LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.Byline: The Register-Guard Bush isn't first to claim right A couple of questions for everyone - including The Register-Guard - who is raising objections over President Bush monitoring possible terrorist calls without warrants. Did you raise equally vociferous objections when President Carter and President Clinton asserted the same executive authority? When President Clinton's administration conducted a physical search of American citizen Aldrich Ames' home without a war- rant? Oh, you didn't? I'm shocked. Shocked. DUNCAN MURRAY Eugene Salvage logging Salvage logging is the practice of felling trees in forest areas that have been damaged by fire. In the United States, salvage logging is a controversial issue for two main reasons. made no sense As the lead author in a recent study on Biscuit logging, I want to respond to criticisms of our findings. Even if the Forest Service had rushed to log the Biscuit, they still would have lost millions of dollars because of low demand for burnt logs and the high costs of getting them. The agency projected a sale value for burnt trees of $250 per thousand board feet, but loggers paid only an average of $75 and as low as $15 per thousand board feet. While the Forest Service claims losses would have been minimized had they gotten in sooner, reality is that the agency has only itself to blame. In 2003, the Forest Service delayed logging a full season to consider extreme logging projections offered by John Sessions John Sessions (born January 11 1953) is a Scottish actor and comedian. He is known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway? and as a frequent panelist on QI. and colleagues at Oregon State University's School of Forestry. This eventually cost the government an estimated $9 million in project delays. Had the agency stuck with its original plan to avoid logging in A colloquial term for the process of making the initial record of the names of individuals who have been brought to the police station upon their arrest. The process of logging in is also called booking. roadless areas and old growth reserves, the plan would have gone forward with less ecological damage and perhaps less cost. The outlandish projections from foresters only fueled the flames of extremism ignited by elected officials who deny economic reality. Logging in the area burned by the Biscuit fire The Biscuit Fire was a wildfire that took place in 2002 that burned nearly 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) in the Siskiyou National Forest in the states of Oregon and California. It was named for Biscuit Creek in southern Oregon. did not make economic sense before the fire, and it makes even less sense now. Congress is poised to expedite and expand post-fire logging nationwide. Lessons from the Biscuit indicate this fiscally unsound unsound said of an animal, usually a horse, which has been examined for soundness and found to be unsatisfactory. policy will also harm public lands. DOMINICK A. DELLASALA Forest ecologist and director World Wildlife Fund Klamath-Siskiyou Program Ashland Alito threatens women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and The nomination of Samuel Alito Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito served as a United States attorney and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to the U.S. Supreme Court is a threat to women's rights and the rights of all Americans. Women and men throughout Oregon are urged to call Sens. Gordon Smith
Gordon Harold Smith (born May 25, 1952) is Oregon's junior United States Senator, currently serving his second term. He is a member of the Republican Party. and Ron Wyden to tell them to vote no on Alito. Judge Alito has written that Congress does not have the power to require state governments to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act. Fortunately, the Supreme Court upheld this congressional power. Judge Alito has demonstrated that he would make it easier for judges to dismiss employment discrimination cases before they get to a jury. Judge Alito has supported searches of individuals by the police even though the warrant did not specifically mention those individuals, thus revealing a clear disregard for privacy rights. Judge Alito has supported a Pennsylvania requirement that a woman notify her husband before attaining a legal abortion, regardless of the fact that such notification could trigger spousal abuse. Judge Alito has threatened the reproductive rights of women by labeling certain contraceptives such as the IUD IUD Definition An IUD is an intrauterine device made of plastic and/or copper that is inserted into the womb (uterus) by way of the vaginal canal. One type releases a hormone (progesterone), and is replaced each year. and birth control pills birth control pill n. See oral contraceptive. birth control pill Oral contraceptive, see there as abortifacients that should be outlawed. I urge every Oregonian to call our senators today at (202) 224-3121. SANDI JOHNSON Board member National Organization for Women Corvallis |
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