PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ANY LIST OR INDIVIDUAL THAT YOU THINK SHOULD HAVE A COPY Forwarded message: > From 1earth Fri Nov 10 10:27:37 1995 > Subject: Stop Lawless Logging > To: enviroethics@mailbase.ac.uk, active-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, > envst-l@brownvm.brown.edu, forest@nic.funet.fi, > grnsch-l@brownvm.brown.edu > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:27:37 -0800 (PST) > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] > Content-Type: text > Content-Length: 3183 > > Well folks, it's time once again for those of us who care about > our forests to rise up and speak out. As you know, in late July , > Clinton signed the reccisions bill which contained the sufficiency rider: > another rider from hell. This rider suspends every known environmental > law or regulation until January 1, 1997. For those of you who have not > seen an actual copy of the rider, below, I have included the actual > "suffciency language." > > (i) EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS: The documents and procedures > required by this section for the preparation, advertisement > offering, awarding, and operation of any salvage timber sale > subject to subsection (b) and any timber sale under subsection > (d) shall hereby be deemed to satisfy the requirements of the > following applicable Federal Laws (and regulations implementing > such laws): > > (1) The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Act of 1974 > > (2) The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 > > (3) The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 > > (4) The Endangered Species Act of 1973 > > (5) The National Forest Management Act of 1976 > > (6) The Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 > > (7) Any compact, executive aggreement, convention, treaty, > and international aggreement, and implementing legislation > related thereto; and > > (8) All other applicable Federal environmental and natural > resource laws. > > We must work together to urge those in power to repeal the > sufficiency rider. I live in Southern Oregon, and the effects of this > rider are already beggining as the Ancient Forests are the first targeted > by the industry. Less than 50 miles from my house, 6000 and 700 year > old trees are being felled by the thousands. First it was Ronan Dunn, > then it was Sugarloaf, next in line is China Left. These timber sales > are taking place in green, healthy, old-grwoth forests, not the > beetle-killed, drought-stricken stands that the suffiency rider > supposedly addresses. The bottom line--there is no money is salvage > sales, this bill was designed to be the final assault on what little is > left of our nation's old-growth forests. In fact, in a recent public > disclosure, Boise Cascade, Weyerhauser, and other big mills here in > Jackson county, have admitted that they have cut all of the old-growth > from there own lands, and, accordingly, they have succeeded in have their > tax assessments drastically reduced. (Boise Cascade's 120,000 acres in > Jackson County were valued at $22 million last year, this year they are > assesed at less than $3 million) > > Write, FAX, call, or e-mail President Clinton TODAY! and urge him > to repeal the sufficiency rider. Last spring, we were able to generate > over 30,000 e-mails to the Whitehouse urging Clinton to veto the bill (he > said he would--but then waffled) we need to rally together once again > and do everytning in our power to repeal this dangerous law. > > President Clinton: > > email- president@whitehouse.gov > FAX- (202) 456-2883 > Comment Line- (202) 456-1111 > > Katie McGinty (Whitehouse Staff to Council on Environmental Quality) > (202) 456-6224 > > Bruce Babbitt (Secretary of the Interior) > (202) 208-7351 > > THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!!! > > "THOSE WISHING TO EXPLOIT THE LAND FOR THEIR OWN PRIVATE BENEFIT NEVER CEASE THEIR POLITICAL EFFORTS. THOSE WHO WOULD PROTECT THE NATURAL WORLD CANNOT AFFORD TO DO LESS." (R.F. Dasmann)
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