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March 2002
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Apr.
28 |
State
Agency issues "Model" Critical Areas Ordinance"
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Apr.
28 |
Governors
agree to submit delisting plans for so-called "protected
animals"-AP,
via Sierra Times
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Apr.
28 |
Family
shoots four preying cougars in one day
- AP
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Apr.
26 |
Blanket
primary attorney seeks high court slot -Jim Johnson throws
his hat into the ring - AP
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Apr.
26 |
Political
parties send blanket primary to Court of Appeals -
The Olympian
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Apr.
26 |
McGrath
Blocks Right to Amend State Constitution -
National
Expert Says Constitutional Initiative Process is now "Effectively
Voided" in Montana - From Montana
Conservatives
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Apr.
26 |
Senators
in Hiding, Approve Federal Zoning!!! -
ALRA
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Apr.
26 |
Forest
Practice Rules and RMAPs - a Review
Legislator
says agency rules create harmful effects on landowners - RMAP
legislation was passed to prevent federal imposition of more harsh
restrictions
Letter
to the Editor: Open Letter to DNR Chief about RMAPs - R. Plaske
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Apr.
26 |
Environmentalist
group names 11 rivers as most endangered -
Seattle Times
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Apr.
26 |
GROUPS
ARGUE WILD, HATCHERY SALMON DIFFER -
The Columbian
Conservationists
petition for wild salmon protection -
Seattle Times
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Apr.
26 |
Wildlife
Society to investigate biologists' actions in fur flap -Greenwire
Service
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Apr.
26 |
Farm
Bureau opposes conservation plan
- Monterey County Farm
Bureau
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Apr.
26 |
Causes
Affect Farming - Look to Europe for the direction we're headed -
American Farm Bureau
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Apr.
26 |
No
American Left Alone: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America -
by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
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Apr.
26 |
Latest
way to pay is at our fingertips - first store to use index finger scan
for purchase of groceries -
Seattle Times
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Apr.
26 |
Comply
with our ‘rules’ or abandon your private roads, says government
agency -
They can’t do that, can they? They
already did!
compiled by Sue Forde for the Citizen Review Online
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Apr.
26 |
River,
Water & Rails to Trails (linear parks)
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Apr.
25 |
Bush
administration backs monuments
- The Oregonian
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Apr.
25 |
Earth
Day Focus: bull trout - Pat
Neal, writing for the Sequim Gazette, uses an excellent tongue-in-cheek
method of conveying what’s happening with the Dungeness River in
Sequim
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Apr.
25 |
'Living
in a police state' -
The Oakland Press
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Apr.
25 |
The
meetings are open - if you know when they are -
News Tribune
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Apr.
24 |
**ALERT!**
Federal Zoning Vote!
S.
975 – the Community Character Act
COMMITTEE
VOTE THURSDAY
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Apr.
24 |
Justices
Weaken Movement Backing Property Rights -
NY Times
Supreme
Court rejects property owners' claims -
The Oregonian
TAHOE
LANDOWNERS GIVEN A DUNKING
- Pacific Legal Foundation
Protecting
Lake Tahoe - High court rules for "temporary" protection, but
doesn't define "temporary"-
Editorial, Seattle Times
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Apr.
23 |
NMFS,
Methow irrigators work out fish plan -
AP
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Apr.
2 |
Local gun show
disrupted by last-minute 'rule' changes
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Apr.
23 |
Court: Gun Shows Can Be Banned
Decision Expected To Set Off Avalanche Of
Ordinances -
San Diego Channel
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Apr.
23 |
U.S. to
help U.N. redefine 'families' - WA Times
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Apr.
23 |
Secretary
Norton, Interior Officials Will Call for 'New
Environmentalism' at Earth Day 2002 Events
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Apr.
22 |
Landowners
express anger over state-mandated rules: State effort to help protect
fish leads to dust-up over timber road rules -
Seattle Times
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Apr.
22 |
State
to Test Soil for Poisons; Politicians, Farmers Not Happy -
Yakima Valley Herald
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Apr.
21 |
Methow
Valley irrigators vow to fill ditches -
Seattle P-I
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Apr.
21 |
Grazing
inside the Breaks National Monument: Ranchers wary as BLM forms
watershed plan - Great Falls
Tribune
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Apr.
20 |
A
Town Traded Away
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As another factory shuts down, residents of Chilhowie ask, where
are the jobs that globalization is supposed to create? -
LA Times
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Apr.
20 |
Rural
America declares war on 'green fascists' -
from the UK Telegraph
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Apr.
20 |
Earth
Charter undone by first American city to endorse it -
Henry Lamb for WND
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Apr.
19 |
Federal agency
wants to shut down Methow Valley Irrigation; Skagit County Farmers must
commit to buffer plan, more
from the WA Farm Bureau's newsletter
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Apr.
19 |
Governor
Locke Announces $36.7
million in Grants to
Purchase and Improve Salmon Habitat
from
press release - Gov. Locke's Salmon Recovery Funding Board
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Apr.
19 |
'No
Darby Refuge' leader responds to request for USFWS meeting by
Julie Kay Smithson
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Apr.
19 |
See
Dick and Jane weep - by Michelle Malkin,
Townhall
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Apr.
18 |
Emergency
moratorium causes uproar -
Ability to plat to 10 acres won’t apply to potential Resource Lands
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Statesman Examiner
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Apr.
18 |
Earth
Day 2002 Fact Sheet
- Myths and Facts About the Environment -
National Center for Public Policy Research
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Apr.
18 |
$85.7
million in grants available to States for Endangered Species
Conservation - Agency issues statement about how they are deciding to
spend taxpayers' dollars
Letter
to the Editor: Carrots, anyone? Our money to be used to buy up
private property
by
Julie Kay Smithson
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Apr.
18 |
Couple
hit with Wetlands Fine for Trimming Bushes
- Liberty Matters
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Apr.
18 |
City
council overturns event center initiative
- Everett Herald
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Apr.
18 |
Permanent
Offense team issues statement regarding inaccuracies in major news media
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Apr.
18 |
Where
your hard-earned tax dollars go - reports on spending
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Apr.
18 |
Democrats
feel they can defeat Arctic drilling bill -
King 5 News
Nine
out of Ten Caribou Support Drilling -
commentary by Ann Coulter, Townhall
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Apr.
18 |
International
Criminal Court created by 35% of the world's countries
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Apr.
16 |
Salmon
projects get $5M -Washington
Salmon Recovery Funding Board has approved 128 projects across the state
for a total of $36.8 million -
Bremerton Sun
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Apr.
16 |
New
fish rules costly for owners of private roads
- Capital Press
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Apr.
16 |
News
Alert - Federal Zoning Vote scheduled for April 18 - Land
use bill would fund localities to comply with federal 'guidelines' -
includes 'social equity' but no mention of private property rights
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Apr.
16 |
Initiative
backers tout 2002-style homemade legislation
- AP
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Apr.
16 |
Civil
Liberties In Times of Terror - Speech
By Justice Richard B. Sanders delivered at the WA State LP Convention
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Apr.
16 |
Metro
farmland protection debates looming large -
Capital Press
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Apr.
16 |
Landfill
continues to pay environmentalists by
Becky Blanton, The Klickitat County Monitor
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Apr.
16 |
'Smart
growth' plan's perils by
F. Patricia Callahan
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Apr.
15 |
People
for the USA Creates New Blueprint for Land Rights Battles
- Sierra Times
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Apr.
15 |
Building
the Wildlands Project - freedom.org
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Apr.
15 |
'I, Uh,
I Have No Comment' - A union plays dirty in opposing an antitax
initiative - Wall Street Journal
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Apr.
15 |
Charter
forests: privatizing the public domain -
The Business Journal of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Apr.
15 |
Americans
face looming tax deadline today - 17,000 pages, 2.8 million word IRS
Code makes it more complex than ever
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Apr.
15 |
2003
Budget Completes Big Jump in Spending
- Washington Post
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Apr.
15 |
Safe
or Scenic? Columbia Gorge Commission Pressured WSDOT to Compromise
Safety for Scenic Views -
Klickitat Monitor
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Apr.
15 |
Son
of Kyoto Returns — Again
- A treaty’s many lives -
National Review
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Apr.
15 |
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Apr.
13 |
Fisheries
Service releases target numbers for salmon recovery -
Seattle P-I
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Apr.
13 |
Columbia
River farmers and irrigation are being shut down, while government
agency goals for flow targets can never be achieved -
by James Buchal
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Apr.
13 |
Artificial
Flood Failed to Solve Grand Canyon Problems, Scientists Say -
CNN
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Apr.
12 |
Sustainability
Community Plans' , South Carolina style, includes preservation of
everything except individual liberty
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Apr.
12 |
Warm
embrace for kids, or merely 'psycho cry fest'? Why
are schools meddling in childrens' emotions rather than teaching them to
read? Seattle
Times
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Apr.
11 |
Citizen responds to Darby Refuge questionnaire
with facts about Wildlands Project
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Apr.
11 |
State
issues "suggested" stormwater regulations: Urge
your elected representatives to read the document carefully before
passing it
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Apr.
11 |
Referendum
filed to sink collective bargaining
- Building
lobbyist wants to overturn state labor law -
The Olympian
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Apr.
11 |
World
court now a reality - Will supersede
national sovereignty, even of countries refusing to ratify -
WND
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Apr.
10 |
Smart
Growth Plan's Perils: Bill would federalize no-growth regulations
nationwide by
Patricia Callahan, President of the American Association of Small
Property Owners
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Apr.
10 |
Kitsap
officials concerned about trust - Majority of citizens presently believe
commissioners are working on a 'secret' land use plan -
Bremerton Sun
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Apr.
10
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Sierra
Club Wants to Turn Back Clock on 200 Years of Progress -
Yakima Herald
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Apr.
10 |
Less
visible environmental crusades against Snake River dams still alive -
News Tribune
Groups
try new tactics in salmon campaigns -
The Olympian
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Apr.
9 |
Companies:
Proposal would take 7 million acres of farmland out of production
-Government wants to restrict where and how farmers may spray their
crops - Yakima
Herald-Republic
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Apr.
9 |
Horsemen
lobby against land restrictions - The
Spokesman Review
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Apr.
9 |
We really
DO get along with wildlife! Here's the Proof!
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Apr.
9 |
Conservation
groups push Congress to buy land seen by Lewis, Clark -
4,000 ACRES: Keeping Columbia River Gorge site undeveloped is goal -
News Tribune
The Wildlands
Project
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Apr.
9 |
Lawsuit
forces federal agency to ponder protection of hybrid fish -
The Olympian
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Trying
to comply with GMA: Planning staff’s workload is keeping citizens on
hold -
Skagit Valley Herald
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Apr.
8 |
DOE
to deny water if they 'don't cooperate'
- Klickitat Monitor
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Apr.
8 |
The
prairie dogs that weren't there - by William
Pendley Perry, MSLF
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Apr.
8 |
Public
comments invited on draft plan to clean up lower Dungeness watershed-
-Clean up plan focuses on human and domestic animals - DOE notice
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Apr.
8 |
CA
Farm Bureau to Challenge EPA Ruling
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Apr.
8 |
Oregonians
in Action files land use initiatives, challenges others
- OIA
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Apr.
8 |
Government
spending in Kansas a microcosm of every state? by
John D'Aloia Jr.
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Apr.
8 |
USDA
Plans Severe Gardening Restrictions -
Henrietta Bowman, Sierra Times
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Apr.
7 |
Brinnon
plan supporters picket County Courthouse -
PT Leader
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Apr.
7 |
No
love lost between Pacific County, state Ecology office
- Study
illustrates complaints about environmental bureaucracy
- The Oregonian
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Apr.
7 |
Agency
maintains trout not imperiled - Spokesman-Review
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Apr.
5 |
Sierra
Club, main proponent of 'Wildlands Project', calls 'Lewis-Clark world
degraded' - Calls for 'restoring wild America'
About
The Wildlands Project
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Apr.
5 |
State
mandates water metering, reporting - List includes the Elwha &
Dungeness Rivers - Bellingham Herald
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Apr.
5 |
Growth
management laws stir contention - South County
Journal
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Apr.
5 |
Bill
exempts existing farms from state regs -
Daily World
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Apr.
5 |
Supreme
Court refuses to hear Columbia Gorge dispute -
The Oregonian
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Apr.
5 |
500
pages of proposed rules could affect ag dramatically - Capital
Press
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Apr.
5 |
Place
a Conservation Easement on your property: Expect enforcement by outside
parties -
J. Zane Walley
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Apr.
5 |
Permittees
negotiate plan in wake of lawsuit filed by Western Watersheds Project -
Capital Press
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Apr.
5 |
State
Committee charged with finding ways to implement watershed plans across
the state
and other news from the WA Farm Bureau
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Apr.
5 |
New initiative drive
intended to restore state's I-601 tax, spending limits
- News Tribune
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Apr.
5 |
Grays
Harbor - Small business: The 'economic backbone' is aching
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Daily World
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Apr.
5 |
Malpractice
insurance creates woes for doctors -
The News Tribune
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Apr.
5 |
Initiative
776 hires Bockwinkel for paid signature gathering drive in response to
unions' tactics
Press
release sent to Secretary of State's office from Permanent Office about
union's role in attempting to squash I-776
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Apr.
5 |
Anti-tax
group petitions trashed with union help
Tactic
against Permanent Offense smacks of `dirty pool,' but probably not
illegal, state officials say -
Spokesman-Review
Unions
plot to drain tax foes' coffers by requesting its literature -
Seattle P-I
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Apr.
5 |
Cities'
growth stalls: - Annexations `a mess' following
court decision - The Journal
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Apr.
5 |
American
Justice for Americans -- No International Criminal Court for Us - Sign
Petition
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Apr.
3 |
State orders measurement
and reporting of water usage in threatened river basins
- South County Journal
Measure
Water Use, Irrigators Ordered -
Yakima Herald-Republic
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Apr.
3 |
Watershed
group seeks state action
- Plans to allocate 'finite' water
supplies in face of 'dwindling' salmon runs -
The Olympian
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Apr.
3 |
Washington
urges alliance on aquifers
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State budget provision envisions shared management of Rathdrum Prairie
Aquifer -
Spokesman Review
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Apr.
3 |
Global
Ethics, Sustainable Development and the Earth Charter
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Apr.
3 |
Restore
the Spirit of America---Exposition and Rendezvous set for April 13th
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Apr.
3 |
The
UN and property rights by Henry Lamb
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Apr.
1 |
A champion for rural
causes takes aim at government rules
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Apr.
1 |
THE MYTH OF
THE FAT SUBURBANITES from The Thoreau Institute
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Apr.
1 |
$1.32
Billion to be spent by Feds in Northwest dam tear-down,
wildlands-related projects -Elwha
Dam removal to cost $25.8 million - from esainfo.org
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