Forests
From: Steve Holmer <wafcdc@americanlands.org>
Subject: URGENT ALERT: Farm Bill Agreement Threatens National Forests
To: All Activists
From: Steve Holmer
Date: April 8, 2002

URGENT ALERT: Farm Bill Agreement Threatens National Forests

We are hearing rumors that a tentative agreement has been reached on the
Farm bill conference committee that would allow an additional 75 goods
for services pilot projects EACH YEAR for the next five years. That's right, 350 projects over the five year life of the bill in which the Forest Service can pay for the projects by logging.
We have been fighting hard to limit the House Farm bill language which
allows for an unlimited number of new goods for services contracts, but
we are not happy that the conferees would accept a compromise allowing
so many new projects each year.

There isn't much time to react. Calls to key Senators are needed right
away. Please contact these offices and urge him/her to oppose
extending the Forest Service any additional "goods for services" pilots
authority in stewardship contracting as part of the Farm bill. Remind them that stewardship contracting is still a pilot program, and that almost none of the projects have yet been completed, monitored or analyzed.

Senator Staff Phone Fax
Sen. Tom Harkin Lloyd Ritter 202/224-3254 202/224-9278
Sen. Tom Daschle Peter Hansen 202/224-2321 202/224-7895
Sen. Patrick Leahy Melody Burkins 202/224-4242

202/224-3479

For information on "goods for services" please see http://www.americanlands.org/forestweb/pilot_projects.htm which details
four stewardship pilots. If you have any questions or need additional
information please contact Steve Holmer, 202/547-9105.

Steve Holmer, Campaign Coordinator, American Lands
726 7th Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003
202/547-9105 <> 202/547-9213 fax
mailto:wafcdc@americanlands.org
http://www.americanlands.org
From: Defenders of Wildlife
To: DEN Activists
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:32 AM
A ROAD RUNS THROUGH IT:
Forest Service attacks roadless rule
From its start, the Bush administration has tried to gut the new federal rule barring road-building in 58 million acres of pristine national forests. Now, the Forest Service is accepting public comments on its proposal to rewrite the rule to accommodate the timber and mining industries, which want publicly funded access to our last remaining wild places. Defenders of Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen called it "the coming-out party for the ideologues and hard-liners within the Forest Service."

Click here to read more:
http://www.defenders.org/publiclands/habitat/roadless.html,
and check our Web site daily for updates on this issue and more.