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The Archdruid Persists

November 29, 1995

Do you think Americans are as anti-environmental as Congress?
How can we reduce the potential damage of the salvage lumber bill?
Would you pay polluters not to pollute?
How do we get these guys to realize it's their environment too?
How do you see the fight for the environment playing out?
I want to be an environmental leader. How should I start?
How can I--a single, working student--assist in the effort?



How can we reduce the potential damage of the salvage lumber bill?
Question: The recent salvage-lumber legislation seems one of the most troubling of the recent environmental setbacks. What do you suggest be done to reduce the potential damage of this legislation?

Bill Dvorachek
billdv@mail.unm.edu
Albuquerque N.M.

David Brower: Well I think one of the things to do is to join the effort to end the cutting of trees on public property for the time being until they straighten out. That's the easiest group to get to now because it's the land we own. It's a little harder to get people on private land to change their methods. We should work on all of this to get people who have the Aldo Leopold attitude toward the land itself. Let's get a land ethic working. And we can't do that unless people want it to happen, and let's go. Let's get a land ethic alive.






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