Fwd: vision 20/20 announcement

["bill london" <bill_london@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Joshua W. Burnim" <jwb@moscow.com>
>To: Bill London <bill_london@hotmail.com>, Bill LAtWSU 
><london@wsuix.wsu.edu>
>Subject: vision 20/20 announcement
>Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:45:48 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>Dear Bill,
>
>Can you post this announcement about a Panel Discussion on the Forest
>Service Roadless Initiative onto vision 20/20?
>
>Josh
>
>Joshua Burnim
>Roadless Initiative Organizer
>at home office:
>(208) 892-3550 or jwb@moscow.com
>at Friends of the Clearwater:
>(208) 882-9755 or cove@moscow.com
>P.O. Box 9241, Moscow, ID  83843
>
>
>
>A panel discussion on the Forest Service Roadless Initiative will be held 
>at
>the University of
>Idaho Law School in Room 104 on Thursday, April 13 at 7.30 pm.
>
>The Roadless Initiative was set into motion by President Clinton last
>October and could protect up to 60 million acres of roadless National 
>Forest
>across the country.
>
>The panelists are:
>1) Howie Wolke, outfitter in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, author of
>"Wilderness on the Rocks", and co-author with Dave Foreman of "The Big
>Outside";
>2) Bill Mulligan, President and Owner of Three Rivers Timber, Inc., Kamiah,
>Co-Chairman of Resource Organization on Timber Supply, and Executive Board
>member of Intermountain Forest Products Industry;
>3) Tom Rhode, Forest Service Regional Planner in Missoula, MT on the Region
>One Ecosystem Assessment Team for the Roadless Initiative; and
>4) Gary Macfarlane, a local conservationist with Friends of the Clearwater,
>who knows our roadless backcountry like the back of his hand.
>
>The moderator is Paul Hirt, Associate Professor of History and American
>Studies at WSU, specializing in environmental history and the history of
>the American West.  He is the author of the 1994 book "A Conspiracy of
>Optimism:  Management of the National Forests since World War Two", and
>co-editor with Dale Goble of the 1999 book "Northwest Lands, Northwest
>Peoples:  Readings in Environmental History".
>
>The moderator will give a brief historical introduction to the debate over
>Forest Service roadless areas.  Then beginning with Tom Rhode of the Forest
>Service, each panelist will have 10 minutes to present their perspective on
>the Roadless Initiative.  Following, there will be 30-45 minutes of Q/A
>moderated by Paul Hirt.
>
>Please join us in making this event a lively debate on the Forest Service
>Roadless Initiative.
>
>This event is being sponsored by the Environmental Law Society
>Palouse Group of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Clearwater, the Idaho
>Conservation League, Clearwater Biodiversity Project, Palouse Chapter of
>American Fisheries Society and other student groups.
>
>For more information contact 882-9755.

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