This issue of Forest Voice offers a primer, “Your Forests: Slated for Slaughter.” It includes a summary of the National Forest Protection Acts, a package of draft legislation developed by the Native Forest Council, satellite images comparing deforestation in the U.S. to that in Brazil, and an instructional graphic titled, “Nature Pays, You Pay, Your Children Pay.”

Dave Foreman’s Books of the Big Outside is a catalog of books, poetry, music, and material pertaining to what he calls the “Big Outside,” compiled for “wilderness defenders.”

This issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter covers regional forestry issues and initiatives, the Redwood Summer event to bring attention to the destruction of the redwoods, the environmental consequences of the Gulf War, and a plan for a “conservation power plant” in Sacramento.

This issue of Forest Voice features photographs of deforested U.S. federal lands and argues that log exporting is both economically and environmentally foolish. It outlines appeals citizens can make to their government representatives to save national native forests.