The MEC Newsletter: Issue 32 - Summer/Fall 1999

Nuturing Watersheds

Editorial leading off an issue exploring the topic of watersheds

Our Bioregion - The North Coastal Basin by Allen Cooperrider

Optimism and Openness to Change At The MEC by King Collins

The fate of the environment and humankind depends on whether optimists or pessimists prevail...

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Toward a Definition of Sustainable Development

What is sustainable development? Here is an attempt at a definition.

Electrofishing Endangered Species by Anne Maurice

A cruel and unusual method is being used on endangered species to count them. Here are the what happens to the wildlife.

Electrofishing News Flash!

Followup to previous electrofishing article, focusing the timber industry.

Leonard Peltier Support Group

Short on local Peltier support group

Forest Defense Updates by Lang Russel

Updates on forest activities and activism in the watersheds of Albion River, Navarro Ridge, Greenwood Creek, Elk Creek, Headwaters, and Scott Creek

MRC - The Tan Oak Issue by Lang Russel

A look at Mendocino Redwood Company's plans to harvest tan oak on its property to make hardwood flooring. There are deeper issues going on here, related to use of Garlon and liquidation forestry.

Copset Creek Stream Bank Rehabilitation by Earl Brown

Overview and description of a project which worked with nature to restore the "natural functioning" of an eroded stream bank.

Who Speaks For The Rivers? by Dennis O'Brien

What the governmental agencies involved in the Eel River diversion have been doing lately.

Some Definitions

Some short definitions for Bioregion, ecoregion, biodiversity, econsystem, indicator species, habitat fragmentation, and watershed.

Some Poems

Several poems that surrounded the center fold watershed map of Mendocino County

Governmental Resource Directory

Contact information for county, state, and federal governmental agencies and represenatives

Watershed Groups of Mendocino County

Contact information for the local watershed groups

Business Sponsors

Local busineseses who have committed to supporting the MEC on a regular basis

KPFA Survives Takeover (So Far) by Matthew Lasar

A good history of recent events around radio station KPFA in Berkeley

Local Currency is Here! by By Dale Glaser

SEED is in operation on the coast, Ukiah HOURS is coming. How Ukiah HOURS will work when it starts up later this year.

New Offshore Oil Drilling Looming by Laurel Paget-Seekins

The federal Mineral Management Service is about to allow the development of 40 new offshore oil drilling leases off the coast of central California.

War and the Environment by Lynda McClure and Amanda Bellerby

A look at the poisoning and pollution of Yugoslavia that resulted from the recent war in Kosova.

Nuclear Cooking Utensils - From Bad to Worse by Lynda McClure

Radioactive metals are being used in the manufacturing of consumer products!

City of Ukiah Update by Doug Strong

Shorts on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan and the opening of a Homeless Shelter for the winter.

Dangers of Dioxin by Greg Bourget

Organochlorines, that includes dioxin, DDT, and PCBs, are the most studied chemicals in world history.

Letters to the MEC

Letters about the Eel River diversion

Calendar of Events

Calendar of events for the next couple of months