Protect Our Nation's Roadless Wildlands
#108 WILD NORTHWEST, August 20, 2004
A Message from Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
Keeping the Northwest Wild
Protect Our Nation's Roadless Wildlands
Tell the Bush administration to reinstate the Roadless Area Conservation Rule
The Bush administration is seeking public comments on a new proposal that would abandon the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which currently protects 58.5 million acres of wild national forest land across America, and replace it with an unwieldy state petition process. The draft rule dictates state governors to submit proposals that either continue roadless area protections, or allow roadless lands to be opened to logging and other development. The federal government would then consider each state petition and decide whether to protect or log in roadless areas.
This is an unnecessary and cumbersome change that will move the country backwards and promote development in the nation's last wild areas.
Comments are due on September 14, 2004. Use our quick email action system to request, once again, that the Forest Service keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule intact to protect the wild forests of Washington and Oregon, and across America. Go to:
http://www.ecosystem.org/action/index.html?MessageTemplateID=2.
Or fax or mail your comments to:
Content Analysis Team
Attn: Roadless State Petitions
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 221090
Salt Lake City, UT 84122
Fax: (801) 517-1014
Email: statepetitionroadless@fs.fed.us
Party for forests: Throw a house party
Make your letter earn compound interest: Throw a house party to generate letters with friends and family; it's easy and powerful. This is what democracy looks like! Contact Hudson Dodd today, or for online help visit http://www.ecosystem.org/OG/og_houseparty.html.
For background, go to http://www.ourforests.org/press/pr04-07-12.html
The proposed rule is available at
http://www.roadless.fs.fed.us/documents/id_07/2004_07_12_state_petition_proposed_rule.html.
Thank you for persevering, and speaking out for our wild national forests!
"The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it willavail us little to solve all others." --President Theodore Roosevelt, October 4, 1907
"We must fulfill our promise to the next generation...and leave behind a worldas blessed and beautiful as the one our parents left us."--President George W. Bush, May 20, 2003
Erin Moore
Communications Coordinator
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
1208 Bay St., Ste. 201
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.671.9950 ext. 24
Keep the Northwest wild. For further information, please visit http://www.ecosystem.org
A Message from Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
Keeping the Northwest Wild
Protect Our Nation's Roadless Wildlands
Tell the Bush administration to reinstate the Roadless Area Conservation Rule
The Bush administration is seeking public comments on a new proposal that would abandon the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which currently protects 58.5 million acres of wild national forest land across America, and replace it with an unwieldy state petition process. The draft rule dictates state governors to submit proposals that either continue roadless area protections, or allow roadless lands to be opened to logging and other development. The federal government would then consider each state petition and decide whether to protect or log in roadless areas.
This is an unnecessary and cumbersome change that will move the country backwards and promote development in the nation's last wild areas.
Comments are due on September 14, 2004. Use our quick email action system to request, once again, that the Forest Service keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule intact to protect the wild forests of Washington and Oregon, and across America. Go to:
http://www.ecosystem.org/action/index.html?MessageTemplateID=2.
Or fax or mail your comments to:
Content Analysis Team
Attn: Roadless State Petitions
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 221090
Salt Lake City, UT 84122
Fax: (801) 517-1014
Email: statepetitionroadless@fs.fed.us
Party for forests: Throw a house party
Make your letter earn compound interest: Throw a house party to generate letters with friends and family; it's easy and powerful. This is what democracy looks like! Contact Hudson Dodd today, or for online help visit http://www.ecosystem.org/OG/og_houseparty.html.
For background, go to http://www.ourforests.org/press/pr04-07-12.html
The proposed rule is available at
http://www.roadless.fs.fed.us/documents/id_07/2004_07_12_state_petition_proposed_rule.html.
Thank you for persevering, and speaking out for our wild national forests!
"The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it willavail us little to solve all others." --President Theodore Roosevelt, October 4, 1907
"We must fulfill our promise to the next generation...and leave behind a worldas blessed and beautiful as the one our parents left us."--President George W. Bush, May 20, 2003
Erin Moore
Communications Coordinator
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
1208 Bay St., Ste. 201
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.671.9950 ext. 24
Keep the Northwest wild. For further information, please visit http://www.ecosystem.org
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