Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting

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267 Index Note: Page numbers followed by t refer to tables, page numbers followed by f refer to figures, and page numbers followed by n plus a number refer to notes. aboriginal rights. See native rights actors, expansion and containment strategies, 16t, 23–26 administrative agency actions Forest Service (See U.S. Forest Service) judicial review, 27–28 Advocacy Coalition Framework, 79, 201, 242n2 advocacy groups access and power, 225–26 challenging groups, 228 competing, 223–25 conflict management, 6–7, 12, 221–22 defined, 237n1 dominant groups, 226 resourcefulness, 221 strategies, 3, 6–10, 220–21 agenda setting, 5–7, 8–9, 14, 178 Agriculture Department and QLG plan, 213–14 alliances, 11 B.C. environmental organizations, 85–89 breaking or preventing, 24–25 building, 24 Clayoquot Sound conflict, 11, 78–79, 82–83, 99, 109 competition for, 227 FOCS and First Nations, 82–83 MacMillan Bloedel, 107 managing allies, 225–27 preventing or breaking, 24–25 QLG, 180, 201–2, 203 Amazon rainforest issue, 22 Apsey, Mike, 72 audiences Clayoquot Sound conflict and, 50 managing, 225–26 outcome of conflict, and, 5 political conflicts, 23–24 “publics,” 238n4 Audubon Society, 196–97 B.C. See British Columbia Berman, Tzeporah, 92 biodiversity Clayoquot Sound issue, 53–54 UN Convention, 53–54, 75 Bischel, David, 164 Bitterroot National Forest photographs, 246n13 Blackwell, Jack, 216 blockades Clayoquot Sound, 84, 91–93, 92t Meares Island, 241n3 Blum, Linda (comments) California spotted owls, 157, 183 fire as QLG issue, 158 legal strategy, 206 timber industry alliance, 205 Blumberg, Louis (comments) alliances in opposition to QLG bill, 193–94 area covered by QLG plan, 163 characterization contests in Congress, 192 environmentalists “selling out,” 184 opposition to QLG bill, 176 QLG plan as done deal, 187 QLG process, 170, 173 Bosworth, Dale, 216 boundaries of issues, 21–22 Boxer, Barbara, 150, 197, 215 boycotts, 100 Clayoquot Sound, 131, 132 Brazilian rainforest issue, 22 “Brazil of the North,” 63–65 British Columbia. See also Clayoquot Sound conflict; New Democratic Party containment strategies used by government, 70–72, 100–103 environmental organizations, 85–89 Federation of Labour, 118 forest policy, 7–8, 35–48, 112–21 history of forestry practices and policies, 36–37 legislative process, 117–18 lobbying, 118 MacMillan Bloedel stock purchase, 116–17 political-economic pressures on forest policy, 114–17 public accountability, 39–41 task forces, 101–3 tenure system, 37–39, 116, 239n3, 240n4 timber industry (See timber industry in British Columbia) Brown and Williamson plant closings, 22–23 California spotted owls, 147, 157 CASPO report, 147, 148, 170, 183–84, 205–6 forest fires and, 159–63 forest management guidelines, 205, 214 technical team recommendations, 182–83 Calvert, Ken, 185 Canada decentralization of power, 122–24 environmental laws generally, 119 federal role in environmental policy, 122–23 government system, 3–4 provincial authority over environmental issues, 4, 36, 122 Species at Risk Act (2002), 244n3 certification of forest products, 132–33, 135 challenging groups, 228 characterization contests, 25–26 Clayoquot Sound, 103–6 QLG bill opponents, 191–93 Chenoweth, Helen, 161, 164, 168, 175 Chrétien, Jean, 124, 125 civil rights movement, 24 Clark, Glen, 104, 115 Clayoquot Rainforest Coalition, 98t Clayoquot Sound conflict, 1 alliances, 11, 78–79, 82–83, 99, 109 annual timber harvest, 45f biodiversity issue, 53–54 blockades, 84, 91–93, 92t boycotts, 131, 132 “Brazil of the North,” 63–65 characterization contests, 103–6 clear-cut images, 63–65 coalitions, 78–79, 84–95, 109–10 containment strategies, 70–72, 100–108 CORE and, 59–60 credibility of issue linkages, 60–62 data sources, 10, 237n6 democratic governance issues, 58–60 differences with QLG case, 3–5 discourse coalition, 57–58 discourse convergence, 224–25 diversity of environmental groups, 88–89, 108 268 Index Index 269 ecological vs. economic issues, 72–75 environmental organizations, 85–89, 87t, 96–99 expansion of conflict, 8, 11–12, 49–77, 78–110 federal venue opportunities and constraints, 121–25 forest policy in British Columbia, 35–48 framing strategies, 76–77 geographical area, 3, 240n8 globalization of conflict, 13, 44, 49–77, 95–100, 125–33 government effort to resolve conflict, 89 images, use of, 62–63, 71, 164 importance, generally, 7–8 industry shift in strategies, 226 Interim Measures Agreement, 108 international campaign, 4–5, 74–75, 125–33 international environmental organizations, 96...