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Meanwhile, the work of hammering out a draft proposal was wearing down animosities. The Norwegians enhanced the chances for a breakthrough by keeping the atmosphere intimate. Thus, after plowing through reams of documents, the Israelis and the Palestinians shared plates of Norwegian salmon and wandered together in nearby woods. "To say the atmosphere was friendly," recalls Pundak, "is an understatement." The enemies drank wine and brandy together, watched the news and video movies on television and, when meeting at the Holsts' home, got down on the floor to play with their hosts' four-year-old son, Edvard. (Arafat...
...White House's plan establishes an array of reserves encompassing key watersheds and old-growth stands, an innovative strategy intended to protect the most ecologically essential areas of the forests and thereby preserve the habitat of spotted owls, salmon and countless other species. The blueprint allows for average annual timber harvests of 1.2 billion bd. ft. -- less than one-third of the mid-'80s peak of 5 billion bd. ft. a year. Administration projections put job losses at fewer than 10,000, not quite the apocalyptic vision of the timber companies. But neither the $1.2 billion for worker retraining...
When Clinton and his environmentalist sidekick, Al Gore, took office, they were already well aware that America's ecology was in crisis. From the spotted owls and salmon in the Northwest to woodpeckers and salamanders in the Southeast, many species were on the brink of extinction, and the implications were ominous. Says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, architect of the Administration's natural-resource policy: "This really isn't about just preserving strange species with incomprehensible names. In every single case, that species is the warning light about the decline in productivity of an ecosystem." In the past, the debate...
...dams could face a more radical solution. The modest-size Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, produces electricity but prevents many fish, including salmon and shad, from reaching their spawning grounds. Audubon and Trout Unlimited have called for the dam's removal. So too has the state's Governor, John McKernan Jr.Studies of the proposal and the potential legal brawls could take years, but even the thought of tearing down a dam for ecological reasons is highly unusual...
...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...