|
5
<br /> COMMON GROUND VOL. 14 NO. 1 JANUARY-MARCH 2O03
<br /> ® Louisiana Pacific (LP) has sold 2,983 acres and donate 1 ,500 acres that will open up 6
<br /> of forestland in Texas to The Conservation miles of habitat and improve flows along 15
<br /> Fund, which transferred the land to the Fish miles of waterway that have been blocked
<br /> and Wildlife Service for addition to Trinity to salmon and steelhead for a century . The
<br /> River National Wildlife Refuge . LP plans to agreement commits the utility to remove
<br /> sell 1 ,310 acres in January to further expand the 47400t high Marmot Dam on the Sandy
<br /> the refuge in Liberty County . The first acqui- River in 2007, the 16-foot Little Sandy Dam
<br /> sition includes bottomdand hardwood forest, on the Little Sandy River in 2008 and the
<br /> bayous and cypress ponds in the lower Trin- remainder of the 22-megawatt hydro project
<br /> ity River floodplam, a focal point for protec- by late 2009 . The utility land, to be trans-
<br /> tion by the agency since the 1980s . ferred to the Bureau of Land Management
<br /> Since 1990, 3M and other agencies for permanent protec-
<br /> has cut emissions ® Keep America Beautiful (kab . org) has tion, will form the core of a proposed 5,000-
<br /> 0 volatile or anic honored 3M (3M . com) with a Vision for acre wildlife and recreation area .
<br /> f g America award for the company' s long-
<br /> compounds by standing interest in environmental perfor- ® Johnson & Johnson has announced the
<br /> 91 % and reduced mane . 3M broke new ground in the mid- winners of its Worldwide Environmental
<br /> landfilling of solid 1970s by adopting a global environmental Excellence Awards for 2002 . The awards rec-
<br /> waste b 12 % . policy and pollution prevention program. ognize environmental achievements in per-
<br /> t' Since 1990, it has cut emissions of volatile formance, leadership and innovation within
<br /> organic compounds by 91 % and reduced the company and its subsidiaries that dem-
<br /> landfilling of solid waste by 12% . Green- onstrate the company' s commitment to
<br /> house gas emissions from its manufacturing sustainability . Among the winners :
<br /> plants have dropped by one-third since 1995 . Noramco of Athens, Ga . , for environmental
<br /> performance, Cordis , of Warren, N .J . , for
<br /> ® Portland General Electric (portland environmental innovation; and Ethicon
<br /> general . com) agreed in October to dismantle Endo- Surgery of Cincinnati, Ohio, for
<br /> two working hydroelectric dams in Oregon environmental leadership .
<br /> 10
<br /> Wallace Dayton 1921 -2002
<br /> Wallace Dayton was a quiet giant of oped a new generation of leaders of non-
<br /> the American conservation movement. As profit environmental groups, including
<br /> chairman of The Nature Conservancy board Geoffrey Barnard, president of Grand
<br /> in the 1970s, he laid the foundation, through Canyon Trust; Spencer Beebe, founder and
<br /> He truly believed his vision and leadership , for the organza- president of Ecotrust; George Fenwick,
<br /> y tion that it is today. I was privileged to president of American Bird Conservancy,
<br /> that our purpose serve as president of the conservancy dur- John Flicker, president and chief executive
<br /> on earth was to ng that time and was inspired by his un- of National Audubon Society; Robert
<br /> leave a better lace paralleled passion for land conservation. Jenkins, founder of The Biodiversity Insti-
<br /> p He truly believed that our purpose on earth tute, Huey Johnson, founder of the Trust
<br /> for our children . was to leave a better place for our children. for Public Land; Ken Margolis, president of
<br /> From 1987 to 1997, Wally Dayton River Network; Steve McCormick, president
<br /> served as a board member for The Conser- and chief executive of The Nature Conser-
<br /> vation Fund, one of our early directors . His vancy; Jon Roush, former president of The
<br /> thoughtful leadership pioneered new prac- Wilderness Society; Peter Seligmann, chair-
<br /> tices in land conservation, which balanced man and chief executive of Conservation
<br /> business and environmental interests . Un- International, and Michael Wright, former
<br /> der his guidance, we protected more than 2 president and chief executive of the African
<br /> million acres across America. His service as Wildlife Foundation.
<br /> a member on the boards of six national con- There are few people in his generation
<br /> servation organizations, including The Con- who had a greater effect both on the land
<br /> servation Fund, is testimony to the signifi- he helped to conserve and the young
<br /> cant role that he played in the evolution of conservationists, including myself, whom
<br /> conservation in this country. he inspired .
<br /> Beyond his interest in organizational —Patrick F . Noonan,
<br /> development, Dayton in the 1970s devel- chairman, The Conservation Fund
<br />
|