March 31, 2003
Nature Conservancy purchases
coastal rain forest land; now owns 7,400 acres in the watershed
- The Columbian
Wyoming: "Valley"
Is Environmental Ground Zero - "Restoring Wild Patterns" program
seeks to close gap for Wildlands Project -Pinedale
Online
Forks, WA: Russians tourism people
visit West End - Russian Far East Social Partnership for Ecotourism
Project partners with Vermont-based Institute for Sustainable Communities
- The Forks Forum
Colo: In legal mire
over lynx, judge lets cat out of the bog -
Rocky Mtn. News
Wyoming: Attorney general
prepared to battle feds
- Casper Star Tribune
Oregon: Damascus waits
to see how growth will proceed -The
Oregonian
The Free-Market Approach
to the Medical Malpractice Crisis
by Dr. Ron Paul
Klamath Lake full
- Federal managers order release of water, but could still be shortages
later in the summer -
Siskiyou Daily News
Landowners,
Environmentalists Go At It In The Bottled-Water War
-NY Times, via Liberty Matters
March 30, 2003
Olympic Coast
National Marine Sanctuary coming of age
- PDN
Daishowa, Nippon officially
merge Tuesday
- PDN
Advisers caution against
U.S. smallpox program -King 5 News
WA State
Senate to consider House shoreline management bill
- Everett Herald
National Grazing Buyout
Program - Proposal By California Rep and Enviro Coalition?
by Toni Thayer
If
you wonder why the cost of paper and wood products have skyrocketed,
check this site to see how many mills have been affected by environmental
regulations
March 29, 2003
Senator: Keep
grizzlies in Canada - Plan to reintroduce bears to Cascades worries
legislators -
Bellingham Herald
Court nixes reconsideration
request by DOE- Small nursery can use their well to water their plants
without getting a permit from the state - Capital
Press
Jamestown
S'Klallam facilities set for expansion-Sequim
Gazette
March 28, 2003
Broader input sought
on salmon -Everett
Herald
'Real conflicts' over world's
water - Gorbachev tell Third World Forum that international law should
become 'a more effective instrument' for 'infringement of water resources'
- BBC
AZ: Barnard steps down at
Grand Canyon Trust -
Arizona Daily Sun
Olympic Peninsula,
WA: Draft Watershed Plan to be previewed at open house
- KONP
Sequim, WA: Tribe
fears recovery will be hampered under closure plan -Bremerton
Sun
Rangeland Restoration,
Not Grazing Elimination
by Toni Thayer
Top cop's anti-drug
plan emphasizes treatment
- Everett Herald
March 27, 2003
Senate poised
to vote on huge land grab - News with Views
Locke offers 4-cent-a-gallon
gas-tax increase, emergency clause to prevent voter referendum
- AP
American
Dream Coaliation opens new website
The growing health threat:
TB and Immigrants by
R. Cort Kirkwood
Republic mill needs
timber to stay open - Operation hopes to hold on until possible July
sale of Mount Leona timber -Spokesman-Review
March 26, 2003
Building a budget castle
on quicksand commentary by Tim Eyman
Conservation Conflict
-Tacoma News Tribune
AZ: Colonel says higher
number of illegals is taxing resources - Sierra Vista
Herald
March 25, 2003
Defenders Wins Smart
Growth Lawsuit
Ten Most Outrageous Government
Programs - Human
Events Online
King County working on
'friendlier' changes for critical areas ordinance to help agriculture-Capital
Press
Reauthorizing
the Workforce Investment Act: Moving closer to a government-planned
economy -
by Michael Chapman, Edwatch.org
Ballard, WA: Hot debate
over extending bicycle route -Seattle
Times
King Co: Shoreline
trail heads for hearing showdown -Seattle
Times
March 24, 2003
Proposed regulation
riles rural residents - farmers, residents
band together to fight critical areas ordinance updates-Seattle
Times
Fisheries biologists
ask NOAA to include hatchery fish, call hatchery vs. wild fish issue
"politicized" science -
WA Farm Bureau
Columbia study
will stop short of plan - Farmer works to "try to turn the Titanic"-Seattle
Times
Yakima Basin irrigators
face tight water year -
Capital Press
Senators champion water
users, states' rights -
NWRA
Orcas Island, WA
- Few takers for affordable rentals -
The Islands' Sounder
Patience required on
new privacy rules - Hospitals, doctors deal with flood
of new regulations - The Missoulian
Industry group says
new labeling system is overburdensome and may result in job loss-The
Capital Press
Considerations
for Bull-Trout listing -from Mike Poulson
March 23, 2003
7,000 rally to show support
for troops -WA Times
Honor Veterans with a
Better Budget
by Rep. Ron Paul
How
to be a liberty shield - by Michelle Malkin, WND
Doctors: Health care
in crisis - Rally to encourage legislative action -
Tallahassee Democrat
Builders group sues
Monroe over revised developer fees -Seattle Times
Could U.N. prestige come
with a price? Enviros
look at having Chicago, its suburbs and the regions lakes, river and
parks declared an urban "biosphere reserve" by the United
Nations -Daily Southtown News
March 22, 2003
Farmlands into playing
fields bill passes Senate -Everett
Herald
Bush has 'irascible'
guide for thicket of forest policy - Mark Rey works to roll back regulations-Seattle
Times
Groups sue to prod
state action on protecting wild salmon-Seattle
PI
Gorge commission must
accelerate plan review -The
Columbian
Massachusetts:
State details health service cuts -Governor plans to sell state land,
mass layoffs -Boston
Herald
Rare Arizona Owl (All 7
Inches of It) Is in Habitat Furor -
NY Times
Marxist tactics can
be seen disrupting America's way of life -TRACKSIDE
© by John D’Aloia Jr.
March 21, 2003
Groups rally to
support troops -King
5 News
Logging rules fine,
state says - Request for more restrictions refused
-The Olympian
New Math for the USFS
and the NPS: Visitor Days by
Don Fife
Open letter: Regarding
ANWR and the Senate vote
by Julie Kay Smithson
Elk group asks Bush to delist
wolves - Bozeman
Chronicle
Buck adds amendment to
protect gun rights-KONP
Radio
State must act now
to ensure economic competitiveness - News Tribune
Tribal officials say
hatchery closure would damage salmon restoration efforts -
PDN
Tacoma sees drastic cuts
if B&O tax changes -News
Tribune
Idaho set for pilot
public land management project -
Capital Press
Feds say ‘no’ to protection
of Calif. spotted owl -Capital
Press
Legislature: State's
ocean of red ink grows deeper -The
Columbian
Washington Water
Trust seeking partners-Methow
Valley News
House passes GOP
budget with Bush tax cut -
Tallahassee Democrat
March 20, 2003
State revenue
forecast plunges $200 million -Bremerton Sun
Lobbyist: State regulations
hurt economy -The
Olympian
Clallam Sheriff Hawe
put on reserve alert status-PDN
Eyman issues tax warning
-The Olympian
House OKs bond sale
for trust to buy land -Seattle
Times
Babbitt: Wants wilderness
as highest priority publics,
made off-limits to grazing and multiple-use -
The Missoulian
Inland Northwest national
forests updating management plans -AP
Taxpayers are being
taken for a ride with cost of education
- TRACKSIDE © by John D’Aloia Jr.
Feds set meetings to review
forest rules- deadline for public
comment ends soon -
The Daily World
Government funds buyout
of Naches Dam for dam removal due to environmental group's petition
- from Gary Wiggins,
ESAInfo.org
March 19, 2003
Grazing on
Public Lands: Here to Stay or Gone Forever? - Wildlands Project: Grand
Canyon Trust Models GSENM Management After UN Treaties Sixth
In A Series, By Toni Thayer
Unlimited political
contributions empower Indian tribes -News
Tribune
Salmon competition studied
- Researchers interested in interplay of wild, hatchery-bred fish
-The Olympian
Guest editorial: Comments
about Senator Ken Jacobsen’s call for a constitutional convention
- Thom Satterleee
Clallam County Commission
Coverage - Worksession held on March 17, 2003 - Citizen
Review
Senate rebuffs
Bush proposal for arctic refuge oil drilling -The
Oregonian
Carlsborg board discusses
community needs -PDN
March 18, 2003
Comments on draft Bull
Trout Recovery Plan ends March 29th
State Patrol Ticket
Quotas Uncovered - Clickit! or Ticket! program bad public policy, says
initiative spokesperson -
News Release from WSC
Two Pronged attack on Property
Rights!!! Alert from American Land Rights Association
Washington
State: House votes for simple majority for school levies -AP
DOE has
authority, pollution board rules - "Pollution" includes removing
water from a stream -
Methow Valley News
Water planning
enters final phase - Residents volunteer to participate
in watershed planning to balance water needs of fish with needs of people
-Methow
Valley News
Push is on
to get money for Twin Lakes recovery - Piped irrigation ditches causing
wells, lakes to dry up -Methow
Valley News
Columbia Basin:
Planned drawdown draws fears -a replay of Klamath Falls? -
Tri-City Herald
One step up from renting
- buyers own improvements, home trust owns land - creates "affordable
housing" on San Juan Island -
San Juan Island Journal
Totalitarian Info
Awareness? -TCS
Controlling state
medical assistance costs
by Bob Williams, EFF
March 17, 2003
Park levy faces long
odds, if it even makes the ballot
- King County Journal
Groups call for 'ecosabotage'
laws legislation -The
Olympian
A salmon study...A
Case Study in the Cross-Examination of Eco-Liars by
James Buchal, for eco-logic
Gun worries waylay state
anti-terrorism bill -The
Olympian
Klamath water
deal no bargain for U.S. -The
Oregonian
Feds debate who
will pay Westlands settlement-Capital
Press
Bill would loosen strings
on Columbia water withdrawals-Capital
Press
Future leaner for urban
processors. As cities face rising water costs, industry feels their
pain - Cap. Press
New Book: Ex-Clinton
aide reveals Bill lost the nuclear codes -U.S.News
& World Report
March 16, 2003
House Republicans oppose
$1 billion property tax hike -Business Examiner
Clallam County:
Commissioner proposes the possibility of another 'no shoot' zone in
response to neighbor's complaint - Citizen Review
Online
Bill Would Kill
Use-It-Or-Lose-It Provision - Would prevent Dept. of Ecology from forcing
forfeiture of water rights -
Yakima-Herald
State looks at gas
price cap -News
Tribune
Grizzlies get county's
vote - County Council backs B.C. effort to introduce bears near Ross
Lake - Bellingham Herald
Terror bill stirs debate
over status of firearms - Potential for any firearm to become a 'weapon
of mass destruction' -
Seattle Times
State Senate passes
bill revamping Basic Health -The
Olympian
Senate OKs lawsuit
reform -The
Olympian
Initiative sponsor
responds to legislator's question, "Should schools teach 'creator'?
by Monte Benham
World Health Alert Issued
After Pneumonia Deaths
- AP
March 15, 2003
From Roy, Utah, a retired
Forest Service man writes the President about the problems with "roadless
areas"
Solar advocates take dim
view of new fees - Agency wants to tax homes that generate their own
power - Mercury
News
Locke's jobs plan at
core of recovery effort for county - but wants to avoid across-the-board
tax cuts - The Columbian
Conservatives
And Liberals Unite In Opposition To Patriot II -Sierra
Times
EPA: You got a permit for
that? -Progressive
Farmer
The
Eco-Logic online magazine has some great articles this issue. Click
here.
Interior Secretary
Norton Kicks Off 100th Anniversary Celebration at America’s First National
Wildlife Refuge: Administration Highlights Commitment to Conservation
at Historic Event -News
Release FWS
March 14, 2003
Commissioner
lobbies leaders in Washington - The Missoulian
Dunn not giving up on
Snoqualmie Tree Farm land trust plan -King 5 News
Methow Valley: Washington
Water Trust seeking partners - Methow Valley News
Collier fees relief
possible; company to stay - County commission waives impact fees; action
will save jobs -
Naples News
Tallahassee, Florida
- For now, Jesse Hardy can keep his land -Naples News
Olympic Peninsula: More
studies for Dungeness River set; changes in Planning Department
- KONP Radio
Senator Introduces Bill
to Gut High Court's Ruling in SWANCC (Solid Waste Agency of Northern
Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
6th Annual Sovereignty &
Your Rights Seminar
State Senate OKs
charter schools bill -Everett
Herald
"This is the Only
Place in the World it Grows" by
Don Fife
Park snowmobile violations
hit record -
Independent Record
ATV users blast travel plan
for Big Belts - "Give the public's land back to the public"-Helena
Independent Record
Debate on opening the
Arctic Plain to oil exploration (H.R. 39): the facts -
Winningreen.com
March 13, 2003
3 strikes: 'Let juries
decide' - Life sentence shouldn't be up to a judge, justices told
- Seattle P-I
Anti-wolf fund raiser
held - commissioners, citizens rally to protect game herds against wolf
reintroduction -
St. Maries Gazette Record
Disabled vet and homesteader,
Jesse Hardy fights to keep his home of 27 years from being taken by
the state for 'restoration'
- Golden Gate Gazette
Alabama: State looks
to private sector to help solve financial woes-Montgomery
Advertiser
Georgia: Cash-strapped
state may sell property -Atlanta Journal-Constitution
U.N. - Stay in or get out?
The Liberty Committee
Citizen points to county
commissioner's connection with development company interested in 'cluster
housing' -
Letter from B.McGonigel
March 12, 2003
Legislature: Too much
paperwork, say parole officers - The Columbian
Snoqualmie Tree
Farm purchased - Weyerhaeuser sells land after conservation group can't
meet deadline -
King County Journal
Medical-accuracy bill
at center of sex-ed skirmish-Seattle
P-I
It's final: WEA doesn't
have to report election influence by
Lynn Harsh, EFF
March 11, 2003
Washington
state proposal offers alternatives to buffers -
Capital Press
Farm groups don’t
buy ‘Buy Oregon’ plan - Capital Press
County takes next
step to buy out River's End property owners, despite protests
- Citizen Review Online
NY: Spring Valley code
enforcement officer allegedly abused his authority -
Newsday
EPA's
Compliance & Enforcement database
Let the economy breathe
- Oped by Bob Williams
& Carl Gipson, EFF
Bureau of Reclamation
wants Klamath farmers to forego irrigation water -KBC
News
Water - scarce
commodity? by
Ed Clark, The Brevard Insider
Despite drought, Colorado
has to let water go -
Denver Post
Sagging economy may
prompt Fed to cut interest rates next week -AP
Forest roads are necessary
by Jim Trenholm
Density Limits Only
Add To Sprawl - Large Lots Eat Up Area Countryside -WA
Post
One Nation Under
God..
by Lynm Stuter, for News with Views
March 10, 2003
NH Governor sets
up a 'Tax Me More' account for those who feel their taxes aren't high
enough - WA State introduces one, too
Group wants to double
Steens wilderness size -
Capital Press
DOE has authority, pollution
board rules -Methow
Valley News
Appeals filed in Hawes
stream pollution case - Temperature requirements essentially 'zero tolerance'
- Capital Press
Freshwater mussels
in 'danger of disappearing', says one tribal biologist - Tribe looks
for budget money to list as 'endangered'
- Everett Herald
Sheepmen question impact
on future grazing- National monument expanded rom 54,000 to more than
754,000 acres -
Capital Press
Small business: Clark
County's economic linchpin -The Columbian
Push is on to get money
for Twin Lakes recovery - Enclosure of irrigation ditches caused lakes/aquifer
to drop - Methow
Valley News
Oregon: County
cuts jobs of five managers -The
Oregonian
March 9, 2003
Grazing on Public
Lands: Here to Stay or Gone Forever? - Junk Science Used
by Dept of Interior, Grand Canyon Trust to End Grazing on GSENM Fifth
In A Series, By Toni Thayer
Letter to the Editor:
Cow Patty
by Julie Kay Smithson
Today's definition of
sustainability - For the birds! by
Julie Kay Smithson
Ecology workers file
for union - About 1,200 employees are asked to vote on
agency's first bargaining unit -The
Olympian
Water Outlook — Irrigators
Should Be OK -
Yakima Herald-Republic
New
property rights site launched - propertyrights.org
Groups Demand UN Designate
Biosphere Reserve in Chicago -Liberty Matters
2004 Budget Draws
Criticism - US Democrats Blast Bush Plan to Cut Land Purchases
March 8, 2003
Landowners organize
to protect rural rights - King County Journal
Do people really know where
their donation dollars go? editorial
by Richard L. Coppock, Blue Ribbon Coalition
Bill includes
$4.3 million to buy 6,000 acres of wildlife habitat in West Tennessee
- State Gazette
Standoff over the Everglades
- Feds want to reflood the eastern end of the Everglades; homeowners
there are not "willing seller"-Seattle Times
State agency defends
shorelines plan -Everett Herald
March 7, 2003
Benham gears up to push
initiative on constitutions -Tri-City
Herald
Viewpoint: Public Records
Act Under Assault -The Columbian
Off-roaders, business
owners, government officials question Center of Biological Diversity's
motives - Yuma Sun
Officials Seek Smallpox
Vaccine Compensation Fund -
NY Times
A Welfare-to-Work
Study Finds No Harm to Children - NY Times
Washington sues over
nuclear waste - Gregoire is asking for a halt to further shipments -
The Spokesman Review
Senate bill aims $925
million at security along both borders - Two-thirds of
people entering the U.S. each year come across land borders
- Bellingham Herald
Playing Against a Stacked
Deck - Public land ranchers face new political threats by
J. Zane Walley
Commuters going farther
from home for jobs, Census says -Bremerton Sun
Viewpoint: Message from President:
We Don't Need Permission from the United Nations-
The Omega Letter
Davis approves,
vetoes environmental bills-Redding Searchlight
March 6, 2003
A call for action on
HB 1194 - "Teach the U.S. and Washington State Constitution"
bill from
Monte Benham
Bill to Regulate Conservation
Easements Introduced into Montana Legislature -Sierra
Times
Bill would return
land from abandoned irrigation project -
Aberdeen News
County
looks at sales tax hike to fund 911, jail, juvenile center -
Sequim Gazette
Student Fees and Tax
Dollars at Work - Rice University to sponspor Earth First!'s
Environmental Conference - which includes potential training for violence
- The Houston Review
Property Rights: The
Key to Freedom, Prosperity AND Equality by Lorne Gunter
Lawmaker proposing
buyout program for federal grazing permits -
Livestock group views plan as move to eliminate all cattle
grazing on public lands - San
Bernardino County Sun
Proposed Rules for
grazing open for public comment
Marine contractors file
intent to sue feds over manatee rules - Costs industry
$100 million, 1,000 jobs this year, association charges
- St. Petersburg Times
Scott County crowd doesn't
want recreation designation
- Coalfield.com
Idaho: Judge rejects predator
plan - Caspar
Star Tribune
Wyoming: Governor signs
wolf, wildlife bills
- Caspar Star-Tribune
Jefferson PUD offers
loan of water meters to moniter wells -
PDN
Governor appoints Gadbaw
to Western WA Growth Hearings Board -The
Olympian
March 5, 2003
Bucket Brigade Keeps
Rolling -Sierra
Times
Snohomish County: Measures
could turn farmlands into ballfields -Seattle
Times
HIKING, HORSES AND A
VIEW Grant used to purchase 681 acres for new park south of Carmel -Monterey
Herald
Size of park to balloon
- Nature Conservancy to provide funds to complete purchase to double
size of 229,000-acre Big Island park-Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Appeals filed in Hawes
stream pollution case -
Capital Press
Grass growers add litigants
- Capital Press
Bill would expand property
rights on farmland
- Capital Press
Budget-cutting plan threatens
DFW Region 2 - Governor's proposal would merge two regions -
Methow Valley News
Letter to the Editor:
A 'great plan for the shorelines' uses bogus science from
Methow Valley
'Take care of the salmon,'
Castro advises during Vancouver stopover - Vancouver
Sun
Layoffs still hurting
- Ferry County highest hit, at 15.7% unemployment -
Everett Herald
Everett agency approves
growth plan -Everett
Herald
New study: Greenhouse
gas programs could cost state billions -EFF
Utah: GOP battle brewing
on the Hill - Depate over which taxes to raise, which tax exemptions
to remove -Deseret News
Florida: Bush takes aim
at initiatives - Governor warns of costs of class size, bullet train
amendments - Constitution no place for pregnant pigs, he says
- Tallahassee Democrat
Oregon: A Prescription
Plan Hailed as a Model Is a Budget Casualty -
NY Times
March 4, 2003
Private sector incentives
will help state rebound, lobbying group -Everett
Heraldsays
Cities Make Bold Moves
to Reclaim Their Downtowns - "Lose the cars"
- make downtowns for pedestrians, bicycles
- The Olympian
New Book, 'Shattered
Dreams: 100 Stories of Government Abuse,'
Chronicles Suffering from Extreme Laws and Regulations
A new year, another round
in the Klamath Basin -The
Oregonian
Farmers offered cash
to idle land, tap wells -The
Oregonian
Incentives taint
seat-belt campaign -
The News Tribune
Grazing on Public Lands:
Here to Stay or Gone Forever? Deals between Dept of Interior,
Grand Canyon Trust Put Local Economies and Residents at Risk -4th
In A Series, By Toni Thayer
CA: Davis proposes eliminating
farmland preservation act funding-The
Mercury News
Washington State: Who's
Been Deployed?
- KOMO News
One step at a time: Small
acreage yields bounty
- Capital Press
Oregon governor’s advisers
to seek natural resource consensus
- Capital Press
Locke, Gregoire rally
behind Justice Bridge - King 5 News
March 3, 2003
Founding Fathers wrote
Constitution for all the people TRACKSIDE
© by John D’Aloia Jr.
Farm Bureau — A Growing
Force - Yakima-Herald
Exaggerated EPA
claims revealed -News
Tribune
Former Rep Linda Smith
fights against human trafficking -Seattle Times
State land
trusts making 'progress', Washington State receives praise
for its more than 20 'trusts' from national land trust president-Seattle
Times
U.S. fish farms must
clip fins Federal law helps recovery efforts and sport, officials say
- U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks Introduced measure on mass marking -
The Olympian
Burlington project
could wash problems downstream-Skagit Valley Herald
February 2003
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