
Time 4 Hemp Gift Shop at:
http://www.cafepress.com/time4hemp

You can join A Time 4 Hemp Yahoo! Community Group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atime4hemp/

You can join the Time 4 Hemp YouTube Community Group at:
http://youtube.com/group/Time4Hemp

Group sites are also found at:
My Space and listed as: Time 4 Hemp Group
TribeNet and listed as: Time_4_Hemp Group

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Violet Flame Invocation [Israel and Lebanon]

HeatherLSalmon — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:34:39 GMT

Through the beloved presence of God, I AM now blazing in my heart, I invoke all of the Legions of Light throughout all infinity who are associated with the 5th dimensional frequencies of the Violet Flame and the 12 solar aspects of Deity. As I invoke this Divine Light for myself, I simultaneously invoke it for my loved ones, Israel, Lebanon and ALL HUMANITY!

BLAZE, bLaZE, BlAze the full momentum of this sacred Violet Fire in through and around every electron of precious life energy I have ever mis-qualified in any time frame or dimension both known and unknown. Transmute these patterns of imperfection cause, core, effect, record and memory into God's LIMITLESS PERFECTION!

I AM now blazing the various 5th dimensional frequencies of the Violet Flame associated with the 12 solar aspects of Deity through every word, action or feeling I have ever expressed that reflects anything less than the immaculate concept of my Full Divine Potential.

Beloved I Am look into my life and see what yet remains to be balanced by me to any person, place, condition, or thing I may have wronged at any time in any way for any reason whatsoever. Reach Your great Loving Hands of Light into all the positively qualified energy I may have released through out my Earthly sojourn, and draw forth A THOUSAND TIMES as much perfection as I have ever done wrong. Fashion from this substance of perfection a gift of Love, whatever is necessary, to balance every debt I have ever created which still remains unpaid to any part of life.

Beloved I AM, I ask you to forgive ever person, place, condition or thing, which ever may have wronged me in any way and balance all debts owed to me.

I accept this as done through the power of God I AM and it is done. So it is. And it is so.

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LIVE WebCast of Time 4 Hemp at high noon - once a week - starts soon!

Casper Leitch — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:12:38 GMT

The series, Time 4 Hemp, rolls back into production with a 1-hour weekly LIVE WebCast!

This allows for you to IM or call in and speak directly to our guest. Those who have already agreed to be a on the re-launching of the series are:

Allen F. St. Pierre, (Ex. Dir. of NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5972

Steven Hagar, (Ex. Editor of High Times Magazine);
http://www.hightimes.com

Steve Bloom, (Senior Editor at High Times Magazine);
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/home/

Eric Sterling, (founder of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation);
http://www.cjpf.org

Jack Herer, (Author of 'The Emporer Wears No Clothes');
http://www.jackherer.com/

Ed Rosenthal, (founder of Quick Trading Books);
http://quicktrading.com

Lynette Shaw, (now running for Lt. Gov. of CA. and the writer and singer of the theme song 'Time 4 Hemp');
http://www.revshawrecords.com

Steve Dillion, (Chair - Natl. NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4489

John Birrenbach, (founder of the International Institute For Hemp);
http://www.birrenbach.com/

Keith Stroup, (founder of NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4503

Gatewood Galbraith, (Reform Party Candidate for Governor of Kentucky);
http://www.gatewood.com

Steve Kubby and his wife Michele (hemp activists fighting for their lives in the US Legal System);
http://www.kubby.com/

Dale Gieringer, Ph.D (Vice Chair of NORML and EX. Dir. of CA NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4490

Rob Robinson, (Ex. Dir. of NY NORML);
http://www.nynorml.org/

Lynn Wilson, (a/k/a - The Happy Hemptress);
http://www.hemprock.com/

Jack Cole, (Founding member and Exc. Dir. of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition)
http://www.leap.cc/who/jackbio.htm

Bruce Mirken, (Director of Communications for the Marijuana Policy Project);
http://www.mpp.org

David Borden, (founder and Ex. Dir. of StoptheDrugWar.org and the Drug Reform Coordination Network);
http://stopthedrugwar.org/aboutdrc/index.shtml

Peter Gorman, (Feature Writer for High Times Magazine);
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/home/

Many more great activists fighting for our freedoms on the front lines in the War On Drugs (as well as a few well-known public figures) have also agreed to be part of this production.

'Time 4 Hemp' is the name of the television series I created in the early 1990's. You can locate the web site at:
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

There you will find the list of guests who appeared on the series when it was first produced includes: Willie Nelson, Tim Leary, Kevin Zeese, and all the founders of the American Hemp Movement.

I am one of 17 people who, in 1991, wrote the California Hemp Initiative (CHI) allowing people who need the use of hemp (slang termed: marijuana) for medical reasons to grow 6 plants or less in their own homes with out fear of prosecution.

The 17 of us who wrote this initiative then recruited an army of volunteers to gather enough signatures to get the CHI onto the voting ballot in 1992. California voters overwhelmingly supported CHI and it became state law shortly there after. I created 'Time 4 Hemp' as a way to bring attention to the CHI.

A copy of the CHI can be reviewed on the web site as can free short video downloads from each interview. You can also freely download the complete audio of each interview should you like. You can also download 4 video clips from my involvement in the Smoked Marijuana Study at UCLA funded by the US government if you have time for a quick chuckle. I am the only person in the world ever to be filmed in a study of that nature.

The 'Time 4 Hemp' weekly WebCast will broadcast LIVE, at High Noon once a week through the internet. Each program will then be edited and archived so anyone wanting to listen to it - at anytime - can do so.

We intend to rock the world (as always) with the message of:
"Hemp for Paper, Fiber, Fuel and Medication".

With that said, I'd like to invite you to listen in and be an ACTIVE AUDIENCE. The whole idea of broadcasting live is to give people around the world the chance to ask questions of each guest. Either through telephone (we'll have an 800 number) or IM.

I'll be posting up-dates about the series through my Time_4_Hemp tribe site.

If you'd like to be notified by e-mail of the first live broadcast, let me know.

You can send me a message through my Time4Hemp.com web sit at: Casper@Time4Hemp.com with the subject line:
I Want 2 Take Time 4 Hemp - NOW!

Please tell your friends about this series. Copy and paste this message anywhere you feel someone might benefit from something one of our remarkable guests has to say.

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

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Free Marijuana Audio and Video downloads found at...

Casper Leitch — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:53:30 GMT

... http://www.Time4Hemp.com There you can locate complete interviews with Willie Nelson (speaking on how using hemp for paper, fiber, and fuel could help save the earth), Tim Leary, Jack Herer, Gatewood Galibrath, Steve Bloom, Keith Stroup, Kevin Zeese and all the founders of the hemp movement including Mae Nutt (who spoke before the US Supreme Court on behalf of her son needing medical hemp for his cancer); George McMahonn (a legal medical hemp user); Dr. Todd Mikuriya; and Dr. John Morgan. Also free to download is a 25-minute video on Medical Hemp, a video clip of the auto Henry Ford developed to run off of fuel made from hemp seed and a 7-part audio download on the History of Marijuana. There's even a cell phone web site at http://www.Time4Hemp.com/cell/index.htm . Check the site out and tell your friends!

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp

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Say NO to "Nukular" Energy

Greenpeace — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:21:06 GMT

That's right, I said it. Or at least Bush did in his State of the Union address. The President wants to build more dangerous nuclear plants as part of his new energy plan: http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=78&ref_source=tribenuke
This plan is wholly inconsistent with the administration's push from stronger security. There have been more than 100 close calls at nuclear power plants since the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, and each new nuclear plant is one more potential target for terrorist attacks.
What we need is greater investment in clean, safe, renewables like wind and solar. Take action now to say NO to more nuclear plants: http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=78&ref_source=tribenuke

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3D earth

electricbrave — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:48:17 GMT

GeoPlayer is a 3D planetary browser that runs in your web browser. Explore GeoMatrix® Gateways of focused content.

http://geofusion.com/

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URGENT! Act to Stop Destructive Salvage Logging Bills!

forest_defender — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:24:26 GMT

URGENT! Act to Stop Destructive Salvage Logging Bills!

All:

Below is an action alert to help stop 2 salvage bills
that would authorize logging projects on public lands.
One bill was introduced by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR),
the other by Rep. Tom Udall (D-NM).

"Environmentalists" supporting the Udall bill are
supporting a "consensus compromise" that agrees with
the general principles of Bush's bogus "Healthy
Forests Restoration Act." By supporting the Udall
bill, these so-called conservationists lose us
valuable credibility, because they are supporting
something they originally opposed (at least I hope).

The Healthy Forests law allows the timber industry to
take larger trees in order to pay for "fuel reduction"
projects, which are generally money losers even with
tax-subsidies, because smaller trees and brush fail to
net the timber revenues that larger trees do. Thus,
aims in the Udall bill to prevent the logging of
old-growth and LSR (see below) forests will be
entirely ineffective, especially with no means for
enforcement.

Please see the alert below my sign-off and write
today. The Subcommittee meeting is tomorrow (11/10)!

Thanks,
C. David Divelbiss
Seattle Chapter Director
Native Forest Council

"We condemn them (the two bills) both AND the enviros
that support them.

Saving some trees by sacrificing trees elsewhere is
not an option.
Blocking logging here by promoting logging over there
is not an option.

The Udall "chickens" think they are out foxing the
foxes but they, as always, will end up as lunch."

-Tim Hermach (NFC Executive Director)

Dear Forest Advocate:

Tomorrow, November 10, 2005, the House Forests
Subcommittee will conduct its first hearings on
legislation to change federal land management
practices following natural and human-caused
disasters. The so-called Forest Emergency Recovery and
Research Act (FERRA) (H.R. 4200) was introduced last
Wednesday by a surprising bipartisan delegation
spearheaded by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) and including,
Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) and Rep. Cathy McMorris
(R-WA).

The House of Representatives is also considering an
alternative salvage logging proposal (H.R. 3973)
introduced by Rep. Tom Udall (D-NM). This legislation,
entitled the National Forests Rehabilitation and
Recovery Act (NFRRA), aims to establish pro-active
pilot projects with what supporters claim to be an
environmentally friendly approach to salvage logging.
Unfortunately, many environmental organizations,
including Conservation Northwest (1), support this
alternative, which in reality, is nothing of the sort.
In truth, NFRRA also authorizes speedy fuels reduction
projects, which will likely include heavy extraction
from public lands.

Supporters of both FERRA and NFRRA claim that natural
catastrophic events, such as forest fires, necessitate
massive bogus recovery efforts including the removal
of dead and damaged trees. Unfortunately, however,
FERRA grants the evaluation authority to the
respective Secretaries of the Department(s) of
Agriculture and Interior. FERRA would also allow
federal land managers to go ahead with projects
between 250-1000 acres without a recovery evaluation
or review (2).

Recently, the US Forest Service granted timber giant,
Boise Cascade, the rights to logging the Fischer
Forest in Eastern Washington, near Leavenworth. Under
USDA discretion the Forest Service authorized logging
on 400 acres of a Late Successional Reserve (LSR). In
an on the ground analysis, many conservationists found
that the areas marked for logging were indeed living
forests. Some of the trees had merely been scorched,
while others were old-growth trees, completely
untouched by fire (3).

In many cases, the removal of smaller, dead or dying
trees fails to net the timber industry substantial
profit. Under the Bush Administration’s Healthy
Forests Restoration Act, timber companies are
authorized to remove large trees in order to pay for
thinning projects that would otherwise be economically
infeasible (4). Without the removal of large trees,
many of the projects authorized by FERRA and NFRRA
would occur at the taxpayer’s expense. It’s a
lose-lose situation.

In addition to the economic arguments against FERRA
and NFRRA, the major problems with the bill(s) lie in
their basic premise: that living forests need human
beings to lend them a helping hand in restoration.
Dead, fallen trees provide the forest floor with the
materials necessary to create topsoil, a 500-1000 year
ongoing process that feeds biodiversity. Further, the
legislation requires building roads on National Forest
lands, which, while temporary, still cause
environmental problems including sedimentation and
runoff in nearby rivers, streams, and watersheds.
Also, while the fuels reduction projects authorized by
both bills aim to remove underbrush and ladder fuels
to prevent forest fires, inherently these projects
remove material that not only promotes biodiversity,
but also cools the temperature on the forest floor,
keeping it moist and fire resistant.

Please contact your Senators and your Representative
in Congress, encourage them to vote no on BOTH the
Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act (H.R. 4200)
and National Forests Rehabilitation and Recovery Act
(H.R. 3973).

URGENT! Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA) is a ranking
member of the House Subcommittee on Forest Health. If
you reside in the first congressional district, please
call or write immediately!

Below the congressional contact information is a
sample of what to say, but please use your own words
to give your comment more clout.

Congressman Jay Inslee
DC Phone: (202) 225-6311
DC Fax: (202) 226-1606
Mountlake Terrace Phone: (425) 640-0233
Mountlake Terrace Fax: (425) 776-7168
Email Web Form:
http://www.house.gov/inslee/contact/email.html

Congressman Jim McDermott
DC Phone: (202) 225-3106
DC Fax: (202) 225-6197
Seattle Phone: (206) 553-7170
Seattle Fax: (206) 553-7175
Email Web Form:
http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/contact.shtml

Senator Patty Murray
DC Phone: (202) 224-2621
DC Fax: (202) 224-0238
Seattle Phone: (206) 553-5545
Seattle Fax: (206) 553-0891
Email Web Form:
http://www.murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm

Senator Maria Cantwell
DC Phone: (202) 224-3441
DC Fax: (202) 228-0514
Seattle Phone: (206) 220-6400
Seattle Fax: (206) 220-6404
Email Web Form:
http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/index.html

If you live outside Washington State or are not sure
of your congressional district please visit
http://www.senate.gov to find your Senators or
http://www.house.gov to find your Representative in
Congress.

SAMPLE PHONE CALL/EMAIL

Dear Senator/Congressperson _________________:

Please reject both H.R. 4200, the Forest Emergency
Recovery and Research Act, and H.R. 3973, the National
Forests Rehabilitation and Recovery Act. Both pieces
of legislation are deceptively titled, and authorize
logging on public lands, to which I am strongly
opposed.

Salvage logging, while targeting dead or dying trees,
can still cause massive damage to forest lands,
because the process removes the material necessary to
create topsoil, which feeds biodiversity on the forest
floor.

Further, FERRA and NFRRA authorizes additional road
building on public lands. Even temporary roads in
forestlands are damaging, and can cause problems
including sedimentation and runoff in local streams
and watersheds.

I am also very opposed to the use of taxpayer dollars
for post-disaster timber sales on public lands, and
skeptical that FERRA and NFRRA will indeed authorize
logging in living forests. As dead or dying trees net
timber companies minimal profits, it is very likely
that living forests may be marked for so-called
salvage logging to pay for the projects, as authorized
under the public law established by the Bush
Administration’s Healthy Forests Restoration Act.

The fire-suppression efforts of years ago clearly
illustrate that most efforts to prevent future
disasters or to use human-condition restoration are
failures, and that natural-condition restoration is
the best way to ensure that a forest ecosystem
recovers with its original biodiversity.

The passage of FERRA and NFRRA would be more of a
catastrophic event then those they aim to address.
Please reject these proposals, as well as any and all
extraction from public lands.

Thank You,
FULL NAME*
ADDRESS*
CITY, STATE, ZIP*

*Required

PLEASE CALL OR SEND YOUR EMAILS TODAY!

To read the complete text of the Forest Emergency
Recovery and Research Act of 2005, please visit
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:2:./temp/~c109ODymRo::

To read the complete text of the National Forests
Rehabilitation and Recovery Act of 2005, please visit
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:1:./temp/~c109eF3sWB::

If you have any questions regarding the content of
this email alert, don’t hesitate to contact us.
(Information listed below)

Help us step up the uncompromising fight for forest
protection by making your tax-deductible contribution
to Native Forest Council at
http://www.forestcouncil.org/join or by mailing your
checks to the address listed below.

Thank you once again for your support of Native Forest
Council. Please don’t forget to download your online
copy of the “Forest Voice” at
http://www.forestcouncil.org

Sincerely,
C. David Divelbiss
Seattle Chapter Director
Native Forest Council
124 N 103rd ST, Suite B
Seattle, WA 98133
Phone: (206) 783-0728
Email: seattleinfo@forestcouncil.org
Web: http://www.forestcouncil.org

Works Cited
(1) Conservation Northwest, “Post-Fire "Salvage" Is
Not Restoration”
http://www.conservationnw.org/nationalforests/Walden_bill.html
(2) “Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act of
2005” HR 4200
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:2:./temp/~c109ODymRo::
(3) KC Mehaffey, The Wenatchee World, “Logging of fire
area to proceed —
Environmental group unable to stop cutting in Fischer
Fire zone” 9/22/05
(4) “Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003” Public
Law 108-148
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ148.108

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WORLD PEACE: New NESARA tribe 7/7 London bombings

Ramanathan — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 02:34:35 GMT

Dear Great Beings of Love that you Are,

Have you heard of NESARA? It stands for National Economic Security and Reformation Act.

Visit my tribe: http://tribes.tribe.net/nesara_is_law for all the details!

This tribe has an article on 7/7 bombings too, about WHO STANDS TO GAIN FROM THEM.

A preview of NESARA:

NESARA was passed by Clinton in 2000 but goes unannounced to the public for reasons soon to be obvious to you.

It calls for the immediate end to all hostile actions by the US government.

It demands that World Peace become the immediate goal.

It abolishes the present government setup, demanding a re-electron process within a short period of time.

It demands a re-working of the financial system in the USA to get rid of the Federal Reserve Bank, a private entity that basically owns the USA because it controls the monies.

And much more!

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Veteran US conservationist dies

gtpooh — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 04:51:42 GMT

Gaylord Nelson, a former US senator who founded the Earth Day environmental movement, has died at the age of 89.

Mr Nelson served three terms as a Democrat senator for Wisconsin, and won wide acclaim for Earth Day, a day of activism held every year on 22 April.

He was credited with helping establish environmental protection legislation in the US, and won a presidential medal of freedom from Bill Clinton in 1995.

Mr Nelson died of heart failure at his home in a suburb of Washington DC.

His wife Carrie Lee Nelson, who he married in 1947, was alongside him, Mr Nelson's biographer said.

Campaigner

After 14 years in Wisconsin politics, Gaylord Nelson was elected to the US Senate in 1962, where he pushed conservation policies until he was defeated in 1980.

He founded Earth Day as an environmental demonstration in the tradition of peaceful protests that had sprung up against the Vietnam War.

Some 20 million people joined in the first Earth Day in 1970, which helped educate people in the US and beyond on environmental issues.

Each year Earth Day encourages people to join recycling programmes and carry out other environmental work.

Mr Nelson vigorously pushed environmental causes in the Senate, and was involved in several key pieces of legislation.

Awarding the presidential medal in 1995, then President Bill Clinton described Mr Nelson "the grandfather" of a raft of legislation, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

After losing his Senate seat, Mr Nelson joined the Wilderness Society, often focusing his concern on population issues.

Mr Nelson leaves two sons and a daughter.

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Campaign to Save Alaska's Wolves !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shawnodese23 — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:32:01 GMT

Since I know that the wolve always had a very important place in Native American legends/symbolism and for them/us as a brother in nature I call out all of you to help and protect this wonderfull species that once more is being threatened by ignorant human beings....

Dear People,

Despite tens of thousands of phone calls, emails and letters, Governor Frank Murkowski refuses to stop the aerial gunning of wolves in Alaska.

To make matters worse, his Board of Game has increased the number of wolves to be killed to over 1,000. This will be the greatest wolf massacre in half a century.
We remain determined to use every means available stop this barbaric practice where marksmen can gun down wolves from the air or chase them to exhaustion - then land and shoot them point blank.

Our lawyers have formally petitioned Interior Secretary Gale Norton to halt the killing as a violation of the Federal Airborne Hunting Act. To build grassroots pressure on her to act, we want to generate citizen petitions to her - especially through the placement of newspaper ads.

We need your help to run them. Our goal is to raise $50,000 over the next 72 hours so we can contact the newspapers and book ad placements.

Please make whatever contribution you can today.

Thanks for your commitment,

Steven DelVecchio
Vice President for Membership

P.S. We want to initially run the ad in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times in the next two weeks. I hope I can count on your donation today.

Also, if you prefer you can donate by phone by calling 1-800-385-9712. Our operators are standing by 7 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week. Thanks for helping to save wildlife and habitat for future generations.

Privacy Policy:

Defenders of Wildlife does not sell, trade, or rent your e-mail information to others. To see our complete privacy policy click here.

To Unsubscribe:

Send an e-mail to contributions@defenders.org with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

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talking about "Millennium Ecosystem Assessment" with Dr. Walter Reid and Professor Jane Lubchenco

flavio — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:46:40 GMT

from my favorite radio...

June 3rd 2005

Released earlier this year, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is one of the most important reports on the state of the world's ecosystems. Terre Verde will discuss the results of this four-year study with Dr. Walter Reid, the Assessment's Executive Director, and Professor Jane Lubchenco, who participated in the report.

the streamming audi is here:

http://kpfa.org/1pro_bio/1b_terra.htm

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gtpooh — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:37:20 GMT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - It will be standing room only for those being buried at a new Australian cemetery that aims to provide cheap, environmentally friendly burials.

Australia's Victoria state government has approved plans for the cemetery at Darlington, 200 km (125 miles) southwest of the Victorian capital Melbourne, where corpses will be buried vertically in body bags -- instead of caskets -- on grazing land. "When you die, you are returned to the earth with a minimum of fuss and with no paraphernalia that would affect the environment," a spokesman for Palacom, which will establish the cemetery, told Australian Associated Press on Thursday.

"You're not burning 90 kg of gas in a crematorium and there's no ongoing maintenance costs."

He said burials would cost about A$1,000 ($781), with bodies held in a morgue in Melbourne and transported to the cemetery in batches of up to 15 in a bid to reduce costs. Animals would be allowed to graze on the land again once it was stable.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=2&u=/nm/20050428/od_nm/life_australia_cemetery_dc

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Prospect of a Mine Near a Salmon Fishery Stirs Worry in Alaska

flavio — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:24:24 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/science/earth/26mine.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5088&en=fd59ea2cc9806110&ex=1272168000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Prospect of a Mine Near a Salmon Fishery Stirs Worry in Alaska
By LISA W. DREW

Published: April 26, 2005

NEWHALEN, Alaska - The Bristol Bay watershed, an intricate system of lakes, streams and rivers that are home to some of the world's greatest salmon runs, is remarkably unchanged by human activity.

With only sparse trees, it has not been logged. There are no significant dams and few roads. The only way to get here is by air or boat. "So it's not quite as God made it, but pretty close," said Dr. Thomas Quinn, a fish biologist at the University of Washington who has studied the region for almost 20 years.

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But Bristol Bay is also an economically depressed region that is home to rich mineral deposits. And prospectors are spending tens of millions of dollars on plans for mining operations across the headwaters of the salmon fishery, which could change the region forever.

First in line is Northern Dynasty Mines Inc., an American subsidiary of a Canadian mineral company, which is working on feasibility studies for an open-pit gold and copper mine, called Pebble, that could generate jobs for the depressed region.

The scale of the proposed mining is vast. The Pebble mine alone would cost $1.5 billion, the company estimates, and would tap the largest gold deposit and the second largest copper deposit in North America. The mine also contains molybdenum, often used to strengthen and harden steel.

The open pit would cover 2 square miles, and the whole complex, including a tailings pond that may hold billions of tons, would cover 14 square miles, more than 10 times as large as Central Park.

But many environmentalists and local residents worry that the mining would be a disaster for the salmon fishery, on which much of the economy and ecosystem depend.

While commercial salmon fishing has hit hard times, partly because a rise in fish farms has led to a glut on the market, the region's salmon runs still are spectacular. Fish here are measured in the millions. In 2004, more than 27 million salmon were commercially harvested in Bristol Bay. Most were sockeyes, the most valuable of the five species of salmon.

"This is one of the most special places for salmon anywhere," said Dr. Quinn, who noted that the region had no farmed fish or hatchery fish. "It's the center of sockeye diversity," he added. "This is all salmon produced by and evolved under natural processes, and in that sense, for the gene bank of the species, it is really quite remarkable."

Other fish include rainbow trout, round whitefish, humpback whitefish, burbot, Dolly Varden and Arctic char. Mammals include brown bears, wolves, moose, one of the state's largest herds of caribou and a rare population of freshwater seals in Lake Iliamna.

The Native Alaskan people here - Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts and Athabascan Indians - have long lived off this bounty. "I am not a scientist," said Raymond Wassillie, chief of the village of Newhalen. "All I know is I live here. I breathe the air, I fish the waters, I hunt the lands. That's the way the traditional life of my culture has been, and I like it. And if it goes away, I won't have nothing."

Still, he says, he is willing to consider a mine that will bring jobs. "Make sure you keep open minds," he told the crowd at a meeting on April 7 in the small teen center of this village on the shores of Lake Iliamna.

As was evident there, others are more skeptical. Lydia Olympic, the village council president of Iguigig, also on Lake Iliamna, replied: "Is it so wrong for a Native who lives here and off the land to be fearful? We have the right to be fearful."

Others echoed the sentiment. "They're giving us the same promises other mines have promised to other people," said Tatiana Askoak of Newhalen. "We don't have any guarantees."

Among many others who have voiced concern about the plans is Jay S. Hammond, a Republican who was governor from 1974 to 1982. "In my view it's one of the least appropriate spots for a mine, and in my view it's more environmentally sensitive than ANWR development," said Mr. Hammond, referring to the move to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development.

Prospect of a Mine Near a Salmon Fishery Stirs Worry in Alaska

Published: April 26, 2005

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But Bruce Jenkins, the chief operating officer of Northern Dynasty, warned against "fearmongering" and said, "Do not be swayed by those who would lead you to think that this mine will be an ecological disaster."

Northern Dynasty is not the only mining company with an interest in the Bristol Bay region. James Briscoe, president of the Liberty Star Gold Corporation, says he has found evidence of a giant buried, collapsed volcanic rim, called a caldera, that forms a huge circle around the Pebble project. The areas around such calderas, he said, often hold clusters of valuable minerals.

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"To me it's one of the most exciting projects I've seen in 40 years of exploration," Mr. Briscoe said. A Liberty Star subsidiary, Big Chunk, has close to 1,000 claims on about 150,000 acres on the presumed caldera or near it.

Whether any of the region's mines will be allowed to proceed is up to state and federal regulators. Although the state is planning a road to the remote Pebble site that would connect it to a port in Cook Inlet, officials with the Department of Natural Resources say they cannot begin to evaluate the project until it starts through the permit process.

"If we can't protect the water, it's not going to get permitted," Bob Loeffler, director of the agency's division of mining, land and water, told the crowd in the Newhalen teen center.

An open-pit mine can contaminate water in several ways. Typically the rock is crushed and then chemically treated in some way to extract the valuable minerals. Waste may end up in big rock piles or in what is called the tailings pond, depending on the stage at which it is discarded. In some past mine disasters, processing chemicals have leaked into waterways; waste rock has become acidic and leached heavy metals.

But whether that is likely here depends on the specific geological and chemical makeup of the minerals. And Ed Fogels, Alaska's large-mine permit coordinator, said, "We don't have a clue yet about the geochemistry of Pebble; for us that's the single most important thing." The information is to come from studies conducted or commissioned by Northern Dynasty.

If regulators approve Pebble, the door to the Bristol Bay region is more likely to open for other mines as well. And regulatory approval, Mr. Fogels noted, does not rule out the possibility of environmental damage. "No one can guarantee that nothing can go wrong," he said.

Even Mr. Jenkins, of Northern Dynasty, told the Newhalen crowd: "We're committed to preserving your subsistence way of life. Does that mean there will be no effects on your subsistence way of life? No, of course not. How could you have an open-pit tailings pond with zero effect on your subsistence way of life? The real question is what's the nature, the timing and the magnitude of the effect."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/science/earth/26mine.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5088&en=fd59ea2cc9806110&ex=1272168000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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Pledge to Boycott Any Oil Company That Drills in the Arctic National Wildlife

Candace_the_Bibliophile — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:27:37 GMT

Hit the Corporations Where They Feel It Most: Their Bottom Lines

By a heartbreaking two votes, the Senate approved drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- that pristine Alaskan wilderness area called the "American Serengeti," a living monument to the vast beauty of our planet. But the struggle in Congress is not over by a long shot, and there are other avenues available to protect this wildlife refuge.

Senator Barbara Boxer and others are organizing a consumer boycott of any oil company that drills in the Arctic Refuge. If by using our pocketbooks we can convince these companies to do the right thing, we can protect the Arctic Refuge from destruction.

If you want to inform BP, ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell that you will boycott their gas stations unless they pledge not to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (see the text of your message below), just click "Reply" and "Send" in your email program. If this was forwarded to you, or you'd like to edit the message, just click this link:

http://truemajority.kintera.org/anwr

Imagine if millions and millions of us, young and old, progressives and conservatives, make it clear to these companies that they stand to lose big-time if they drill for oil in the wildlife refuge. Polls show that most Americans are on our side. Let's walk our talk.

For more on the fight to protect this wildlife refuge, click here:
http://www.nrdc.org/land/wilderness/arctic_hold.asp

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Thank you

Eve — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:24:18 GMT

Thank you, all of you for the great discussions. I sometimes do not check them and have to catch up. I am finding two things happening the past month 1/2 actively on Tribe.
1) I am so excited to be engaging in great discussions, learning, meeting new people, growing, laughing, having a place to express myself
2) I am "wasting" a lot of time, staying up too late, hurting my body and arms, getting into debates, misunderstandings, getting triggered and generally feeling more of a tease than real satisfaction. My intention in joining tribe was not to flare up my RSI (an issue I know too much about and wrote my thesis partly on) but to meet new people to talk with in the real world! The internet is great for something but honestly, it sucks for chat except to communicate at least somewhat with people far away.
So, anyone in the Bay Area wanna meet up?

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The Soul of the Ultimate Machine

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:30:40 GMT

http://www.racematters.org/selfawarecomputer.htm

The Soul of the Ultimate Machine

By JOHN MARKOFF
THE Silicon Valley crowd that assembled last week in a San Francisco airport hotel had come to hear about mobile electronic commerce, a most immediate concern for people who spend many of their waking hours thinking about whether their latest e-business solution will merit venture capital dollars.

They learned about something very different.

Instead of talking about buying Barbies online, the astrophysicist Larry Smarr came to tell them about what he calls ''the emerging planetary supercomputer.'' The Internet, he explained, is evolving into a single vast computer fashioned out of billions of interconnected processors. Then he went another step: ''The real question, from a software point of view, is: Will it become self-aware?''

To Dr. Smarr, the idea of a thinking machine that might emerge spontaneously from billions of interconnected large and small computers isn't harebrained at all. He said he was simply extrapolating a series of significant trends that, to him, are remarkably obvious. And when it comes to extrapolating trends and forecasting technological revolutions, Dr. Smarr is worth listening to.

Fifteen years ago -- prehistory in Internet terms -- Dr. Smarr persuaded the federal government to establish supercomputer centers for civilian research. That bit of brass led to the birth of technologies like the Web browser and advanced computer-graphics programs that allow scientists to see how hurricanes work and let moviegoers stare dinosaurs in the eye. Along the way, he also helped expand a network of computers that were owned by military contractors, corporations and universities into what is now called the Internet.

Now Dr. Smarr has persuaded Gov. Gray Davis of California to put him in charge of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology, a new state-financed research academy in this seaside San Diego suburb, with the goal of envisioning the future -- and making it happen. Governor Davis announced his decision to authorize Dr. Smarr's institute and two others on Thursday.

And what Dr. Smarr sees is this: the rapid emergence of a much more extensive cyberspace that will essentially mirror the physical world. He imagines bridges that are covered with a fabric of computerized sensors that will automatically tell engineers where earthquake damage has occurred. Or a world in which intelligent buildings whisper directions to visitors on the way to their destinations.

''The emerging information grid is going to be far more pervasive than the electric power grid is today,'' he said.

STILL, the idea that the Internet may transform itself into a global computational grid with a mind of its own has generally been considered far-out stuff from the pages of science fiction novels.

The idea of a thinking machine may sound outrageous, but Dr. Smarr's record has made him one of the world's most respected computer technologists. He created the research center that contributed to the development of the Internet and then invented the graphical browser -- marketed as the Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer -- that opened the Net to the masses.

As director of the computer research institute announced on Thursday, he is now in the position to test even his most far-out ideas. The institute will be established with more than $300 million in state and private funds over four years.

Based jointly at the University of California campuses at San Diego and Irvine, it will focus on engineering new types of sensors, creating an advanced digital wireless Internet and designing a new class of distributed-computing machines, which break a problem into separate pieces to speed calculations. It will also work on applying those technologies to problems in the environment and transportation, as well as to genomic medicine and new-media arts.

etc.

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2014: How we got here

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:46:30 GMT

http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/ols-master.html

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"The zoo's brown bear hasn't gone to sleep this year."

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:08:55 GMT

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/28960/story.htm

Warm Russian Winter Drives Bears Out of Bed
Story Date: 13/1/2005

MOSCOW - Russia's winter is so warm that a bear in a zoo has woken from her hibernation two months early, while another hasn't gone to sleep at all, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
The normally ferocious Russian winter, the bane of invaders from Napoleon to Hitler, has been unusually mild this year with temperatures hitting record seasonal highs.

"For a second day we are organising extra observation of a female black bear, which has woken up because of the warmth," a spokesman for the zoo in Russia's second-largest city of St Petersburg told the agency.

"The zoo's brown bear hasn't gone to sleep this year."

Temperatures in European Russia are forecast to fall by the end of this week, and return from a current balmy 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit) to below freezing.

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"the global cyberspace is shared by all intelligent beings of this planet"

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:22:00 GMT

http://www.santafe.edu/~gmk/MFGB/node20.html#SECTION000143300000000000000

Extensions to Non-Human Species

A different direction that we might encounter in the evolution of the Global Brain is the inclusion of the intelligence of other than human species: If we look at the Internet map, we notice that the last large white areas (Africa and former USSR) are rapidly filling in with Internet nodes. But the vast areas of the ocean are still disconnected from the Internet.

There have been many reports on the intelligence of sea mammals and especially that of whales. There also have been many attempts of verbal or symbolic communication with dolphins and whales. The success was limited probably for a variety of reasons. We can imagine that the new hyper-documents with a point-and-click iconographic interface could perhaps provide a new channel for efficient communication. We suggested a computer interface for whales that is based on video-tracking: A monitor (or video screen) displays a superimposed image of a computer window and the video image of the whale. A specific feature in the video image can be tracked using commercially available software such as ``Mandala'' of the Vivid Group that has been used in virtual reality environments for years. The whale gets optical feedback about the connections between the motion of the tracked feature and the motion of the cursor on the screen. Collisions between the cursor and icons on the screen can be detected and used to trigger specific events. In a computer interface context this would correspond to a (video)-mouse without any buttons. The button-down event could be triggered by a specific (learned) vocalization of the whale simultaneously with the collision between cursor and the icon. A main advantage for such an interface would be that it is independent from direct exposure to physical interaction with the whales or water. We can think of solar powered internet stations floating on the ocean with (Iridium) satellite hook-up and (LCD) screens with video/microphone interface. With such an interface a common language is available that could be used for joint global tasks. For example surveys related to global change problems could possibly be done in cooperation with whales. Observation of whale behavior provides already indirect information about ecological changes in the ocean:

(...) In peak years during the late '80s, more than 200 humpbacks would be identified around Stellwagen Bank in Massachusetts Bay in a season. Last year, just 69 were recorded, and this summer humpbacks are an even rarer sight. At the same time, more and more are being seen in the waters around Jeffreys Ledge off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine.
The movement of the humpbacks is drawing much scientific interest, offering clues not only to how the endangered marine mammals survive, mate and behave, but also to changes that may be taking place in the seas -- the overfishing of species the whales eat, or in water temperature or circulation. In the murky and poorly understood deep-sea world, whales are one of the few visible barometers of change.

"Whenever a shift like this happens, it means something's happening in the ecosystem," says Mason Weinrich, a zoologist who heads the Gloucester-based Cetacean Research Institute and has been studying humpbacks for a decade. (...)

JEFFREYS LEDGE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 25, 08/15/94
But eventually one can think of a world, where the global cyberspace is shared by all intelligent beings of this planet.

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"Humans are not unique in helping other species."

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:13:01 GMT

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3159148a11,00.html
Fisherman credits dolphin with saving his beloved dog
18 January 2005

Fisherman Dean Gibson credits a dolphin for saving his dog from drowning.

Mr Gibson and his mate Craig Woodnorth were salmon fishing, when a wave came in over the spit and washed Dean's dog into the Opihi river at its mouth on the South Canterbury coast.

German wirehaired pointer Heidi , aged seven months, was swept through the mouth of the river which was still running high from heavy rain a week ago.

Dean saw her flipped over in several waves before her head finally came up and she started swimming out to sea in the strong current.

As he rang his wife Janine with the bad news, he was watching Heidi through his binoculars. She was just a dot swimming lower and lower in the water.

Dean saw a fin and relayed the bad news to Janine that there was a shark beside Heidi. Another look and he realised the fin belonged to a dolphin.

What happened next stunned the two fishermen. The dolphin appeared to swim in front of Heidi making her turn towards the shore. It then swam nearby, rising out of the water a couple of times.

Dean can't help but wonder if it was checking to make sure Heidi was still swimming in the right direction.

Even with the help from the dolphin it still took her close to half an hour to get back into the beach, finally coming ashore about one kilometre south of the river mouth.

A wave dumped her onto the beach.

"She shook herself, spun around, and was pretty pleased to see us," Dean said.

Whangarei diver, author and dolphin enthusiast Wade Doak wasn't at all surprised to hear the story about Heidi.

While he couldn't recall yesterday any other cases of dogs being rescued by dolphins, he could offer a whole filing drawer of stories involving dogs and dolphins.

In an incident in Marseilles, France, a dolphin used to bang its tail on the water near a fish canning factory when it wanted the two dogs that lived there to play with her.

He also has notes on a dolphin called Aihe which used to live at Takaka. It always wanted dogs to swim out to sea, although the pets' owners usually stopped the adventures.

Dr Liz Slooten, a marine mammal scientist at Otago University, has been studying dolphins for 20 years, but had never heard of a dolphin helping another animal until yesterday. But it didn't surprise her.

"We do it to other animals," she said, suggesting that the dolphin would have been well aware Heidi was in trouble. As she was not a threat to the dolphin, it was willing to help her.

"Humans are not unique in helping other species."

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Preserve the body and the earth with safe healthy alternatives

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:54:25 GMT

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Pandemic Nears as Cosmic Ray Mutated Virus Unleashes Its Power

shawnodese23 — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:44:53 GMT

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers

The world this morning continues to reel from the
continuing effects on our planet's ionospheres
from the continued bombardment of energy surges
in the Southern Hemispheric Regions.

Acting upon the urgent pleadings from the United
States, President Putin has ordered the
historically Great Russian Icebreaking ship
Krasin <www.hnsa.org/ships/krasin.htm> to
join with the Americans' Coast Guards in the
rescue mission of the American Antarctica
research station McMurdo
<www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html
The head of this Russian Antarctica expedition,
Valery Lukin, has said, "Five icebergs have run
aground near the station and ice cannot flow out
from the bay. The ice is 3.5 meters thick in the
bay, and the station supply is difficult."

While we in Russia have been following with much
urgency this rescue mission for the 5,000
inhabitants of McMurdo Station, the Western media
are continuing to keep their people from knowing
about these events. More surprising to us has
been that the Americans' own scientific
organization NASA has stated, "The National
Science Foundation (NSF) officials said that the
B-15A iceberg and the frozen Sound will not
interfere with supply ship access to McMurdo
Station, the U. S. logistics hub for much of the
nation's research activity in Antarctica."
<www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/6543>

The continued breakings up of the great ice
sheets of Antarctica are virtually unknown to the
Western people. But how much longer they can
continue to be deceived, when even the Western
media can't refuse the reporting of the massive
icebergs flowing throughout the Southern
Hemispheric waters, is a question many of us are
asking of ourselves.

"Icebergs have been sighted in New Zealand waters
for the first time in 57 years, prompting a
warning to shipping in the region," says one of
these media reports by the Canadian news
organization, CBC.
<www.cbc.ca/story/world/...onal/2005/01/06/icebergs-newzealand050106.html>

The direness of these present events are best
said in a media article from Ireland that says,
"Currently there is 'more fast (blocked) ice in
McMurdo Sound than we've ever recorded in living
history for this time of year,' he said, adding
that the iceberg has been stopping normal winds
and water currents from breaking up sea ice in
McMurdo Sound."

The Northern Hemispheric Regions are not being
spared either and new research reports are
showing this. One report concerns the Jakobshavn
Isabrae glacier in Greenland, which according to
new research has become the world's fastest
glacier. It is also Greenland's largest outlet
glacier, draining more than six percent of the
country's total ice sheet area and according to
this new research, "Due to its recent speedup,
the Jakobshavn Isbrae is now solely responsible
for about four percent of the 20th century sea
level rise."
<www.tnhonline.com/news/2004...10/News/Unh-Glaciologist.Clocks.A.Speedy.Greenland.Glacier-827328.shtml>

Unlike Russia where many hundreds of thousands
have been moving away from the coastal regions,
Western people continue to move into them and
prize them more highly than the safer areas of
their mountains.

Most importantly for our consideration today
though, are the increasing fears that these
cosmic ray surges are the responsible agent for
the mutation of the "highly virulent avian flu
strain" known as H5N1.

In a report from London media sources we learn
that, "The alarm now sounds with increasing
frequency and urgency: the world could be on the
brink of an influenza
pandemic." <www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/L...nFreePress/News/2005/01/03/805585-sun.html>

Under the direction of the United States
scientific organization The Centers for Disease
Control, the most dangerous experiment in the
history of mankind is about to be taking place
involving this new virus. "This is the worst
virus I've ever met in my long career," says Dr.
Robert Webster, a world-renowned expert on
influenza based at St. Jude Childrens Research
Hospital in the United States.
<www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/L...nFreePress/News/2005/01/03/805585-sun.html>

World Health Organization officials increasingly
aware of our facing a world-wide pandemic
regarding this new virus have stated, "The
geographic spread of the H5N1 virus in poultry,
and evidence that it is becoming more versatile,
could make its eradication impossible."
<www.newstarget.com/002553.html>

The worst possible scenario that could ever be
imagined for the world-wide spread of this virus
has now become the world's reality with the Great
Tsunami of 2004, where hundreds of thousands of
dead are co-mingling with tens of thousands of
international relief workers, and all in the home
ground of this virus. Before this event Dr.
Shiferu Omi, Western Pacific regional director
for the World Health Organization had said, "We
are closer now to an influenza pandemic than at
any time in recent years."
<www.newstarget.com/002553.html>

Western people are also not knowledgeable about
the scientific research that is showing more and
more that the origins of viruses are
extraterrestrial and the result of these viruses'
interactions and then mutations with cosmic rays.

One research paper, Analysis of Cosmic and
Geophysical Factors Influence on Influenza
Viruses Reproduction, has stated, "We have
studied the influenza virus reproduction on the
model of tissue culture being under the influence
of solar and geomagnetic activities. It was
discovered at a statistically reliable level that
the harvest of viral generations was
quantitatively different under the equal doses of
infectious agent [A Hong Kong 1/68(H3N2)] and the
standard conditions of laboratory experiment as
well."
<www.astrobiology.com/asc2002...tract.html

It has further been recognized that, "Influenza
outbreaks are often caused by newly arriving
viruses from space. Among several lines of
evidence, they noticed that the worst flu
epidemics coincide with peaks in the eleven-year
cycle of sunspot activity."
<www.panspermia.org/panfluenza.htm>

These cosmic rays are extremely penetrating
micro-matter which travels through space at
speeds approaching that of light. These rays have
far more energy, impact, and destructiveness than
the alpha, beta, and gamma rays emitted by
radioactive atoms, and are that much more fatal.
Cosmic rays - particles are strongly affected by
magnetic fields.

There is no known technically available,
economical, and lightweight portable or human
designed barrier to cosmic rays. They can
penetrate many feet of soil, rock, and metal.
After penetrating through and interacting with a
10,000 mile protective magnetosphere of the Earth
and 600 miles of atmospheric molecules, they are
still powerful enough to penetrate up to 10 or 20
feet of rock. Cosmic rays also ionize water
molecules inside the cells, leaving hydroxyl
radicals to wander into the nucleus where they
alter the DNA, also as Russian research has shown.

Adding to the frightening urgency of these
current events are the growing numbers of
scientific research papers coming forth stating
that the previous periods in our planet's history
where mass deaths have occurred, and had been
attributed to meteor impacts upon the earth, are
more likely to have had their origins on this
planet alone.

"Our geochemical analyses of these two famous
end-Permian sections in Austria and Italy reveal
no tangible evidence of extraterrestrial impact,
"This suggests the mass extinction must have been
home-grown.", says Christian Koeberl from the
University of Vienna who headed an international
team of scientists investigating these events.
<www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html

For their public releases the Western scientists
speculate that these mass extinctions were caused
by volcanic activity, but in their private
international conversations the cosmic ray
mutations of viruses are their top concerns, and
their worst fear, especially with the most
dangerous virus ever known to human beings, H5N1,
about to unleash its devastation upon all the
world's human beings.

Coinciding with these events is the apparent
secret protections being given to some Western
people by something called "chemical trail
spreading". I am not knowing of these things
however and am requesting more information from
them for our consideration.

Our outreaching to the people of the West about
all of these important matters is continuing but
I am not able to understand their reactions and
thoughts regarding them. Their acceptance of the
propaganda being told to them by their
educational, governmental and religious
institutions is not being countered in their home
lives like ours has been, in our troubled times
past under the communists.

More understanding of their social collective is
needed by us in order for our efforts on their
behalf to succeed. Not just faceless and
soulless are they but they are not of the knowing
of their souls.

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For Sale: Biosphere 2, gently used

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:53:11 GMT

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6784296/
Biosphere 2: A little world is up for sale
By Thomas Stauffer, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
TucsonAZUSA - For sale: 137,000-square-foot building with stunning views of the Catalina and Tortolita mountains through 6,500 windows.

The Texas company that built and owns the Biosphere 2 Center near Oracle announced Monday that it has formally put up for sale the 3.1-acre glass terrarium and 70 other buildings on the 140-acre campus.

"This is one of the most spectacular properties in Southern Arizona - if not the most spectacular - so we think it should attract some interest," said Christopher T. Bannon, general manager of Decisions Investment Corp. of Fort Worth, which owns Biosphere 2.

The campus, 16 miles north of Tucson in Pinal County, has more than 300,000 square feet of space including offices, classrooms, laboratories, residential housing, and a hotel and conference center. It remains open as a tourist destination, Bannon said.

"We're looking at everything from government entities, universities and private schools to church groups, resorts and spas as potential owners," he said. "We'd love to see the Biosphere 2 used as a research activity, but we know that may not be the end result."

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International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 19:53:15 GMT

http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/modules.php?name=ePetitions&op=more_info&ePetitionId=3

Uranium weapons, often called 'depleted' uranium (DU) weapons, are manufactured from radioactive waste materials produced during the nuclear fuel chain and the production of nuclear weapons. They cause widespread and long lasting radioactive contamination of the environment. These weapon systems are radiologically and chemically toxic.

Many people - innocent civilians especially children, military veterans, industry workers - have illnesses and medical problems, which may be due to their exposure to 'depleted' uranium. In areas such as southern Iraq, where uranium munitions were used by the US and the UK, there have been reports of increases in cancers, leukemia and birth defects.

At least 18 countries possess these weapons, the use of which is contrary to existing humanitarian law.

We, the people, need to let governments and the United Nations know that these weapons can have no part in a humane and caring world. Every signature counts!

We call for your support to demand:

1. An immediate end to the use of uranium weapons.

2. Disclosure of all locations where uranium weapons have been used and immediate removal of the remnants and contaminated materials from the sites under strict control.

3. Health surveys of the 'depleted' uranium victims and environmental investigations at the affected sites.

4. Medical treatment and compensation for the 'depleted' uranium victims.

5. An end to the development, production, stockpiling, testing, trade of uranium weapons.

6. A Convention for a Total Ban on Uranium Weapons.

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worldchanging

Alex — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:37:57 GMT

Y'all might find our new site, http://www.worldchanging.org, worth checking out. It's a group blog about tools for building sustainability, democracy and open systems. I'd be interested to hear what you guys think.

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The Earth is One Country...

Quddus — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:30:30 GMT

Did you know Baha'u'llah (a Persian noble man who gave up a life of luxury and power in service to humanity, also the founder of the Baha'i Faith) already said 160 years ago: "The Earth is One Country and mankind its citizens."?

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A Green Solution Now

Asha — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 09:36:35 GMT

Shouting on soapboxes isn't getting us anywhere. Living solution will. I have decided to start my own tribe for people to come and learn to implement sustainable local protein food production methods. I have named it Grow Your Own. I intend to use this tool to promote sustainable land based aquaculture as solution to corporate controlled food sources, as solution to strip mining our oceans, as solution to contaminated food, and as solution to environmental damage done by conventional protein production and harvesting. This tribe is being created to challenge as many consumers as I can to put your money where your mouth is, take control and make a change. "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach him to (grow) fish; he eats for a life time."

This method is adaptable for an individual, a community, a co-housing development, for soup kitchens, alongside community gardens and greenhouses etc. We have also found it to be economically sustaining.

The main goal here, of course, is to get ~ the ~ clean ~ fish ~ on ~ the ~ market. If it’s not made available than consumers have no option accept to stop eating fish period. And are they really going to do THAT? And how many need to make that choice to impact a change? And that's ~just ~fish. What it takes to impact water conservation, pollution, environmental damage, even wasted land raising cattle and pig and all the damage continuously done doing THAT protein food production. Gotta make available a better alternative.

We are located in Maine and have a fish farm ourselves. We believe strongly that anyone concerned with health, environment, sustainability, ecology, corporate control, local food production, and local economies and the communities effected, as well as water conservation and land conservation should take a real good look at this solution. I invite you to participate. Hello.

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anyone know???

ZiTlali — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:00:06 GMT

Im interested in volunteering for a beach cleaning weekend and meet people that have the same interest...any one ? i live on the bay area.

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Great Links

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:56:57 GMT

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I hope this is something which will interest you.

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The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (22 June 2004)

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New Features:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/

* Sizing Up the Earth's Glaciers (DAAC Study)

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/GLIMS

Visit the worlds high mountain ranges and youll probably see less ice and snow today than you would have a few decades ago. More than 110 glaciers have disappeared from Montanas Glacier National Park over the past 150 years.

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In the News:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/

* Latest Images:

Retreat of the Gangotri Glacier

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16584

Lightning Triggers Fires Across Alaska

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16583

Niger River in Mali

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16582

Solitons, Strait of Gibraltar

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16581

Grand Canal, Venice

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16580

Fires on Sumatra, Indonesia

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16579

African Monsoon

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16578

Dust Storm in Afghanistan

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16577

* NASA News

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/

- NASA Research Helps Highlight Lightning Safety Awareness Week

- NASA Data Shows Hurricanes Help Plants

Bloom in “Ocean Deserts”

- NASA Data Offers a Safari into Vast African
Topography

* Media Alerts

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/

- Fish Story Linked to Climate Cycle

- NSF’s North Pole Researchers Study Climate Change in Arctic

- Carbon Dioxide [CO2] Fertilization is Slowing Global Warming

- New Yorkers' Health Will Be Affected by Climate Change, New Study Shows

- University of Colorado to Receive $20 Million from NASA to Study Nocticulent Clouds

- Ecosystem Bounces Back from Hurricanes

- USA's Built-Up Surfaces Equal Ohio in Area

- Two Billion Vulnerable to Floods by 2050; Number Expected to Double or More in Two Generations

* Headlines from the press, radio, and television:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/

- UN Warns Aral Sea Could Dry Up

- Western Drought Now Beats Dust Bowl

- Seafloor Shifts Can Displace Beaches

- UN Says Globe Drying Up at Fast Pace

- New Bug Indicates Global Warming

- The Biomass Answer to Global Warming

- Global Warming Tipped to Produce Hot City Nights

- Climate Change Experts Say Despair over U.S. Attitude

- Scientists Sound Alarm on Canadian Weather Forecasts

- Climate Change Inevitable Say Scientists

- Israel Tests Earthquake Devices with Blast

- USA's Built-up Surfaces Equal Ohio in Area

- All Ecosystems Are Equally Productive under Drought Conditions

- Recent Tahoe Quakes Were on Familiar Ground

- Concealed Fault Caused Bam Quake

- NASA Data Shows Hurricanes Help Plants Bloom in "Ocean Deserts"

- Plunge in Arctic Seabirds May Signal Climate Change, Pollution

- Smoggy Debate

- Flood-Menaced Population to Double by 2050, UN Says

* New Research Highlights

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Research/

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Earth Observatory weekly mailing -- http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ To

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Well, it's a start

Nick — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 03:41:09 GMT

Why so few? Where did they go? Did I sleep through it?

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CALIFORNIANS FOR GE-FREE AGRICULTURE NEWSLETTER VOLUME #1

planttrees — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:09:17 GMT

This is the first monthly newsletter of Californians for GE-Free Agriculture. If you are not already signed up to receive this as part of our Volunteer Network you can do so at <http://www.registervisitors.com/calge/signup.htm>.

Please forward this email to anyone you think may be interested.

CALIFORNIANS FOR GE-FREE AGRICULTURE NEWSLETTER VOLUME #1 FEBRUARY 2004.

Newsletter Contents:

1. Background on the California campaign.
2. Taking action to stop GE crops in California.
3. Mendocino County GE initiative heads to polls.

BACKGROUND ON THE CALIFORNIA CAMPAIGN.

Californians for GE-Free Agriculture <http://www.calgefree.org> is a unique coalition of sustainable farming, environmental, and consumer organizations united to prevent genetically engineered (GE) agriculture in California. Our members include: California Certified Organic Farmers, Center for Environmental Health, Center for Food Safety, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Ecological Farming Association, Four Elements Farm, Genetic Engineering Action Network, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, and Organic Consumers Association.

California, which produces over 350 crops, is currently free of GE, with the exception of cotton grown in the Central Valley. This could all change soon and the biotech industry has set its sights on California, the country's largest food producer and exporter of food.

In 2004, the main thrust of our campaign will be stopping GE rice. In September 2003, the US EPA gave final regulatory approval for Bayer's (previously Aventis) Liberty Link GE rice. Liberty Link rice is engineered to be tolerant to glufosinate, a broad-spectrum herbicide similar to Monsanto's Roundup. Liberty Link rice could be planted as soon as 2005.

California produces 20% of all rice grown in the US on about 500,000 acres, and is the nation's second largest rice producer. Most of the rice grown in California is a high quality medium grain variety known as CalRose, used in baby food, desserts, beer, breakfast cereal, and also as table rice. 33% of the state's rice is exported, primarily to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Turkey.

Another company, Ventria BioSciences, has been trying to get approval to grow and mill two "pharm" varieties of rice in California on a commercial scale. Pharm crops are plants that have been engineered to produce a pharmaceutical drug. Ventria's pharm rice is engineered with human genes that produce two proteins, lactoferrin and lysozyme. They are used as anti-microbials to treat diarrhea, prevent iron deficiency, and treat infections in humans, and for use in chicken farming.

Many consumers and food companies are concerned that these and other drugs may someday end up in their breakfast cereal. We are expecting the California Rice Commission to make a decision on Ventria's proposed expansion of pharm rice in the next several months.

2. TAKING ACTION IN THE FARMING COMMUNITY TO STOP GE CROPS IN CALIFORNIA

For the last nine months we have been busy at work laying the groundwork for a successful campaign to keep GE crops out of California.

---We have been working diligently to raise concerns in the farming community about the dangers posed by Ventria's pharm rice. We are in the process of collecting statements of opposition from farmers, mills, farmer groups and others within the rice industry.

---We have produced a series of fact sheets to educate farmers <http://www.calgefree.org/farmers.shtml> and have helped to organize a series of successful educational seminars for leaders in the rice industry.

---Our Farmer Advocate has been actively engaged with many influential decision-makers in the rice industry, alerting them to the problems posed by GE rice.

--We will also be hosting several farmer leadership workshops in the future to expand our grassroots network of farmers. Please contact Campaign Coordinator Renata Brillinger (renata@oaec.org or 707-874-1557 x 222) if you would like more information.

***WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO ALSO GET INVOLVED IN KEEPING CALIFORNIA GE-FREE***

---Call food companies and ask about their policy regarding the use of GE rice in their products. Inform them that GE rice may soon be grown in the US, and let them know your concerns. Ask them to provide a guarantee to their customers that they will use non-GE rice. For a list of companies click on <http://www.calgefree.org/consumers.shtml#helpstop>

---Call your state Representative and Senator and ask their position on GE foods. Let them know you are concerned about this technology and the negative impact it will have on the state's agriculture. Ask them to support any future legislation preventing GE crops from being grown in the state. You can find your local politician at <http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset9text.htm>

---Form a local group and get together with others in your area to stop GE. Californians for GE-Free Agriculture is helping to form Food Democracy groups throughout the state. These groups will help keep California GE-free and organize locally to promote a sustainable food system. Please reply to this email <simon@calgefree.org> or call 415-561-2523 to get involved in your community.

3. MENDOCINO COUNTY ANTI-GE INITIATIVE HEADS TO POLLS

An exciting development in the battle to stop GE crops is coming out of Mendocino County in Northern California. On March 2nd, 2004 voters will go to the polls to decide if they want to ban the growing of GE plants in the county. Measure H, which has wide support from county residents, farmers, wineries, business owners, and even the County Sheriff, would be the first county wide ban on GE crops in the US. Please check out GMO-Free Mendocino's website <http://www.gmofreemendo.com> for more information. If you live in Mendocino County we encourage you to get involved in the campaign. The Measure H campaign welcomes donations to help them in this important work.

We rely on the financial support of individuals, businesses and foundations.

To make a donation, visit <http://www.calgefree.org/active/donations.shtml>

Thanks for your support,
Californians For GE-Free Agriculture

PRIVACY POLICY: Californians for GE-Free Agriculture does not disclose or release your email or other information to other organizations or individuals. Subscribers to our list serve will receive 1 or 2 emails per month pertaining to our campaign activities and also events, which may be taking, place in their area.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO YOUR FRIENDS WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED.
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HELP! NEED A BRIGHTER PLACE TO LIVE!

Sharon — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 20:11:17 GMT

Me and my kids need help. I will be unemployed in less than a month and will most likely be leaving Alaska. I don't know where to go and would like some info on jobs, rent, etc. wherever all of you live! Any advice? I'm leaving VERY soon and have a LOOOOOng way to drive....HELP!

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Plant Native Trees

planttrees — Thu, 25 Dec 2003 06:02:30 GMT

In SF, or any concrete jungle, diversity is important, non-native may be ok.
In nature, near any watershed or threatened habitat, native is important.

Plant Native Trees : Goals

Empower Youth through tree planting.

Establish role of local, non-hybrid seeds as biodiversity.
Identify damage done by weeds.

Slow global warming:
Protect standing forests, restore cut forests,
plant urban areas with nearest forest seed.

* Empower youth through the simple physical act of planting a tree:
resulting in lifelong confidence of ability to restore the planet.

* Define biodiversity as a sum of every intact,
locally-adapted ecosystem.

* Illustrate the harm done by invasive weeds,
genetically manipulated releases, and clones.

* Display Global Warming as a consequence
of reduced biomass/ photosynthesis.

* Protect standing forests. Use naturally occurring local seed to replace cut forests,
and to green cities. Protect roadless areas. Ban leafblowers. (leaves and mulch preserve, then become soil)

Grow your own REDWOODS, slow global warming.
Gather thousands of seeds under local Redwoods in Fall
(1-3% may germinate). Mix into rich wet soil; gardens, yards
pots, near sprinklers, any place that stays wet Winter + Spring.
Seedlings emerge in late Spring. Keep these wet until Fall.
Plant after first rain. Redwoods like water, grow well together;
10 meters apart, moist ground, shade between.
Suggested home planting one tree in each back corner of yard.
Leaves and mulch preserve soil, nutrients. Ban leafblowers!
Preserve Biodiversity; bring forest seeds into cities but don't
dilute a virgin forest's genepool by introducing alien seeds.
If we put all the trees back where we found them, things are more likeley to be ok.
Densest Earth biomass - Redwood forests bring rain, Oxygen.

PLANT NATVE TREES
Wildlife depends on native plants for food and shelter.
Learn local natives and how to plant them; ask your elders.
Gather seeds locally; preferably within 100 meters to 5 km.
Plants evolve local genes uniquely suited to each habitat.
Plant after 1st rain. Reclaim land damaged by roads, buildings.
Weeds ride free on construction equipment and leafblowers.
Protect Roadless Areas. Live Simply. scott@planttrees.org
Restore Earth to the form it had before we altered it.
If we put all the trees back where we found them, we can breathe.
http://www.PlantTrees.org 415 269 7738 Scott Munson 650 854 5829

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Tongass National Forest

Tara — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:09:12 GMT

Save the Tongass National Forest

Contributed by NRDC

Backed by a White House that is hostile to wilderness protection, the U.S.
Forest Service has announced it intends to conduct 50 large-scale timber sales
in pristine
areas of the Tongass National Forest, the largest U.S. national forest — home
to rich salmon spawning grounds, grizzly bear habitat and the world’s
densest population of bald eagles.

Click here to take action!

The “roadless rule,” issued in 2001 in response to energetic advocacy
by environmental groups and backed by strong public support, bars all of these
timber sales. But the Bush administration is planning to undercut or eliminate
the roadless rule and has already proposed exempting the Tongass (as well as
the Chugach National Forest, also in Alaska) from the rule. The logging and roadbuilding
the administration is pushing for in these forests would destroy wildlife habitat,
silt up world-class salmon streams and degrade the pristine character of America’s
last great temperate rainforests forever.

Tell
the Forest Service not to destroy wildlands in Alaska’s Tongass
and Chugach national forests.

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check out

Wildblood — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 22:33:27 GMT

www.enn.com

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Glad to be a member!

Otter — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 02:03:13 GMT

WoW! If there really were only 32 of us, we'd be like 4 people per continent!

I'm proud to be a member of this little ship of ours, and will pledge to do what I can to see that she can always sail safely across the sky.

Please post your favorite reason for being a member.

Thanx,

Otter .

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