Is the Salvage Logging Law Unconstitutional?
In the January/February ’96 Earthkeeping News the Call to Action focused on working through ecological grief by addressing the causes of our loss and sustaining momentum by developing long term remedial actions. One arena of study and action is how to take back our sovereignty in the process of chartering corporations (Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation, by Richard L. Grossman and Frank T. Adams). Another arena is the US Constitution which states that the government of this republic is to insure domestic tranquillity (preamble) and protect us against domestic violence (Article IV, Section 4). Michael Diamond, in his book If You Can Keep It, (see Resources) suggests that applying the ‘domestic violence’ clause is the only way we can attain security from environmental threats which we have brought on ourselves. The evidence for a current condition of social and environmental domestic violence is overwhelming. The Sa(l)vage Logging Rider to the 1995 Reci
