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...hinder clear-cutting on the 82% of Arkansas forest land that is privately owned. In the case of the Ouachita National Forest, he has backed a plan by the U.S. Forest Service that would restrict clear-cutting, but nowhere near enough to please such environmental groups as the Sierra Club, which has filed suit...
...pollution caused by the poultry industry, the most dominant in Arkansas. Growers have been dumping tons of dried chicken excrement, known as litter, on croplands in the northwestern part of the & state. "We're well past the land's capacity to accept the waste," says Robert Leflar, a Sierra Club official; he and others fear the litter will seep through porous limestone and contaminate streams and groundwater. Clinton in 1990 appointed an animal-waste task force to look into the problem (a favorite tactic: his first move in almost any crisis is to appoint a task force or study commission...
...everyone at the meeting was satisfied by the plan, however. John Lewis, co-chair of the New England chapter of the Sierra Club, said his group has no plans to settle its lawsuit against the state any time soon...
...that will affect not only commercial and sport fishing throughout a four-state area but also mining, farming and other industries that depend on the river and the power it generates. "There is no better barometer of the health of the Northwest than salmon," says Bill Arthur of the Sierra Club. "If we can bring back the salmon, we can demonstrate that we have learned to manage the natural systems in a way that perpetuates the bounty...
...groups claim that their members are as committed as ever, but recruits are getting harder to find. For every organization that is still growing -- membership in the Nature Conservancy jumped 15% last year, to 620,000 -- another one seems to have hit a plateau. After expanding in 1990, the Sierra Club stayed level at about 620,000 members last year and fell short of its goal of boosting contributions 10%. The National Wildlife Federation had to trim its work force 8% in 1991, and the Wilderness Society laid off 10 of 136 staffers. Says David Gardiner, who heads the Sierra...