Jo, I could put some out at Wheatsfield and the Public Library.  Could you
spare 25-50?

Peggy

At 10:23 PM 8/31/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Bush Administration Takes Aim at Our Last Wild Forests
>Your Letters Are Urgently Needed By September 10
>
>Once again our National Forests need your help! You can help ensure that our
>last wild forests are protected for future generations, not logged for
>short-term profit.
>
>Earlier this year, we reported on the landmark rule adopted by the outgoing
>Clinton administration that banned logging and roadbuilding  in nearly 60
>million acres of wild roadless and unspoiled areas in our national  forests.
>This plan was the direct result of a tremendous outpouring of public support
>from more than one million Americans including hundreds of thousands of
>Sierra Club members. Yet the Bush Administration is ignoring public
>sentiment and moving to kill the rule and its protections.
>
>The Bush administration has launched a stealth attack on the largest
>nationwide public land conservation decision in America's history. First,
>Bush officials delayed implementing the roadless rule, then they refused to
>defend a lawsuit brought by industry and its allies challenging the rule.
>Now, while proclaiming its commitment to wilderness values, the
>administration has started a formal process to gut the rule by allowing
>individual national forests to opt out of it, one roadless wildland at a
>time. The Bush Administration is moving to sacrifice the last wild areas of
>our National Forests to clearcut logging, roadbuilding, and other
>destructive activities.
>
>That would turn back the clock to the old piecemeal decision process that
>allowed millions of pristine acres to be developed every decade.
>
>Our National Forests already contain more than nine times more miles of
>roads than our country's interstate highway system. The Wild Forest
>Protection Plan is a national policy to protect the last wild areas in our
>National Forests from damaging activities. But the Bush Administration wants
>to put these management decisions back in the hands of individual forest
>supervisors, leaving our last wild forests vulnerable to being chipped away
>at, forest by forest, timber sale by timber sale.
>
>The Bush Administration is accepting public comments from now through
>September 10th. Please address your individual letters to Forest Service
>Chief Dale Bosworth. Following are some points to address in your letters.
>Please personalize letters with information about why you value wild
>forests: such as for hiking, camping, photography, hunting, fishing, sources
>of clean water, places to enjoy quiet, study ecology etc. Also, please add
>information about National Forests that you have visited. Finally, please
>remember to include your name and address.
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>* I oppose any changes to the Roadless Area Conservation Rule as published
>in the Federal Register on January 12, 2001. Please fully and immediately
>implement this landmark conservation rule on all National
>Forests, including Alaska's Tongass.
>*The last wild roadless areas of our National Forests should be protected
>because they purify our drinking water, provide our families with places to
>hike, hunt, fish, and camp, and give homes to fish and wildlife, including
>endangered species like grizzly bear and salmon.
>*The current rule already contains provisions to address wildfires and
>forest health.
>*I believe it is critical to have national guidelines for roadless areas,
>and I oppose modifying the rule to allow forest-by-forest decisions on
>whether to log, build roads in, or otherwise develop these pristine
>areas.
>*Over half of our national forest lands are already open to logging, mining,
>roadbuilding and other development. The 58.5 million acres protected by the
>roadless rule should remain protected from logging and other destructive
>activities.
>*Please count this as an official comment on the Advanced Notice of Proposed
>Rulemaking.
>
>ADDRESS INFORMATION:
>
>Before September 10, please send letters directly to the Forest Service at:
>
>USDA-Forest Service - CAT
>Attention: Roadless ANPR Comments
>P.O. Box 221090, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84122
>
>2) via electronic mail to [log in to unmask]
>     (If this address fails, please forward your message to
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>
>3) or via facsimile to 1-801-296-4090, Attention: Roadless ANPR Comments.
>
>Please be sure to include your name and address on all correspondence,
>including e-mail.
>
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