August 2003:                       suggested links Lawn Chemicals A Picture/Poem collection of links to reliable information and contemporary voices protest

From the Great Lakes Radio Consortium
http://glrc.org/

STUDY: LAWN CHEMICALS
TO BLAME FOR BIRD DEATHS
by Joyce Kryszak

[...] "People throughout the region have been scooping up dead bird corpses
and sending them off for testing since the West Nile Virus first hit. But research
shows West Nile is usually not to blame. Studies done on about eighty thousand
dead birds found in New York state showed aesthetic lawn care products were
the leading killers." [..]

From The Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/

Understanding the Impacts of
Invasive Plants in Natural Areas

A slideshow of 72 images with text

""On a global basis...the two great destroyers of biodiversity are,
first habitat destruction and, second, invasion by exotic species"
E.O. Wilson

From Berkeley Lab
http://www.lbl.gov/

Department of Energy's ESnet leaps ahead by two generations,
upgrades backbone to 10 billion bits per second

"BERKELEY, CA —  The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-
performance network funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office
of Science, has just completed an upgrade to 2.5 gigabits per second
(billions of bits per second, or Gbps), with 10 Gbps in the highest-speed
portion of the network." [...]

From Native Forest Council
http://www.forestcouncil.org/

"The mission of Native forest Council is to fully protect and
preserve every acre of publicly owned land in the United States."

Winter 2003 Forest Voice: Targeting Your Forests [pdf]
WAR AT HOME, WAR ABROAD: CLEARCUTTING AMERICA
[This pdf includes some remarkable b/w photos of vast
clearcuts in the Oregon Cascades.]

SLIDESHOW Less than 5% of America's native forests still stand