BOB BENSON Page 32 RAIN September/October 1984 June 1985 to share technical info and viewpoints, improve communication among related groups, create a stronger political force, and celebrate forest rehabilitation. Funds and help are needed. Contact Michael Pilarski, Friends of the Trees Society, PO Box 1064, Tonasket, WA 98855. □ Green Movement Organizing: Committees are now being formed based on work done at the Congress. A convention is tentatively set for April 1985. Contact David Haenke, The Bioregional Project, Box 129, Drury, MO 65638. □ Turtle Net Computer Network: Ten groups are preparing to go on-line using the integrated services of Telecommunications Cooperative Network. This is an experimental project to be evaluated at NABCII. Contact Kris Nelson, RAIN, 3116 North Williams, Portland, OR 97227. □ Turtle Island Quilt: Nearly complete, the quilt depicts scenes of bioregions across the continent. This multivolunteer project was displayed in San Francisco with arts other projects during the Democratic National Convention. Contact Connie Grand, Route 2, Fordland, MO 65652. □ Arts/Culture Directory: The arts/culture committee began a list of people willing to coordinate performances by and places to stay for bioregional artists' road shows. Contact Gary Lawless, Box 687, South Harpswell, ME 04079. Kat Greene is compiling a booklet on people's experiences in ' using arts as a bioregional organizing and educational tool (1225 Delaware, Lawence, KS 66044). □ □ Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report Oregon Energy Projects Ten Oregon energy projects have been nominated for the U.S. Department of Energy's Awards Program for Energy Innovation. This is the first time the awards program has been held. Projects were selected based on such factors as energy savings, transferability, innovation, and economic impact. In addition to the national nominees, nine other projects will receive Governor's Awards for outstanding achievements in energy conservation. Among the Governor's Award winners is rain's new home, the Eliot Energy House in Northeast Portland. Activists Move into Middle Santiam The Cathedral Forest Action Group has been conducting a campaign of nonviolent intervention since May to stop logging operations in the old-growth forests of the Middle Santiam region of Oregon. The Middle Santiam was one of the more contentious areas in the debate over the Oregon Forest Wilderness Bill passed by Congress earlier this year. Like many other areas of low-elevation old-growth forest, necessary as habitat for several species of wildlife, the Middle Santiam was not protected by the bill. Seeing no other avenues open
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