Environmental journalists meet on campus

"You cannot protect private property without protecting wildlife habitat -- it's all or none," said Sam Collier, field representative of the Sierra Club's Georgia chapter, in his address at the Society of Environmental Journalists Regional Conference. The meeting was held July 21-22 on Emory's campus.

Collier urged journalists, whom he characterized as "the eyes and ears of the public," to "look beyond the rhetoric and anecdotes which are being repeated with little or no verification and are being used to justify rolling back 25 years of progress in environmental clean-up."

Conference topics addressed endangered species, suburban development and water wars. The keynote speaker was Jim Baca, counselor for the Wilderness Society and former director of the Bureau of Land Management. Other speakers included Zoo Atlanta Director Terry Maple and U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC).