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Wahallich Revisited
Angie and Audrey Osborne in front of Jessie Morrow Mountain...
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 7:46pm PDT
Agency proposes to list southern green sturgeon as threatened
Green sturgeon reach more than 7 feet long and weigh up to 350 pounds....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 6:37pm PDT
Pepper Spray Q-Tip Swabbing Case Back in Court
Jury selection starts April 12, 2005....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 4:18pm PDT
Interview with Vicky Hoover on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (audio/mpeg 11.1MB)
Vicky Hoover is a local veteran wilderness activist working to preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where oil companies are lobbying Congress to allow oil exploration and drilling....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 10:03am PDT
Tuesday 6+7pm, Pesticide Alert - Oakland City Council
Please come out to Oakland City Hall, tomorrow, Tuesday, April 5, 2005, at
6pm (public forum) 7pm (voting), when the proposed ordinance to use
herbicide as a method of wildfire prevention is going before the full City
Council....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 11:21pm PDT
April Fuelish Day - 2005: The Raging Grannies and more!
The Peninsula Raging Grannies gaggle and the Stanford Radical Cheerleaders take on Peninsula Ford....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 10:57pm PDT
Republican Roscoe Bartlett warns of Peak Oil
obtained by Aljazeera.net
Report: '...the problem of the peaking of world conventional oil production is unlike any yet faced by modern industrial society.'
It has long been denied that the US government bases any policy around the idea that global oil production may be in terminal decline.
But a new US government-sponsored report, obtained by Aljazeera.net, does exactly that.
Authored by Robert Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling and titled The Peaking of World Oil produ...
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 7:58pm PST
EARTH MATTERS radio - Canadian Seal Hunt (audio/mpeg 14.1MB)
EARTH MATTERS - weekly environmental news segment on KPFA's news magazine, FLASHPOINTS. This week: headlines, followed by an interview with REBECCA ALDWORTH, via satellite phone from the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where 20- 30,000 baby harp seals are being slaughtered every day....
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 1:57pm PST
Photos from the Canadian Seal Slaughter
It's a big bloody mess with 300,000 seals slaughtered in a matter of weeks....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 7:07pm PST
STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD HEARING
On March 16th, the Humboldt Watershed Council and EPIC appeared before
the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in Santa Rosa to
present their case against enrolling new timber harvest plans for
Pacific Lumber in the severely damaged watersheds of Freshwater Creek
and Elk River...
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 5:53pm PST
Sea Shepherd Crew Attacked by Sealers and Arrested
Captain Paul Watson’s reports from the bridge of the Farley Mowat:...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 6:26pm PST
Urgent - Calls Needed to Stop Biscuit Roadless Logging
Roadless logging in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area of Southwestern
Oregon is becoming even more imminent. The Siskiyou National Forest
may auction the Mike's Gulch timber sale, located within the South
Kalmiopsis Roadless Area, within weeks....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 3:18pm PST
Prevent coastal drilling- Pacifica hearing tomorrow
Assemblyman Leland Yee is holding a press conference this Friday in
Pacifica
to garner support for his proposed legislation to ensure that
California's
coastal waters are safe from off shore oil drilling....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 2:38pm PST
Fight pesticide use in Oakland: Free fax action
Fight the use of pesticides in Oakland: Go to Local Impact and send a free fax to the City Council....
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 9:51am PST
U.N. Study: Earth's Health Deteriorating
The four-year, $24 million study — the largest-ever to show how people are changing their environment — found that humans had depleted 60 percent of the world's grasslands, forests, farmlands, rivers and lakes....
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 9:43am PST
oakland city council to decide exemption april 5 - send faxes now
Two versions of the ordinance to use herbicides in the
prevention of wildfires are scheduled to go before the
Oakland City Council next Tuesday, April 5, 2005, at
7pm (6pm to get seats, and sign up to speak)....
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2005 10:49pm PST
Canadian Baby Seal Slaughter Begins
Thousands to Be Part of Canada Seal Hunt...
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2005 5:31pm PST
Karuk Tribe's Sacred Sites at Risk
The California Wilderness Coalition's report lists a Karuk Tribal Sacred Site as one of the 10 most endangered wild places in California....
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2005 11:15am PST
Interview with Mike Roselle of Earth First! (audio/mpeg 14.3MB)
Mike Roselle, one of the founders of Earth First!, spoke with me in Eugene, Oregon during the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, or ELAW. Roselle talks about anthropocentrism, the global justice movement, the environmental movement and Earth First! mp3, 17:01...
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2005 10:57am PST