MlSSOULlAN 2 a ROAD CONDITIONS: 728-8553 (800-226-7G23) TlH.SDAY, NOVLMIIL.R 6, 2001 A Canadian trade minister to meet with Racicot This Day inHkory Duo to discuss softwood lumber dispute Opponents say American consumers will be harmed by higher prices for wood products. The 12.6 percent tariff on softwood lumber will be placed on top of a 19.3 percent duty imposed in August. The Bush administration appointed Racicot as a special U.S. envoy last month. "He's going to get an earful from the minister," said an official in Pettigrew's office who asked not to be named.
"The their timber in the U.S. market at prices below the cost of production. They claim Canadian lumber companies are subsidized through low provincial cutting fees. Racicot also has requested a meeting with Mike de Jong, the British Columbia forestry minister. The I louse of Commons also has scheduled a debate on the softwood issue for Tuesday night.
minister will get his message through to Mr. Racicot that (the) latest decision is outrageous and punitive." U.S. officials had requested the meeting before last week's Commerce Department ruling. Canadian industry officials say the tariffs are unfair and will drive Canadian lumber mills out of business. American lumber producers have complained that Canadian softwood exporters are dumping Associated Press OTTAWA -Former Montana Gov.
Marc Racicot is to meet Tuesday with Canada's trade minister in their first face-to-face talks on the softwood lumber dispute since Racicot was appointed U.S. special envoy. The meeting between Racicot and International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew in Ottawa also will be the first since the United States imposed a second layer of duties on Canadian lumber imports. The United States said the additional tariff is an attempt to protect U.S. jobs from what it calls unfair competition.
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 6, the 3 10th day of 2(K)1. There arc 55 days left in the year. This is Election Day. Today In the Missoulian: Nov.
6, 1966 Peace demonstrations from the University of Montana campus to downtown Missoula turned into something of a battle. Crowds of about 200 hecklers threw eggs, some stones and plenty of insults at the group of about 60 protesters against the war in Vietnam. The demonstrators began their march from the UM Lodge and headed downtown escorted by five police cars. A large group protesting the march and marching behind a giant American flag followed the peace group. The trouble began when the group got downtown and bystanders and hecklers began to pelt the peace marchers with various objects.
No injuries were reported and no arrests were made. Anthrax old news to ranchers Helena lawyer to be named to Inferior post 1 Corrections .1,1 I i -'1 I 1 1 By STEVE RAABE Denver Post FOWLER, Colo. Erin Larson is on the front line in the fight against anthrax. She stands, feet splayed, a pistol in each hand. Her right and left index fingers encircle the triggers.
And then she fires. The cow barely flinches. A moment later, a second cow is targeted, and the 22-year-old ranch hand squeezes another dose of anthrax vaccine from her pistol-style syringes. On the Apishapa Ranch in southeast Colorado, and on farms and ranches across the United States, the battle against anthrax goes on. But it has nothing to do with white powder and suspicious envelopes.
The virulent bacteria unknown to many Americans before last month has been a threat to livestock for centuries. Yet the organism doesn't strike the same terror into farmers and ranchers as it does a panicky urban populace. Anthrax, to livestock producers, is a routine aspect of doing business. They're aware of it, but not obsessed. If an outbreak occurs, they accept losses in their herds as a cost of doing business, then take steps to stem the infection.
"It's really not an issue we worry about too much," said Eric Larson, co-owner of the Apishapa Ranch, five miles south of the Arkansas River in Otero County. Like many of his fellow ranchers in the Arkansas Valley, Larson vaccinates his cattle for anthrax every year. His vaccine comes from Denver-based Colorado Serum the nation's only supplier of livestock anthrax vaccine. CHUCK BIGGER Associated Press Erin Larson waits with syringes during the annual anthrax vaccination operation at the Apishapa Ranch, near Fowler, Colo, last week. On farms and ranches across the state, the battle against anthrax has nothing to do with white power and suspicious envelopes.
While the last recorded outbreak in Colorado occurred in 1984, livestock producers and veterinarians say a handful of animals become infected and die almost every year. They're not officially listed as anthrax deaths because of the cost and difficulty of obtaining certified laboratory results. Most ranchers simply destroy the dead animals and watch closely for new cases of infection. Veterinary experts say Colorado's exposure to livestock anthrax originates from Old West cattle drives that crossed the state. Animals that died of anthrax would be left on the prairie.
As the carcasses decomposed, the bacteria would be exposed to oxygen, causing them to form spores that potentially could survive for a century or more. Outbreaks occur when the spores are dislodged by flooding, or when drought causes cattle to graze close to the ground, ingesting spores in dirt. Infected animals become feverish and suffer convulsions, dying as quickly as two hours after symptoms first appear. Veterinarians recommend that infected carcasses be cremated or covered with lime and buried to kill the bacteria. By CHARLES S.
JOHNSON Missoulian State Bureau HELENA A Helena attorney, Rebecca W. Watson, said Monday she has been informed she soon will be appointed by President Bush to be assistant secretary of the Interior for land and minerals management. "It's very exciting, and it's a big honor to be asked," the 49-year-old Watson said. The natural resource area is something my whole career has been focused on." The department has five assistant secretaries and the solicitor general who serve under the Interior secretary. Her job at Interior will be to have administrative and managerial responsibility for the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management, Minerals Management Service and Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. The Missoulian State Bureau was unable to confirm when her appointment will be announced by the Bush administration. Management responsibilities for these "three bureaus include 270 million acres of onshore public land, operations management for minerals on the 1.4 billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf to the outer limits of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and management of surface mining and reclamation. The Minerals Management Service receives all oil, gas and coal royalties, bringing in more revenue than any federal agency except the Internal Revenue Service, Watson said.
The appointment is a presidential appointment subject to Senate confirmation Watson will face a confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy Committee, but isn't sure when. It depends on what the Senate's schedule is for the remainder of the year. Watson is a partner in the Helena law firm of Gough, Shanahan, Johnson Waterman, where her practice concentrated on natural resource issues, federal environmental laws and government relations. She was a law school classmate of Interior Secretary Gale Norton at the University of Denver and kept in communication over the years when Norton was elected attorney general of Colorado. A Chicago native, Watson visited Colorado in the early 1970s and saw the mountains for the first time and later transferred to the University of Denver as an undergraduate.
"I love the Rockies and the West," Watson said. After receiving a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy, then a master's in library studies at the University of Denver, Watson completed a law degree there. She clerked for a federal judge in Wyoming, worked as a partner for a law firm in Sheridan, and was appointed as assistant general counsel for energy policy in the U.S. Department of Energy in the administration of President George H.W. Bush from 1990 to 1993.
Service misidentified An Oct. 31 story about Tony Incashola opening a recent session of the U.S. House of Representatives with an invocation incorrectly identified the Congressional Research Service. In addition, although records suggest that Incashola is the first American Indian to give the opening prayer in the House, he is not the first to give an invocation in Congress. In September 1975, Oglala spiritual leader Frank Fools Crow gave the opening prayer in the U.S.
Senate. Tavern still open Missoula's Tenth Street Tavern is still open and will remain so at least into next year. In the wake of an Oct. 24 Missoulian story about a proposed new casino in Lolo, some readers apparently were left with the impression that the Tenth Street Tavern had closed. The Oct.
24 story said that the developers of the proposed Lolo casino were planning to buy the liquor license of the Tenth Street Tavern if they won state approval for the Lolo project. But no decision on the Lolo project is expected until next year at the earliest, and Jim Fragnito of the Tenth Street Tavern said the transfer deal hinges on that state decision. In the meantime, Fragnito said, the Tenth Street Tavern remains open. Man not charged A Monday Associated Press story about a man accused of causing a bus accident erroneously reported that Charles George had been charged with 37 counts of aggravated assault. George was not charged Sunday in the accident.
If you find a factual error the Missoulian, tell us about it. Gontact Editor Mike Mclnally at 523-5242, 523-5250 or 1-800-366-7186; e-mail at newsdeskmissoulian.com; or fax at 523-5294. Hearing opens on Indian voting rights 2000 census. Its first hearing is scheduled Nov. 13 in Great Falls.
Specifically, the suit challenges districts in four counties involving the Flathead and Blackfeet Indian reservations -Pondera, Lake, Glacier and Flathead counties. By implication, it could affect district boundaries statewide. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit on behalf of the Blackfeet and Flathead reservations. An ideal legislative district would have about 9,200 people, but deviations are numerous and sometimes extreme, Richmond, consultant Bill Cooper said. The overall deviation is 86 percent, he said.
Cooper prepared four districting plans, none of them "set in stone," with deviations of under 10 percent. Much of the morning testimony focused on them. Cooper acknowledged that he was unfamiliar with the gumbo that makes many northeastern Montana roads impassable after a rain. "I can't imagine that's an issue the average citizen would worry about," he said. Associated Press HELENA Expert witnesses on both sides flooded a federal courtroom in Helena with statistics and minutiae Monday in Round 3 of a lawsuit accusing Montana of discriminating against Indian voters.
Two experts in demographics and statistics, the plaintiffs' only witnesses, testified that Montana's legislative map is badly skewed to dilute Indian voting strength and that Indian candidates face bloc voting by whites. Assistant Attorney General Sarah Bond questioned their methodology and their knowledge of such Montana realities as impassable gumbo roads and geographical barriers. She called state election officials who detailed the impact that revised district boundaries might have on procedures such as deadlines for candidates to file for office and submission of signatures on initiative petitions. U.S. District Judge Phillip Pro of Las Vegas bobtailed the testimony of one state witness, Sen.
Lorents Grosfield, R-Big Timber, whom Bond called to show Montana was responsive to Indian needs in the past. The judge said such testimony was not necessary because the late U.S. District Judge Paul Hatfield had ruled that the state was responsive. Hatfield handled the original trial of the suit and ruled that the state had not diluted Indians voting strength. The 9th U.S.
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