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.