March 1995 MEC Newsletter

Here are some of the articles from the Spring 95 Issue #18 of the Mendocino Environmental Center newsletter. The MEC newsletter comes out quarterly and is filled with articles relevant to current issues in the county.

Checklist THP
Keywords: timber
New rules package by forest service which allows timber industry to avoid cumulative impact analysis.
Compost Hits The Fan
Keywords: environmental health, garbage
Proposed new compost facility in Potter Valley causes environmental protest.
Dan Hamburg
Keywords: politics
Reflections on the last election and current politics.
Enchanted Meadow: They're Back!
Keywords: timber
Local citizens file a lawsuit to prevent Louisiana Pacific and CDF from trying to side step the public comment process on a THP.
Endangered Endangered Species Act
Keywords: preservation
A look at how the "Contract With America" is a Contract ON the Endangered Species Act (ESA), as well as nearly all environmental, public welfare, public health and safety laws.
Environmental Estrogens Conference Planned
Keywords: health, water
Environmental estrogens, believed to imitate the role of natural estrogens, have motivated new theories about possible causes of human and wildlife reproductive cancers, lowered sperm counts, abnormal pregnancies, malformed reproductive systems, impaired immune systems, etc.
Government Delays Threaten Coho Salmon
Keywords: fishing industry
Marine Fisheries Service misses Endangered Species Act deadline.
Hemp
Keywords: hemp industry
Pulling the U.S. out of it's economic & environmental woes
Jackson State Forest:
Keywords: forestry, timber industry
It was January, Friday the 13th, 1995, that I had my first glimpse of what the California Department of Forestry (CDF) has been doing in Jackson Demonstration State Forest and I was shocked.
Masonite Public Hearing Date Set
Keywords: air quality
EPA tips hand in air quality controversy.
Stiff As A Board
Keywords: forestry, timber industry
The story of Mendocino County's Forest Practice Rules hearing before the Board of Forestry.
Stopping Dioxin Exposure While Rebuilding Democracy
Keywords: toxics, health
Cross-section of community give public comment at nine regional hearings on the EPA's reassessment of the health effects of dioxin.