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This is part one of a three-part video that covers how localities in Virginia consider watersheds in land use planning decisions. Author: DCRVirginia Keywords: virginiagovernment pollution Virginia Chesapeake Bay nonpoint runoff watersheds planning Added: July 3, 2008

We are running out of fresh, clean water. Here in Puget Sound we are lucky to have an abundant supply, but around the world people are dying because their water is dirty. Maude Barlow even says when private companies deny people living in poor communities access to clean water, it's tantamount to murder. Barlow is the author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. She chairs Canada's largest public advocacy group, the Council of Canadians. Maude Barlow spoke at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle on April 14, 2008.

Gordon Creek Timber Sale Mushroom Hike October 27th, 2007 www.bark-out.org BARK hike leader Matt Mavko takes us on an enjoyable and informative hike through the proposed Gordon timber sale site. The John Rancher music is great as always. Listen to the words and sing along! The Gordon Creek Timber Sale is proposed in public forests administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This proposal is located near the Bull Run Watershed and is currently home to a diverse and integral forest. This project proposes to log over the intake for the Corbett Water District. The Corbett Water District, as well as the Portland Water District has come out against this project. The Gordon Creek sale will log a mix of young and old-growth forest. Bark needs volunteer Groundtruthers to help collect more data on this sale. Please email Amy (at) bark-out.org to find out how to help!

Bark Hike Leader: Michelle McKenzie Gordon Creek Timber Sale June 10th, 2007 www.bark-out.org The Gordon Creek Timber Sale is proposed in public forests administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This proposal is located near the Bull Run Watershed and is currently home to a diverse and integral forest. This project proposes to log over the intake for the Corbett Water District. The Corbett Water District, as well as the Portland Water District has come out against this project. The Gordon Creek sale will log a mix of young and old-growth forest. Bark needs volunteer Groundtruthers to help collect more data on this sale. Please email Amy (at) bark-out.org to find out how to help.

Author: tonybuck Added: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:19:40 -0800 Duration: 398Deal with the rain water run-off on your property. Introducing the Rain Water Retention Rating. Help prevent droughts by watching this video and modifying your property. Help make your watershed healthier. Environmental action you can take. Water will be one of the biggest problems of the twenty first century, please join in and help solve the problem. We've turned our roads into rivers. So let's reverse this and save our streams and stop wasting water and flooding our neighbors.

Bark Hike Leader: Michelle McKenzie Gordon Creek Timber Sale June 10th, 2007 www.bark-out.org The Gordon Creek Timber Sale is proposed in public forests administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This proposal is located near the Bull Run Watershed and is currently home to a diverse and integral forest. This project proposes to log over the intake for the Corbett Water District. The Corbett Water District, as well as the Portland Water District has come out against this project. The Gordon Creek sale will log a mix of young and old-growth forest. Bark needs volunteer Groundtruthers to help collect more data on this sale. Please email Amy (at) bark-out.org to find out how to help.

Bark Hike Leader: Michelle McKenzie Gordon Creek Timber Sale June 10th, 2007 www.bark-out.org The Gordon Creek Timber Sale is proposed in public forests administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This proposal is located near the Bull Run Watershed and is currently home to a diverse and integral forest. This project proposes to log over the intake for the Corbett Water District. The Corbett Water District, as well as the Portland Water District has come out against this project. The Gordon Creek sale will log a mix of young and old-growth forest. Bark needs volunteer Groundtruthers to help collect more data on this sale. Please email Amy (at) bark-out.org to find out how to help.

Annie s Cabin Timber Sale http://www.bark-out.org Bark Hike leaders: Paula Hood Joseph Auth Molalla RiverWatch http://www.molallariverwatch.org Article below from the Portland Independent Media Center, July 5th, 2007. For complete contact information, please visit: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/07/361818.shtml For complete details on the Annie s Cabin Protest, please visit: http://bark-out.org/tsdb/anniec/Bark s_Annies_Cabin_Protest,_without_photos.htm TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT MOLALLA RIVER RECREATION CORRIDOR. Annie s Cabin timber sale, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposal to thin 566-acres within the Molalla River Recreation Corridor, contract has been rewarded to Freres Lumber Company. This timber sale would severely impact recreational trails designated for hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding created by volunteers. Sensitive species such as Oregon Slender Salamanders, Red Tree Voles, and Tall Bughane have been found within this timber sale project and would also be impacted. Act now to contact Congresswoman Darlene Hooley to tell her office to urge the BLM to cancel this timber sale. History of Trail System 16 of the 25 units of the Annie s Cabin timber sale either have the Molalla River Recreation Corridor s Shared-Use Trail System running through units or abutting the units with no buffers. This trail system was created in the 1990s when the BLM closed 13 miles of logging roads converting these roads into trails for hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian uses. In 1994, the BLM approved the development of 12 miles of additional single-track trails in partnership with volunteer organizations. Thinning of Unit #2 would impact Amanda s Trail, Mark s Trail, and Sandquist s Trail, three trails named for early advocates and builders of the trail system. We need to protect and preserve the scenic beauty of these trails that volunteers spent long hours to create and maintain! Story of Annie The timber sale name, Annie s Cabin, comes from a cabin that sits just north of Squirrel Creek on the east side of the Huckleberry Trail. Jim Williams, Annie Miller, and her daughter, Squirrel, used this cabin as their living room (a small trailer was next door) from June 1992 until December 1993. They were BLM volunteers who worked to improve the condition of the Molalla River Recreation Corridor. Jim s presence made a big difference in the Molalla River Recreation Corridor. He loved this area and worked hard to improve and protect it. Jim spent his last days there and died in October 1993. Annie and Squirrel left two months later. The cabin sits just 250 feet south of Unit #6 of the timber sale. We need to continue to protect Jim s vision! Oregon Slender Salamanders Volunteers in Bark have found Oregon Slender Salamanders, a State and Federal sensitive listed species, in Units 9 and 13. The BLM provides no plans in the Environmental Assessment and Decision Rationale on a way to protect this species from the logging operations. Oregon Slender Salamanders need dense canopy and course woody debris over 20 inches in diameter to survive in the forest. Logging operations on the ground and opening of canopy will very likely disturb this creature s habitat. According to the BLM s Decision Rationale, the agency also found this species in Unit 6, 16, 17, and 18. We need to get protection buffers placed on these Oregon Slender Salamanders! Wildlife Nests The BLM has removed 30 acres from Units 8, 9, 11, and 12 from the timber sale due to the discovery of red tree voles. A Survey Manage listed species, red tree voles live in the canopies of old growth Douglas Fir trees and provide 50% of the diet of Northern Spotted Owls. We need an open process by the BLM for the public to comment on these red tree vole findings as well as information regarding the species living in 50 nests of trees within the timber sale found by Bark volunteers! Steelhead and Chinook Salmon The BLM did not address the cumulative effects by this timber sale, the surrounding lands, and future projects impacting Steelhead and Chinook Salmon that read and spawn along the Molalla River watershed. A creek just north of Unit #13 does not have the sixty foot buffer as required by the agency for perennial streams. We need buffers along both the perennial and intermittent streams longer than the minimum required by the BLM to protect the water quality for fish as well as drinking water!

EB movie (music=less of course) which tells of the growing demand for water in New York city. The history od dams and viaducts are explained, and various outher ways of collecting water are shown. That's about it.. Author: spuzzlightyear Keywords: ANIMATION WATER DISEASES RAIN CITIES RIVERS LAKES WATERSHEDS DRAWINGS CITY SERVICES HEALTH AND SAFETY RESERVOIRS Added: April 3, 2007