[at-l] Environmental Forum in Georgia

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For anyone here who is concerned about protecting the environment and
keeping our forests, protecting our trails....most of these speakers are
hikers!

JULY 8: Environmental Forum Explores the Impact of Recent Legislation and
EPA Rule Changes on Water and Air Quality

 Gainesville, GA. - Dr. Paul McClendon, a retired math professor from
University of South Florida, will moderate an Environmental Forum, July 8,
7pm, at Brenau University's Thurmond-McCrae Lecture Hall (One Centennial
Circle, Gainesville).

McClendon, is a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists (www.ucsusa.org)
which advocates rigorous scientific analysis and innovative policy to
achieve environmental solutions. He says that the forum will be first and
foremost "factual, but we will address the current administration's
anti-environmental legislation, as well as its breaking of certain
environmental laws already on the books."

Other panelists participating in the forum will focus on different
environmental issues. Katherine Smolski, a Regional Conservation Organizer
for the Sierra Club National Forest Campaign, will focus on destructive
commercial logging practices on public lands and its cost to the taxpayer.
(www.sierraclub.org/forests) Smolski has a degree in Wildlife Biology and
Management from the University of Rhode Island and has worked for the U.S.
Forest Service, the Audubon Society, and NASA.

Darcie Boden, the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper's Director of Headwaters
Conservation since 2001, will address various pressures on our local
watershed, the Chattahoochee River and its tributaries, and tri-state water
issues. (www.chattahoochee.org/TriState/Index.shtml)

Tom Hutto, a retired biology teacher of 30 years, has a special interest in
water recycling, and its potential benefits to industry, including the
locally important poultry industry. Hutto has also been involved with the
White County Community Forest Education Project, a joint project of the
White County Chamber of Commerce and the Sautee Nacoochee Center.

Finally, Adele Kushner, helped found Action for a Clean Environment,
educating herself on the issues of energy and air pollution, on which she
will talk at the forum. She holds a BS in chemistry and an MBA, and became
an activist for the environment in the early 1990's when proposed waste and
medical waste incinerators were proposed in Alto and Gainesville. She
describes herself as an "ancient person spending her last years keeping the
air and water clean."

The public is invited to attend the July 8th Environmental Forum, organized
by the GRID Coalition (www.gridcoalition.org), a non-partisan group of
Greens, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, whose common goal is the
support of John Kerry in effecting a change in federal administration in
November 2004.

Thurmond-McRae Lecture Hall is located next to Brenau University's library
at the end of Academy Street, off E.E. Butler Parkway. Lighted parking in
front of the building.

We will be there (even though it is our wedding anniversary!) and we hope to
see some other hiker friends there too.  Hummingbird & Dutch Treat