American Forests on the Auction Block

I'm working on a story about the terrorism of foreign owned corporate and capitulating U.S. government workers who have been planning to spray poisons on healthy forests. Most people don't know just how much of our nation's forestland is in the hands of foreign owned multi layered corporate companies.
Getting the information out to the public on what they are planning is the first step in save our Nations Forests from money hungry loggers and ranchers who want more grassland to feed cows.
I may be a nobody when it comes to speaking out as to what I see and hear, but I have to try. The planned spraying of poisons on large tracks of our nation's public and private forests for whatever reasons, (weed control, insect control, etc.) should not be in the hands of foreign owned corporations whose motivation and interests are short and long term (logging and beef production) capital gains.

If our country is to survive the buying of U.S. American forest property by rich foreign interest groups and individuals whose only concerns are profit and greed, our elected officials in Olympia and Washington D.C. had better get on-the-ball and make some policy changes if they want their children and future generation of children to have the opportunity to drink clean water and walk in our Nation's Forests. A foreign managed tree farm is not a forest.

The Lilacs of April

After surviving my first winter of twenty-below-zero weather in the mountains of Arcadia, it was the lilacs of April that eased my sorrow. A wild and over-grown stand grew along the fence of an old miners cabin. Built on a hill top in the nineteen twenties, it was the cheapest property in town at the time.
Spring was slow in arriving. My will to stay alive grew as I watched the many months of snow and ice melt day-by-day. A young neighbor said the town reminded her of the movie, "Dawn of the Dead". Maybe she was correct and we were the only two people not among the living dead. I think my friend was sent to help me fight the gloom-and-doom of apathy with her youthful vitality, caring nature, and love of life.
Two years later I was still holding on. I lost the cabin and moved to a cheap trailer park where I was the only resident. With not much to do other than seek truth and knowledge, the library became my home-away-from-home. There I met a most unusual teacher clothed in velvet lilac, the captain of a ship. I fought with all that was in me to stay alive, each day looking for some small thing to be happy about, needing only the smallest of hope to hold on to. I know somebody has already written, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." and yet it was a time, when my world stood still.
What happened to me that spring is the stuff science fiction horror stories are made of. Now my focus is to keep what sanity that was left to me, and to be grateful for my strength of character to survive in this world. And yes, I will always love, the Lilacs of April.

Summer Rain Makers

Cool and Breezy,

That's my early Summer style.

Rain makers over head,

Bring it on...no worries,

I'm free.

Ancient mountain smiles,

With blanket of green,

Wild flowers at my feet.

Bring it on...ever changing,

I'm free.

High on nature's beauty,

Growing to touch the sky,

Bright rivers flow to the sea,

Retain, reflect, remember me,

I'm free.

Graceful from the gloom,

My destiny the gift,

Who I am, a treasure.

I'm freedom's heart and soul,

Waving from a lonely pole.

Corporate Carnival Companies

Competent competition to survive,

For the furture, smart saving,

Protect,

Sparing ground and grove.

Clean water must flow,

Wild row believable,

Trust achievable,

Wings above in prayer.

Wilderness in corporate snare,

Net a trap undercover,

Jaws of man's greedy hunger.

Stealing water, mining sand,

Covenat eye's on golden trees.

Chief muckety-muck with ball point pin,

Signing papers, stealing native land.

Lady Justice sword in hand,

Lifting blindfold to stop and think,

Mother's blood flowing down mountain sink.

The scales of life tip, "women join the fight".

Fewer have the time to live.

Kindercare, where is mother grizzly bear?

For her childern tears.

Many men knowing are sowing,

Seeds of poison discontent,

Regament of fallen leaves.

In outer space the jamming,

Thoughtful junk falling to Earth.

Native myth of slammin fish,

Way upstream to freedom's thirst.

http://www.seattlepi.com/specials/mining/27129_juniors13.shtml

http://www.seattlepi.com/specials/mining/27324_jewel14.shtml

Native brave hearts say, let them sport hunt all the want, sell them high-fee big game tags. The Sasquatch and supernatural angry spirits here don't take kindly to greedy big wigs. Let them walk in the borderland's sacred forest if they have the courage to look death in the face.

When the wind blows, their nights will be filled with fear. Killing for fun, money, and excitement has a cold shadowing tag that drips in red, sweet with revenge. Best to play it safe, learn to walk in peace, hunt and shoot with a camera.

http://www.natural-resources.wsu.edu/research/bear-center/

http://www.nwf.org/cats/catsWest.cfm

http://www.conservationnw.org/wildlife-habitat/canada-lynx

http://wdfw.wa.gov/recovery.htm

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004431717_websalmontreaty.html

http://wdfw.wa.gov/factshts/baldeagle.htm

Global Corporate Crimes/Leeching the U.S.

Name a country and fish, see what you find.







http://patagonia-under-siege.blogspot.com/2007/12/double-threat-of-cyanide-leach-mining.html
Baiting the local hook.
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/12/29/focus3.html
Just a little over-the-limit drain water... self regulatory... self testing (Testing dirty water for what? I would like to see that report.)
http://www.methowvalleynews.com/story.php?id=1450
Know the U.S. Law
http://www.epa.gov/EPA-WASTE/2005/October/Day-25/f21267.htm
SUMMARY: Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket. The docket is to contain certain information about Federal facilities that manage hazardous waste or from which hazardous substances have been or may be released. (As defined by CERCLA section 101(22), a release is any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment.) CERCLA requires that the docket be updated every six months, as new facilities are reported to EPA by Federal agencies. The following list identifies the Federal facilities to be included in this twenty-first update of the docket and includes facilities not previously listed on the docket and reported to EPA since the last update of the docket, 69 FR 75951, December 20, 2004, which was current as of September 13, 2004. SARA, as amended by the Defense Authorization Act of 1997, specifies that, for each Federal facility that is included on the docket during an update, evaluation shall be completed in accordance with a reasonable schedule. Such site evaluation activities will help determine whether the Federal facility should be included on the National Priorities List (NPL) and will provide EPA and the public with valuable information about the facility. In addition to the list of additions to the docket, this notice includes a section that comprises revisions (that is, corrections and deletions) of the previous docket list. This update contains 3 additions and 12 deletions since the previous update, as well as numerous other corrections to the docket list. At the time of publication of this notice, the new total number of Federal facilities listed on the docket is 2,282.


Check the Aerial Map..."Fish Hachery Road"
http://iaspub.epa.gov/enviro/fii_query_dtl.disp_program_facility?pgm_sys_id_in=WAD988471967&pgm_sys_acrnm_in=RCRAINFO
Formerly owned by a Federal agency(U.S. Forest Service) and now privately owned.
Who sold what to whom?
http://www.epa.gov/EPA-WASTE/1995/April/Day-11/pr-1.html
As explained in the preamble to the original docket (53 F.R. 4280), the docket does not include the following categories of facilities (note, however, that any of these types of facilities may, when appropriate, be listed on the NPL): • Facilities formerly owned by a Federal agency and now privately owned will not be listed on the docket. However, facilities that are now owned by another Federal agency will remain on the docket and the responsibility for conducting PAs and SIs will rest with the current owner. • SQG that have never produced more than 1,000 kg of hazardous waste in any single month and that have not reported releases under CERCLA section 103 or other hazardous waste activities under RCRA section 3016 will not be listed on the docket. • Facilities that are solely transporters, as reported under RCRA section 3010, will not be listed on the docket.
The current millsite debate arises on the heels of a recent battle in the long war
over the 1872 Mining Law governing mining on federal lands, which has evolved into
a stalemate between the law's critics and supporters. Earlier this year, the Interior
Department's decision on millsite acreage led to the Administration's denial (March,
1999) of an operating plan for the Crown Jewel Mine in Washington on the grounds
that the plan exceeded the lode-claim to millsite ratio. Opponents of the mine also
feared that the site would leach chemicals. Congress subsequently enacted a law (the
1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, P.L. 106-31) to direct that
millsites and acreage for the Crown Jewel mining operation not be limited, that its
plan of operation be approved, and that other patent applications and plans of
operation for milling submitted prior to the law be given permits. (For more
information on the millsite debate and related issues, see CRS Report RL30310, The
Mining Law Millsite Debate.)
http://www.epa.gov/EPA-IMPACT/2004/April/Day-02/i7433.htm
How much was paid for what and to whom?
http://www.epa-echo.gov/echo/help_all_programs.html#facility_characteristics
Still fishing.
http://www.commodityonline.com/commodity-stocks/Hecla-Mining-sued-by-EPA-on-Water-Act-2009-05-31-18251-3-1.html
Who owns What, and Where?
Call it sand and gravel?
http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/fii_master.fii_retrieve?county_name=ferry&state_code=WA&all_programs=YES&program_search=1&report=1&page_no=1&output_sql_switch=TRUE&database_type=PCS
As a side note, first thy cut all the trees down, then they dig and leave a big mess and call it progress.