Environment & Forest Defense
Environment & Forest Defense
CODE PINK delivers Xmas songs on Xmas Eve
K S K Q - 94.9 FM - Ashland, Oregon, 24-12-2008 - 13:13
CODE PINK swarmed Ashland's KSKQ studio on Christmas Eve and sang Christmas carols "live" on the Brain Labor Report... Seven Code Pinksters shared their tunes which have a special political twist and were a hit for early morning listeners this December 24, 2008...
The show is archived and can be listened to online here: 
http://www.kskq.org/brainlabor/?p=434
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Help Ls Vgs Conserve H2O! No Aquifer Drawdown
SNWA Call for Abstracts Til 1/30, 24-12-2008 - 11:32
We need your help to protect the Snake and Spring Valley aquifers from being drawn down by Las Vegas water demands. One way people can help is to encourage a diversity of water conservation measures that Las Vegas and Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) could try as alternatives to pumping and draining distant aquifers yet intact. People are given the chance to send SNWA their ideas for abstracts for an upcoming Water Innovations Conference later in '09, abstracts due by 1/30/09. Even if you cannot go there, send them your ideas for water conservation anyway!!
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Bush X-mas Gift to Big Oil; BLM Land in UT
Wilderness Commons is NOT for Sale!!, 19-12-2008 - 10:20
Utah - (12/19) In a last ditch effort to appease the oil corporations, the outgoing GW Bush regime is auctioning off public BLM land to the highest bidder. Environmentalists, hunters, and other outdoor recreationists and lovers of wilderness are all protesting this sale of public land to corporate bidders.
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"Broken Levees, Broken Lives" on RVTV
W A T C H * T H I S * V I D E O, 15-12-2008 - 14:52
Great Video from Colette Washington (California Nurses Association) who spearheaded this production on the fight to reopen the New Orleans Charity Hospital, which is the largest public hospital in Louisiana where 65% of the people have no healthcare insurance.
Watch and Share this Compelling New Video Short: "Broken Levees, Broken Lives"...the Post-Katrina Focus on Health Three years post-Hurricane Katrina, hope remains adrift for many families living in New Orleans, not to mention those 200,000 evacuees still scattered about the country unable to return home—or without a home to return to.
WATCH THIS VIDEO ON ROGUE VALLEY COMMUNITY TELEVISION
Wednesday December 17, 2008 at 6 PM (Repeats December 24 and 31, both 6PM)
Cable Channel #15 throughout Jackson and Josephine Counties
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Governor Kulongoski Rejects WOPR
Liisa, 10-12-2008 - 20:44
Governor Kulongoski Rejects WOPR
Monday, December 8th Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski sent a letter to the Bureau of Land Management rejecting their Western Oregon Plan Revisions and reasserting his support for the Wild Rogue and other important values.
In his letter the Governor, stated that the WOPR is not consistent with his support for additional protections for the Wild Rogue – over 58,000 acres of Wilderness and over 98 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers additions to the tributary streams.
Additionally, he stated “this work is the wrong approach and is legally inconsistent with the requirements of the ESA.”
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Jeffrey Free Luers interviews Grant Barnes
free, 03-12-2008 - 10:56
Jeffrey Free Luers interviews Grant Barnes
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Stop Dirty Energy event in Ashland!
Cascadia Monica, 02-12-2008 - 23:49
Plug in to the movement to stop dirty energy projects in Southern Oregon. Come to SOU on Wednesday night to learn how you can protect communities, rivers and forests from fossil fuel destruction.
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Mt. Ashland Expansion Alert!
Tracy Harding, 02-12-2008 - 14:12
On Tuesday Dec. 2 (today), the City Council will decide whether or not to Appeal the decision of Judge Schiveley in the Mt. Ashland Association vs. City of Ashland case that was heard in the Jackson County Circuit Court.
The City has a strong case on Appeal and the opportunity to recover significant legal costs.
Please speak out to the Council and let them know that the citizens support them standing firm and Appealing this poor and unexpected ruling.
Location: Council Chambers, 1175 East Main St.
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
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WOPR Rally in Salem
Liisa, 16-11-2008 - 12:18
On Friday,November 14th in Salem over 350 people from around the state stood on the Capitol steps to “speak for the trees” and tell Governor Kulongowski to reject the WOPR (Western Oregon Plan Revision). About 15 people from Ashland and Roseburg were in attendance at the rally. Buses from Cottage Grove, Eugene, and Portland were also at the event. The Rally was sponsored by the WOPR & Beyond Coalition, a coalition of more than 2 dozen organizations representing rural and urban citizens across Oregon.
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WOPR Rally In Salem Tomorrow-Get on the Bus!
Liisa, 13-11-2008 - 19:00
Governor Call-In Day
& Rally to Stop the WOPR
& Save Our Forests
Friday, Nov. 14
Ashland: Free bus leaving at 6:00am from Shop-N-Cart Parking Lot, Tolman Creek Rd. , returning by 8:30pm. RSVP to Carrie Zoll at 
carriezoll@hotmail.com
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ELF Press Office Message to Obama
anon, 11-11-2008 - 08:31
http://www.elfpressoffice.org
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Klamath-Siskiyou eNews, Issue 131
KS Wild, 08-11-2008 - 11:14
Klamath-Siskiyou eNews, Issue 131
November 6, 2008
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In this Issue:
Patagonia's Wild and Scenic Film Festival: Tomorrow in Medford
BLM Allows Protest Period on WOPR After Lawsuit Filed
Comments Needed on LNG Project in Southwest Oregon
KS Wild Gift Memberships - A Gift That Keeps Giving
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No More Clear Cuts!
Liisa, 02-11-2008 - 17:55
On October 9, 2008, the BLM released its Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR). The BLM’s final proposal would clearcut 74,000 acres of stands over 80 years old in the first decade and 27% of the remaining old growth across 96,200 acres of BLM lands over the next 100 years. The WOPR will increase logging by nearly 400% compared to current logging levels; get over 70% of the timber volume from clearcutting; shrink streamside reserves by 50%; add 180 million tons more carbon to the atmosphere compared to no logging and result in 1,300 miles of new roads.
The final plan will mirror the draft in most regards. It will: 1) remove BLM forests from the scientific framework of the Northwest Forest Plan; 2) ramp up clearcut logging across hundreds of thousands of acres; 3) remove streamside buffers that protect clean water and fish; and 4) log some of the last remaining older forests in western Oregon.
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NAELFPO HAS RETURNED
free, 02-11-2008 - 15:04
NAELFPO HAS RETURNED
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Earth Liberation Front Press Office Returns..
anon, 31-10-2008 - 21:41
http://www.elfpressoffice.org
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Public Hearing about LNG Pipeline in Medford
Liisa, 26-10-2008 - 01:00
Public Hearings on Southern Oregon LNG Pipeline - October 27th-30th
Meeting times and dates are below, ore information on the terminal and pipeline can be found at: Citizen's Against LNG and No California Pipeline and LNG Pollutes.
Monday, October 27, 2008 North Bend Community Center
6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. (PST) 2222 Broadway Street
North Bend, Oregon 97459
Telephone: 541-756-8500
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Umpqua Community College
6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. (PST) Campus Center Dining Room/Timber Room
1140 Umpqua College Road
Roseburg, Oregon 97470
Telephone: 541-440-4600
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Red Lion Inn
6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. (PST) Rogue River Ballroom
200 N. Riverside Avenue
Medford, Oregon 97501
Telephone: 541-779-5811
Thursday, October 30, 2008 Oregon Institute of Technology
6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. (PST) College Union Auditorium
3201 Campus Drive
Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601
Telephone: 541-885-1000, 1032
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Citizens Fight Walmart in Medford, Oregon
Medford Citizens for Responsible Development, 22-10-2008 - 13:07
(the long struggle continues, here is an excerpt from this saga)...
But when we went to speak at the planning hearings, we were told by city staff to shut up and sit down. We were told by Wal-Mart’s hired guns that we should give them a break because they’ve bent over backwards by designing a better-looking box. Twice the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals has told the city to follow the law and let their citizens be heard. And that’s where MCRD is today, again asking the city to enforce its own laws that require a traffic study before any major development that threatens to significantly increase traffic levels.
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Melting permafrost an environmental hazard
Barents Observer, 20-10-2008 - 16:22
The permafrost of the Arctic areas in Russia, Canada and Alaska is melting. This causes emissions of enormous amounts of greenhouse gases which in turn will speed up the global greenhouse effect.
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Snake & Spring Vally Aquifer H2O Conservation
Devil's Hole pupfish, 13-10-2008 - 13:59
There are several reasons to avoid the proposed pipeline project diverting water from the Snake and Spring Valley aquifers to the Las Vegas region as planned by Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). This report will provide background information as to the physical and geological characteristics of the two aquifers mentioned above, including ecological components most likely affected by potential overdraft from the SNWA pipeline.
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