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...Glines Canyon Dam and the Elwha Dam on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula are also possible candidates for removal. They block five species of salmon -- the Chinook, the pink, sockeye, chum and coho -- from spawning grounds. Observes Shawn Cantrell, director of Friends of the Earth's Northwest Rivers Project: "If the final decision is made to remove the dams, it will be a statement by our national government that past exploitation of our natural resources can be corrected. We can go back and fix the mistakes we made in previous generations...
...conflict in the Northwest would not be so easily resolved. After a decade of unsustainable logging, court injunctions and federal inaction, the situation was dire when Clinton came to the White House. Said the President: "We have to play the hand we were dealt." In April he convened the much ballyhooed "Timber Summit" in Portland, where he promised to break the gridlock. Clinton set up three teams to tackle the problem, of which perhaps the most important was the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, or FEMAT. Dressed in jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look...
...refuses to discuss the substance of periodic conference calls with Katie McGinty, the White House's environmental- policy director. "Politics is not our bag," he says. Still, two weeks ago, Thomas and forester Jerry Franklin were flown to Washington to brief anxious members of Congress from the Northwest. The meeting was described as "tense...
Lawmakers from the Northwest did not agree. "This is a sellout," said Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, who vows to fight the plan. "The ratio of common sense is inversely proportional to the number of scientists and bureaucrats involved," declared Oregon's other Senator, Mark Hatfield. But it appears that Clinton will not need to submit his plan to Congress, and for that, many on Capitol Hill may be grateful. They can publicly attack the proposal for the consumption of the audience back home, deflect the heat, then quietly draw some measure of comfort from the fact that, at last, there...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service. The feds wanted him to surrender at INS headquarters in Manhattan. They compromised on a firehouse across the street from the mosque, where the sheik entered an INS van and was driven to a federal facility in Otisville, New York, about 75 miles northwest of New York City. The blind Egyptian cleric could be held until the resolution of his appeal of a deportation order issued by an immigration judge in March...