NATIVE_NEWS: OK: Tribes Unite in Response to Istook Bill

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous

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Subject: Oklahoma Tribal Nations
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:40:52
From: Legislative Impact
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


In response to HR 1814 introduced by Pete Visclosky (D-IN) on May 13th 
1999, all 37 federally recognized tribes in Oklahoma have adopted a 
resolution and developed an accompanying position statement opposing the
so 
called "Istook" bill.  These documents may be viewed and printed from 
Legislative Impact's web site at http://www.legislativeimpact.com. 
Legislative Impact will be glad to assist its subscribers in developing 
similar documents for distribution to Congress.

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NATIVE_NEWS: En;AP,Protestants arrested for building church,Jun 17

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous

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Subject: Protestants Reported Arrested in Mexico for Trying to Build


Protestants Reported Arrested in Mexico for Trying to Build Church

AP
16-JUN-99

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) -- Thirteen Protestants who angered
residents of an Indian village in southern Mexico by trying to build a new
church have been arrested, officials said Wednesday.

The group was arrested Tuesday in Mitziton, about 10 miles southeast of San
Cristobal de las Casas, said Gustavo Moscoso Zeneteno, Chiapas state
secretary for Indian affairs.

They were turned over to local authorities in neighboring Flores Magon,
where they live.

The arrests were another episode in a long history of religious conflict in
the region.

Many residents see their unique mixture of Catholicism and traditional Maya
Indian beliefs as crucial to their survival as a culture. Hundreds of
people in Mitziton and Flores Magon held meetings to demand the Protestants
be expelled from their communities.

Tens of thousands of Protestant converts -- and some Roman Catholics --
have been expelled from their villages, often with violence, over the past
20 years in Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state.

Moscoso said the state government would try to block the expulsions and he
said the state Attorney General's Office had begun an investigation into
the action of the local authorities.

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NATIVE_NEWS: Will Haskell take a payoff?

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:26:00 -0500
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Subject: Will Haskell take a payoff?

Payoff on table for Haskell's SLT support 
React to this story
Updated 12:14:38 PM Thursday, June 17, 1999

A reported compensation package for the American Indian school has raised
more questions that it answered.

By Kendrick Blackwood

Journal-World Writer


The president of Haskell Indian Nations University questions the
significance of a reported multimillion-dollar package offered to the
school in exchange for its support for a 31st Street alignment to complete
the South Lawrence Trafficway.

"Until it becomes part of some document and has a signature on it, we
certainly wouldn't consider it an offer," Bob Martin said.

Sources involved in the trafficway debate said the package equates to about
$5 million in projects and cash for the school.

Martin said he was presented with what he called a "draft" list of
compensation in exchange for the school's support to complete the
trafficway along 31st Street, which cuts across the southern edge of
Haskell's campus.

Whether the offer is bona fide, it concerns Dan Lambert, president of Baker
University, which owns and manages the Baker Wetlands adjacent to the
Haskell campus.

Missing are references to a management plan Lambert said was agreed to in
principle by those involved with the trafficway.

"In my opinion, it seems to be uninformed," Lambert said. "It didn't
discuss some issues that would be important to Baker."

The package was presented to Haskell by Dean Carlson, Kansas transportation
secretary. The trafficway, originally seen as a highway around the southern
part of Lawrence, is being pursued jointly by Douglas County, the Kansas
Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. 

Gov. Bill Graves recently took on completion of the road as a personal
project. 

Neither Martin, Lambert nor Carlson would specify the details of the list.

Early versions included items in a proposed mitigation package released by
Martin last year and a federally required study called the 4(f) statement,
said Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug, who said he hadn't seen
the latest version on the table.

"Any mitigation plan offered by the state has to offer what was in that
4(f) statement at a minimum," Weinaug said.

The 4(f) statement included the purchase and removal of the LRM concrete
plant near 31st and Haskell Avenue; earthen berms to insulate the campus
from the trafficway; and the turning over the Wakarusa Township fire
station to Haskell.

However in trying to appease Haskell, trafficway proponents may have
angered Baker, which up to now has been willing to give up ownership of the
Baker Wetlands under the right circumstances. 

"Ownership of the property is not important to us," Lambert said. "The
maintenance of it is critical."

Lambert said meetings with Martin had led to a plan that would turn
ownership of the wetlands over to Haskell but would put the property's
management in the hands of a trust to include at least representatives of
Baker, Haskell and Kansas University.

"We were close to a meeting of the minds on how we might cooperate and get
this thing moving," Lambert said. "In the absence of having those resolved,
we would not be able to go along with the recommendation."

Baker's involvement has been seen as an important part of the picture,
Weinaug said. 

"They can't take Baker for granted," he said. "Clearly they can't offer
land the state and county don't own."

Martin said the Baker Wetlands were included in the package, but it excused
the issue of their management. 

"This was a very brief document," he said. "There would be a lot of details
to be worked out across the board I think."

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NATIVE_NEWS: Monsanto and CARE - Ecocity Living Planet Network

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:55:17 -0400
From: "Day Starr (*No-qui-si*)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 http://www.ecocity.com/village/action_center/care_monsanto3-9-99.html

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   RAFI News Release - 9 March 1999
   Rural Advancement Foundation International
   http://www.rafi.org


   ***MONSANTO - Handled with CARE?***
   ***   or, CARE - Handled by MONSANTO?   ***

  MAJOR U.S. RELIEF AGENCY HOLDS TALKS WITH TROUBLED
  AGBIOTECH MULTINATIONAL - WHO'S HELPING WHO?


   CARE, the high-profile U.S. food aid non-profit, is holding
talks today
   with Monsanto Corporation at the company's world headquarters
in St. Louis,
   Missouri (US). According to information received by RAFI,
Monsanto's CEO
   Robert Shapiro contacted CARE's President, Peter Bell, inviting
CARE
   officials to discuss ways in which Monsanto may be able to use its
   technologies for the benefit of food security in the South.
Whether this is
   an attempt to resurrect Monsanto's scheme to provide
micro-credit ("soft")
   loans to Third World farmers in order to market its proprietary
pesticides
   and genetically-modified seeds remains to be seen.

   Monsanto is one of the world's leading Gene Giants - dominant
in both crop
   chemicals and seeds. The company's best known product, Roundup
   (glyphosate), is the world's top selling herbicide and a
multi-billion
   dollar profit engine for Monsanto. The company's patents on
Roundup are
   expiring, however, and Monsanto is looking for new ways to
maintain its
   market share and to advance sales of its controversial transgenic
   (genetically-modified) soybean, maize, cotton, and potato
varieties. Using
   genetic engineering, Monsanto has bred seeds that tolerate Roundup
   spraying. It is estimated that the contentious market strategy
has won
   Monsanto at least 85% of the booming U.S. transgenic seed
market, and
   experts suggest, a similar share of the global transgenic market.

   * Cash 'n CARE? In June 1998, Monsanto announced that it would
develop a
   special microcredit programme with the Grameen Bank of
Bangladesh that
   would have made it financially feasible for cash-starved
farmers to take
   out loans to buy Monsanto's advanced technology products. The
Grameen Bank
   has won international accolades for its championing of credit
programmes to
   rural women who would not normally be seen as credit-worthy by
conventional
   banks. Within a month of the Monsanto-Grameen announcement,
however, the
   Bangladeshi institution cancelled the deal bowing to intense public
   pressure within South Asia and around the world.

   * Once More with Feeling? "At the time, we heard rumours that
CARE and
   possibly  some other development aid agencies were discussing
similar deals
   with Monsanto" Pat Mooney, RAFI's executive director says, "but
we were
   told that CARE backed away from the table when Grameen threw in
the towel."
   "Now we are informed that an international team of CARE
officials from
   their New York office, but also from some of their major
regional offices,
   have gone to St. Louis to discuss a major initiative with
Monsanto," Mooney
   adds, "This could be a real problem."

   GMO's in Every Pot? Last year, more than 27.8 million hectares
of farmland
   around the world was sown to genetically modified crops.
Seventy seven
   percent of this land was sown to transgenic seeds designed to
tolerate
   herbicide spraying. While the biggest market for biotech seed
is in the USA
   and Canada, South countries such as Argentina, Mexico, South
Africa, and
   China have also adopted the controversial seeds. Trials of
Monsanto's
   transgenic seeds in India have led to mass demonstrations and
intense
   debate in the media and in government. Similar debates are
underway in
   Brazil. In Europe, environmentalists, farmers, and consumers
have joined
   together to oppose the use of transgenic seeds.

   * GMO's Handled by CARE? Blocked in Europe, is Monsanto trying
to use
   well-known aid agencies to win acceptance for its GMOs among
farmers and
   consumers in the South? "Monsanto officials genuinely believe
they have

NATIVE_NEWS: [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: THE NEW YORK TIMES' YAWNING GAP

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous

And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

To Whom it May concern at FAIR-L,
There is a glaring gap in your coverage of the NY Times coverage of US
policy, that gap is filled with the victims of the US and Canadian
expansionism upon this North American continent, filled by the people of
the First Nations.  Our graves are robbed in the name of science, lands
polluted by uranium tailings and nuclear waste dumps, our religion mocked
with every sports team that bears the name of our people, contracts
(treaties) with every First Nation termed as "welfare payments" not debt,
and the truth ignored within history texts, the murderers of our people
honored by monument and legal tender.  The Presidential Commission on Race
relations didn't even include an Indian on the panel.  Talk about the
invisible people.
Your expose below leaves us just as invisible..
WE ARE HERE..AND WE WILL NOT GO SILENTLY.
Ishgooda
Ed
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Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 7:19 PM
Subject: [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: THE NEW YORK TIMES' YAWNING GAP

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Fairness  Accuracy in Reporting
   Media analysis, critiques and news reports

ACTION ALERT: THE NEW YORK TIMES' YAWNING GAP:
 Between Glowing Portrait of Western Idealism and Reality of U.S.
 Policy

 June 17, 1999

 In the June 13 New York Times "Week in Review," Michael Wines
 cautioned that despite America's "victory over Communism and
 inhumanity" in Kosovo, all is not well in the world. Americans often
 perceive their morals as universal, Wines says, but in fact there is
 "a yawning gap between the West and much of the world on the value of
 a single human life."

 According to Wines, the war in Yugoslavia "only underscored the deep
 ideological divide between an idealistic New World bent on ending
 inhumanity and an Old World equally fatalistic about unending
 conflict."

 Amongst the "anti-West club" of Syria, Libya, Iraq, China and India,
 Russians stand out "by temperament, history and current attitudes" as
 a particularly amoral people, says Wines. As evidence of this, Wines
 cites the anti-Jewish pogroms of the early 1900s, the Soviet policy of
 ethnic gerrymandering and forced migration, and the large-scale ethnic
 conflicts that spread through the Soviet Union as it collapsed.

 Yet Wines ignores examples from U.S. history that would have
 questioned the U.S.'s commitment to "ending brutality" and the actual
 "value of a single human life" for U.S. policymakers.

 Earlier this year, the New York Times ran several stories and
 editorials on the release of a report by the Guatemalan Historical
 Clarification Commission, a report that, in the words of a front-page
 Times story (2/26/99):

 "concluded that the United States gave money and training to a
 Guatemalan military that committed 'acts of genocide' against the
 Mayans during the most brutal armed conflict in Central America,
 Guatemala's 36-year civil war The panel also found evidence that
 the United States had knowledge of genocide and still supported the
 Guatemalan military."

 There is ample evidence to suggest that the U.S. is selective in its
 objection to governments that orchestrate violence against internal
 minorities. In 1992, at the height of Turkey's repression of its
 Kurdish minority, a State Department spokesperson summarized U.S.
 policy (National Journal, 4/15/95):

 "There is no question of halting U.S. military assistance to Turkey.
 The U.S. sees nothing objectionable in a friendly or allied country
 using American weapons to secure internal order or to repel an attack
 against its territorial unity."

 Wines could have calculated the value the U.S. places on "a single
 human life" by examining the U.S.'s policy of imposing sanctions on
 Iraq. While malnutrition was almost unknown in Iraq before the Gulf
 War, "from 1991 to 1998, children under 5 were dying from
 malnutrition-related diseases in numbers ranging from a conservative
 2,690 per month to a more realistic 5,357 per month," according to
 U.N. figures (Seattle Post Intelligencer, 5/11/99). When 60 Minutes
 (5/12/96) asked Secretary of State Madeline Albright whether sanctions
 that left half a million Iraqi children dead were "worth it," Albright
 replied, "I think this is a very hard choice. But the price--we think
 the price is worth it."

 A graphic demonstration of the Western attitude toward human life came
 in the closing days of the war in Yugoslavia--after Belgrade had
 already agreed to withdraw its forces from Kosovo, and all that
 remained to be worked out were the technical details of an
 international occupation--when the U.S. carpet-bombed two battalions
 of Yugoslavian soldiers gathered in an open field near the Albanian
 border, who were skirmishing with KLA fighters. News reports indicated
 that the number of soldiers killed as a result in this meaningless
 battle was in the 

NATIVE_NEWS: Indian Tribe Builds Drug Business

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous

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Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 1:58 PM
Subject: Indian Tribe Builds Drug Business


Indian Tribe Builds Drug Business
.c The Associated Press
 By BRIGITTE GREENBERG

MASHANTUCKET, Conn. (AP) - An Indian tribe that has made a fortune from
casino gambling has quietly built a profitable sideline business in
mail-order prescription drugs.

As gamblers feed quarters into the slot machines at the Foxwoods Resort
Casino, a half-dozen pharmacists in white coats work nearby on tribal land,
filling pill bottles bound for patients all over the country.

Under federal regulations, Indian tribes recognized by the government can
buy
prescription drugs at a deep discount and resell them. As a result,
Mashantucket Pequot Indians can undercut HMOs and pharmacy chains.

Started 10 years ago as a small health service for members of the tribe and
their employees, the Pequot Pharmaceutical Network today is a $15 million
business, handling 250,000 prescriptions annually.

About 2 million people are enrolled in the network, and its customers
include
General Dynamics, Connecticut College, AAA Connecticut Motor Club and about
40 other Indian tribes around the country.

Even the state of Connecticut, looking to cut its pharmaceutical
expenditures
for 85,000 elderly and disabled Medicaid patients, is considering becoming a
customer.

``When we met with the Pequots, they described their purchasing power,''
said
Michael Starkowski, deputy commissioner of the Department of Social
Services.
``They described to us a pricing schedule that would be 40 to 50 percent
less
than what we would be paying otherwise.''

The Pequots refused to disclose profit figures and insisted they are not
looking to put independent pharmacies or national chains like Walgreen or
Rite Aid out of business.

Yet industry executives are jittery. Mark Grayson, a spokesman for the
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said his organization
fears the government has given the Pequots an unfair advantage.

``We don't believe that the federal supply schedule can be utilized in this
way,'' he said.

Shelly Carter, spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, said the
Pequots' use of the discount is perfectly legal.

Here's why the Indians have the edge: Drug manufacturers, in an effort to
capture market share, created different price schedules for different
customers. Hospitals typically get a lower price than drug store chains. As
the biggest consumer of pharmaceuticals in the world, the federal government
gets the lowest price of all. Indian tribes are entitled to the same
discount
the government gets.

Other Indian tribes also obtain cheap prescription drugs for their
reservation health centers. But the Pequots are the first to set up a health
care business that extends beyond their reservation.

The Pequots get the government discount only for prescription drugs that go
to people on federal assistance, such as Medicaid. For all other patients,
the Pequots pay the HMO rate for drugs, which is still cheaper than what
drug
store chains pay.

By law, the Pequots are not allowed to charge the patients on federal
assistance a markup on the drugs. They make a profit by imposing a handling
fee of about $9 per prescription. The Pequots' other customers can be
charged
a markup.

About 70 percent of the Pequots' business is in mail-order prescriptions
that
are shipped directly from the reservation to patients, most of whom have
chronic conditions, like diabetes.

The tribe also has a pharmacy on the reservation that serves about 600
tribal
members and about 13,000 employees. And it has alliances with 35,000
pharmacies across the country, enabling patients to go to drug stores to
pick
up some prescriptions.

In addition, the tribe performs claims processing for large employers and
has
customer service representatives and pharmacists on call nearly 24 hours a
day to answer questions and check patient histories for allergies or drug
interactions.

``We're focused mainly on discrete populations that are homebound, the
elderly poor, for example,'' said Matt Uustal, president of the network.
``We
think we give them a competitive price.''

Steven J. Valiquette, an analyst with Warburg Dillon Read in New York, said
mail-order is one of the fastest-growing market segments. He said small
pharmacies are more likely to suffer than large chains.

``The whole prescription drug pie is growing 5 to 6 percent annually, and
the
independents are the ones who are losing,'' he said. ``Mail-order is just
lower overhead overall.''

The tribe's main source of revenue remains its casino. Though the tribe will
not divulge profits, it reports its slot machine take to the state, which
keeps 25 percent. With slot revenue topping $600 million in 1998, the
state's
share exceeded $150 million.

Although pharmaceuticals may seem like an odd side business, the tribe has a
long history in health care, said Marjorie Colebut, a 

NATIVE_NEWS: BIA TRIAL: Indian Funds Head Petitions Judge

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous

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Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 3:20 PM 
Subject: Indian Funds Head Petitions Judge


Indian Funds Head Petitions Judge
.c The Associated Press
By PHILIP BRASHER

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration's top-ranking American Indian
appealed to a federal judge Friday to leave the government in control of
$500 million in Indian trust funds that have been mismanaged for decades.

Kevin Gover, a Pawnee who has run the Bureau of Indian Affairs for a year
and a half, said it would destroy his agency - and by extension the
government's special relationship with tribes - to lose control of the
accounts.

``I deeply believe that not only is the bureau the right organization to do
this, but it is the only organization that can do it,'' he told U.S.
District Judge Royce Lamberth.

The BIA is responsible for 300,000 accounts that handle rent, royalties and
other income from 11 million acres of land owned by individual Indians,
many of them very poor.

Earlier this year, Lamberth held Gover, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt
and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin in contempt for their failure to turn
over records sought in a class-action lawsuit that seeks to reform the
trust system and reconcile the accounts.

Gover, a lawyer and Princeton graduate who is Interior's assistant
secretary for Indian affairs, apologized ``for the failure of my agency to
do what it was told to do.'' He was the government's leadoff witness in a
trial of the lawsuit.

The trial began June 10, starting with testimony on behalf of the
plaintiffs, the individual Indian account holders who brought the
class-action lawsuit over the $500 million. The BIA controls an additional
$2.5 billion in trust funds that belong to tribes and are not covered by
the lawsuit.

BIA has already lost much of its role in everyday Indian affairs now that
many tribes have taken over programs the BIA once managed for them. Taking
away the trust funds would be the next step toward eliminating the agency
altogether, Gover said.

While tribal leaders are often the BIA's harshest critics, many of them
share Gover's concern that the government would phase out its support for
tribes if the agency didn't exist.

``The BIA, for all its warts, is the icon, it is the symbol, of the
commitment of the United States to the tribes,'' Gover said.

The trust system has vexed a series of administrations, but Gover insisted
the BIA is committed to cleaning it up. Next week, the agency will start
testing a new computer system for managing the trust accounts and records.

The records are scattered in more than 100 BIA offices, and many of the
accounts are quite small - Gover said his own account contains just 7 cents
- because of the way ownership of Indian land has splintered through
inheritances.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs scoffed at Gover's concerns for the future of
the BIA, which they contend is incapable of managing the money.

Under cross examination, Gover could not say whether the officials he's put
in charge of the accounts have any previous experience in managing trusts.
Lawyers for the account holders who filed the lawsuit also say the records
are in such poor condition that the new accounting system can't be reliable.

``The question is, is the BIA here to support the trust, or is the trust
here to support the BIA?'' attorney Dennis Gingold said in an interview.

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NATIVE_NEWS: Northern Ontario: Wataway Briefs: June 3, 1999 edition

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous

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June 3, 1999  Northern Ontario's Native VoiceVol. 26 No.11
http://www.wawatay.on.ca/paper/index.html
Excerpts...complete stories at URLs below

Does casting a vote surrender your Aborignal rights?
http://www.wawatay.on.ca/paper/vol026/no11/vote.html
Some Native people believe voting in today's provinical election is not only a
waste of time, but suicide to sovereignty.

Searching for Home
http://www.wawatay.on.ca/paper/vol026/no11/adopt.html
A report from the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy points to the
need for resources and education to ease the return of children removed by
the child welfare system to their communities


Pelican Falls students raise bark canoe building from near-extinction
http://www.wawatay.on.ca/paper/vol026/no11/canoe.html
Submitted by the design and technology class at Pelican Falls First
 Nations Highschool


 Grand Chief seeks information on residential school deaths
http://www.wawatay.on.ca/paper/vol026/no11/letter.html
From: Charles Fox, Grand Chief Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
Open letter to all NAN members:
   I am writing to ask your assistance in compiling any stories
and/or
   documentation of children who either died or went missing
during their
   stay at a residential school.

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NATIVE_NEWS: California Fish and Game Action - Tujunga Wash

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:36:27 -0700
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Subject: California Fish and Game Action - Tujunga Wash
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 The California Department of Fish and Game has issued a 
restrictive Streambed Alteration Permit for the Tujunga Wash.
This permit ( #5-003-99 ) would effectively protect the many
rare and endangered species in the Wash, including the 
federally and state listed slender-horned spineflower,
and the Santa Ana sucker. The proposed Red Tail Golf course
threatens the spineflower through habitat destruction, and the
Santa Ana sucker through the leaching of pesticides, herbicides, 
and nitrates into the Los Angeles River. (  Often golf courses
are built on a strata of clay; it may take years for golf course
pollutants to move through this clay layer, during which time
the nitrates and pesticides may degrade. The Red Tail Golf
Course will be built on the sand and gravel floodplain of the 
LA river) .

 The California Fish and Game position is that the damage
done to the Wash by the construction of the golf course is so severe
that it cannot be mitigated. If upheld, this will be a historic 
step forward for the Department, which to my knowledge has never
taken such an agressive stance towards species' endangerment.

 The Red Tail Golf Course has appealed the Fish and game action
to an arbitration, which will be held in July, 1999. Comments of support
can be addressed to 

Mary Nichols
Secretary, Resources Agency, State of California
1416 Ninth Street
Sacramento, California

Robert C. Hight
Director, California Department of Fish and Game
1416 9th Street, 12th floor
Sacramento, California  


John Yard 
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