Protect Our Woods

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 Spring 1986

 369 KB

Hoosier National Forest Land & Resource Management Plan
The ORV Proposal
Clearcutting and the Appeals Process
How Protect Our Woods Formed

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Summer 1986

359 KB

Off Road Vehicles (ORVs) & Hoosier National Forest (HNF).

Senators Lugar & Quayle, along with Congressmen McCloskey & Hamilton urge the Forest Service to prohibit ORVs from HNF.

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 Winter 1986

158 KB

Quayle Votes for More Forest Roads
Protect Our Woods Poll

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Spring 1987

300 KB

Protect Our Woods Goes to Washington.

ORVs Out of the Hoosier.
Poll Results.
Problems with the Hoosier National Forest Plan.

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Summer 1987

347 KB

What's Wrong With The HNF Plan?

Local Economy, and Landowners Damaged by the "plan".
Forest Planning.

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Fall 1987

315 KB

Forest Service Suspends Appeals Process.

Congressional Hearings on Forest Service Abuse.

POW and Paoli Township Farm Bureau Draft Resolutions Supporting Private Woodlot Owners and Markets.
Updates.
Forest Service Integrated Resource Management (IRM).

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Spring 1988

161 KB

New Hoosier National Forest Plan.
Protect Our Woods Future Plans.

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Fall 1988

265 KB

Hoosier National Forest Timber Sales Unfair; Unneeded?
Hunters and Clearcuts.
Protect Our Woods President Andy Mahler named Conservationist of the Year by the Sassafras Chapter of the National Audubon Society.
Tillery Hill Themepark?

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Spring 1989

358 KB

Hoosier National Forest Updates - The Conservationist's Alternative.
Illegal Roadless Area Road.
Protect Our Woods Hunters Advisory Group Formed.
Common Sense Timbering.

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Summer 1989

377 KB

ORVs.
Congressman Jim Jontz.
First Eagles Nest at Monroe.
Protect Our Woods Evolves.
Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for Tillery Hill

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Fall 1989

567 KB

"Appropriate Use" replaces "Multiple Use".
Our Ancient Forests.Forest Service Reform.
Dawn in the Forest Service.
WARNING: Some Conservation Groups Can Be Hazardous to Your Forest!.
Survey Updates.
In Memoriam: Ezra Dotson

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Winter 1990

667 KB

Protect Our Woods Defends Triple Damages for Timber Theft.
Protect Our Woods Plants American Chestnut Trees.Tillery Hill Responses and Updates.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Opposes Theme Park at Tillery Hill.
New Forest Leaders
In Memoriam: Quinten Lotus Dickey.

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Spring 1990

1479 KB

The New Hoosier National Forest Plan - Clearcutting As Usual.
69% Against Logging Hoosier National Forest.
Survival For Forests For People. Hoosier National Forest Hunting.
Hoosier National Oil Field.
Damn the Landowners? Dam the Anderson River?
Money for Local People.
Root Digging vs Logging in Hoosier National Forest (Native Plant foraging).
Country Air/City Air - How Long Will There Be a Difference?

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Fall 1990

1124 KB

Protect Our Woods Goes to Washington.
Governor Evan Bayh Endorses Conservationist's Alternative.
Protect Our Woods Receives Hoosier Environmental Council's Organization of the Year Award
Ferguson.Jontz.McCloskey Hoosier Environmental Council Canvas Recognized.
Governor Announces Land Acquisition Initiative.
Hoosier National Forest Action: Waiting for the Plan.
Hoosiers Endorse Forest Protection.
Tennessee Valley Authority's Biomass Conversion Plant.
The Wealth of Crawford County. Hoosier National Forest: Tillery Hill Update.
Shopping Center for French Lick.
Lost River.
Recycling Jasper

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Winter 1990

1709 KB

Tillery Hill Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) - also U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Comments.
Wild and Rural Indiana on Endangered List.
Dubois County Sportsmen Oppose Hoosier National Forest Tillery Hill Park.
The Heartland Hardwood Forest.
Subsidized Rural Development - The Great Land Grab.
Indiana Legislative Update.
No Drilling for Oil in Hoosier National Forest

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 2,302 KB

Nation's Best Forest Plan Still Flawed
Ecosystem Management
Half of the Forest for Timber
Jobs and Income?
Praise for Frank Voytas
Clearcut Bill in Congress
Tillery Hill Voices Heard
Forest council
Tillery Hill Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Flawed
Engineers Ignore Biology
Economic Problems in the EIS
Tillery Hill Comments Deluge US Army corps of Engineers (USACE)
True Prosperity
POW Proposes Regional Environmental Education Center for Springs Valley

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Winter 1992

1295 KB

Illegal New forest Clearing in Hoosier National Forest.
Neotropical Migrant Bird Program.
Your Letters.
Where Are We? Where Do We Want to Be?
The State of Things in Indiana - Institute for Southern Studies rank Indiana 49th!!!.
Bob Klawitter Environmentalist of the Year!.
Tom Dustin receives the Hoosier Environmental Council's Lifetime Service Award.
Tom & Sandra Tokarski named Grassroots Organizers of the Year.
Hoosier National Forest supervisor Frank Voytas receives the Hoosier Environmental Council's Environmental Award of Excellence in Government.
Heritage Trust.
In the Full Moon's Light.
Is Indiana's Population Growing?  Should We Care?
Over 300 Reject Evansville Highway.
Politicians Betting On Highway - Casino Road - State Road 145.
Best Bet: Huntingber's Highway 231.
Patoka River Slowly Poisoned to Death.
Fresh Air.

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Spring 1992

2150 KB

Will Citizen's Be Axed From Forest Decisions?
The Economic Value of Forest Birds.
Burning The Hoosier National Forest.
Eleventh Hour on Anderson River & Silver Creek.
Landowners Oppose English Sewage Lagoon on the Little Blue River.
Eagles Building Nest on Tillery Hill.
Bottomless Pit: Congressional Pork.
Meditation During Lent.
In Memoriam: David Frey

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Summer 1992

2240 KB

State Highway 37 Construction Endangers Caves and Cavefish.
Highways Destroy Farms.
Timber In Indiana.
Help For Timber Owners.
Governor's Conference on the Environment.
Fruitful Darkness.
Growing Political Power.
The Migrant Bird Trap.
Hardwood Forest Life.
Bailly Elementary School Children Help Protect Our Woods.
Clearcutting the Hoosier National Forest Revisited.
What Is A Landscape Ecosystem Anyway?
Toxic Wood Ash

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Fall 1992

1875 KB

Deforestation Projects in the Hoosier National Forest Appealed.
Forest Openings.
Little Pigeon Creek - POW-backed Landowners Sue Drainage Board.
Anderson River: Reprieve for the Middle Fork.
Landowner Rights and Good Neighbor Policy.
Patoka Lake Study Needed.
Highway 37 Update.
The Earth And I Are One: Message from Oowah Nah Chasing Bear of Bainbridge Indiana.
Tillery Hill EIS Scrapped.
Evansville Highway Opposition Picks Up Steam.
Armillaria bulbosa (honey mushroom).
An Indiana Treasure: Pawpaw.

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Winter 1993

2249 KB

Evansville Highway: Evansville Officials Suppress Facts.
Economic Damage to Terre Haute.
Cave Road Construction Revue.
Hickory Ridge-Story Horse Trail.
Timber Watch.
Chipmill Economics.
Why Family Farms?
Protect Our Woods Farmers Protect Oil Creek.
Little Pigeon Creek.& Little Blue River.
Indiana Izaak Walton League & Landowners Defend the Maumee River.
Rural Railroads Disappearing.
Biomass Still Planned for Possum Junction.
Economics of Garbage.

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Spring 1993

2471 KB

Morgan Ridge Burned.
Partners In Flight: Indiana Working Group.
The Great Timber Price Scam.
Farmers Talk to Protect Our Woods.
Dubois County Comes to a Crossroad.
Protect Our Local Economy.
Don't Dam Lick Creek.
Biomass Plant Stalled.
We Tell Our Story To The Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.
Lakes Management.
Memories of A Lost Place

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Summer 1993

2245 KB

Developments Threaten Forests & Farms.
Protect Our Woods Local Plan for Tomorrow.
IU Biologist Supports Appeal of Burn on Mogan Ridge in Hoosier National Forest.
Lick Creek Watch at Paoli.
Can Pike & Gibson Farms Be Saved?
Economic Value of I-69 Forests.
Hunting Values.
Amenity Values of Trees.
Bypassing Progress: More Highways for Southern Indiana.
Annual Report.
Protect Our Woods Executive Director Bob Klawitter Named President of Environmental Fund For Indiana

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Winter - Spring 1994

3106 KB

Frank Voytas Retires from the Forest Service  - HNF Loses a Friend.
Jim Fowler & Tillery Hill.
Gambling Boat on Patoka?
Water Line Opposed.
The Future of Patoka Lake.
French Lick Creek.
Something Rotten in Indiana.
Partners in Flight.
Environmental Fund for Indiana.
Roadkill: Wildlife on the Evansville Highway.
Oil Spill on Ferdinand Run Creek.
Burning Hoosier National Forest.
Subsidizing Sprawl: Executive Director Tells Governor About Land Use Planning.
Citizens Rejecting the Yoke.
No Tower in Yellowood State Forest.
Purdue Wood conference.
Armchair Tourist.
Endangered Species Act Update.
I-69 Timber Losses Underestimated.
In Memorium: Jason Wagner

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Winter 1995

3131 KB

Hoosier National Forest Gets the Axe.
Timber Industry and National Forests.
Otters Back At Last.
Election and Environment: Voters Care.
Protect our River Environment.
West Baden/French Lick Casino.
Private Property -- Who Cares?
Ecosystem Management: A Matter of Trust.
Rural Environmental Populism.
National Highway System Pork.
Indiana House Votes 98-0 Requiring Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to Allow the Public To Speak in Open Meetings at It's Public Hearings.
Changes

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Spring - Summer 1995

1527 KB

Waging War On The Forest.
Trading Land for Gypsum in Hoosier National Forest.
Lost River Protection.
Coal Ash Disposal.
Radio Tower Appeal.
Congressman Hostettler Reneges on I-69.
Conservation Reserve Program Pays Farmers.Petition Against Forest Fragmentation

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Fall 1995

2772 KB

Unhappy Trails.
Reinventing the Hoosier National Forest.
Below-cost Timber Sales.
Gypsum.
Evansville Highway Caught in Cost-Benefit Maze.
Anderson River Revisited.
Pigeon Creek Wetlands.
Treated Wood Fouls Water.
Book Reviews.
The National Biological Preservation Endowment?
HNF Erosion control.
Coal Ash Representation Ruling.
How Should We Live on the Land?
Sundance in the Hoosier National Forest

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Summer - Fall 1996

1168 KB

Bob Klawitter Dies in Tragic Accident.
Ohio River Threatened by Harrison County Casino.
EIS Needed for Casino.
Clearcutting Continues: Hoosier National Forest Scarred.
Report Highlights I-69 as a "Road To Ruin".
Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Actions Improper.
Rural Heritage: Saving the Family Farm.
In Memoriam: Robert Louis Klawitter.
Klawitter Memorial Forest Fund Created

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Winter - Spring 1995

2213 KB

Unsustainable Future For Indiana.
Citizens for Appropriate Rural roads (CARR) gives Protect Our Woods its 1995 Speed Bump Award.
The Hoosier National Forest Today: Ignoring Science Law & the Public.
The Oak Conundrum: Growing Oak in Indiana.
Industrial Bypass Threatens Historic Ferdinand Farm.
Coal Ash Update.
Jefferson Proving Ground.
Butternut Canker.
Your Letters.
In Memoriam: Elvis Cook.

In Memoriam: John Flynn (publisher of Hard Times).

In Memoriam: Lou Stant

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Winter 1997

1957 KB

Dark Days in Southern Indiana.
Secret Deals.
Caeser's Riverboat Casino Environmental Impact Statement.
Protect Our Woods Speaks Out on HNF: Forest Service Responds.
Burining Continues on Hoosier National Forest.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Blasts I-69 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Coal Combustion Waste Saga.
Aryshire Mine: Important Wildlife Santctuary.
Another Spring.
Poem: Site Specific

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Spring 1999

1140 KB

Taking Care of Business.
Federal Agencies to Sacrifice Indiana Bats.
I-69 Chenges Lanes Once Again.
Casino Briefs.Annual Report.
Farmland Preservation Taskforce.
Natural Resources Population & Politics.

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Fall 1999

1263 KB

Forest Service to Revise Hoosier National Forest Plan.Latest Outrage at Caeser's Gambling boat: Uses "Bait-and-Switch" Permit Modifications to Nullify Original Permit.
Optimists & Elephants.
The Oak Conundrum.
EPA Changing Coal Ash Report

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Fall 1997

2333 KB

Cutting Pines in Hoosier National Forest (Below Cost Sale).
Caeser's Casino Permits Appealed.
Rural Injustice.
POW Meets New Commissioner of Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM).What I-69 Will Do To Farmland.
INDOT Does It Again .
Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Refuses US-41 Study.
Little Deaths.
Save The Cities.
Poem: Last Wishes

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Spring 2003

1084 KB

SPECIAL NATIONAL FOREST ISSUE:
Roadless Review.
Conservationist's Alternative.
ORVs.
Transportation Issues in Southern Indiana. Casino Road - State Road 145.
US 231 Toxic Wasteland.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Ignored.
What Is Progress?
Dubois Elementary Students Read to Raise Money for the Klawitter Memorial Forest.
Protect Our Woods Board Member Libby Frey Honored With the IPALCO Golden Eagle Award.
Protect Our Woods Board Member Jim Kennington receives the Hoosier Environmental Council's Activist of the Year Award

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Summer 2003

1115 KB

Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Destroys Lives: Orange County Citizens Unite.
Wall in the Woods: Casino Road - State Road 145.
Hope For Springs Valley?
By The People.For The People.
Orange County Pride.
Books.
Forest Update.
German Ridge Burns.
Choose Your Poison.
What Will Your Legacy Be?

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