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.”

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.

In this memo to “the leading intellectual and literary lights of EARTH FIRST,” Dave Foreman drafts the principles of the new Earth First organization, along with a draft membership brochure.