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NFC: Fw: robert, Please Help Protect America's Last Wild Forests
Robert Rice
NFC president
www.nativefish.org
--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Heritage Forests Campaign" <jane_danowitz at ourforests_org>
To: "robert rice" <robertrice at juno_com>
Date: 06 Feb 2002 19:52:18 -0000
Subject: robert, Please Help Protect America's Last Wild Forests
Message-ID:
<20020206195218.28429.59287.qmail at hurricane-georges_arsdigita.com>
Dear robert,
We need your help. Thanks to pressure from people like
you, the Bush Administration promised to uphold the
Roadless Area Conservation Rule, and protect 58.5 million
acres of undeveloped national forest land from logging,
mining, and drilling. In recent months, however, the
Administration, at the behest of special interests,
has broken its promise by quietly rolling back core
protections for our national forests. Please act now
and help protect our last wild forests.
You can take action on this alert either via email
(please see directions below) or via the web at:
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/roadless_directives/ixiw72z78xx7i
Visit the web address below and tell your friends to
take action on this important campaign!
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/roadless_directives/forward/ixiw72z78xx
7i
We encourage you to take action by February 20, 2002
Tell the Administration to Keep its Promise and Protect
America's Last Wild Forests
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BACKGROUND
Thanks to pressure from people like you, last year
the Bush Administration promised to uphold one of the
most significant forest conservation measures in decades.
Known as the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, this
policy would protect 58.5 million acres of undeveloped
national forest land from logging, mining, and drilling.
However, in recent months, the Administration, at the
behest of special interests, has broken its promise
by quietly rolling back core protections for our national
forests.
To urge the Bush Administration to keep its promise
and protect America's last wild forests, we need your
help. Please visit
http://www.actionnetwork.org/campaign/roadless_directives
to send a letter to your Member of Congress asking
them to tell the Bush Administration to keep its word,
and to the U.S. Forest Service to register your formal
opposition to these environmental rollbacks.
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule is the result of
the most extensive public rulemaking ever, with over
600 public meetings, and an unprecedented 2.2 million
supportive comments. It protects almost one-third of
America's last undeveloped national forest land from
logging, mining, and most road-building. A fair and
balanced plan, the rule garnered bipartisan support
from Congress, scientists, and faith-based communities
from across the nation.
Among the benefits of this popular conservation policy
are clean drinking water for 60 million Americans;
protection of critical habitat for more than 1,600
threatened wildlife; and unlimited recreation for hikers,
hunters, and anglers.
The Bush Administration, despite its promise to uphold
the rule, continues to put central protections in jeopardy
through a litany of obscure rollbacks. Just days before
Christmas, the Forest Service issued two new directives
that would seriously undermine the rule. Among other
things, these directives will:
Abolish requirements to conduct environmental and public
reviews before logging, mining, and drilling can begin
in protected areas;
Exclude more than a dozen of America's most magnificent
national forests from critical protection, including
Alaska's Tongass National Forest
Eliminate a moratorium on logging, mining, and drilling
in millions of acres of national forests critical to
wildlife habitat protection.
Please, take just a few moments to let your Congressional
Representative know that you want America's Last Wild
Places Protected. Just "reply" to this email or visit
http://www.actionnetwork.org/campaign/roadless_directives
to send your representative a letter about this issue.
Best Wishes,
Jane Danowitz, Director
Heritage Forests Campaign
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INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB:
If you have access to a web browser, you can take action
on this alert by going to the following URL:
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/roadless_directives/ixiw72z78xx7i
INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA EMAIL:
Just choose the "reply to sender" option on your email
program, and edit the letter below as you wish. Do
not delete "-YOU MAY EDIT THE LETTER BELOW-" and "-END
OF LETTER-". Please do not add your name and address
to your letter. Our system automatically does this
for you.
We STRONGLY encourage you to make edits directly to
our sample letter below, and put the alert talking
points into your own words. An individualized letter
is worth ten computer generated letters. Of course,
hundreds of unedited letters will still create a large
impact, so please reply even if you don't have time
to personalize the letter.
Your letter will be addressed and sent to:
Representative Jeff Miller
Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth
-------YOU MAY EDIT THE LETTER BELOW---------
RE: Forest Service Interim Directives 7710-2001-3,
1920-2001-1
I am writing to ask you to call upon the Bush Administration
to keep its promise to uphold one of the most significant
forest conservation policies in decades, the Roadless
Area Conservation Rule. Issued in January 2001 after
the most extensive public rulemaking in history, the
rule protects 58.5 million acres of undeveloped national
forest land from logging, mining, and drilling.
I believe your action now is especially urgent given
two recent directives quietly issued by the Administration
that run contrary to this pledge, undermine the rule,
and pose a serious threat to our national forests.
That's why I'm sending you -- my Congressional representative
-- my official comments strongly opposing these latest
Forest Service directives, as well as to Forest Service
Chief Dale Bosworth.
As you know, last May, after a three-month review and
under pressure from Congress and the public, the Bush
Administration pledged to uphold the Roadless Area
Conservation Rule, promising only minor changes. However,
in recent months, special interests working with their
allies in the Bush Administration have moved to significantly
weaken the national forest protections provided by
the rule through a litany of bureaucratic maneuvers.
Just days before Christmas, the Forest Service issued
two directives that eliminate a moratorium on road
building in previously protected areas. The directives
also abolish requirements for regional and local forest
service officials to conduct environmental and public
reviews before logging, mining, and drilling can begin
in protected areas. Officials also have begun a new
decision-making process that facilitates new road building,
logging, and mining in more than a dozen of America's
most magnificent national forests, including Alaska's
Tongass National Forest. The Forest Service currently
is taking public comment on these directives, until
February 19, 2002.
More than 2.2 million Americans already have taken
the time to personally tell the Forest Service that
they support protecting the last of our wild national
forests through the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
But the Bush Administration is apparently listening
to the timber and mining special interests and not
to us.
And that's why I'm writing to you. I urge you to call
upon the Bush Administration to keep its promise to
protect America's last wild national forests through
the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
Because once these forests are gone . . . they're gone
forever.
-------END OF LETTER-------------------------
Sincerely yours,
robert rice
2213 prytania circle
prytania circle
navaree, FL 32566
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