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P.O.Box 1320 Libby, Montana 59923
i elephone 406-293-8844 Bruce Vincent
MALFUNCTIONJUNCTION
Executive Directoi
MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS: PERN STEINER LOGGING TIMBER TECH, INC. GLACIER LINE LOGGING RIEDUNGER, INC. LAVERNF. CLARE BRIST LOGGING PAT BAKER LOGGING VINCENT LOGGING NICK CARVEY TRUMAN LOGGING RICHARD STEVENS DON PLUID HANSBERRY LOGGING KOOTENAI LOGGING DECKER LOGGING OSLER LOGGING BYBEE PARTNERSHIP RICHARD COVERDELL RAYSON LOGGING RONALD ST ONGE OWENS & HURST RON NEWTON F . H . STOLTZ SAM DOBLE DAVID BUCKALLEW MUNRO LOGGING DENNIS WAGER STOKEN LOGGING CUDDY LOGGING PAUL BIRKY STEVE WORKMAN MARLOWE BURCH BILL FREE LOGGING ROB UTTHOF rO R A N D A MONTANORE HAROLD SNYDER TBC TIMBER CONNIE WOOD HMRATHBUN HAYNES LOGGING JOHN HOSSACK CHARLES NEWTON SCOTT PRESTON CATWORK LTD DENNING PRINTING CW WELDING JUMBO MCCULLY JOHN BEEBE LOGGING TOM SHERRY TIRE COLLIN KING JACK HIGUE CONST. VENTURE MOTOR INN FTTCHETT LOGGING NORTHWEST INDUSTRIAL GRANITE CONCRETE FIRST N AT'L UBBY O.P. LINE LOGGING SMITH LOGGING IVERSON LOGGING SKYLINE LOGGING XL TIMBER INC. MORRIS LOGGING MOUNTAIN COMMUNICATIONS CARVEY LOGGING KELLER LOGGING KALESNIKOFF LUMBER, B.C. PAYNE LOGGING WALTER COMPANY DENNIS HOENER KEVIN GATES HENRY LOGGING JOHN BOSS JR. WILLIAM FISHER ED ERNST W .F.J.A. PELTIER OIL CO. NW PARTS & RINGGING INDUSTRIAL FORKLIFTS, CA. QUIRAM LOGGING BIG SKY EXXON LINCOLN ELECTRIC HYSTROM, HANKS & COWLEY HANSEN LOGGING CANDY PARR R .L. HLLSBURY A ASSOC. WASH. TRUCK LOGGERS WHITE PINE SASH KEARNEY LOGGING DARBY LUMBER CHARLIE CROUCHER NEWTON LOGGING KELLER LOGGING VINSON TIMBER
In M ay, the CGNW com puter bit the big one in a big way. After five years o f hard work it quit abruptly and retired. W e now have a new systeih up and running for membership tracking and such and it should prove to be a better system than the old one. It has, however, taken a month to get the thing up and running and we apologize fo r the delay in newsletters. Some o f you have received alerts in the mean time - some handwritten and some from the data base as we could access it. The new com puter and software cost is $1870 and any donations JoJielp. defray that cost would bejMarmly-wekQmed.
SPEA KING OF MALFUNCTION . .. Sen. Max Baucus of M ontana is in a great position in the Senate to help natural resource dependent communities. H is latest position on the proposed USFS appeals changes (the changes that we have fought five long years to get) indicates that in this area he just doesn't get it. He has expressed concern (and signed with 16 other Senators in a letter outlining those concerns) about the potential 'loss' o f rights by U .S. citizens if the proposed changes are implemented. Sen. Baucus needs to hear from his constituents on this one. A fter years of abuse the system needs changed to prevent the wanton disregard that some folks have for those o f us dependent on the bureaucracy that manages our forests. Continuing to give 260,000,000 Americans an easy method o f monkeywrenching the paper system o f the USFS is generating pain and suffering in our communities. We don't need to throw the system away but the proposed changes are at least a step toward bringing some sanity back to the process. The examples o f abuse have been shared with Sen. Baucus in the past - write to him and explain the pain associated with that abuse. f ,/
WHILE YOU'VE GOT HIM ON THE PHONE . . . Sen. Baucus needs to be th a n k e d for some o f his recent positions. H e was instrumental in dashing the hopes o f the Alliance For A Wild Rockies that Rep_ Kennedy would carry their Gazzillion Acre, 5 state wilderness bill. He has also gone to bat for the grazing community this spring and, along with Sen. Bums and other W estern Senators helped keep the grazing fees on public land from blasting ranchers out o f range. Sen. Baucus also paid a key visit to the W hite House to get the mining reform and (royalty) discussion removed from the budget process until possibly next year. Sen. B aucus's seat as chair of the Senate Environmental Committee puts him in position to really help the rural resource providers o f the nation during the tough times we are all facing - and when he does we should be as quick to thank him as we are to hitch when he does thines that kill us. *************************************************************************
EVERYTHING T H A T IS DONE IN THE WORLD IS D O N E B Y HOPE. MARTINLUTHER
CULTURE REM NANTS . . . . This, f rom the Cody. Enterpriser To the editor: Culture Remnants - this term has been running through my mind for a few months. Terms take on a life o f their own for me. They seem to be the shorthand versiuon o f numerous underlying concerns, perceptions, reflections and o f course, mu own value system. What this shorthand does for me, though, is to express simply a broad concept w ith depth. This term represents for me and end product, an empty product. In terms o f economic development, this can be the case for towns and areas w ith strong tourist appeal. Many of these areas remained low profile for years, with a strong sense of self and roots. Folks who have historically and culturally peopled an area are part and parcel o f what appeals to tourists. They are part o f why they want to come, i.e. Buffalo Bill Cody. Keeping people and place as one entity insures the genuineness of what tourists really come to experience. This goal can be easier said than done when the tourists who decide to stay, want the scenery to remain as it is. But they want to have more room made for their value system and points of view, than those folks who have created its very spirit. It's easier said than done when the 'move-ins' want the ornamental parts o f historical lifestyles, but none of the reality checks that produce them, i.e. log homes but no saw mills, cowboys but no cows, mining museums but no mines, reasonable priced food, but no inconvenience of slow-moving farm equipment or cow manure on the road. Remnant culture is what evolves when the people of an area allow themselves to be culturally and legislatively devalued. Rural America is populated predominantly by people who tend to mean what they say, say what they mean and naively assume the person to whom they are speaking also does, there's a high price for this straight forward assumption manipulation. There is much to lose by always giving ground under the '9 0 's buzz words o f "consensus building." When carried to its extreme, these words really mean: L et's do it my way, because times are changing and I've brought the better way to do things. It means, let's each give something. I'll give you guilt, and you give up your lifestyle. Through time the humble and soft spoken folks of rural America find themselves seen as second class citizens who are out of step w ith the changing times. To those wonderful and proud people I would say, ignore the push o f move-ins urging you to be only those parts of you we approve o f and can relate to. I urge you to require of us that we bring respect with us when we move into the worlds you have created. It's not the lack o f consensus building which polarizes and area, i t ’s the lack o f respect. So, please do this fastmoving country o f our s favor; let no group devalue what you are and require of us mutual respect. Sincerely, (s)Kathleen Jackowski , "A Cody Move-in"
ERAMPION. NOTj LDONE DEAL After getting a voice v ote approval in the Senate Environment Com m ittee {chaired by Sen. B aucus....) George F ram pton's nom ination as Assistant Secretary o f Interior for Parks and W ildlife has been put on hold "untilfurther notice" by the Energy and Natural Resources Com m ittee. Senators Shelby (D-AL), W allop (R-W Y) , and M urkow ski (R-AK) requested that Chairman Bennett Johnston (D-LA) hold the proceedings until a review o f the communication between Fram pton and the Interior D epartm ent staff could be concluded. This, delay in confirmation process has given us more tim e to fig h t this nomination. Key votes on the com m ittee are Arlen Spector (R-PA), Richard Shelby ((D -A L), W endell Ford (D-KY), M ark H atfield (R-OR) and R obert Bennett (R-UT). W rite your senators at the US Senate, Washington, D .C. 20510, o r call (202)224-3121 and ask the Capitol operator to connect you to your senator's office. This guy is a w reck in the process for resource communities - spend the dollar and help keep him out o f our government. (N H LA Update)
SIMORE THANK YO U 'S Sen. Burns attended and spoke at the great 4 state (M t., W yo., S. D ak., Id.) Natural Resource Providers Celebration M ay 1 in Bozeman. Lt. G ov. Dennis R e h b e rg did the same. R ep . Pat Williams did not attend but did w rite a letter o f support to be read at the rally. T h an k 's to them.
A D Q F L A H IG H W AY C G N W has adopted a section o f Hwy. 2 for clean up. The two mile stretch was spit polished by Ed and Donna Eggleston, D on and M arie Cripe, Bob M acCallum, Johnnie and Abe Beebe, Bruce, PJ, Chas, Echo, Lacie, and V ance V incent, and W ill Vincent. It was fun and w e found some real cool s tu ff.
AREAS PROPOSED FOR ELIM INATION OF BELOW COST TIMBER SALES K L 'L -.1 J
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v.r oz:n ^
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COLOR CODES +:
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BLACK > > CURRENT W ILDERNESS AREAS RED > > NATIO NAL FORESTS PROPOSED FOR ELIMINATION OF TIMBER SALE PROGRAMS BY 1997
T he U .S. Forest Service is p rop osin g to elim in ate b elow -cost tim ber sales b y 1997. T his is on ly a proposal but very w ell cou ld becom e a reality if w e don't com m en t on it im m ediately! L isted b elow are the N ation al Forests in R egion O ne that w ou ld b e affected and in w h at tim e p eriod s th ese strategies w ou ld 2 tak e p la c e.
TIMBER SALE PROGRAMS TO BE COMPLETELY ELIMINATED BY 1994 ** CUSTER NATIONAL FOREST ** BEAVERHEAD NATIONAL FOREST < ** BITTERROOT NATIONAL FOREST ** GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST ** DEER LODGE NATIONAL FOREST REDUCE TIMBER SALE PROGRAMS BY 25% IN 1994 j TIMBER SALE PROGRAMS TO BE COMPLETELY ELIMINATED BY 1995 H ** HELENA NATIONAL FOREST .
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P.O.Box 1320 Libby, Montana 59923
i elephone 406-293-8844 Bruce Vincent
MALFUNCTIONJUNCTION
Executive Directoi
MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS: PERN STEINER LOGGING TIMBER TECH, INC. GLACIER LINE LOGGING RIEDUNGER, INC. LAVERNF. CLARE BRIST LOGGING PAT BAKER LOGGING VINCENT LOGGING NICK CARVEY TRUMAN LOGGING RICHARD STEVENS DON PLUID HANSBERRY LOGGING KOOTENAI LOGGING DECKER LOGGING OSLER LOGGING BYBEE PARTNERSHIP RICHARD COVERDELL RAYSON LOGGING RONALD ST ONGE OWENS & HURST RON NEWTON F . H . STOLTZ SAM DOBLE DAVID BUCKALLEW MUNRO LOGGING DENNIS WAGER STOKEN LOGGING CUDDY LOGGING PAUL BIRKY STEVE WORKMAN MARLOWE BURCH BILL FREE LOGGING ROB UTTHOF rO R A N D A MONTANORE HAROLD SNYDER TBC TIMBER CONNIE WOOD HMRATHBUN HAYNES LOGGING JOHN HOSSACK CHARLES NEWTON SCOTT PRESTON CATWORK LTD DENNING PRINTING CW WELDING JUMBO MCCULLY JOHN BEEBE LOGGING TOM SHERRY TIRE COLLIN KING JACK HIGUE CONST. VENTURE MOTOR INN FTTCHETT LOGGING NORTHWEST INDUSTRIAL GRANITE CONCRETE FIRST N AT'L UBBY O.P. LINE LOGGING SMITH LOGGING IVERSON LOGGING SKYLINE LOGGING XL TIMBER INC. MORRIS LOGGING MOUNTAIN COMMUNICATIONS CARVEY LOGGING KELLER LOGGING KALESNIKOFF LUMBER, B.C. PAYNE LOGGING WALTER COMPANY DENNIS HOENER KEVIN GATES HENRY LOGGING JOHN BOSS JR. WILLIAM FISHER ED ERNST W .F.J.A. PELTIER OIL CO. NW PARTS & RINGGING INDUSTRIAL FORKLIFTS, CA. QUIRAM LOGGING BIG SKY EXXON LINCOLN ELECTRIC HYSTROM, HANKS & COWLEY HANSEN LOGGING CANDY PARR R .L. HLLSBURY A ASSOC. WASH. TRUCK LOGGERS WHITE PINE SASH KEARNEY LOGGING DARBY LUMBER CHARLIE CROUCHER NEWTON LOGGING KELLER LOGGING VINSON TIMBER
In M ay, the CGNW com puter bit the big one in a big way. After five years o f hard work it quit abruptly and retired. W e now have a new systeih up and running for membership tracking and such and it should prove to be a better system than the old one. It has, however, taken a month to get the thing up and running and we apologize fo r the delay in newsletters. Some o f you have received alerts in the mean time - some handwritten and some from the data base as we could access it. The new com puter and software cost is $1870 and any donations JoJielp. defray that cost would bejMarmly-wekQmed.
SPEA KING OF MALFUNCTION . .. Sen. Max Baucus of M ontana is in a great position in the Senate to help natural resource dependent communities. H is latest position on the proposed USFS appeals changes (the changes that we have fought five long years to get) indicates that in this area he just doesn't get it. He has expressed concern (and signed with 16 other Senators in a letter outlining those concerns) about the potential 'loss' o f rights by U .S. citizens if the proposed changes are implemented. Sen. Baucus needs to hear from his constituents on this one. A fter years of abuse the system needs changed to prevent the wanton disregard that some folks have for those o f us dependent on the bureaucracy that manages our forests. Continuing to give 260,000,000 Americans an easy method o f monkeywrenching the paper system o f the USFS is generating pain and suffering in our communities. We don't need to throw the system away but the proposed changes are at least a step toward bringing some sanity back to the process. The examples o f abuse have been shared with Sen. Baucus in the past - write to him and explain the pain associated with that abuse. f ,/
WHILE YOU'VE GOT HIM ON THE PHONE . . . Sen. Baucus needs to be th a n k e d for some o f his recent positions. H e was instrumental in dashing the hopes o f the Alliance For A Wild Rockies that Rep_ Kennedy would carry their Gazzillion Acre, 5 state wilderness bill. He has also gone to bat for the grazing community this spring and, along with Sen. Bums and other W estern Senators helped keep the grazing fees on public land from blasting ranchers out o f range. Sen. Baucus also paid a key visit to the W hite House to get the mining reform and (royalty) discussion removed from the budget process until possibly next year. Sen. B aucus's seat as chair of the Senate Environmental Committee puts him in position to really help the rural resource providers o f the nation during the tough times we are all facing - and when he does we should be as quick to thank him as we are to hitch when he does thines that kill us. *************************************************************************
EVERYTHING T H A T IS DONE IN THE WORLD IS D O N E B Y HOPE. MARTINLUTHER
CULTURE REM NANTS . . . . This, f rom the Cody. Enterpriser To the editor: Culture Remnants - this term has been running through my mind for a few months. Terms take on a life o f their own for me. They seem to be the shorthand versiuon o f numerous underlying concerns, perceptions, reflections and o f course, mu own value system. What this shorthand does for me, though, is to express simply a broad concept w ith depth. This term represents for me and end product, an empty product. In terms o f economic development, this can be the case for towns and areas w ith strong tourist appeal. Many of these areas remained low profile for years, with a strong sense of self and roots. Folks who have historically and culturally peopled an area are part and parcel o f what appeals to tourists. They are part o f why they want to come, i.e. Buffalo Bill Cody. Keeping people and place as one entity insures the genuineness of what tourists really come to experience. This goal can be easier said than done when the tourists who decide to stay, want the scenery to remain as it is. But they want to have more room made for their value system and points of view, than those folks who have created its very spirit. It's easier said than done when the 'move-ins' want the ornamental parts o f historical lifestyles, but none of the reality checks that produce them, i.e. log homes but no saw mills, cowboys but no cows, mining museums but no mines, reasonable priced food, but no inconvenience of slow-moving farm equipment or cow manure on the road. Remnant culture is what evolves when the people of an area allow themselves to be culturally and legislatively devalued. Rural America is populated predominantly by people who tend to mean what they say, say what they mean and naively assume the person to whom they are speaking also does, there's a high price for this straight forward assumption manipulation. There is much to lose by always giving ground under the '9 0 's buzz words o f "consensus building." When carried to its extreme, these words really mean: L et's do it my way, because times are changing and I've brought the better way to do things. It means, let's each give something. I'll give you guilt, and you give up your lifestyle. Through time the humble and soft spoken folks of rural America find themselves seen as second class citizens who are out of step w ith the changing times. To those wonderful and proud people I would say, ignore the push o f move-ins urging you to be only those parts of you we approve o f and can relate to. I urge you to require of us that we bring respect with us when we move into the worlds you have created. It's not the lack o f consensus building which polarizes and area, i t ’s the lack o f respect. So, please do this fastmoving country o f our s favor; let no group devalue what you are and require of us mutual respect. Sincerely, (s)Kathleen Jackowski , "A Cody Move-in"
ERAMPION. NOTj LDONE DEAL After getting a voice v ote approval in the Senate Environment Com m ittee {chaired by Sen. B aucus....) George F ram pton's nom ination as Assistant Secretary o f Interior for Parks and W ildlife has been put on hold "untilfurther notice" by the Energy and Natural Resources Com m ittee. Senators Shelby (D-AL), W allop (R-W Y) , and M urkow ski (R-AK) requested that Chairman Bennett Johnston (D-LA) hold the proceedings until a review o f the communication between Fram pton and the Interior D epartm ent staff could be concluded. This, delay in confirmation process has given us more tim e to fig h t this nomination. Key votes on the com m ittee are Arlen Spector (R-PA), Richard Shelby ((D -A L), W endell Ford (D-KY), M ark H atfield (R-OR) and R obert Bennett (R-UT). W rite your senators at the US Senate, Washington, D .C. 20510, o r call (202)224-3121 and ask the Capitol operator to connect you to your senator's office. This guy is a w reck in the process for resource communities - spend the dollar and help keep him out o f our government. (N H LA Update)
SIMORE THANK YO U 'S Sen. Burns attended and spoke at the great 4 state (M t., W yo., S. D ak., Id.) Natural Resource Providers Celebration M ay 1 in Bozeman. Lt. G ov. Dennis R e h b e rg did the same. R ep . Pat Williams did not attend but did w rite a letter o f support to be read at the rally. T h an k 's to them.
A D Q F L A H IG H W AY C G N W has adopted a section o f Hwy. 2 for clean up. The two mile stretch was spit polished by Ed and Donna Eggleston, D on and M arie Cripe, Bob M acCallum, Johnnie and Abe Beebe, Bruce, PJ, Chas, Echo, Lacie, and V ance V incent, and W ill Vincent. It was fun and w e found some real cool s tu ff.
AREAS PROPOSED FOR ELIM INATION OF BELOW COST TIMBER SALES K L 'L -.1 J
-j •]..
,
v.r oz:n ^
• ;• -
COLOR CODES +:
** **
BLACK > > CURRENT W ILDERNESS AREAS RED > > NATIO NAL FORESTS PROPOSED FOR ELIMINATION OF TIMBER SALE PROGRAMS BY 1997
T he U .S. Forest Service is p rop osin g to elim in ate b elow -cost tim ber sales b y 1997. T his is on ly a proposal but very w ell cou ld becom e a reality if w e don't com m en t on it im m ediately! L isted b elow are the N ation al Forests in R egion O ne that w ou ld b e affected and in w h at tim e p eriod s th ese strategies w ou ld 2 tak e p la c e.
TIMBER SALE PROGRAMS TO BE COMPLETELY ELIMINATED BY 1994 ** CUSTER NATIONAL FOREST ** BEAVERHEAD NATIONAL FOREST < ** BITTERROOT NATIONAL FOREST ** GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST ** DEER LODGE NATIONAL FOREST REDUCE TIMBER SALE PROGRAMS BY 25% IN 1994 j TIMBER SALE PROGRAMS TO BE COMPLETELY ELIMINATED BY 1995 H ** HELENA NATIONAL FOREST .
