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TO:       All Forest Activists
FROM:     Jim Jontz & Steve Holmer 
DATE:     September 17, 1996

SUBJECT:  Two Weeks Left to Stop the Logging Rider

     The Senate is now considering the Interior Appropriations bill and thus
far we have not found a Senator to sponsor an amendment to stop the logging
rider.    WAFC has received commitments from Senator Chafee (R-RI) and
Senator Leahy (D-VT) to co-sponsor an amendment but both are expecting a
Western Democrat to lead this effort.  When we ask for leadership from Sens.
Wyden, Murray, Feinstein and Boxer to stop the rider we are hearing only
DEAFENING SILENCE.  

     If there is going to be any congressional action on the rider, it will
have to happen in the next two weeks.  Please call these key Senators
continually for the next two weeks until Congress adjourns for the year, or
until an amendment is offered to halt the rider.

Senator             Fax            Phone (202)     Staff    
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)     415/956-6701      224-3553  Linda Delgado
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)  202/228-3954      224-3841  Kathy Lacey
Patty Murray (D-WA) 202/224-0238      224-2621  Marla Marvin
Ron Wyden (D-OR)    202/228-2717      224-5244  Alexandra Buelle

The White House Can Stop the Rider
     It is possible that the Interior and other appropriations bills will be
all rolled into one massive Omnibus Appropriations bill.  White House Chief
of Staff Leon Panetta reportedly requested negotiations on such an Omnibus
bill with Republican appropriators yesterday.  The White House can insist that
no funding be included in the spending agreement for sales under the logging
rider.  A similar negotiation put an end the ESA moratorium earlier this year.

     Please contact Chief of Staff Panetta at 202/456-6798, fax 202/456-
2883 and urge him to insist on an end to the rider as part of the 1997
spending agreement.  Calls should also be going to the general White
House comment lines (202/456-1111 and 456-6797) and email
president@whitehouse.gov continually for the next two weeks until an
agreement is reached.

     Thanks for all your efforts to stop lawless logging for the past year and
a half.  These next two weeks are critical; please make as many calls, faxes
and emails as possible, and please crank up your phone trees, alerts lists etc.,
to spread the word as far and wide as possible that now through the next two
weeks is the time to act.