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...Some of the sequoias Clinton preserved in the 328,000-acre monument are only the third generation since the last Ice Age, part of a family of trees that has endured fires, earthquakes, storms and every change of political leadership since human history began. "I am not a tree hugger, but these sequoias evoke an almost religious feeling in me," says Joe Fontaine, 67, a retired schoolteacher from Bakersfield who has campaigned for 40 years to stop logging near the sequoias. Sequoias themselves are too brittle for timber yards, but if trees all around them are logged, their shallow roots...
...Gore the environmentalist also got in a few good shots (attacking Texas? grim air quality and somehow getting Bush to assert "we don?t know the whole cause behind" global warming) before he went totally off-track and used a passage from the New Testament to defend his tree-hugger status. Bush came back with his usual line: "This is not a matter for federal jurisdiction...
FUTURE COUPES The 2+2 Nissan study, below, is extremely low and wide--call it the road hugger of the 21st century. Its cousin, right, is a four-door sedan. Space-frame technology will allow vast windshields and cavernous interiors with few obstructions...
...with ones worldview? Should a born-again evangelical have to see his tax dollars spent on representations of homosexuality? How about Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase?" He might just fear hellfire and brimstone as punishment for underwriting any display of carnality. Heck, what about a fanatical tree-hugger--should his tax dollars help house murals depicting the brutal subjugation of the American West...
When he first proposed the idea of forest protection to the Eyak Corp., his fellow board members voted him down, 8 to 1. "They called me a greenie and a tree hugger," he recalls. Undeterred, Lankard gave up his fishing business, set up the Eyak Rainforest Preservation Fund and began lobbying politicians and native Alaskans throughout the state. "Indigenous people have thousands of years of being preservationists," he would argue. "We need to become stewards of the land again." In Lankard's view, not only the trees and streams were endangered; so were the native cultures that depended on them...