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Subject: FOREST BILL
Action Needed On ZERO CUT - The National Petition
Originally posted in IGC member conference: wall.events
Date: March 26, 1998
Posted by: keats@teleport.com
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Hi Folks,
Momentum is so key to success. It is imperative that the grassroots take
the
initiative NOW to move ZERO CUT forward. Thus, ZERO CUT - THE NATIONAL
PETITION. The idea is simple. Spread the word far and wide. Print out
petition sheets from email or from our website. Fill them out and mail them
in. ALL you need is listed below. We can do this. We will save our National
Forests!
Thanks
Joe
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On Friday October 30, 1997 an historic bill was introduced in Congress by
Republican Representative Jim Leach from Iowa and Democratic Representative
Cynthia McKinney (4th district of Georgia). The bill is entitled The
National Forest Protection and Restoration Act of 1997 (NFPRA) and is H.R.
2789. The bill calls for the cessation of logging on all public lands and
establishes the Natural Heritage Restoration Corps to assist timber workers
in distressed communities. It stresses the economic savings for taxpayers
who have been subsidizing the forest industry and earmarks funds to pay for
the costs of assistance programs for communities hardest hit by this
reprioritization. The highlights of the bill include:
* Preserves America's national forest heritage, protecting and restoring
the
ecological values of our federal public forests by ending the federal
government's timber sale program on National Forests, National Wildlife
Refuges, and BLM Lands.
* Immediately protects all roadless areas by canceling existing timber
sales
in those areas.
* Immediately prohibits all timber sales, cancels Salvage Rider sales, and
phases out all existing timber sales within 2 years.
* Saves taxpayers over $300 million annually.
* Redirects logging subsidies to provide funds for worker retraining; and
gives preference to displaced timber workers for jobs in the woods doing
ecological restoration.
* Begins a scientifically-based ecological restoration program for federal
public forests
* Redirects logging subsidies to provide funding to replace 25% revenue
sharing payments to States for Counties and local governments.
* Redirects logging subsidies to provides funding for environmentally
sensitive non-wood alternative paper and construction material.
TO PASS THIS HISTORIC BILL WE NEED YOUR HELP. LESS THAN 4% OF OUR NATION'S
WOOD SUPPLY COMES FROM NATIONAL FORESTS AND WE LOSE OVER 300 MILLION
DOLLARS
ANNUALLY! BELOW YOU WILL FIND A NATIONAL PETITION SHEET. PLEASE PRINT THIS
OUT AND CIRCULATE IT TO CONCERNED CITIZENS EVERYWHERE. WHEN COMPLETED
PLEASE
SEND THE HARD COPY TO:
OWF/WALL
PO BOX 5878
PORTLAND, OR 97228
ATTN: ZERO CUT
OUR GOAL IS TO GATHER 20 MILLION SIGNATURES. WE CAN DO IT. TOGETHER WE CAN
SAVE OUR NATIONAL FORESTS. WE CAN WIN.
NOTE** You may print a more graphically pleasing petition sheet by
visiting http://www.orwildlife.org/wall-zero-cut-intro.htm
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We the undersigned feel that to save taxpayer money, reduce the deficit,
cut
corporate welfare, and protect and restore America's National Forests and
our natural heritage, that the government of the United States of America
should eliminate the commercial logging program on federal public lands and
assist communities dependent on this program with economic recovery and
diversification. WE STRONGLY SUPPORT: THE NATIONAL FOREST PROTECTION AND
RESTORATION ACT
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WHEN COMPLETED PLEASE SEND THE HARD COPY TO:
OWF/WALL
PO BOX 5878
PORTLAND, OR 97228
ATTN: ZERO CUT
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT http://orwildlife.org
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Joe Keating
(503)234-2613 WALL Hotline;(503)295-6828 OWF/WALL website:
http://orwildlife.com
"On to the next horizon!"