Thanks, Jo -- I encourage each of you on this list to ask for 5 postcards
from Jo -- I'm sure it would be possible to find 5 friends and/or relatives
to sign a postcard and get it in the mail.  If that doesn't sound like
something you'd feel like doing, there is an article about this issue in the
current Sierran which I will post on this listserve.  The comments may be
sent by e-mail to the Forest Service if that is your preference.

Let's get some Iowa comments in on this issue!

Thanks,
Jane Clark
Iowa Conservation Chair


----- Original Message -----
From: Johanna Hudson <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: POSTCARDS AVAILABLE for comments on Bush plan to weaken Wild Forest
Protection Plan


> 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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