Miscellany

Action Alert

Please ask your out-of-state friends to write letters to their Representatives, asking that they cosponsor and support H.R. 738, the Clean Water Protection Act.

Your Representative
House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

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Forest Fragmentation Not A Good Thing

A report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by two University of Illinois at Chicago biologists shows that forest fragmentation may accelerate extinction of common species. "I think what we see in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, the spread of intensive agriculture and the fragmentation and elimination of forests, is what could be an even faster series of extinctions, measured only in a couple of centuries, in which an awful lot of the world’s flora and fauna are lost," one said.

Turn some of your trash into cash for OVEC. Recycle your ink jet printer cartridges. Call or e-mail Maryanne, (304) 522-0246, or mago@ezwv.com  to get your supply of postage-pre-paid bags.

OK, we admit it ... it gets a little frustrating sometimes to see the constant barrage of King Coal ads on TV, in the newspapers, on radio and on billboards all over West Virginia, with no attempt made to even remotely present a balanced point of view or even stick to the known facts. We didn't really deface this billboard for Walker Machinery, a major coal industry apologist, but we sure wanted to.