You are probably aware that the Bush administration is moving to weaken the
plan, finalized just at the end of the Clinton administration, to protect
the last wild areas of our national forests from most logging and
roadbuilding.  The new administration would do this by puttin logging and
other management decisions back in the hands of individual forest
supervisors, leaving the forests vulnerable to being chipped away at, timber
sale by timber sale.  They are currently  holding a public comment period on
their plan which ends September 10th.

You can write by that date to the USDA-Forest Service, Attn:  Roadless ANPR
Comments, P.O. Box 221090, Salt Lake City, Utah 84122,  urging that the
Roadless Area Conservation Rule be allowed to stand as it is written in the
January 2001 Final Rule.  Also, I HAVE POSTCARDS FROM NATIONAL SIERRA
carrying this message to Chief Bosworth, and I can send some to you--they
need only  to be signed  and dropped  in the mail.  Let me know right away
is you want some, and how many (I have plenty).  If I hear from you tonight
I can mail them to you tomorrow--otherwise I suppose they will not go out
until Tuesday.  I'm sorry for such short notice, but they were sent to our
old office address and I just happened to stop there this week, so didn't
have them until then.

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