Subject: FW: SW BIODIVERSITY ALTER #42

Subject: SW BIODIVERSITY ALTER #42

* ************* Southwest Biodiversity Alert #42 *****************
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*            southwest center for biological diversity           *
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1.  SOUTHWEST CENTER ACTIVISTS NAMED "1996 DEEP ECOLOGISTS OF THE YEAR"

2.  EIGHT ARRESTED AT LOGGING DEMONSTRATION- KAIBAB NATIONAL FOREST
    VOWS TO VIOLATE CLINTON ORDER TO HALT SALVAGE LOGGING

3.  10,000 OPPOSE BRIDGE AT REDROCK CROSSING

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1.  SOUTHWEST CENTER ACTIVISTS NAMED "1996 DEEP ECOLOGISTS OF THE YEAR"

Southwest Center for Biological Diversity co-founders Kieran
Suckling and Peter Galvin have been named the 1996 Deep Ecologists
of the Year by the Fund For Wild Nature. The award is given for
exemplary effort in environmental protection. Previous winners
include Judi Bari, Dave Foreman, Reed Noss, Karen Picket, and
Jasper Carlton. This is the first time the award has been jointly
convened. Kieran Suckling is the director of the Southwest Center,
Peter Galvin is a board member currently working for the Southwest
Forest Alliance.

 2.  EIGHT ARRESTED AT LOGGING DEMONSTRATION- KAIBAB NATIONAL FOREST
     VOWS TO VIOLATE CLINTON ORDER TO HALT SALVAGE LOGGING

Eight activists were arrested in the Grand Canyon National Park on
December 16th, protesting efforts by the Kaibab National Forest to
violate an order by the Clinton Administration to halt further logging
under the infamous Logging Without Laws Rider. In demonstrations
sponsored by the Southwest Center and the Student Environmental
Action Coalition, 40 protestors occupied the Kaibab National Forest
Supervisors office in Williams, AZ, then relocated to the South Rim of
the Grand Canyon National Park. Protestors were arrested after
banners proclaiming "Don't Clearcut the Grand Canyon" were hung
from a flag pole.

Following massive public outcry including demonstrations, full page
newspaper advertisements, and a promise by the Southwest Center to
wage a civil disobediance campaign, the Kaibab National Forest scaled
back the Bridger Salvage Timber Sale from 30 million to 17 million
board feet. The Forest only managed to advertise 7 million board feet,
however, when the Clinton Administration announced that no further
salvage timber sales will be allowed under the Logging Without Laws
rider.  According to the directive, salvage sales will not be permitted
unless they were "advertised for sale" by Friday, December 13th. The
Forest, however, plans to log 10 million board feet under the Logging
Without Laws Rider.

 3.  10,000 OPPOSE BRIDGE AT REDROCK CROSSING

The Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club has presented a list of
10,541 signatures from around the world, opposing a bridge at Red
Rock Crossing, to the U. S. Forest Service. The agency has plans to
build a bridge across one of the most photographed river views in the
west.

Photo and News Release: <http://www.redrockxing.org/petition.htm>
Additional Information:   <http://www.redrockxing.org>