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...joined the Audubon Society's Pilchuk chapter, named for a mountain near Everett, Wash., discovered a talent for tactics and alliances and soon became Pilchuk's paid director. Recently she has prowled the halls of Congress, wheelchair and all, for the Forest Water Alliance, a consortium of 21 environmental groups...
...first her battles were simply about preserving the forest, often from the Forest Service itself. It took 10 years of campaigning by Pilchuk, for instance, to get the big agency to back off plans to replace a modest gravel road in an old-growth forest with a broad, paved highway. Although there is no "Endangered Habitat Act," Phillips and other environmentalists were able, sometimes, to wrap the Endangered Species Act around old-growth forests. Two endangered birds, the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, nest in the moss-grown upper limbs of the ancient trees. Phillips is awed...
From a plane flown by Lighthawk, the activist flying outfit, Phillips scans the scarred forest between Seattle and the Cascades. On land where 500-year-old trees recently grew, she sees bald slopes and cookie-cutter second homes. She is small, white-haired, 56 years old. And full of fire. Her plans? She's starting a nationwide group, Women for Protection of Public Lands. "There aren't enough women environmentalists," she says. "Women can fight without making it personal. Work with the opposition when we can..."--she pauses, smiling--"and sue them when we have...
...nostril and blew into the tube. Plotkin's head snapped back, he recalls, as if he "had been hit with a war club." Little men began dancing before his eyes. He asked the shaman who they were. "They are the hekuri," the wise man replied, "the spirits of the forest...
That was 1987, and Plotkin was deep in a Venezuelan rain forest. Then director of plant conservation for the World Wildlife Fund, he had heard of a hallucinogen used by Yanomamo medicine men. Made from the leaves, sap and seeds of various plants, the potent snuff might have medicinal benefits, he thought. After all, aspirin came from white willow bark, which North American Indians relied on to relieve pain. In fact, plants were vital in the development of 25% of all prescription drugs...