--- AMERICANLANDS <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: "AMERICANLANDS" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "lnorr, Lois" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Fw: Big Win on Tongass Amendment!!
> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:53:35 -0500
>
> Sorry all - Day behind on this. Good Vote on the
> Tongass and thank you to everyone who made the
> calls!!!
> At end of this note is how our folks voted.
> Please remember to call and thank them.
> thanks,
> Lois Norrgard
> American Lands - Upper Midwest
>
>
> To:       All Activists
>
> From:   Lisa Dix, American Lands Alliance
>
> Date:    June 17, 2004
>
>
>
> Big Win on Tongass Amendment!!
>
> Good Vote on NFMA,
>
> Thursday night, the House of Representatives voted
> on the Tongass Forest Road Subsidy and the Forest
> Wildlife Conservation amendments to the Fiscal Year
> 2005 Interior Appropriations Bill.  Thanks to
> everyone who made calls and sent faxes this week,
> they really paid off!  Also, if you have a moment
> today please do make a call to your Representative
> at 202-224-3121 (the Capitol Switchboard) to thank
> them or express your disappointment in their vote on
> the Tongass and Forest Wildlife Conservation (NFMA)
> amendments.
>
>
>
> The Tongass Subsidy Amendment
>
> In a spectacular win for the Tongass National
> Forest, the House of Representatives voted to limit
> logging road subsidies on the Tongass!  The
> amendment passed 222 to 205.  Due to the strong
> leadership of Representatives Steve Chabot (R-OH)
> and Robert Andrews (D-NJ), the House sent a strong
> signal to the Bush Administration Forest Service
> that building logging roads in America's rainforest
> at enormous ecological and taxpayer expense is not
> acceptable.  In December 2003, the Bush
> Administration exempted the Tongass National Forest
> from receiving roadless area protection under the
> Roadless Area Conservation Rule.  Currently, the
> Forest Service is moving forward with nearly 50
> logging projects in roadless areas of the Tongass
> that prior to December 2003 were protected from
> commercial logging.  To find out how your
> Representative voted please go to:
> http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2004/roll253.xml.  Please
> call your Representative and thank them if they
> voted to limit logging road subsidies on the Tongass
> National Forest and express your disappointment if
> they voted against.
>
>
>
> Forest Wildlife Conservation Amendment
>
> Yesterday, the House of Representatives also voted
> on Representative Tom Udall's (D-NM) Forest Wildlife
> Conservation (NFMA) amendment.  The amendment would
> have limited Forest Service funds to go toward
> implementing the Bush administration's damaging
> National Forest Management Act regulations.  The
> administration's anticipated regulations weaken
> wildlife protections, undermine public involvement,
> ignore science, and play favorites with special
> interests.  The amendment failed 195 - 230.  To find
> out how your Representative voted go to:
> http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2004/roll254.xml.  Please
> call your Representative and thank them if they
> voted for the Forest and Wildlife Conservation
> amendment and express your disappointment if they
> voted against.
>
>
>
>
>
> TONGASS:
>
> Iowa: Voting for was Leach
>
>
>
> Michigan:
>
> Voting for were Ehlers, Kildee, Upton, Levin,
> Kilpatrick, Conyers, Dingell
>
>
>
> Minnesota:
>
> Voting for were Ramstad, McCollum, Sabo,
>
>
>
> Wisconsin:
>
> Voting for were Ryan, Baldwin, Kind, Kleczka,
> Sensenbrenner, Petri, Obey, Green
>
>
>
>
>
> NFMA:
>
> Iowa: Voting for was Leach
>
>
>
> Michigan: Voting for was Ehlers, Kildee, Kilpatrick,
> Levin, Conyers, Dingell
>
>
>
> Minnesota: Voting for was Ramstad, Sabo, McCollum,
>
>
>
> Wisconsin: Voting for was Baldwin, Kind, Kleczka,
> Obey,
>
>
>
> >
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