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The Red and Black • Friday, January 19, 1990 • 3
Speaker reveals deforestation facts;
Urges quick action to save wilderness
By Elizabeth Dill
Staff Writer
The U.S. Forest Service is de
stroying trees in the Northwest at
the rate of two square miles per
week, environmentalist Lou Gold
told a standing room only crowd in
the journalism auditorium
Wednesday night.
‘The fact is that the U.S. Forest
Service uses U.S. tax dollars to cut
our public land,” Gold said. “If we
don’t act quickly we will lose it all
within the next 15 to 20 years.”
The lecture, “Lessons from the
Ancient Forest: Slides and Stories
of the Oregon Wilderness,” was
sponsored by the Athens Sierra
Club and Students for Environ
mental Awareness.
Gold told of his knowledge of the
Siskiyou National Forestand made
a plea for the forest to be pre
served.
“Very few people outside of these
regions understand the difference
between a national forest and a na
tional phrk,” Gold said.
Trees aren’t protected in na
tional forests. To date, the U.S.
Forest Service has made 358,000
miles of logging roads on forest
land, he said. In comparison, there
are 44,000 miles in the interstate
highway system.
Last year in the Pacific North
west, sawmills consumed ten bil-,
lion board feet of trees, Gold said.
Another six billion were cut, loaded
whole and exported.
“We’re redesigning the forest to
fit the technology of the saw mill.
We’re not building forests at all,”
he said.
“One of the greatest deceptions is
that we are involved as a country
in reforestation. That is a lie,” he
said. ‘They are replacating the
forest with tree farms.”
Mark Williams, Athens Sierra
Club chairman, said, “It was defi
nitely well-attended and the mes
sage was really important.”
Patrick Hlnch«y/The Red and Black
Lou Gold: Says tax dollars used to cut public land
International forum to show
By ANNE MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba
chev will open the concluding
segment of a national environ
mental forum to be shown via sa
tellite this evening at the The
Georgia Center for Continuing
Education.
The broadcast can be seen free-
of-charge from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
in rooms K and L at the Georgia
Center.
Kit Traub, a producer at the
Georgia Center, said that “Global
Forum: World Stories from a Sur
viving Planet” brings together
700 environmental, religious and
political leaders from around the
world for five days of intensive
discussion on the environmental
crisis.
Participants in this week’s dis
cussion include astronomer Carl
Sagan, oceanographer Jacques
Cousteau, U.S. Senator A1 Gore
and Alexey Yablokov, Deputy
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet
Committee on Ecology.
Audrey Phillips, international
distribution coordinator for radio
at the Foundation for Global
Broadcasting, said the program
marks the first time Intelsat and
the Soviet Intersputnik systems
have joined forces to grant free
access to a humanitarian project.
“It has been an incredible ef
fort of cooperation,” Phillips said.
'The forum will be broadcast to
107 countries in 32 languages.”
Organized by the Global
Forum of Spiritual and Parlia
mentary Leaders on Human Sur
vival, the program will include
live coverage of the conference as
well as reports from various
world sites.
Traub said,‘The broadcast will
feature encouraging stories of en
vironmental progress and posi
tive development from around
the world, for example, the Alge
rian Green Belt of Hope, a tree-
planting project in the Sahara.”
Although Georgia Public Tele
vision will not broadcast it, cable
subscribers will be able to view it
on WWOR-TV in New York.
Athens to be center for tree-planting environmental group
‘We need to have more
U.S. citizens aware of
what’s going on down
there — the poverty,
the people, the culture
and the impact they
have.’
— Ken Norman
founder of e.a.r.t.h.
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By GAYL BARRETT
Staff Writer
When deciding where to start a
grassroots organization to save
trees, Kansas native Ken Norman
couldn’t think of a better place
than good ol’ Athens.
Influenced by a trip to Central
America three years ago, Norman
left his life as a Californian lawyer
to lay the groundwork for Edu
cated Americans Reforesting Their
Homeland (e.a.r.t.h.).
‘The problem is more than
trees,” Norman said. “It’s people.
We need to get U.S. citizens down
there and more aware.”
He officially started e.a.r.t.h.
three months ago. He chose Athens
as the epicenter of the project for a
number of reasons. For one, the
Hartsfield International Airport is
nearby.
But more importantly, Athens is
known as “the environmental
mecca of the South,” he said.
It has this reputation because
the University has a number of de
portments with an environmental
focus, such as ecology and forestry,
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The University also offers an
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The Athens music scene also
plays a big part in making people
more receptive to environmental
issues, Norman said.
The Groove Trolls, Tattooed
Dogs and Kilkenny Cats will play
at a benefit concert for e.a.r.t.h. on
Jan. 25 at the Georgia Theater.
Special guests are included in the
billing.
The proceeds will pay for 250
volunteers to plant trees in the
Americas during the summer of
1991.
The three-month-old organiza
tion hopes to be more than just an
other environmental group,
Norman uuid. It hopes to educate
U.S. citizens and offer a hands-on
solution.
“We need to have more U.S. citi
zens aware of what’s going on down
there — the poverty, the people,
the culture and the impact they
have,” Norman said.
Biology senior Katy Reich began
working with e.a.r.t.h. back in No
vember after hearing Norman
speak at an Environmental Aware
ness meeting.
“We’re working on a direct
problem in a specific place,” she
said. “It’3 harder for a campus or
ganization to do the same.”
Though many Central and
South American countries claim to
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forest destruction, Norman said a
growing U.S. interest may spur
South Americans to act.
“If a Brazilian is cutting down
trees to feed his family, and he sees
a crazy college kid planting trees
right behind him, he may begin to
wonder,” he said
Volunteers will meet in the last
week of January. The date is still
undecided.
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