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forest bill

``` Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 11:34:52 -0800 From: davidw@hevanet.com (David Wolfe)

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If you do nothing else today, ACT NOW to save our forests

Call on President Clinton to veto a bill recently passed by Congress which includes an "emergency salvage" rider. On March 15th, the House passed the Taylor "Death to the forests" rider by 275 to 150. This rider was attached to the Supplemental & Recissions Act and forces the Forest Service to cut down 6 billion board feet of timber, nearly twice as much as planned over the next two years. All other environmental laws will be overridden, citizens will be powerless to stop the logging. Other court settlements such as Option 9 are void. Last week the Senate passed HR1158 which includes a variant, the Gorton Salvage Rider. We have about 3 weeks until congress reconvenes and forward this bill to President Clinton for signature. Urge the president@whitehouse.gov to veto this bill.

As a native Oregonian it is plainly obvious that our nation's forests are being decimated, acre by acre, year by year. The current "forest health crisis" is a timber industry HOAX, an excuse for massive logging, claiming that forests are sick and need to be "cured" by being cut down.

The Foothills Wildlife Recovery Project, the Forest Service's national salvage logging model, involved massive violations of federal and state environmental laws, over 2200 violations, resulting in destruction of fisheries, soil, and wildlife habitat on 60,000 acres, with evidence of rampant timber theft with routine collusion of the Forest Service.

What can we do now? Urge President Clinton to uphold existing conservation laws by vetoing the recently passed bill. For more information call Save America's Forests at (202) 544-9219. Get the latest update at (202) 686-5888.

Write letters to the editor demanding that Congress stop stealing America's forests and that your local paper do a story on this irrevocable situation. ```

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