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To: epicure who wrote (2523)	1/5/2001 12:47:30 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 6089

Do you know anything about "Wise Use", X? I haven't followed this stuff lately, but my memory from the salvage rider days is that it was a supposedly "grass roots" movement that was backed by big money from the vested interests. They pack meetings everywhere in the West on environmental issues, in the fashion of the hired thugs, I mean, Republican Congressional staffers on holiday, in Florida after the election. Somehow, I imagine these guys will get along well with W. From a quick search, the "Real American" view on Wise use: This paper examines the Wise Use movement as to whether it represents a new political phenomenon or simply a recurrence of reactionary Western land revolts such as the Sagebrush Rebellion of the late 1970s and early 80s. We conclude that the Wise Use Movement is a desperate effort to defend the hegemony of the cultural and economic values of the agricultural and extractive industries of the rural West. It differs from past such movements in its level of desperation and in a first effort to win allies in other parts of the region and nation. nwcitizen.com And just to show that Women, too, can be Real Americans: WOMEN AND WISE USE: THE OTHER SIDE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM Although there has been substantial interdisciplinary research on activists within the environmental movement, researchers have only recently looked at the countermovement, comprised of industry opposition as well as organizations within the wise use, property rights, and county supremacy movements. This research, based on a structured mail survey and followup interviews of women activists, examines their role in both gender-limited and sex-integrated organizations, focusing on membership and recruitment, forms of participation, common attitudinal themes, and implications for further study. The study finds that the activists represent a much more complicated set of groups than has generally been described, and that the term "anti-enviros" is not only inaccurate but fails to take into consideration significant differences between those women involved in natural resource issues and those active within the property rights movement. The women activists are demographically heterogeneous (white, married, rural and well-educated), and extremely politically active, dependent largely upon the type of group in which they are involved. They share common attitudinal themes about the environment and their activism; however, there is little evidence even among those surveyed that they have as yet had any significant impact on the shaping of environmental policy. cdfe.org The "environmental extremist" analysis of what's really going on here: THE POLITICAL AGENDA OF THE "WISE USE" MOVEMENT ewg.org Cheers, Dan.