--- Lois Norrgard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:12:00 -0500
> From: "Lois Norrgard" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Please Help - Harkin calls
> 202-224-3254,[log in to unmask]
> Hello Charles,
> Please help! looking for a few calls into Senator
> Harkin's office to ask him to champion this language
> in the Interior
> Appropriations bill. He needs to pressure Senator
> Byrd to include it. call with questions
> 952-881-7282. Mark up is
> tomorrow and friday so I apologize but this is very
> short notice/tight turn.
>
> thanks,
> Lois Norrgard
> American Lands
>
>
> American Lands Alliance would like to propose the
> following changes and
> >additions to the Interior Appropriations Bill and
> to express our
> >opposition to additional Stewardship Contracts that
> give the Forest
> >Service the authority to give away National Forest
> trees.
> >
> >National Fire Plan
> >
> >We would like to request the following bill
> language additions:
> >
> >1. All fuels reduction funds shall be targeted to
> protect communities at
> >risk from wildfire in the urban/wildlands
> interface.  According to
> >Forest Service research the most effective
> treatments are within 200
> >feet of the structure, not in distant wildlands or
> forests located miles
> >away.
> >
> >2. Hazardous fuels reduction funds must focus on
> the fine and surface
> >fuels which create the greatest fire risks.  Forest
> Service fire staff
> >indicate the priority for treatment should
> primarily be trees below 4"
> >inches in diameter. The logging of trees larger
> than 12" shall be
> >prohibited in all fuel reduction projects.
> >
> >3.  Hazardous fuels reduction funds shall be
> prohibited in inventoried
> >roadless areas, forest exhibiting old growth
> characteristics, endangered
> >or threatened species habitat and riparian areas.
> >
> >4.  We urge the Committee to adopt a 200 foot
> standard for the urban
> >wildlands interface zone and to redirect emergency
> fuels reduction funds
> >to support the Firewise program and other
> cooperative efforts for
> >community protection.
> >
> >5. We proposed the following reallocation of funds
> in the Fire Plan
> >budget to target additional funds to the protection
> of communities:
> >
> >Hazardous Fuels (or timber sales)               -
> 70,000,000
> >State Fire Assistance
> +35,000,000
> >Community and Private Land Assistance
> +35,000,000
>


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