Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans!

Michael J. Vandeman, Ph.D.

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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Anne Frank

"As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait." Joanna Macy

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

"When we were children, we thought our parents were taking care of things. Sometimes they were. As adults, we like to think that there are some very wise people, usually older than we are, taking care of the planet and us." Kary Mullis

"It is not with gentle persuasion that one wrests the kernel from the nut." ("Oju boro ko ni a fi ngba omo l'owo ekuro.") Yoruba proverb

"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money can not be eaten." Cree Indian Prophecy

"The Earth is our mother. What befalls the earth befalls the children of the Earth." Chief Seattle

"If we do not speak for Earth who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?" Carl Sagan

"This is the true joy of living. This being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. This being thoroughly used up before being thrown on the scrap heap. This being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod, full of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." G. B. Shaw

"The traditional Hopi people preserve the sacred knowledge about the way of the Earth because the true Hopi people know that the Earth is a living, growing person. And all things on it are her children." Yumi Horikoshi

"Environmentalism can most simply be defined as the extension of the Golden Rule to include other species." "Wildlife must be given top priority, because they can't protect themselves from us." Mike Vandeman

References

These are essential works for understanding and preventing the destruction of the Earth's ecosystems, including our own. What could be more important?!

• Required Reading for the Entire Planet

Lectures Given at International Environmental Conferences

• The Animals Came Dancing -- Native American and European Rationalizations for Killing Wildlife -- Do the Animals Really Care?! (Eighth International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable (TRT8), Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, February 16, 2003)
• The First International Auto-Free Cities Conference (New York City, May 3, 1991)
• How to Stop Highway Expansion (Second Ecological City Conference, Adelaide, Australia, April 19, 1992; 12th International Pedestrian Conference, October 2-5, 1991)
• The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People -- A Review of the Literature (Society for Conservation Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, August 2, 2004; Natural Areas Association Conference, Chicago, IL, October 16, 2004; 7th Annual Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University, January 22, 2005; International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Mid-Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden, June 18, 2005; A Seminar on Need Based Techno-Sciences for Sustainable Rural Development through Community Action, The Centre for Research on New International Economic Order (CReNIEO), Muttukadu, India, August 3, 2005; Natural Areas Association Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, September 22, 2005; International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 7, 2006; Society for Conservation Biology, San Jose, CA, June 27, 2006; Natural Areas Association Conference, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, September 21, 2006; Redefining Wilderness Symposium, California State University at San Francisco, April 6, 2007)
• The Myth of the Sustainable Lifestyle (Society for Conservation Biology, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, July 30, 2001; Seventh International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable (TRT7), Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, February 17, 2002; 6th Annual Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium, University of California, Davis, January 31, 2004)
• Pedalling Upwind -- Why Halting Highway Construction Belongs on the Bicyclist's Agenda (Conference Velo Mondiale, Montreal, Quebec, September 13, 1992)
• The Nature of Consciousness and the Meaning of Life (Toward a Science of Consciousness, April 11, 2008)
• What Is Homo Sapiens' Place in Nature, from an Objective (Biocentric) Point of View? (Society for Conservation Biology, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, July 15, 2002; Nature, Science, Technology, and Religion, Eco Vision Center, Church of South India, Madras Diocese, Muttukadu, India, November 28, 2003)
• Wildlife and the Ecocity -- Attitudes Toward Wildlife (Third International Ecocity Conference, Dakar, Senegal, January 12, 1996 and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Missoula, Montana, July 18, 1997)
• Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits to Humans! (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, February 21, 1998; American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium on Conservation Biology, University of Colorado, Grand Junction, Colorado, May 18, 1998; the World Wilderness Congress, Bangalore, India, October 27, 1998; "For the Love of Nature?", The Centre for Human Ecology and the Institute for Deep Ecology UK, Findhorn, Scotland, June 27, 1999; National Science Teachers Association Western Area Convention, Reno, Nevada, December 4, 1999; Society for Conservation Biology, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, June 10, 2000; Sixth International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable (TRT6), Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, October 27, 2000); 5th Annual Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium, University of California, Berkeley, February 1, 2003; 30th Natural Areas Conference, Natural Areas Association, Madison, Wisconsin, September 27, 2003; Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, June 25, 2005; Ecocity World Summit, San Francisco, California, April 23, 2008)

The Anthropocentric Management of Our Parks and Wildlife -- Taking Wildlife's Point of View

"A step beyond Primeval management would be human exclosure zones: large areas where no human beings, including scientific researchers or rangers, would be permitted." Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, p.68.

"Other wildernesses might well be uninhabited by humans -- perhaps even off- limits to humans: buffered by surrounding, more accessible lands." Anthony Weston, Back to Earth, p.132.

"People and condors don't mix." David S. Wilcove, The Condor's Shadow, p.239.

"Laws may prevent exploitation or permanent occupation of wilderness areas, as in the case of national parks, but they cannot protect them against the damaging effects resulting from the mere presence of innumerable tourists", Rene' Dubos, The Wooing of the Earth, p.29. "There is no evidence ... that early humans always lived in ecological harmony with Nature out of respect for it", ibid., p.63. "The wilderness is being loved to death. The conflict between preservation and recreation is becoming more intense as more people seek the wilderness experience", ibid., p.136. "The only solution to the overuse and degradation of wilderness areas is in restriction of visitors", ibid., p.138.

"Cities should be built on one side of the street" Bob Kaufman.

"The fossil record shows that the arrival of human beings in an area has always coincided with a wave of extinctions" Reg Morrison, The Spirit in the Gene, pp.147-8.

"Instead of islands of wilderness in a sea of humanity, we should have islands of humanity in a sea of wilderness", Thomas Lovejoy, Life stories, Heather Newbold, ed., p.49. "Although humanity is part of nature, it is no use just saying that. We have to work out how we harmonize with nature." Max Nicholson, Nature Conservancy, ibid., p.119.

"Deep Ecology is about living in closer relationship to the earth. It's also about respecting the wild and leaving some of it alone. To be in close relationship with the earth do we have to physically touch each rock? Do we have to zealously guard our option to step on each blade of grass?" Tom Warren, Tomzbox@hotmail.com.

"A true environmentalist thinks of how he can accommodate nature, not how it can accommodate him." Chris Maddy, CMaddy@HycorBiomedical.com

"Did you know that feeding or closely approaching any park wildlife is prohibited by federal law? Your food is a threat to the survival of park animals. It can damage their health, make them vulnerable to death from cars, or lead to dangerous behavior. Treat your food as if it were poison to animals, because the result is often the same. Even though animals may look tame -- especially when searching for a hand-out -they are capable of inflicting serious injury, and in extreme cases, causing death. Never attempt to touch or closely approach any park wildlife. Instead, view them through binoculars or telephoto lenses. If an animal is aware of your presence, you 're too close." (from the Yosemite National Park web page, http://www.nps.gov/yose/guide/yguide4.pdf -- a pretty strong statement, for a public agency!)

"Only by keeping our distance from wilderness -- some wilderness, at least -- can we keep from fouling the wellspring of our own life" Evan Eisenberg, The Ecology of Eden, p.97.

"Adult eagles decreased some activities by as much as 59 percent per day when humans were near. The amount of time nesting areas were left unattended increased by 24 percent. Some of these behavioral changes may have direct effect on the survival of nestling eagles, the researchers note. When humans were near the nests, the amount of prey consumed by the eagle chicks decreased by an average of 29 percent per day. The number of feeding rounds at the nest decreased by 20 percent per day." Environmental News Network, March 7, 2000

"One might think that it would be best if humanity rejoined nature as quickly as possible. With our present billions, that would devastate what little non-human nature remains. Quite the contrary, we must separate humanity from what is left of nature. We must quarantine this dangerous species from other life. We are now starkly different from all other life - truly unique - and will remain so. The human cultural genie cannot be stuffed back into nature's genetic bottle. Our presence will forevermore be unnatural and have to be controlled. Haven eaten the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, we cannot return to the Garden of Eden without careful supervision." Russell Merle Genet, The Chimpanzees Who Would Be Ants, p. 175.

"The mere presence of people has been shown to be sufficient to cause harassment to some species whatever the recreational activity or number of people involved. ... The occurrence of even a few people inhibited the little tern ... from returning to its nest [sometimes leading to] breeding failure." Wildland Recreation -- Ecology and Management, Hammitt and Cole, p. 82. "Species of wildlife that are secretive and sensitive to the presence of humans may become permanently displaced from recreational areas. ... In Colorado bighorn sheep were forced into higher elevation ranges during lambing season, resulting in weather conditions that caused 80 percent incidence of pneumonia and a resultant decline in population." Ibid., p.87. "The simplest, most effective means of minimizing recreational impact is to prohibit all use. Ibid., p.205.

"The history of fire, especially in the context of the increased dominance of humans, has produced a progressively fire-adapted ecology, which argues for human-free wildlife areas and against prescribed burns under many circumstances." N. Caldararo, "Human ecological intervention and the role of forest fires in human ecology".

"Conservation efforts in the forested regions of Africa, the last and only home of the three African apes, are failing because of a couple of myths ... the myth of the noble savage ... [and] that economic improvements necessarily lead people to protect their forests and wildlife". Craig Stanford, Significant Others, pp.195-6.

"People have been climbing Fuji-san for over 1,000 years, but until just over 100 years ago this was an activity for Shinto or Buddhist priests and pilgrims only." Hiking in Japan, Paul Hunt, p.119.

"In all the Earth there is no place dedicated to solitude." Chief Seattle, The Suquamish Museum, 1985:36.

"Egg collectors and researchers have noted that even one visit within sight of a nest may cause desertion and abandonment of eggs." Nonconsumptive Outdoor Recreation, Fish & Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report -- Wildlife # 252, p.82.

"We should live off nature's interest, not her principal." Boo Heisey

"Florida's most destructive nonindigenous population ... will probably continue to be the 14 million people derived from foreign ancestries." Strangers in Paradise, Simberloff et al, eds., p.315.

"All plants, flowers, natural scenery and animal life are protected by law from human disturbance of any kind. They are the principle attractions of most parks and are integral parts of the natural community." California State Park System Rules and Regulations.

"The chief characteristic of habitat needed by [the wolverine] is its isolation from the presence and influence of humans", "In Brief", Winter, 2003, p.15 (Earthjustice).

"Humans are as qualified to be stewards of the Earth as goats are to be gardeners." James Lovelock

"This mountain would be a superior place if people stayed off it altogether." Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer, p.248.

"Humans, even in low numbers, are incompatible with the persistence of megaherbivores and top carnivores, two groups of animals that are among the most crucial to maintaining normal ecosystem functioning." John Terborgh and Carel Van Schaik, Making Parks Work, p.7. "As a matter of principle, people-free parks [no human residents] should always be the ultimate goal. It is the only goal that over the long run is consistent with the requirements of biodiversity conservation. Thus, all relevant policies should be directed to reducing the human presence within parks." p.310.

"The tradition of protected areas in what is today the USSR began with the various 'holy places', 'sacred forests' and 'sacred groves' set aside from time immemorial by aboriginal peoples who deified the creative forces of nature. These ritual sites, sometimes quite sizable, where not only hunting, fishing, tree cutting, or any other economic activity was prohibited, but where the mere presence of man was forbidden, were the prototypes of the present-day nature reserves that are strictly protected." International Handbook of National Parks and Nature Reserves, Craig Allin, ed., p.395. "Even national parks and hunting management units, however, have areas where man is admitted under no circumstances, and animals and plants are left undisturbed under strict protection." p.403.

"Between the villages there would be three types of forest patches: forest sanctuaries, dense woodland and sacred groves. The first type was called raksha, 'sanctuary'. This would be left entirely to itself -- no human would enter it -- as a sanctuary for wildlife. If a bird had made a nest on a tree branch the entry of a single person could disturb its habitat. Therefore this small forest would be completely protected from human disturbances. During the daytime the birds and animals would go into the village or wherever they wished but could return safely to their habitat at night. All of them living in that patch would feel quite safe." Hinduism and Ecology, Ranchor Prime, p.17.

"Basic human ethics suggests that we must not humanize every square yard of the planet" Douglas R. Tompkins, Welfare Ranching

"As a rule around the world, wherever a people entered a virgin environment, most of the megafauna soon vanished. Also doomed were a substantial fraction of the most easily captured ground birds and tortoises." p.92. "The noble savage never existed." p.102. E.O. Wilson, The Future of Life

"For every living creature [including humans!], there are places where it does not belong." p.251 "I believe it is a public responsibility to safeguard what we can of wilderness before the great push of man's numbers; and to safeguard with it ... the shy wild ones that need man-less expanses in which to thrive." p.262. Paul L. Errington, Of Predation and Life

"The earth does not belong to humans." Arne Naess

"Of what avail are forty freedoms, without a blank spot on the map?" Aldo Leopold.

"I am waiting for forests and animals to reclaim the earth as theirs." Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Man's heart away from nature, becomes hard; [the Lakota] knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too." Luther Standing Bear (c.1868-1939)

"The fault is great in man or woman,
Who steals a goose from off a common,
But what can plead that man's excuse,
Who steals a common from a goose."
The Tickler, 1821

"We need to witness ... some life pasturing freely where we never wander." Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together,
And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
And every day the she-bird couch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them,
Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating."
Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", Leaves of Grass

"Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo." Basho

• The Animals Came Dancing, by Howard L. Harrod
• The Animals Came Dancing -- Native American and European Rationalizations for Killing Wildlife -- Do the Animals Really Care?!
• Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
• Appropriate and Inappropriate Use of Bicycles -- Mountain Biking versus Wildlife
• Are Sustainable Communities Possible?
• "Assessing and Understanding Trail Degradation: Results from Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area", by Jeff L. Marion
• The Bay Area Ridge Trail -- Yet ANOTHER Human Playground, and Less Wildlife Habitat
• The Bay Trail -- A Disaster for Wildlife
• The Berkeley Bay Trail
• A Berkeley Department of Wildlife
• Biology, by Neil A. Campbell
• Biology Revisioned, by Elisabet Sahtouris
• The "Brush Hog" Mentality -- Fireproofing the Parks
• The "Brush Hog" Mentality in the East Bay Regional Parks
• The Bureau of Land Management's National Off-Highway Vehicle Management Strategy
• Canyonlands National Park's River Management Plan Doesn't Protect Wildlife
• "A Citizen's Guide to Ecosystem Management", by Reed Noss, Ph.D.
• Closing the National Parks: Long Overdue!
• Commercial Water Park at Shadow Cliffs -- the Commercialization of Our Parks
• "A Comparative Study of Impacts to Mountain Bike Trails in Five Common Ecological Regions of the Southwestern U.S.", by Dave D. White et al
• Contested Lands -- Windfalls for Wildlife?
• (De-)Mapping the Earth
• The Development of Mulholland Ridge
• Dogs and People in Our Parks
• Dogs in Waterfront Park -- Dogs Are Being Given Priority Over Wildlife
• Draft California Recreational Trails Plan
• East Bay Municipal Utility District's Watershed Master Plan
• East Bay Regional Park District Draft Master Plan 1996
• East Bay Regional Park District Master Plan Revision 1995
• East Bay Regional Park District's Biased "Bike Issues Committee"
• Editorial: The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
• The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People - - Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
• Equal Access to Our Parks
• Equity -- Environmental vs. Human
• Energy Biosciences Institute
• Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species, by Paul and Anne Ehrlich
• Ghost Biologists (Where Are They When You Most Need Them?) -- A review of Ghost Bears -- Exploring the Biodiversity Crisis, by R. Edward Grumbine
• Grand Canyon Development Plan
• Habitat Off-Limits To Humans -- The Purchase of Diablo Ranch By EBRPD
• Habitat Off-Limits to Humans in the East Bay Regional Parks
• Handbook On Environment Education For Teachers
• "Harmless" Recreation Kills Wildlife!
• The Human Genome Project
• The "Human Playground" Style of Park Management at Yosemite and the Grand Canyon
• The "Human Playground" Theory of Park Management
• Human-Free Habitat -- The Wildlands Project Land Conservation Strategy
• The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People -- A Review of the Literature
• The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People -- A Review of the Literature; Implications for Amphibians and Reptiles
• Jetskis Should Be Banned -- Jet Skis in San Francisco Waters
• Last Child in the Woods –– Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv
• Lawrence Livermore Lab and the Ecological Study Area
• The Lonely Planet Guidebook to Japan, or Could This Be the Reason the Lonely Planet Is So Lonely?
• Los Vaqueros Reservoir
• Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Bans Mountain Biking! God Bless Them!
• More Roads in Our Parks?
• Motor Vehicles Don't Belong in Our Parks!
• Mountain Bike Races in Briones Regional Park
• Mountain Bike Racing at Boggs Mountain
• Mountain Biking in Briones Regional Park
• Mountain Biking in the East Bay Regional Parks
• Mountain Biking Is Being Given Priority Over Wildlife
• Mountain Biking Threatens Wildlife
• Mountain Biking versus Wildlife in the Sierra Club
• The Myth of the Sustainable Lifestyle
• Northern Great Plains Management Plans Revision -- Draft EIS (Restore the Northern Great Plains Ecosystem)
• The Oakland Hills Fire -- Biased News Coverage
• Ohlone Regional "Wilderness" Mismanagement
• Ohlone Regional "Wilderness" Mismanagement #2
• Oil Drilling Off the California Coast
• Park District Closes Road to Protect Newts!
• "Parks Are For People"
• "Private Property" vs. Wildlife
• Proposed Determination of Critical Habitat for the Alameda Whipsnake
• Protecting the Crystal Springs Reservoir and Watershed from Mountain Bikers and Other Recreationists
• The "Quality of Life" Constitutional Amendment
• Raise Your Sights! (Give Wildlife Their Due)
• "Recovering" the Alameda whipsnake
• "Recovering" the Alameda whipsnake; causality in humans
• Reservoir Construction vs. Conservation
• Restoring the Bison -- Northern Great Plains Management Plan Revision
• Restoring the Grizzly to California
• Rethinking the Impacts of Recreation
• Revised Statute 2477 -- A Road-Building Threat to Our Public Lands
• Roads Fragment Habitat -- Draft RS 2477 Regulations
• Roadside Pesticide Spraying
• Saving the Grizzly
• The Selection of a Pope
• Scientific Honesty and Honest Scientists
• The Sierra Club's Mountain (Off-Road) Biking Policy
• A Strategy for Saving the Earth
• Telling the Truth about Chimpanzees
• This I Believe
• Trail Development vs. Wildlife Protection in the East Bay Regional Parks
• Urban Ecology's International Ecological Rebuilding Program
• Vote for an Animal to Represent the City of Berkeley
• The U.S.-Mexico Border Fence
• A Walk Through Time and the "Recovery" of Biodiversity
• Water Supply Management Plan -- Give Priority to Wildlife!
• Water Supply Management Plan vs. Wildlife Habitat
• What Is Homo Sapiens' Place in Nature, from an Objective (Biocentric) Point of View?
• What Is Mathematics, Really?, by Reuben Hersh
• "Where man himself is a visitor who does not remain"
• To Whom Does Gaza Belong, REALLY?
• Why We Should Provide Wildlife Habitat Off-Limits to Humans
• Wilderness and the American Mind, by Roderick Nash -- The Many Forms of Anthropocentrism
• Wildlife? In Berkeley?
• Wildlife? In Berkeley?! (Designating Plant and Animal Mascots for the City)
• Wildlife and the Ecocity -- Attitudes Toward Wildlife
• Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits to Humans!
• Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits to Humans! (#2)
• Yoho National Park and the Automobile Religion

Electromagnetism and Its Effects on Humans and Wildlife

"The present proliferation of wireless technology must be stopped before it does us all irreparable harm." Arthur Firstenberg

• Bibliography on Electromagnetism and Its Effects on Humans and Wildlife

The Scourge of Mountain Biking -- Why Mountain (Off-Road) Biking Should be Prohibited -- "Wheeled Locusts"

Professor Mike Liddle -- a world leader in the impacts of recreation in natural areas -- has concluded "that mountain biking is incompatible with nature conservation. Mountain biking and other high impact activity should be excluded from core or critical areas."

• Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
• Appropriate and Inappropriate Use of Bicycles -- Mountain Biking versus Wildlife
• Appropriate and Inappropriate Uses of the Bicycle
• Are Mountain Bikers "Allies" of the Sierra Club?
• "Assessing and Understanding Trail Degradation: Results from Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area", by Jeff L. Marion
• The Bay Area Ridge Trail -- Yet ANOTHER Human Playground, and Less Wildlife Habitat
• Bikes Should Be Restricted to Paved Roads
• "A Comparative Study of Impacts to Mountain Bike Trails in Five Common Ecological Regions of the Southwestern U.S.", by Dave D. White et al
• The Costs of Mountain Biking
• East Bay Municipal Utility District's Watershed Master Plan
• East Bay Regional Park District's Biased "Bike Issues Committee"
• The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People - - Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
• Equal Access to Our Parks
• Frequently Asked Questions about Mountain Biking
• "Harmless" Recreation Kills Wildlife!
• The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People -- A Review of the Literature
• Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Bans Mountain Biking! God Bless Them!
• Mountain Bike Damage -- Photo Gallery
• Mountain Bike Damage at Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park
• Mountain Bike Damage at Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park -- Three Years Later
• Mountain Bike Races in Briones Regional Park
• Mountain Bike Races in Our Parks
• Mountain Bike Racing at Boggs Mountain
• Mountain Bike Trails: Techniques for Design, Construction,and Maintenance, 1992
• Mountain Bikers' Anti-Wilderness Campaign
• Mountain Biking in Briones Regional Park
• Mountain Biking in China Camp State Park
• Mountain Biking in Mission Trails Regional Park
• Mountain Biking in the East Bay Regional Parks
• Mountain Biking Is Being Given Priority Over Wildlife
• Mountain Biking Is Destroying Oakland's Parks!
• Mountain Biking Paper Rejected by International Bicycle Conference
• Mountain Biking Threatens Wildlife
• Mountain Biking versus Wildlife in the Sierra Club
• Photos of Mountain Bike Damage at Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park and China Camp State Park, San Francisco Bay Area
• Places where Mountain Biking Is Banned
• Proposed Determination of Critical Habitat for the Alameda Whipsnake
• Protecting the Crystal Springs Reservoir and Watershed from Mountain Bikers and Other Recreationists
• The Psychology of Mountain Biking
• REI's Support of Mountain Biking; Mountain Biking (Knobby) Tires
• Rethinking the Impacts of Recreation
• Rocket Scientist Hit by Mountain Biker, Turned into a Quadriplegic!
• Should Mountain Biking Be An Olympic Sport?
• The Sierra Club's Mountain (Off-Road) Biking Policy
• "Single Track Trail Mix" (Article in "California Wild", Spring, 2000)
• "Single Track Trail Mix" -- More Comments
• "Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day”
• There Is No Right To Mountain Bike: Bicycle Trails Council of Marin v. Babbitt, 82 F.3d 1445, 1452 (9th Cir. 1996)

Transportation and Air Quality, and Their Impacts on Wildlife and People -- Why We Should Stop All Road Construction and Expansion

• Air Quality (Clean Air Act) Conformity Assessment for Highway Construction
• Air Quality Contingency (Pork Barrel) Plan
• Alta Bates Hospital's Emergency Room Expansion
• Appropriate and Inappropriate Use of Bicycles -- Mountain Biking versus Wildlife
• Appropriate and Inappropriate Uses of the Bicycle
• Bay Area Air Quality Management District Subsidizes the Automobile
• Bay Area Rapid Transit District -- Proposed Fare Increase
• Bay Area Rapid Transit District Builds Free Parking
• Bay Area Rapid Transit District Subsidizes the Automobile
• The Berkeley Voice's "Auto Scene" Section
• Bicycle Activism
• Bob is dead
• Bogus Air Quality Conformity Assessment for Highway Construction
• BP and the Energy Biosciences Institute
• California Clean Air Act Guidance #2 -- Transportation
• California Department of Transportation System Management Plan
• California Department of Transportation System Management Plan -- A Major Threat to the State's Environment
• California Department of Transportation System Management Plan -- More Comments
• The California Transportation Plan (Pro-Automobile)
• "Clean Air Plan" Doesn't Implement All Feasible Controls
• Committee to Plan for the End of the Oil
• Compromise vs. the Protection of Environment
• Conference Velo Mondiale -- Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
• Congestion Management -- the Way to Improve Air Quality?
• Criminal Mass, or Cream Puff Mass? Nice Bicyclists Finish Last
• Democracy -- Do We Have Any?
• Do We Need a Gasoline Tax?
• Does Highway Expansion Improve Air Quality?
• Does Traffic Signal Synchronization Improve Air Quality?
• The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People - - Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
• The End of the Auto Age
• Energy Biosciences Institute
• Environmental Groups Are Ignoring Highway Construction!
• The Environmental Improvement of Berkeley
• Evaluating Transportation Control (Air Quality) Measures
• The Expansion of I-101
• The Expansion of I-80 -- A Big Mistake!
• The Expansion of I-80 -- A Trojan Horse
• The Expansion of I-80 -- Caltrans's "Environmental Reevaluation"
• The Expansion of I-80 and Air Quality
• The Expansion of I-80 Talking Transit, while Building Freeways
• The Expansion of I-80 through Berkeley -- Just Say "NO!"
• The Expansion of Parking Lots in Our Regional Parks
• The Expansion of SR-237
• The Expansion of SR-237 -- Air Quality and Energy Conservation Impacts
• The Expansion of SR-237 -- More comments
• The Expansion of the I-680 (north)
• The Expansion of the I-680 (south)
• The Expansion of the I-680/SR 24 Interchange -- Bad for Air Quality
• The Expansion of the I-680/SR 24 Interchange -- Conflicts with the Federal Clean Air Act
• The Expansion of the I-680/SR 24 Interchange -- EPA Complicity
• The Expansion of the I-680/SR 24 Interchange -- FHWA Complicity
• The Expansion of the I-680/SR 24 Interchange -- Flaws in the EIS
• The Expansion of the I-680/SR 24 Interchange -- More Comments
• The Expansion of the I-680/SR 24 Interchange -- When Are We Going to Stop Expanding Our Highway System?!
• Fighting the Rebuilding of I-880 (the Cypress Freeway)
• The First International Auto-Free Cities Conference (New York City, May 3, 1991)
• Fraudulent "Transportation Control Measures" INCREASE Air Pollution
• The "Free Market for Transportation" Plan (Modern Transit Society)
• Free Parking in East Bay Regional Parks
• A Gasoline Tax?
• A Gasoline Tax, but for Highway Construction!
• Grand Canyon Development Plan
• High Occupancy Vehicle System Plans as Air Pollution Control Measures
• Highway Construction and the San Francisco Bay Area's Air Quality Plan
• Highway Construction Is Ruining Our Communities
• "Highway Expansion Cleans the Air"
• How I Learned to Love Bicycling Among Noisy, Polluting, Dangerous Motor Vehicles -- A Review of Effective Cycling, by John Forester
• How to Stop Highway Expansion (Second Ecological City Conference, Adelaide, Australia, April 19, 1992; 12th International Pedestrian Conference, October 2-5, 1991)
• The I-80 Soundwall
• The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People -- A Review of the Literature
• Is Traffic Signal Synchronization Justifiable?
• It's Time to Stop Highway Construction
• It's Time to Stop Highway Construction -- Throwing Good Money After Bad
• Jetskis Should Be Banned -- Jet Skis in San Francisco Waters
• Kenworthy and Newman -- the Rationale for Stopping Freeway Expansion
• The League of American Wheelmen
• Legal Tools for Stopping Freeway Expansion
• A Loophole in the California Clean Air Act
• The Magic of Place
• More Roads in Our Parks?
• Motor Vehicles Don't Belong in Our Parks!
• Mountain Bike Damage -- Photo Gallery
• Mountain Biking Paper Rejected by International Bicycle Conference
• National Transportation Policy
• National Transportation Policy -- More Comments
• National Transportation Policy -- More Pork
• Ode to Carlessness
• Oil Dependence and the End of the Oil
• Oil Drilling Off the California Coast
• Oppose the Expansion of the I-680/SR 24 Interchange!
• Ozone (Clean Air) Attainment in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Park District Closes Road to Protect Newts!
• Pedalling Upwind -- Why Halting Highway Construction Belongs on the Bicyclist's Agenda (Conference Velo Mondiale, Montreal, Quebec, September 13, 1992)
• Promoting Automobile Traffic at the Expense of Pedestrians
• Promoting Bicycling
• Protecting the Environment in Japan
• The Pseudo-Science of Transportation Modelling
• The Quality of Life in Berkeley -- the General Plan
• Reauthorization of the Federal Highway Act
• Rebuilding I-880 (the Cypress Freeway)
• Rebuilding I-880 (the Cypress Freeway) -- Bogus "Forecasts"
• Rebuilding I-880 (the Cypress Freeway) -- Caltrans's Deception
• Rebuilding I-880 (the Cypress Freeway) -- Conflicts with the California Clean Air Act
• Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns, by David Engwicht
• Reducing Traffic
• The Regional Transportation "Improvement" Program for the San Francisco Bay Area
• The Regional Transportation Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area
• Removing the Subsidy of the Automobile
• Rethinking High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes As Environmental Quality Measures
• Revised Statute 2477 -- A Road-Building Threat to Our Public Lands
• Road Construction in Japan
• Road-Ripping Conference
• Roads Fragment Habitat -- Draft RS 2477 Regulations
• Roadside Pesticide Spraying
• Saving the Economy AND the Environment
• Sierra Club California "Green State of the State" Report - -"Drive Plus"
• Sierra Club Priorities
• The Sierra Club's Mountain (Off-Road) Biking Policy
• A Simple Way to Save the Economy -- and the Planet, Too!
• Snake Oil in a Computer -- The Pseudo-Science of Transportation Modeling
• Some Badly Needed Environmental Legislation
• Speed Bumps Are Not the Solution
• A Strategy for Saving the Earth
• Surreptitious Losangelization in the Name of "Planning"
• There Is No Right To Mountain Bike: Bicycle Trails Council of Marin v. Babbitt, 82 F.3d 1445, 1452 (9th Cir. 1996)
• Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water -- Ashby Avenue Gridlock
• The Traffic Signal Synchronization Benefits -- Where Is the Proof?
• The Traffic Signal Synchronization Hoax
• Transportation/Air Quality Fact Sheet
• Transportation Control (Air Quality) Measures for the San Francisco Bay Area
• Transportation Control (Air Quality) Measures for the San Francisco Bay Area -- Bogus
• Transportation Control (Air Quality) Measures for the San Francisco Bay Area -- More Comments
• Transportation Control (Air Quality) Measures for the State of California
• Transportation Control (Air Quality) Measures for the State of California -- No More "Transit First"!
• The Transportation "Improvement" Program and Air Quality Assessment for the San Francisco Bay Area
• The Transportation "Improvement" Program and Air Quality Assessment for the San Francisco Bay Area -- Deja Vu All Over Again
• The Transportation "Improvement" Program for the San Francisco Bay Area
• The Transportation "Improvement" Program for the San Francisco Bay Area -- Public Transit
• Trucking Water to the Bay Area!
• Union of Concerned Scientists's Book Steering a New Course
• University Neighborhood Traffic Plan -- More Automobile Subsidy
• The Widening of I-80
• Worldwatch Paper "Global Network: Computers in a Sustainable Society"
• Yoho National Park and the Automobile Religion
• Zero Emission Vehicles?
• Zoning Ordinance Mandates Excessive Parking Spaces