February 28, 2003
To become law of the
land... - Wildlands Project writ large -
Henry Lamb, Eco-logic
House advances
bill to preserve Snoqualmie forest
- King County Journal
What high school students
think...Need more federal land, or not? by
Floy Lilley, for eco-logic
Invasive Species
by Jim Beers
Special
Report: Nature's Landlord - The story of the World's
Most Powerful Environmental Group - The Nature Conservancy -
Range Magazine
The consensus
process...But I didn't give my consent by Joyce Morrison,
for eco-logic
298
Hunting Camps to be demolished -PRF
Basic Health being abused,
some say - Lawmakers: Big businesses sponge off plan -The
Olympian
Taking stock of
150 years of Washington Territory -Seattle Times
Court Lets Stand
the Ban on 'God' in Pledge - NY Times
February 27, 2003
APC
President discusses Sustainable Development with Friends of Freedom
21 Santa Cruz
"Smart Growth"
is "Agenda 21" by Henry Lamb, eco-logic
Smart
Growth News across the U.S. -Smart Growth Online
UC professor says government
underestimates impact of habitat designation -The
Oregonian
N.C. - Property owners
vow to fight - object to extreme rise in property values, taxes
- McDonald News
The Wildlands Project
Comes to Hidalgo County (Part 18) A
Country Girl’s Musin’ by Judy Keeler
MORRISON Opinion on
TNC: But I thought they were the good guys
February 26, 2003
Rep. Jim Buck to hold town
meetings on North Olympic Peninsula
GOP plan would cut
taxes on housing, skirt urban growth area limits -Bellingham
Herald
Two items of
good news: Bill introduced to require scientific evidence prior to ESA
listings; move to reduce land acquistion for federal government holdings
Everett appeals
shore ruling -Charges Hearings Board overstepped its
authority in reaching the conclusion that all land within 200 feet of
the state's major shorelines is automatically a 'critical area' under
the Growth Management Act - Everett Herald
Legislature: Bill
would give cities and counties right to seek more taxes
-The Olympian
Buck poetically responds
to Kessler's 'poet laureate' bill
Bush global-warming
plan criticized - but his advisers have said that scientists'
ability to create models for forecasting climate change is still not
precise enough for the U.S. to agree to international mandates
- Seattle P-I
Canada: Interim U.S.
tax kills softwood lumber talks -Blames "excessive" demands
- US imports approx. 1/3 of its timber from Canada -
Bellingham Herald
The threat from within...Killing
us gently -
Our strength as a nation requires food, and fuel. Our ability to produce
these essentials has become less important than protecting a red-legged
frog, or a sucker fish - by Henry Lamb, eco-logic
Rural People to Protest
Environmental Disaster and Forest Policies- Organizers
predict that between 5,000-50,000 people will attend the rally -
News release from FAL
Salmon, steelhead
still rated at risk by NOAA - Scientists believe rise in numbers is
temporary -
Seattle P-I
UT: Kane, Garfield County
Commissioners Challenge BLM, Grand Canyon Trust Sierra
Times
February 25, 2003
The
Wildlands Project Comes to Hidalgo County (Part 17)
-A Country Girl’s Musin’ by Judy Keeler
Everett appeals ruling
against its shoreline plan - Growth hearings board wrong, asserts city
- Seattle P-I
U.S. unveils plan
for Columbia basin - Local officials in 4 states will select projects
- Loggers, ranchers say it will cost jobs -
Seattle P-I
County Reduces
Ag Land - Economics helped decision to aid farmers
who can't make a living from the land
-
Yakima Herald
State, Ranchers
at Odds Over Regulations -
Yakima Herald
Kessler introduces bill
to create 'state poet laureate' - News Tribune
Bill targets store
'club cards' - Some fear supermarkets may abuse consumer privacy -Spokesman-Review
Congressman Sings
the Blues About $800,000 in Omnibus for the Grammy Foundation.
Why Does the Grammy Foundation Need Taxpayer Money?
State must lift
barriers to business - Opinion, Spokesman-Review
Public
employment continues to grow steadily
- Increase of nearly 1,800 full-time equivalent employees in 2002
- EFF
Politicians should
look in mirror to see why trust is low -News
Tribune
Viewpoint: Bill Robs
the Public of Its Right to Know -The
Olympian
Feruary 24, 2003
HB1194 requires
schools to explain why we are "One Nation, Under God" -Hearing
date set for Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 6 p.m. - from
Monte Benham
IRS tries to reach
illegal workers - Undocumented immigrants often entitled
to refunds -
LVRJ
General Motors Issues
Challenge Grant With The Nature Conservancy To Save Threatened Brazilian
Forests -
The Auto Channel
Faith-Based Initiative
legislation heading through Congress is nothing more than a Land Grab
by such as the Nature Conservancy
- editorial by Julie Kay Smithson
Klamath tribes,
feds talk water-land deal
- Capital Press
Compromise rules
in wilderness talks-Capital
Press
How to give up some freedom
today: Let corporate welfare thrive TRACKSIDE
© by John D’Aloia Jr.
Engineer reports dairy
odor progress
- Capital Press
Federal Regulatory Update:
Proposed Rule -- Special Uses Requiring Authorization
on Forest Service Land may affect access to public lands
-f rom ARRA
The Subtle Side of
Gradualism by Betty
Freauf for NewsWithViews.com
Prairie preservation
here slowly takes root -The
Seattle Times
February 23, 2003
Governor's panel
releases plan for 'sustainability'
-K. Baril
Nature Conservancy
buys land to protect Indiana's Lost River caves-Indianopolis
Star
Has The Nature Conservancy
Run Amok? Nate
Dickinson, PRF
Move over, Saddam: Overzealous
regulators also threaten Freedom - By M. David Stirling,
PLF
IRS says homeless man owes
$6 million -Seattle
P-I
Thousands rally in
Silverdale to show support for the troops - Seattle
P-I
Senate spa gets pricey
facelift: Lawmakers, staff tightlipped about exclusive luxury facility
-WND
Wipe that brilliant-white
smile off your face, says EU - UK Telegraph
Justice
Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act
Center Publishes Secret Draft of ‘Patriot II’ Legislation -
Center for Public Integrity
February 21, 2003
House OKs Linville business
bill - Chamber also clears two other bills friendly to business -
Bellingham Herald
Republic sawmill's
life extended - Company President Duane Vaagen makes winning bid in
federal timber auction -Spokesman-Review
UTAH: Kane, Garfield County
Commissioners Challenge BLM, Grand Canyon Trust -Garfield
Co. News
Giant ecosystem plan completed
- Forest Service, BLM spent nine years on four-state
project -Spokesman-Review
Minnow-water rule galls
greens - Albuquerque Tribune
Calif. Woman Jailed for
Feeding Deer -WA
Post
Conservationists
Halt Road Project in Arizona Wilderness -ENS
Dalton fined $137,345
for environmental violation - Portion of money may go to The Nature
Conservancy to buy up land
- The Ledger-Inquirer
$750,000 OK'd to study
orca fatalities -Seattle Times
New
Legislator Works To Save Lands From Wolves, Weeds, And Water Bugs by
Henry Lamb
Comment sought on bull
trout proposals
Letter and comment from
Smithson on bull trout proposal
Foreign Drug Cartels
In Our National Forests - "A Dangerous Epidemic" by
Barry Clausen
K-12: Washington spends
$9,594 per student - New NEA numbers beg question: Where
is the money going? by
Bob Williams, EFF
La Verkin now feels
vindicated in declaring town "U.N.-free zone"
-Deseret News
Secretary-General
Clinton? Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
February 20, 2003
Spotted owl: Still at
risk or out of woods? Timber industry wins federal review -- and some
are suspicious -
Seattle P-I
State Dept. of Ecology
tries to 'sneak' in stormwater regs? Local councilman wonders
- KONP
Families struggle to
own homes - Lack of "buildable" land, fees and regulations
add tens of thousands of dollars to new-home prices
by Mike Flynn, guest editorial for Bellingham Herald
More arguments
to air at hearing over Sammamish trail
- Seattle P-I
People for a Liveable
Community told to clarify Glen Cove appeal - Growth Hearings
Board says 'be more specific' in challenge to land use policies -
PT Leader
Government can't
fund everything -
editorial, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Wilderness plan back
before Congress - Patty Murray re-introduces bill to place 106,000 acres
into 'permanent protection' -
Everett Herald
State agrees to
review timber practices - Enviromentalists, tribes, want stricter regulations
- Seattle P-I
The National Forest
Ecosystem Protection Act of 2002 - H.R.652 - Implementing The Wildlands
Project
Grazing on
Public Lands: Here to Stay or Gone Forever? Out Front and Behind the
Scenes -
3rd in a series by Toni Thayer
Council to recommend
fish conservation budget -The Oregonian
Clallam readies
for new planning chief -
PDN
February 19, 2003
Citizen offers research
to city council - council ignores evidence and votes in fluoridation
Port Angeles City
Council votes 6-1 to fluoridate water -
PDN
Voting Rights Under Attack
- Ballot measures give voters a strong voice -The
Olympian
Lawmakers mull
green power mandates -Tri-City
Herald
Brewery tax plan draws
a bitter response - state excise tax would be raised by 495 percent-Seattle
P-I
February 18, 2003
The Wildlands
Project Comes to Hidalgo County (Part 16) by
Judy Keeler
Montana pushes to take
control of its wolves - Missoula Independent
KLAMATH: What caused
salmon deaths? by Barry Clausen for Siskiyou Daily
News
Whose land is it...A new
defense against the feds by
Henry Lamb, Eco-Logic
EDITORIAL: A valuable
constitutional safeguard - Delegates should heed -LVRJ
A Sour Taste On The Farm:
Longtime Dairy Farmers Look Toward Greener Pastures -The
Columbian
Farmers
Shouldn't Be Bound to Marginal Land - Restrictive zoning
under GMA hold farmers hostage on their own land
- Yakima Herald Editorial
Capital Views: Tax breaks
get closer scrutiny in tight budget -The Columbian
Lawmakers need to
tweak state's law on minimum wage
- Walla Walla Union-Bulletin editorial
Tribe's Utility Fee
Still Under Fire -Yakima
Herald-Republic
Tax repeal could
help equipment sales-Capital
Press
Opinion - A Local View:
State's decision unfair to farmers -The
Columbian
Twisp mayor shying away
from water lease -
Methow Valley News
February 17, 2003
Proposed bill
would limit state ownership of land
- Methow Valley News
County declares
state of emergency - Game agent disputes claim that cougar problem is
worsening -
Methow Valley News
Eastern Oregon Timber
Sale Blocked by Judge - The Oregonian
The March America
Missed byThomas
D. Segel, MGSGT USMC (Retired)
Eyman seeks vote
on light rail - Statewide initiative aims to halt central
Puget Sound project
- Seattle P-I
Grizzlies need protection,
advocates say -King
5 News
Giving up a bit of freedom
today: Expanding the intrusiveness of government which reducing the
opportunity for citizens to express their wishes at the ballot box
-TRACKSIDE ©
by John D’Aloia Jr.
Researchers Find
It's Easy to Plant False Memories in Minds of Some People -
AP
What is the FDA's Mission
Statement? -Shane
Ellison for News with Views
Kittitas
County, WA - Water plan
faces scrutiny - Watershed plan calls for both water
storage and conservation projects
- Daily Record
Workable water plan
aids fish - Whatcom County farmers plan to take matters
into their own hands -
Bellingham Herald Opinion
Easement protects East
Idaho farmland -
Capital Press
February 15, 2003
Washington
Watch: TAX FAVORITISM for the Nature Conservancy approved by a committee
in the Senate! by Michael Hardiman for eco-logic
An Analysis of Community
Oriented Policing: "Communist Oriented Policing?"
RMAP Legislation Moving
in House -
WA State Farm Bureau
Community rallies
to support the troops by
Mary Swoboda
Senator Murray promotes
trail money for Olympic Discovery Trail; Clallam County's Robin Hill
Park may grow by 40 acres -
KONP Radio
Roach might leave GOP
- State senator's move would alter balance of power at Capitol -The
Olympian
New Discovery In Fight Against
Cancer - KIRO
News
February 14, 2003
New initiative
stops Sound Transit’s Light Rail! -
“Sound Transit is a jack-knifed semi-truck blocking all transportation
progress” Eyman proclaims
St. Valentine -
a Brief History -
from Khouse.org
Blacks turn to home-schooling
-WA Times
Congress approves coalition's
purchase of Plum Creek forest -
King County Journal
Area roads, runways,
streams, salmon get funding from appropriations bill -
Spokesman-Review
Skagit Watershed Council
to remain 'lead entity' in acquiring funds for land purchases, other
projects -
Skagit Valley Herald
Public Lands: The endless
range war -Free-Market.net
No-till practices conserve
topsoil, water -Seattle
Times
February 13, 2003
The Wildlands
Project Comes to Hidalgo County (Part 15)A
Country Girl’s Musin’ by Judy Keeler
Time to end autocratic
hearings boards by
Martha Ireland, for PDN
WA State: First-ever
Statewide Biodiversity Committee Created - The Nature Conservancy says
goal is to 'craft comprehensive blueprint for biodiversity protection'
- TNC
The Nature Conservancy's
"outrageous contradictions and sad lies"- "Twelve
million acres in the U.S., an area the size of Switzerland, is controlled
by the Nature Conservancy" -Review by J. Zane
Walley
Committee formed to
figure out how to pay for watershed plans
- DOE News Release
Coyotes and Other Wild
Animals "Introduced" in Illinois by
Joyce Morrison, The Illinois Leader
Grazing on Public
Lands: Here to Stay or Gone Forever? Broken Promises,
Empty Words, Hiding in the Cracks of Laws by
Toni Thayer
Coalition puts forth
forest plan -The Olympian
Proposed buffer
rule changes draw out farmers, ranchers -
PT Leader
More spending:
Locke announces plan to 'improve' Puget Sound -
The Olympian
South Carolina Governor
Sanford gets grits to help ease pangs from lean budget -
The Greenville News
February 12, 2003
Pombo Comments on Fish
and Wildlife Service Decision Regarding the California Spotted Owl
Bull trout habitat
proposal comment period extended -
Methow Valley News
WA Governor’s water
legislation falls with a thud - Capital Press
Washington Higher
Education: Part 1 in an ongoing series on questions legislators might
ask -
EFF
We're No. 1: WA State's
broken tax system exposed -News Tribune
Sheldon Says State Can
Boost Business Climate -The
Olympian
Spending bill gets
stuck on funding for farmers -News Tribune
Environmentalists
announce intent to sue over Big Hole grayling -
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Data: Census missed 82,000
in Washington -The
Olympian
Central Valley water
supply favorable, says Keys, thanks to manmade canals and irrigation
ditches -
Capital Press
February 11, 2003
State agency holds
last of public hearings to change surface water rules by Lois Perry,
Citizen Review Online
WA State DOE's Proposed
Water Quality Standards comment period ends March 7th -
commentary by Steve Frank, President, WRCRL
Washington
state to update, strengthen water quality rules
- U.S. Water News
Coho boom of 2002 may herald
recovery -The
Olympian
Auditor IDs lost $1.2
million -News
Tribune
Environmentalists
plan to sue over California Spotted Owl ruling -King
5 News
No to "Smart
Growth"... Smart Growth: Retarding the Quality of Life
- Wendell
Cox, for Eco-Logic
How to give up a bit of
freedom today - TRACKSIDE © by John D’Aloia Jr.
HB1194-Who Would Oppose
Teaching the Constitution? by
Monte Benham
February 10, 2003
Hawaii Plantsman Confounds
Greenies
- Insight Magazine
California Spotted
Owl Doesn’t Require ESA Protection, Wildlife Service Concludes
-FWS News Release
Comparison of Wholesale
Energy Prices -
AP
King County judge rules
I-776 unconstitutional -Everett
Herald
More control: Marine
Reserve Networks 'Key to Protecting Oceans' says commission
- ENS
Minimum wage law squeezes
jobs out Washington ag groups press for reform -
Capital Press
Group develops
riverfront property rights legislation -
Capital Press
February 9, 2003
Grazing on Public Lands:
Here to Stay or Gone Forever? New BLM Procedures to Stop
Grazing on Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument-Garfield
County News
Nisqually River Watershed
Is Model of Cooperation, Action -The
Olympian
Vessel security zone
implemented - Washington State ferries considered "soft targets"
-King 5 News
Animal Terror Organization
Suspected of Cutting Brake Lines on Dozens of Delivery Trucks
- US Sportsman's Alliance
February 8, 2003
Group Wants to Unbuckle
Part of State's Seat-Belt Law -
Yakima Herald-Republic
Ruling doesn't halt Everett's
plans for shoreline -Seattle
Times
Mill closing cuts to the
heart of Republic -
Seattle Times
Waste
Watchers - EFF
Secretary Norton Announces
$160 Million in State Grants from Land and Water Conservation Fund
-U.S. Newswire
February 7, 2003
BLM begins roundup of Dann
horses - Elko
Daily Free Press
River isn't neighborly
- South Fork Stilly spits logs, eats land -Skagit
Valley Herald
Eyman launches lawsuit
to enforce I-776's $30 car tabs -Everett
Herald
Planners to hear agricultural
exemption issue
- Port Townsend Leader
Hundreds Assemble for
Sake of Salmon - Group led by Bill Ruckelshaus crafting
a recovery plan - The Columbian
Court of Appeals to hear
local cases at Sequim High School February 12th
Another Victory in Hage
v. United States - Stewards of the Grange
Senate GOP touts transportation
overhaul -AP
German Giant Taking Over
American Water Supply -AP
February 6, 2003
UNEP Looks at Making Green
"Cool" - 'Sustainable consumption patterns' being promoted
- ENS
World Court: U.S. Must
Stay 3 Executions -Yahoo
News
U.S. set to seize Indian
horses on Thursday, February 6, 2003 -- Western Shoshone grandmothers
brace for seizure of hundreds of Indian horses
Text of Colin Powell's
Presentation to the United Nations
Does the due process clause
protect property?
- by William Perry Pendley
February 5, 2003
Ag Panel Head Looks to Protect
Water Rights -
Yakima Herald
Bill would make it harder
to beat city hall - Senator's bill would affect growth hearings boards,
court cases involving GMA -Skagit
Valley Herald
Cabinet official pushes
agenda in visit to refuge - 'Restoration - it's what
we do every day', says Norton -
The Olympian
Farmers to try to pool
water rights, aid salmon - offered 'incentives' to place
existing water rights into a 'bank' or 'watershed district', where water
would be distributed from a 'collective pool' -
Bellingham Herald
Clallam hit by 'Rivers'
End' lawsuit threat -PDN
County Sues Landowners
- Officials say septic tank sits in floodway, violates code
- Sequim Gazette
February 4, 2003
Ecology Department acquires
water rights to help Yakima basin flows
$1.1 Billion Allocated
for National Parks' Maintenance Backlog -The Olympian
Funds cut to preserve
Cascades forest land-King
County Journal
Bush would spend more on
forest fires, less on salmon recovery -Seattle Times
State health plan at risk
- Critics say 'bad math' in Locke proposal could doom program
- Seattle P-I
Nethercutt eyes U.S.
Senate, Washington governor seats - News Tribune
Sims says he might oppose
Locke - Governor hasn't disclosed any plans for running again
- Seattle P-I
PIERCE COUNTY: Bill would
give fluoridation authority to local groups -News
Tribune
Rails-to-Trail proceeds
with blessing of county commissioners -
KONP
Taking a difficult path
- Part of an eroding trail along the Snohomish River could be closed
indefinitely - Everett Herald
Proposed salmon center
would be one of a kind -Bremerton
Sun
Salmon and agriculture:
A quest to live in harmony - Local lawmakers spearhead
effort to see that fish and farms survive -
Skagit Valley Herald
Bush would spend
more on wildfire prevention - Spending would be cut for
salmon restoration -King 5 News
February 3, 2003
2004 Interior Budget Emphasizes
Indian Trust Programs and Conservation Partnerships -
US Newswire
The death of the 10th
Amendment? TRACKSIDE
© by John D’Aloia Jr.
February 2, 2003
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