Senate Bill S. 389 vs. Senate Bill S. 411
by Lila Berge

Senate Bill S. 389 would open the Alaska's coastal plain and foothills
of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil developers. The
competing bill, S. 411 would designate the area as wilderness, closed to
oil developers and other development. The Bush administration is
promoting oil development as a solution to the California energy
shortage and higher gasoline prices. Developers claim new technology
allows them to drill and produce the oil without environmental damage. 

The public needs to understand what is at stake in ANWR and just how oil
fields are developed. In the first place, arctic tundra is very fragile.
The surface layer is frozen for nine months and the growing season is
very short. Permafrost exists just below the surface. Vehicle tracks
made during WW II are still visible! Wildlife in such an extreme climate
lives in a delicate balance with its habitat.

Biologists have been studying how caribou and other wildlife have
adapted in other parts of Alaska like Prudhoe Bay where oil fields have
been operating for several years. Last November 245 biologists signed an
open letter to President Clinton asking him to declare ANWR a
wilderness. (A wilderness contains no roads or permanent human
structures, while a wildlife refuge may be used for grazing, hunting or
extractive development.) Clinton left the decision to the next
administration.

How much oil does ANWR contain and can it be obtained profitably? Eight
separate groups of geologists have tried to guess the answers, based on
seismic surveys done in 1984-5. Recently their data was run through
computers again, adding in other studies. The conclusions ranged between
5 and 7 billion barrels, depending on a market price between $18 and $24
a barrel. If the price dropped to $12 or less, only a few million
barrels could be recovered at a profit.

How long would it take for ANWR oil to reach the market? Industry
expects it would take ten years. Then for five years they expect to
produce 200,000 barrels/day. American consumption last year was 19.5
million barrels/day and growing. It would add about 4% to the U.S.
supply, if it wasn't shipped to Japan or China as Prudhoe oil has been.
California power plants are mostly gas fired, with only 1% coming from
oil, so Alaskan oil would not solve their energy crisis, nor will it
reduce gasoline prices.

What is the environmental impact of oil development? The first step
would be for each interested oil company to send caravans of heavy
vehicles, a crew of 80 to 120 people, and do a more exact seismic
survey. Long lines of low-frequency microphones are set out creating a
grid over the entire area. The microphones record sound waves bounced
off rock layers by sound generating trucks. Next they need to siphon off
millions of gallons of melt water to create roads of ice and thick ice
pads for drilling rigs. Liquid fresh water is scarce and cannot be
transported very far in winter without freezing solid. The drilling
crews and others need food and water, dormitories, mess halls, sewage
and garbage disposal facilities, and other buildings. Supplies are
brought in by C130 Hercules airplanes. A network of oil pipelines would
have to be built connecting the rigs to processing plants and ports for
oil tankers. Natural gas is either flared off or pumped back under
ground as it is at Prudhoe Bay or new pipelines must be built.

What effect would all this traffic and industrial activity have on the
wildlife? The caribou herd needs to cross the ANWR to the coastal 1002
area in June to have their calves where they are safe from predators and
vicious hordes of blood-sucking insects. About 250 musk oxen live in
ANWR with 130,000 caribou. It is the nesting area for tundra swans,
migrating waterfowl and other birds. Polar bears and arctic foxes have
dens there too. Intrusions of hundreds of humans, industrial activities,
noise, pollution and strange odors are sure to have an effect on the
wildlife that has called ANWR home for hundreds of years. Who will
speak for wildlife...will you? 

How can the impact of oil development be measured in terms the Bush
administration understands? I don't know. But surely they can understand
that developing ANWR is not the answer to an energy crisis, now or in
the future. The best energy policy for this country must include more
fuel efficient vehicles, a mix of alternative energy generation and
other energy conservation measures.

Calendar

June 2: Dedication of the Mary Ellen Johnson Memorial site on Spring
Street in Racine starting at 2:00 p.m. to be followed by an hors
d'oeuvre reception at the Greenridge Condominium party center. See the
article in the April/May issue of the Southeast Sierran for details or
call Jean McGraw at (262) 886-0610.

June 14: SEGG Executive Committee Meeting, 7:00 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran
Church, corner of Durand Avenue and Pritchard Drive in Racine. 

June 21: Group Potluck Picnic at Nancy Hennessy's home at 5216 Wind
Point Road on Racine's north side starting at 6:00 p.m. Call (262)
639-5639 for directions or additional information. Bring a dish to
share, your own plate(s), flatware, cup and lawn chair and be prepared
to enjoy Nancy's natural landscape.

June ??: The Southeast Gateway Group Nominating and Elections Committee
will meet sometime in June to find Group ExCom candidates for this
fall's election. Contact Nominations Committee Chair Stan Rosenstiel at
(262) 694-2206 or Donna Peterson at (262) 637-3141 with your suggestions
or to volunteer as a committee member or candidate. 

July 2: Deadline for the next issue of the Southeast Sierran.

No Group Executive Committee or General Meeting in July...get outdoors
and enjoy!

July 21: John Muir Chapter Executive Committee meeting in Baraboo.

July 28: Highway 38 Clean-up. Meet at Bob and Betty Gericke's house,
3927 North Lane, just off Highway 38 north of Highway K, at 9:00 a.m.
for issuance of equipment and assignment of territory. A pot-luck lunch
usually follows. We need many hands to get the job done in a reasonable
time. Call Bob and Betty (262-886-9057) with any questions you might
have.

August 3,4,5: Outing to the Apostle Islands being led by Mary Ann
Ortmeyer. See the article below for details.

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

August 3,4,5 and beyond. Meet at Bayfield on Friday, August 3. Paddle in
by canoe, kayak, fishing boat, etc., to Basswood Island, about two miles
from the mainland. We have a group camp permit for up to 30 people.
After August 5 plan to spend several more days in a Bed and Breakfast or
mainland campground. We will poke around Bayfield. Call Mary Ann
Ortmayer at (262) 554-5058 for details and/or reservations by June 30.

Welcome New Members

Bristol: Jo Schmidt

Burlington: Marie Dembowski, Charles Haberichter, Javaja Llope, Howard
Mccue, Bruce Peacock, Peggy Rausch, David Torgler, Alecia Veesenmeyer,
Diane Winkleblack

Darien: Delores Hoppe

Delavan: Eleanor Coolidge, Sandra Kelly, Cantonia Kilkenny, Barbara
Leetzow, Terri Simpson, Patty Wynne

East Troy: A. Askenazi, Roderick L. Dix, Patty Pesek, Damian Slaske

Elkhorn: Tony Gibowski, Jennifer Moore, Ruth Swisher

Fontana: Philip & Jean Harvey

Franksville: Alois Mente, John Welch

Kenosha: John Andrews, Kent Cairo, Henry Callow, Catherine Carroll,
Penny Duncan, Nancy Eckhardt, Dennis Egre, Michael Goebel, Kacy Green,
Sue Hackbarth, John & Lynn Heller, F. Horak, Karan Kwiek, Mary Ann Ours,
Mary Tunkieicz

Lake Geneva: Keli Garecht, William Iden, Jennifer Lansinger, Joseph &
Nancy Perkoski, Mary Kay Ring, Jim Russell

Pell Lake: Dennis Seward

Pleasant Prairie: Julie Anderson, Gidget Asonwha, Kim & Vicky Kirkegaard

Racine: Gary Anderson, Linda Anderson, John Byrne, Dana Crowell, Eustace
Douglas, Penny Duncan, D. L. Fink,, C. Harris, Cheryl McDonald-Wensing,
Randall Moles, Allan Naegeli, Jack Nehmer, Steven Platt, Mary Sands,
Gerald Seitz, Mary Strack, Richard Tworek, Kevin Will

Salem: Beverly
Jambois 

Twin Lakes: Lydia Mattox 

Union Grove: T. Daley

Waterford: Daniel Drumel

Williams Bay: Florence Gould, Rachael Greener, Vera Hamley

From the Chair: Population Issues
by Nita Larson

A statement by Senator Barbara Boxer:

Within 48 hours of assuming the Presidency, President Bush issued a
policy that will hurt the women of the world. A policy that takes us
back to the 1980’s, rather than ahead to the new century.

His policy, the Mexico City gag rule, cuts U.S. funding to any
organization that uses its own funds to provide abortion services. It
even cuts U.S. funds if the organization uses its own funds to simply
counsel women on all their options which include abortions.

As a result, many organizations will be forced to either limit their
services or simply close their doors to women across the world. And,
this will cause women and families increased misery and death.

The current facts are chilling.

Approximately 78,000 women throughout the world die each year as a
result of unsafe abortions. At least one-fourth of all unsafe abortions
in the world are to girls aged 15-19. By 2015, contraceptive needs in
developing countries will grow by more than 40 percent.

Make no mistake, the Mexican city gag rule will restrict family
planning, not abortions.

The media has mistakenly portrayed the Mexico City policy. Let's be
clear about what this policy does and does not do:

It does not change the fact that no United States funds can be used for
abortion services. That is already law, and has been since 1973. It does
restrict foreign organizations in ways that would be unconstitutional
here at home.

It is puzzling for me to understand how anyone could fail to realize
that family planning is crucial to preventing abortions.

Additionally, it is known that young girls between the ages of 15 and 19
are twice as likely to die in childbirth as older mothers. Talk about a
policy that is cruel to girls and young women--this is it.

Family planning can significantly improve the health of these girls and
young women by teaching them to postpone childbearing until the
healthiest times in their life, which would in turn prevent abortions.

However, as a result of the harsh penalties imposed by the Mexico City
gag rule, family planning groups will not be able to adequately counsel
these desperate women.

Picture a woman who has already walked sometimes half a day to get to
the nearest clinic. How can we expect these clinics to then tell this
woman who is seeking services on her own volition, that they cannot
counsel her of the full array of her legal options when there is no
other clinic within a hundred miles of them?

Additionally, the Mexico City policy goes against a fundamental tenet of
American society--freedom of speech.

Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) introduced the
bipartisan "Global Democracy Promotion Act." The Boxer-Snowe bill aims
to overturn the draconian restrictions placed upon international family
planning programs put in place by President Bush on January 22. The
bill would allow these organizations to continue to provide legal family
planning services without needlessly restricting their funds. Family
planning organizations should not be prevented from using their own
privately raised funds to provide legal abortion services, including
counseling and referral services.

These groups should not be forced to relinquish their right to free
speech in order to receive United States funding. This type of
restriction is un-American and undermines our key foreign policy goal of
supporting democracy worldwide.

The true bipartisan consensus is that family planning organizations
should be supported, not punished, for helping women in need. We hope
President Bush will change his mind and reverse his order. If not, we
must work hard to overturn it.

Excerpted from: Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the
107th Congress, First Session, Vol. 147, Washington, Thursday, February
15, 2001, No. 22. 



Attention, Netheads & Hangers-on! 

Now you can get updates on environmental activities from the EPA, but
filtered to only include Wisconsin and upper Illinois events.

Dry, dull stuff, like, "XYZ company of Oak Creek, WI, was charged today
with improper hazardous waste disposal procedures of a waste product. A
$600,000 fine is proposed." 

To keep in touch on these things, when they happen close to home, do
this:

Send an email to Jay Warner, address: a2q@execpc.com

Tell him you want to keep in touch. Jay receives all the announcements
for the five state upper Midwest, and he will filter out the events in
Ohio, etc. and pass on the local information.



Mad Cows, Dopey Deer, Sick Sheep...and People Protection

By Lila Berge

Television news is full of the sad and alarming pictures of European
livestock slaughter to prevent the spread of Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathies (TSEs). These incurable diseases are similar to the
human new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which in most cases
can be positively diagnosed only after death and has a latency period
that lasts for many years. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
blames the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Europe on
infected British livestock exported after the disease first appeared in
1986. Another cause is bone meal from contaminated British animals added
to animal feed and exported around the world. So far BSE has not shown
up in U.S. cattle and importing such feed is banned here by USDA.

In animals the major TSEs are BSE, scrapie in sheep and goats, chronic
wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk, transmissible mink encephalopathy
and a feline spongiform encephalopathy. An estimated 300 Americans die
from CJD annually. They may get infected in various ways. They may have
had a blood transfusion from someone who ate infected meat in Europe but
because of the latency period did not know they were infected. Vaccines
and over the counter dietary supplements may contain bovine material,
including brain, bone, heart, lung or cartilage. Dietary supplements are
not regulated by FDA and some of those are made with imported animal
materials. Examples are osteoarthritis supplements containing
glucosamine and chondroitin. Glucosamine comes from shells of shrimp and
crabs, some which may be processed cheaply in China by seafood companies
instead of in pharmaceutical laboratories. Chondroitin comes from the
cartilage of pigs, cows and sharks. The Chinese product may be mostly
from pigs.

Currently only two people in the U.S. appear to have contracted CJD from
eating infected deer or elk. Because animals in Colorado and Wyoming are
known to have CWD, officials there have warned hunters to avoid sickly
animals and be careful in butchering. Many hunters submit the animal
heads for testing to wildlife officials.

So called Mad Cow and similar diseases are not caused by viruses,
bacteria, protozoa or fungi, but by a naked protein that has no DNA or
RNA. They are called prions and are not completely destroyed by
sterilization, disinfectants, radiation or cooking. They remain intact
in soil for years and are totally degraded only when incinerated at
temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees F. Infected animals carry the
prions in their spinal cord, spleen, tonsils, intestines, lymph nodes,
eyes and eventually the brain. The symptoms develop as prions spread
into these body parts and the disease is always fatal. Prion research
has been poorly funded at $14 million in the U.S. compared to funding of
$100 million in Europe. Two Nobel Prizes have been awarded for prion
research.

Our protection depends on the USDA import ban and enforcement keeping
all animal feed containing mammal meat and bone meal out of this
country. The FDA still allows calves to be given spray-dried blood
plasma from cows as a milk supplement. If our animals and people are to
be kept safe, better funding for research and inspection/enforcement of
our food and drug regulations is important.

(This article has been excerpted from an article in the April 9, 2001,
issue of Chemical and Engineering News.)


From Your Legislative Watchdog
by Jean McGraw

Free trade! What could be wrong with free trade? Sounds great, and it
has increased the flow of goods and services between the U.S., Canada,
and Mexico. So what's wrong with that, and why are all those people
protesting? Unfortunately it is only giant multinational corporations
who are able to trade freely, enjoying the privilege of overriding and
superseding all national environmental and labor laws and standards.

So-called "free trade" has enabled greedy corporations to abrogate our
Marine Mammal Protection Act which protected dolphins from being
indiscriminately slaughtered in the search for maximum catches of tuna.
This law has been declared to have created unfair competition for the
Mexicans and others who had no such fishing restrictions. Fortunately
American tuna processors (Starkist, Bumble Bee, etc.) have announced
they will continue to abide by the Act. Buy those brands, but the
"dolphin-safe" label is now meaningless.

Now Mexican trucks are to be allowed to freely cross the border and
travel everywhere in the U.S. although Mexican trucks are notoriously
not decently maintained. The drivers are not properly trained and can
drive unlimited hours. This new safety hazard on our highways is in the
name of free trade.

The corporations promised to clean up the maquiladora along the Mexican
border and to raise the slave wages of the Mexican workers. Today the
pollution along the Texas-Mexican border is far worse, and the
starvation wages have not been raised, and the abysmal living conditions
have not improved. American businesses are closing factories which have
worked well for generations and paid a living wage to skilled workers in
order to flee to Mexico to maximize their profits,creating a massive
loss of family-supporting jobs in our country.

In Canada the government was forced by so-called free trade to cancel a
law which forbade the use of MTBE in Canadian gasoline because of its
proven links to cancer. Not only did the government have to rescind the
ban, but it had to pay a hefty fine to the U.S. manufacturer of MTBE for
inhibiting free trade. 

In Mexico the government had to give up its effort to protect a pristine
area of wetlands and allow a search for fossil fuels and construction of
a refinery--and--pay a fine for restricting free trade.

The expression "free trade" might more accurately be replaced by "free
license" to corporations to do whatever they please, ignoring any and
all environmental and social laws and standards. This "free trade" is
the fulfillment of our worst nightmares of world government as run by a
few strictly for their own benefit.

We are all in favor of increased communication but never at the expense
of reducing environmental and social standards to the lowest common
denominator. Law has to be imposed on these renegade, runaway,
profit-mad corporations. The protestors are indeed justified.

President Bush is being criticized for his support, but Gore and Clinton
also supported the arrangement. It's up to you and me to insist that
this isn't our idea of a better world.


Where Have All the Young Folks Gone?

April 28 was the first of the three scheduled Highway 38 Clean-Ups for
the year 2001. The weather was beautiful, the job needed to be done,
announcements had been made in the newsletter and at the meetings, but
only ten people participated. A minimum of twelve or thirteen is needed
to do the job comfortably and well. It should also be noted that the
average age of those picking up trash and recyclables along the highway
was 66 (!) with the oldest being 82 and the youngest 48. Several others
joined the crew for the pot-luck lunch that followed

"This is our tenth year of doing these clean-ups," said Betty Gericke,
"and we all are ten years older." With the Southeast Gateway Group's
membership topping 600, "we should find some way to broaden our base of
volunteers."

Lila Berge first suggested that maybe it was time to consider dropping
this project, but then thought a better idea would be to take some of
the load off Betty by having a new "captain" for each of the three
clean-ups, who would do the calling ahead of time and possibly find new
volunteers from within their circle of friends to "supplement us old
timers. This shouldn't be just a Racine County project. Sierrans in
Kenosha and Walworth Counties should feel it is part of their Group's
activity, too."

The next two highway clean-ups are scheduled for July 28 and October 6.
Mark your calendars so you can join in the fun. If you like the idea of
having a new "captain" for each clean-up, why not volunteer to take one
or the other by calling the Group Chair, Nita Larson at (262) 638-8632.



Safe Public Drinking Water
by Lila Berge

Those of us close to Lake Michigan are so lucky to live where there is
an unlimited supply of fresh water available! Advanced water treatment
and testing can furnish the public with safe drinking water at
reasonable cost. Milwaukee's Cryptosporidium outbreak in 1993 caused
them to make major improvements in their water purification process.
While chlorine will kill zebra mussels and most disease organisms, it
does not kill "Crypto". Ozone is now used as the most effective
treatment to kill pathogens. Hydrogen peroxide is then added to remove
the ozone, alum added to coagulate and precipitate silt and suspended
material. The water is next filtered through a mixture of anthracite
coal and sand. Simply adding lots of chlorine and bromine to clarify and
disinfect murky water could form halomethanes such as chloroform and
bromine byproducts which are suspected causes of cancer and reproductive
problems. Milwaukee does add some chlorine, then ammonia is added to
react with it and improve taste. Phosphoric acid is added to prevent
lead and copper from leaching into the water from distribution pipes and
plumbing. Milwaukee water is tested for more than 250 organic compounds
as well as for Crypto, Giardia, E. coli and other organisms.

Ninety-seven percent of the planet's water is salty and much of the rest
is locked up in ice at the poles. The future of civilization depends on
the remaining percent of fresh water. More than a billion people lack
access to clean drinking water. Preventable water-related diseases kill
between 10,000 and 20,000 children every day. In 25 years the world will
have 7.2 billion people and forty percent of them will live in areas
with severe water shortages affecting agriculture, industry and human
health.

Desalination of seawater is an expensive technology, but it is already
being used in areas of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caribbean.
Florida, California and Arizona are also using or building desalination
plants. Other U.S. places are reclaiming "gray" water from kitchen and
shower sources, using it to water golf courses and parks. New York City
water is imported from distant reservoirs at great cost. To keep up with
demand a conservation campaign was begun. The city is saving billions of
gallons by replacing water-guzzling toilets and other plumbing fixtures,
leaky pipes and locking city fire hydrants to prevent people from
turning the streets into summer waterparks.

Irrigation accounts for two-thirds of water use worldwide, much of it
because of government-built dams and water diversion systems. Irrigation
by flooding and aerial spray methods is not only wasteful but can
degrade soil and eventually reduce agricultural productivity. The dams
needed to divert water for irrigation destroy fish that need
free-flowing rivers. Irrigation by drip systems which supply plant roots
with only as much water as they need can reduce water use by seventy
percent and increase crop yield. There are also low energy sprinkler
systems that are almost as efficient. Governments should encourage
switching to these water conserving methods.

A final food for thought: in the arid regions of the U.S. irrigation is
used to grow hay, grain and corn to fatten cattle. It takes between
2,000 and 8,000 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef for our
meat-rich American diet. We would all be healthier eating less meat and
more grains, fruit and vegetables like our European and Asian cousins
do.

(This article has been excerpted from several scientific journals. 
Contact the author at (262) 633-8455 for specific references.)



Important Notice: The following activities are not sponsored nor
administered by the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club has no information
about the planning of these activities and makes no representations or
warranties about the quality, safety, supervision or management of such
activities. They are published only as a reader service because they may
be of interest to the readers of this publication.


Ice Age Trail Events

Notes: Updates for some of the events may be found on the IAP&TF web
site (www.iceagetrail.org) or at their monthly meetings, which are held in
the FirStar Bank, 101 E. Walworth St., Elkhorn, WI.

The highway 12 parking lot is approximately 4 miles east of Whitewater,
or 2-1/2 miles west of LaGrange (Cty. H).

Please call the activity coordinator to let him/her know if you plan to
participate, have questions or are concerned about the activity due to
inclement weather.

Trail maintenance work may include grubbing to remove stumps, trimming
back growth, painting blazes, installing erosion control bars, clearing
new trail, litter control, etc. Bring water, lunch, work gloves, and (if
you have them) work tools such as loppers or bow saws. Preferable
clothing are long pants and long sleeved shirts, as well as suitable
footwear. Depending upon conditions and seasonal conditions, insect
repellent, sunscreen or raingear may be useful.

Contact Persons: Bill (Kangaroo) Knickrehm, (608) 883-2825; Barb &
Jerry Converse, (262) 473-7304; David Cash, (815) 943-5011; Ron Detmers,
(920) 674-4549; Gerry Emmerich, (262) 642-5641; Ron Nacker, (262)
642-4372; Hedda Patzke, (262) 763-6275; Sally Ward, (262) 495-8362;
Vince & Nancy Lazzaroni, (262) 248-8247.

June 2, Saturday, 8:00 a.m.: National Trails Day: Work Projects. Meet at
Hwy 12. Contact: Sally Ward or Barb Converse. 

June 9, Saturday, 10:00 a.m: Hike: Bong Recreation Area. Meet at
Visitor Center. State Park sticker required. Contact: Hedda Patzke.

June 19, Tuesday, 6:00 p.m.: Meeting, speaker TBA. Contact: Nancy
Lazzaroni or Gerry Emmerich.

June 23, Saturday, 9:00 a.m.: Trail Maintenance. Meet at Hwy 12.
Contact: Ron Detmers.

June 24, Sunday, 9:00 a.m.: New Trail Work. Meet at Hwy 12. Contact:
Kangaroo.

July 17, Tuesday, 6:00 p.m.: Meeting, speaker TBA. Contact: Nancy
Lazzaroni or Gerry Emmerich.

July 21, Saturday, 9:00 a.m.: Trail Maintenance. Meet at Hwy 12.
Contact: Vince Lazzaroni.

July 22, Sunday, 9:00 a.m.: New Trail Work. Meet at Hwy 12. Contact:
Kangaroo.

August 1, Wednesday: Deadline for making reservations for the September
7-9 camp outing at Mauthe Lake. Contact: David Cash.

August 4, Saturday, 8:30 a.m.: Hike, Bike & Paddle Rally. Fun,
non-competitive event. Hike 5 miles, bike 6 miles and paddle 2 miles.
Must make reservations and/or provide own equipment. Meet at Rice Lake
nature trail parking lot at Whitewater Lake Recreation Area. State Park
sticker required. Contact: Ron Nacker.

Chiwaukee Prairie Work Days

June 16; July 21: Chiwaukee Prairie Workdays. Dress in layers, wear work
gloves, eye protection, old clothes and sturdy shoes. Bring a beverage
and lunch. Call Donna Peterson (Racine area) at (262) 637-3141 or Renate
Hauser (Kenosha area) at (262) 694-3631 for more information.  Visit the Chiwaukee Prairie Preservation Fund website.


Climate Change Conference

Southeast Wisconsin Interfaith Climate Change Campaign Conference in
Milwaukee at Marquette University on Sunday, July 22nd from 12:30 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m. Presentations will be made from both spiritual and
scientific aspects of Climate Change. For additional information call
Dane Steffenson at (608) 837-3198 or Vera Boone at (262) 877-3164.