And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:46:52 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: enviro news >X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 > >News Bytes >Tuesday, January 19, 1999 > > >Settlement agreement -- Avista Corp. formerly known as Washington Water >Power, and the Nez Perce Tribe have reached and approved a final >settlement resolving litigation between the parties regarding tribal >claims for damages for anadromous fish losses on the main stem and south >fork of the Clearwater River. The settlement concludes eight years of >litigation and mediation. Thirty days after the effective date of the >settlement, the company will pay the Nez Perce Tribe $2.5 million, >followed by 44 annual payments of $835,498. The Nez Perce Tribe filed a >lawsuit Dec. 6, 1991, against Avista Corp. in the United States District >Court for Idaho. In the lawsuit the tribe alleged that anadromous fish >runs in locations where the tribe has treaty reserved fishing rights >were destroyed or diminished by the maintenance and operation of the >Lewiston and Grangeville dams by Avista. The tribe sought money damages >for these losses. Contact Dana Anderson, Avista, (509)495-4174, email: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Green power -- In its first year, the Bonneville Environmental >Foundation has surpassed the $1 million mark as a result of two >commitments received this week. Snohomish County Public Utility District >#1 in Washington announced it would purchase 10 megawatts of certified >green power from the Bonneville Power Administration. As a result of the >purchase, the foundation will receive 60 percent of the above-market >green power premium paid to BPA, or about $550,000 annually. The Hewlett >Foundation of Menlo Park, Calif., donated $350,000 to cover all of the >foundation's administrative and marketing costs over the next two years. >The grant allows 100 percent of the green power revenues and other >contributions to go to new renewable energy and watershed restoration >projects. Contact Angus Duncan, Bonneville Environmental Foundation, >(503)248-1948. > >Salmon poster -- Idaho Rivers United has commissioned a >nationally-renowned artist to create a vision of a free-flowing lower >Snake River. This image, "Resurrection: Restoring wild salmon and >steelhead to the Snake River", signed and numbered in an edition of 250, >is available for $125. The 24x32-inch color poster by Missoula-artist >Monte Dolack shows an underwater view of steelhead and chinook salmon >heading upriver to their Idaho spawning grounds. In the distance lies >the lower Snake River canyon and the remains of Lower Granite Dam, >partially removed to allow salmon and steelhead to pass around it. Idaho >Rivers United commissioned Dolack to create the poster for their >campaign to restore wild salmon and steelhead to the lower Snake River. >To purchase the print, contact Liz Edrich, Idaho Rivers United, >(208)343-7481, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Education awards -- The American Society of Association Executives has >recognized Project Learning Tree with two awards for Excellence in >Education. Project Learning Tree received a trophy award for its >print-based education program. This includes PLT's Preschool through >Eighth Grade Environmental Education Activity Guide and Secondary Level >Modules. PLT also received a certificate for its community service >education programs which include "PLT in the City" and "Greenworks!" >community action projects. Project Learning Tree is sponsored by the >American Forest Foundation. Contact AFF, (202)463-2462. > >Land acquisistion -- Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt will go to >the Palm Springs area of Southern California Wednesday to take title to >the first 10,000 acres of private lands in the California Desert that >will be acquired by the federal government as part of President >Clinton's Lands Legacy Initiative. Almost 500,000 acres of private lands >will be acquired through an unprecedented match of private and public >funds. The $36 million in federal money will come from the Land and >Water Conservation Fund while $25.5 million in private funds is being >contributed by The Wildlands Conservancy, a non-profit organization >based in Oak Glen, Calif. Contact Tim Ahern, DOI, (202)208-5089. > >Online expedition -- Science students at LaPorte High School and Kesling >Middle School in LaPorte, Ind., will communicate live via Internet >Thursday with Purdue University North Central biology professor Richard >Hengst, who is on a scientific expedition to a dinosaur site in >southwest China. The students will have an opportunity to ask questions >as well as learn about new discoveries at the Chinese excavation site. >Dr. Hengst, who left for the month-long expedition in late December, is >an authority on dinosaur respiration and has presented research findings >at national and international conferences. The all-day event will >involve LaPorte students in their science classes, Hengst in China, and >Dr. Brenda Buck at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. She is an expert >on the geology of southwest China. Prior to the expedition, Hengst and >Buck came to LaPorte to meet with the students in their classrooms, and >they will return for a follow-up after the expedition. Contact Joy >Banyas, Purdue University, (219)785-5267, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
