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SOUTHWEST CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL
DIVERSITY
http://www.sw-center.org
#168
1-18-98
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GILA TROUT MAY BE INTRODUCED TO ARIZONA STREAMS-
LETTERS, CALLS OF
SUPPORT NEEDED
o FOREST PESTICIDES KILL JUVENILE SALMON-
ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS SUSPECTED
o FOREST SERVICE LOGGING COST TAXPAYERS
$2.1 BILLION
o RANGE MAGAZINE: SW CENTER
"ULTRA-EFFECTIVE"
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GILA
TROUT MAY BE INTRODUCED TO ARIZONA STREAMS-
LETTERS, CALLS OF SUPPORT
NEEDED
The Arizona Department of Game and Fish has proposed to
reintroduce
the endangered Gila Trout to the headwaters
of the Verde River system in
central Arizona. The species
is currently extirpated from the entire state of
Arizona,
and is hanging on in just a few small populations in New
Mexico's
Gila National Forest.
Listed as endangered in 1967 in the precursor to
the
Endangered Species Act, the Gila trout is threatened by
road
construction, overgrazing, logging, and hybridization
with exotic
trout.
Call or write the Tonto National Forest today. Tell them
you
support reintroducing Gila trout into Dude Creek and
other streams within the
Verde River system:
Payson Ranger District, Tonto National
Forest
1009 E. Highway 260, Payson, AZ 85541
Tel
1-520-474-7900
Better yet, come to the public meetings and speak
out
for trout:
Payson Town Hall, Payson, AZ
January
26 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
La Quinta Inn, Phoenix,
AZ
2510 W. Greenway Rd. (I-17 freeway and Greenway Road)
January 28 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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FOREST PESTICIDES KILL
JUVENILE SALMON- ANOTHER
CASE OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS SUSPECTED
A new
study by researchers with Canada's federal Department
of Fisheries and Oceans
and Environment has determined that
chemicals sprayed to control spruce
budworm are killing
salmon. The scientists found a strong, negative
relationship
between the amount of chemicals sprayed, and the amount
of
Atlantic salmon which return from the ocean to the watershed
to
spawn.
Spruce budworm pesticides contain nonylphenol, a
potent
chemical which mimics estrogen, a female hormone. It is one
of many
chemicals which have recently been discovered to
affect the gender and
physical development of frogs,
crocodiles and other species. Endocrine
disrupters cause
developmental mutations, often characterized by males
with
distorted or female-like reproductive organs. In this
case,
scientists believe nonyphenol may disrupt the salmon's ability
to
successfully smolt, i.e. change from a freshwater fish to
a saltwater fish as
they leave their birth streams for the
open ocean.
To find out more
==>
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience/990112_salmon.html
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FOREST SERVICE SUBSIZED TIMBER
COMPANIES $2.1 BILLION
According to a recent Government Accounty Office
report,
the U.S. Forest Service lost $2.1 billion on its
timber
program between 1992 and 1997. Over this same time
period,
the Southwest Region lost over $88 million. Despite huge
declines
in logging, the Southwest Region consistently
lost between $13 and $18
million per year. Indeed, the
more it logged, the more money it
lost.
For more detailed information on the national and
Southwest
program ==>
http://www.sw-center.org/swcbd/activist/fs2billion.html
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RANGE MAGAZINE: SW CENTER
"ULTRA-EFFECTIVE"
The current issue of Range Magazine contains an
interesting
profile of the Southwest Center by J. Zane Walley.
Though
hardly an advocate of environmental protection, Walley's
article is
funny, somewhat insightful, and not entirely
biased.
A few paragraphs
from the introduction are presented below.
The full article can be read
at:
http://www.range4u.com/stories/winter99
Playing Outside the Rules
"Hundreds, if not thousands, of
public land ranchers, loggers
and miners have had their livelihoods
destroyed by the ultra-
effective strategies of the Southwest Center
for Biological
Diversity (SWC). They move like a band of guerrilla
insurgents
in their battle for public lands...The leaders and the
workers
live Spartan, almost monastic existences. The
environmental
cause seems viewed as a spiritual calling that dominates
their
personal lives beyond money, families, and the stuff of
ordinary
people...Their "manic" guerrilla tactics have been
efficient,
damn efficient. The group's active litigation record-84
lawsuits
in five years-on everything from waterways to woodlands to
dams
has attained national attention. The group says it has won
77
percent of final judgments. Suckling declares their success
is
built on what he describes as the two strongest forces of
the
environmental movement: science and law.
"
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Kierán
Suckling
ksuckling@sw-center.org
Executive
Director
520.623.5252 phone
Southwest Center for Biological
Diversity 520.623.9797 fax
http://www.sw-center.org
pob 710, tucson, az 85702-710