Posted on 09/09/2001 9:32:42 AM PDT by Justanumba
American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network PO Box 400 - Battle Ground WA 98604 Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 - Email: - http://www.landrights.org Legislative Office: 508 First St SE - Washington DC 20003 Phone: 202-210-2357 - Fax: 202-543-7126 - Email: landrightsnet@aol.com
***URGENT!!! -- ROADLESS DEADLINE MONDAY, SEPT 10 ***
ALL OUT CALL TO ACTION
KEEP ACCESS TO OUR FORESTS
YOU CAN WIN BUT YOU MUST ACT QUICKLY - PLEASE DO YOUR PART
FOREST SERVICE COMMENTS REQUIRED POSTMARKED BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH
THAT'S THIS MONDAY!!
Don't fail to take action TODAY!!! The Forest Service must have public comments on their Roadless Regulation - Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking - which was published in the Federal Register on July 10th to help determine the next steps in providing long-term protection of Roadless areas. Various forest- and multiple-use associations, have prepared an electronic comment letter for your convenience.
Special-interest political groups are quickly generating their own comments. Mainstream America must be heard this time. Already over 60,000 comments have been received. Most have supported locking up the forests.
It's up to you. Do you want to lose your access? Do you want to lose your forest? Now is the time to take action.
Why should your political leaders go out on a limb for you if you are not willing to do your part? It only takes a few minutes. Only one minute if you send an e-mail.
You, your friends and business associates must each make it your responsibility to get as many comments to the Forest Service as possible. You don't have to win the comment battle, but you must show you are competitive. So far, our side is NOT. You can change that the next three days. The Bush Administration and Congress must see controversy. They must feel the uprising. You have three days to do it.
DON'T TAKE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR GRANTED IF YOU DON'T COMPETE -- YOU'RE NOT IN THE GAME
This is your chance to show what the grassroots can do. IT'S NOW OR NEVER.
ACTION ITEMS:
-----1. You must send a letter or personal comment to the Forest Service using e-mail, fax or letter POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH. USE THE SAMPLE LETTER BELOW. You may use it as is, change it, edit it or add to it, BUT BE SURE TO SEND IT.
-----2. To send a form letter via e-mail click here http://capwiz.com/cfa/issues/alert/?alertid=43815&type=CU&azip= It is easy. You just click and send. It will only take a minute.
-----3. To send your own e-mail, send to: roadless_anpr@fs.fed.us
-----4. To send a fax to 1-801-296-4090. You can use the same letter below.
-----5. Send a letter postmarked no later than Monday, September 10th : USDA-Forest Service - CAT -- Attention: Roadless ANPR Comments, P.O. Box 221090, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84122
-----6. Forward this message as far and wide as possible.
-----7. Make photo copies and to hand them out to your friends and neighbors. Fax a copy to your friends who do not have e-mail. Time is critical. Follow up by calling at least five friends to urge them to send comments.
The majority of Roadless comments thus far have been generated by special-interest political groups!
Of the 60,000 plus comments received thus far, approximately 56,000 are form letters - of which more than 45,000 support the Clinton Roadless lockup.
We must respond to the Forest Service request in overwhelming numbers in support of revising the Clinton Roadless Rule. Remember last May over 13,000 emails were sent by our side in just one week.
Thanks for your help on this important effort.
For more information on the proposal, you can visit the Forest Service website at http://www.roadless.fs.fed.us/xcomments.shtml.
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**S A M P L E R O A D L E S S L E T T E R**
September 6, 2001 [recipient address was inserted here] [recipient name was inserted here],
Dear Chief Bosworth:
I am writing to support the U.S. Forest Service's efforts to fix the fatal flaws in the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This rule is the product of a deeply flawed NEPA process, which was conducted without adequate or accurate information about the affected areas, and is contrary to the agency's legal authority. The process also ignored substantive concerns raised by local, state and federal elected officials.
The rule must be significantly revised to adequately address forest health concerns, access to private and state inholdings and local input. Roadless areas must be accurately mapped at the forest level, including an inventory of classified and unclassified roads, in order that informed decisions can be made. Modifications to the Roadless Area Conservation Rule must take into consideration the need to access the national forests to provide for congressionally mandated multiple uses.
The Forest Service must modify the rule so that it adequately addresses the very real forest health crisis that threatens millions of acres of our national forests. Careful but active forest management, guided at the local level, is the best way to ensure that these forests are truly protected for the long term. I strongly support individual forest-plan decisions for management of Roadless areas. Local forest-level decisions, supported by accurate, site-specific information, are the best way to conserve national forests.
My specific responses to the questions in the ANPR are as follows:
Informed Decisionmaking:
Forest management decisions must be made at the local forest-planning level, since the most up-to-date and accurate information and data regarding forest uses and conditions is only available at the forest level. Forest plans must be amended and/or revised in a timely manner in order to address the protection of Roadless areas.
Working Together:
It is essential that individuals and organizations be able to provide site-specific input regarding individual Roadless areas, in addition to the broad national-policy issues. States, tribes, and local governments who wish to actively engage in forest planning and analysis should be encouraged to help identify the potential impacts on rural communities and other landowners.
Protecting Forests:
The Forest Service should allow local forest-level decisions for forest health treatments, including timber removal to reduce the risks of wildfire, where such activities will not impair Roadless values. It is essential that Roadless areas be accurately mapped, including those areas at risk of wildfire and insects and disease infestations so that management options can be accurately assessed.
Protecting Communities, Homes and Property:
Management of national forests, or lack of, should not pose additional risks to adjacent private lands or communities. Therefore, management activities should be accomplished that reduce risks of catastrophic wildfires and insect and disease infestations. The Forest Service must analyze potential impacts on communities and private property, and must give these national forest neighbors meaningful opportunities to comment on decisions about federal lands that might place them at increased risk.
Protecting Access to Property:
According to the Forest Service's own data, there are more than 421,000 acres of private lands and 43,000 acres of state lands within inventoried Roadless areas in parcels ranging in size from five acres to hundreds of acres. The appropriate place to resolve access issues is at the local forest-planning level, where state, county and private owners can be notified and invited to provide input, recognizing their rights to access. The Forest Service must provide reasonable and timely access to these lands.
Describing Values:
The Forest Service must first provide up-to-date criteria for the delineation of Roadless areas. The criteria should be consistently applied on all forests and should include such factors as forest health, wildlife habitat, water quality, scenic values, access to non-federal land and a variety of recreation opportunities. Roaded portions of inventoried Roadless areas should be deleted from the inventory. Economic and social relationships should also be evaluated, including those that directly impact working families and local communities.
Describing Activities:
For all inventoried Roadless areas, forest plan revisions or amendments should consider a full range of management alternatives, from active management to wilderness recommendations. If the decision for an area is to remain Roadless, permitted activities should include forest health treatments, watershed improvement activities, motorized and non-motorized recreation, wildfire suppression, insect and disease treatments and some improvements not requiring permanent road access.
Designating Areas:
The Forest Plan should make the decision whether or not an area should be recommended to Congress for formal Wilderness designation. Roadless areas that are to be protected but not recommended for Wilderness should be allocated to a recognized land-use category that allows for a locally specific complement of the land management activities.
Competing Values and Limited Resources:
There will likely never be full agreement between all the parties interested in the national forests. The Forest Service should re-emphasize local forest-level decisionmaking as the best possible means of achieving desired resource conditions. In addition, the agency should ensure that there are enough staff and resources in the field so that forest plans are implemented and objectives are achieved.
Other Concerns:
Without a comprehensive and locally based process, future decisions regarding how to manage Roadless areas will not result in any real protection of the many forest values people care about. I encourage you to provide a meaningful process that will allow those who are most affected by management decisions on public lands to be included and heard.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this important rulemaking effort. I appreciate your consideration as the future management of Roadless areas is of critical importance to my family and friends too.
Sincerely,
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Much thanks to "eazdzit" for compiling this list.
------------------------------------------------ Be advised some of these addies seem to get kicked back a lot..... ( those bracketed by ** are dubious, some are followed by "better" addies ).....
What you do is create a "group" in Outlook Express like "Newsgroups" or "Opinionators" with these addies and Blind CC 'em so they don't know it's a mass email.
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Bumping to inform the American people, to get involved, send those e-mails, faxes, make the calls!!!
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