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...Forest Service plan to limit motorized access to the White River National Forest has angered off-road-vehicle enthusiasts. In Nevada, a proposed nuclear-waste dump deep inside Yucca Mountain has stirred up bipartisan opposition. In Oregon, Clinton's designation of the Cascade-Siskiyou forest as a national monument is being reviewed by Bush, setting off arguments over public and private land use by loggers, local residents and environmentalists...
Protect the monument!" shouts "Meadow Woman," an activist who is wearing a 10-ft.-tall body costume of a swamp witch as she heckles a group of flag-waving cowboys on horseback. It's not your typically quiet town meeting here in the old mill community of White City, Ore. Loggers and conservationists, ranchers and artists, small-business owners and hikers, old timers and the newly arrived are packed into an auditorium to discuss the nearby Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a lush, ecologically diverse region of 52,947 acres established last year by President Bill Clinton...
...sure is real. "A lot of the unfortunate negative perceptions are driven by the energy issues," says Maine Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican. In a series of rebukes to Bush, the G.O.P.-led House has in the past few weeks rejected his plans to expand drilling in national-monument lands, the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. And last week a Senate committee voted unanimously to spend nearly $300 million more for conservation next year than Bush wanted. "We have to take care of ourselves," says a Republican leadership aide...
...Sable, (1745-1818). Little is known about Du Sable except that (through his mother's Haitian ancestry) he was black. This became a matter of some importance to the city's black community, and Puryear, who lived in Chicago in the 1980s, has been approached about a possible monument to its obscure founder, in a waterfront park. Justice at last, you'd think: black artist does black pioneer. But nobody really knows what Du Sable looked like, so a "likeness" of him is out of the question. You'd think that would suit an abstract sculptor, which Puryear basically...
...sure is real. "A lot of the unfortunate negative perceptions are driven by the energy issues," says Maine Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican. In a series of rebukes to Bush, the G.O.P.-led House has in the past few weeks rejected his plans to expand drilling in national-monument lands, the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. And last week a Senate committee voted unanimously to spend nearly $300 million more for conservation next year than Bush wanted. "We have to take care of ourselves," says a Republican leadership aide...