URGENT, Strength Final Roadless Plan.

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URGENT, STRENGTHEN FINAL ROADLESS PLAN

 

Dear Friend of animals,

 

Enclosed an urgent plea below to strengthen final roadless area

plan.

PLEASE , contact President Clinton by :

 

1. Send an Express mail if you wish or

Regular Mail(may take long time for someone to read it) :

 

President Bill Clinton

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500 U.S.A.

 

2: Fax 202-456-2461 (in USA)

 

3: Call Tel: 202-456-1111 , 202-456-1414 (in USA)

or call toll free :

866/366-3655 (9am to 5 pm eastern time; press 0 to bypass recording)

 

4: Email.

Please use Form Email :

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail+AF8-President.html

 

Thanks so much for your action .

citizens concerns.

 

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Friday, December 01, 2000 11:18 AM

ACTION: Ask President to strengthen final roadless area plan

 

Dear WildAlert Subscriber,

 

President Clinton is expected to approve the final rule to protect

roadless areas on our National Forests by mid-December (WildAlert

11/16/00). While the final proposal is a great improvement over the

earlier draft, some concerns remain that President Clinton must resolve

in the final plan. Take action today --

http://www.wilderness.org/roadless.htm

 

YOUR COMMENTS BROUGHT RESULTS

 

" Never before have the American people so actively participated in

helping to decide how their public lands should be managed.

The fact that more than 1.5 million comments were received from

Americans show that these truly are all of the people's lands, not

just a few, and they care deeply about how they are cared for. "

 

So said Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, in response to the huge

number of comments received by the Forest Service on the

Administration's

proposal to protect roadless areas on our country's National Forests.

By

an overwhelming margin, the majority of comments received by the Forest

Service were in support of strong roadless area protection.

 

YOUR COMMENTS MADE THE DIFFERENCE -- THANK YOU!

The draft version of the Roadless Area Protection Plan, released in

May,

banned *road-building* in the remaining National Forest roadless areas.

But the draft still allowed *logging* in these wild forests, and

completely exempted America's largest National Forest, the

Tongass rainforest in Alaska, from all protection.

 

Due to the overwhelming number of comments received, the Forest Service

modified the proposal in the Final Plan to prohibit all commercial

logging in these roadless areas, and to include the Tongass National

Forest.

 

FINE TUNING NEEDED

 

Despite the great strides by the Forest Service between their draft and

final proposals, some problems remain that President Clinton must

resolve

in the final plan.

 

Specifically, the proposal allows for " stewardship " logging operations

to

proceed, and protection for the Tongass is delayed for four years.

 

The Forest Service has used " stewardship " logging as an excuse to

conduct

business as usual -- including clear-cutting old-growth forests on

public

lands. And waiting four years to include the Tongass would result in

hundred of miles of new roads and thousands of acres of clearcuts in

Alaska's ancient rainforest.

 

TAKE ACTION :

 

By mid-December, President Clinton will finalize the Roadless Area

Protection Plan. Please send him a free FAX from

http://www.wilderness.org/roadless.htm, or

contact him directly with this message:

 

 

-- Thank him for the dramatic improvements by the Forest Service to the

Roadless Area Protection Plan.

-- Ask him to strengthen the final proposal to ensure an enduring and

historic legacy for future generations, specifically:

-- Provide strong environmental and scientific guidelines for

stewardship

logging, and

-- Immediately protect the Tongass National Forest and its priceless

roadless areas from all logging and road construction.

 

 

Send your comments to:

President William J. Clinton

The White House,

Washington, DC 20500

 

FAX: 202/456-2461

EMAIL: president

CALL TOLL-FREE:

866/366-3655 (9am to 5 pm eastern time; press 0 to bypass recording)

 

For more information and to send a prepared fax:

http://www.wilderness.org/roadless.htm

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