GBlist: News About Boise Cascade

["Sarah Holland/David Foley" <hollandfoley@acadia.net>]

Folks,

You may find thisd interesting.  I was in Chile last November, and can vouch
for the desperate condition of the forests there.  I saw the proposed site
in Puerto Montt for the chip mill mentioned below.  There were billboards in
Puerto Montt saying No Mas Chips! (No more chips).  There have also been
brutal actions taken against protesters in Chile, allegedly at the request
of  Boise Cascade's Chilean subsidiary, Cascada Chile.  One species of wood
from Chile that you may encounter is Radiata Pine, often used for wood
doors.

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To:     All Activists
From:       Antonia Juhasz, American Lands
Date:       April 24, 2000

Day of Action Against Boise Cascade Corp. - April 26

Last week in Boise, Idaho activists scored a victory for endangered
rainforests when they took over the Boise Cascade shareholder meeting.
Over 100 protesters chanted outside while seven activists inside
demanded that Boise Cascade "get out of Chile's rainforests" and called
for justice for jailed Mexican farmer-ecologist Rodolfo Montiel.

The Good News: a corporate responsibility shareholder resolution
initiated by American Lands' Board Member Dr. John Osborne passed.  The
resolution requires more frequent elections of Boise Cascade Board
Members to make them more accountable to shareholders.

The Bad News: Boise Cascade CEO George Harad said they do not have to
make the changes shareholders requested, the Chile project is good and
they never heard of Rodolfo Montiel or the farmer-ecologists in
Guerrero, Mexico.

Rodolfo recently received the Goldman Environmental Prize for fighting
Boise Cascade's logging of old growth forests of Guerrero, Mexico.
Rodolfo was tortured with electric shock last May when the Mexican
military arrested him.  An international campaign to gain his release
headed by the Goldman Foundation's Human Rights and the Environment
Campaign is shining a spotlight on the environmental destruction and
human rights violations that resulted from Boise Cascade's logging in
Guerrero.

In Chile, Boise Cascade plans to build the world's largest chip mill in
the heart of Chile's endangered temperate rainforests near Puerto Montt.
 Chile is home to one-third of the world's remaining old growth
temperate rainforests.  Chile's native forests are one of the world's
natural treasures:  more than 90 % of animal and plant life in Chile's
forests are endemic and they contain the highest species diversity among
the world's temperate forests.

However, the Central Bank of Chile has found that Chile's native forests
will be completely deforested in just twenty years if current practices
remain unchanged. Chileans working to protect these forests from the
Boise Cascade threat add that local tourism, farming and salmon
industries will lose 50,000 local jobs if Boise Cascade logs the
pristine forests they depend on for clean water and recreational
opportunities.

1) Take action Wednesday, April 26 at a Boise Cascade office products
store near you

2) Call Boise Cascade office products at 1-800-47-boise and urge them to
immediately withdraw from Chile.

3) Ask your university where they buy their paper and if it is Boise
Cascade, call on them to cancel the contract or protest the university
procurement policy.

For more information contact:  Pat Rasmussen, American Lands,
mailto:patr@crcwnet.com, phone 509-548-7640 or Jennifer  Krill,
Rainforest Action Network, mailto:jkrill@ran.org, 415-398-4404
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