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To:       Forest Activists
From:     Jim Jontz, Steve Holmer, and Britney Bartlett
Date:     September 12, 1996

Subject:  Logging Rider Repeal at Critical Point


     The final push to repeal the Logging Rider is here.  This
morning the Senate began debate on the Interior Appropriations bill.  A
vote could take place as early as Tuesday morning.

     We are continuing to talk with a number of Senate offices to find a
sponsor to offer an amendment to end the rider.  Please contact the
following offices and urge them to champion this effort to restore our laws
and stop damaging timber sales:

Senator            Fax             Phone     Staff
Bill Bradley (D-NJ)202/224-8567    224-3224  Ruth Fleischer
Tom Daschle (D-SD) 202/224-2047    224-2321  Eric Washburn
John Kerry (D-MA) 202/224-8525     224-2742  Kate English
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)202/224-5902   224-4242  Suzanne Fleek
Paul Wellstone (D-MN) 202/224-8438 224-5641  Ted Conwell
John Chafee (R-RI)No Fax           224-2921  Steve O'Dell
Jim Jeffords (R-VT)202/228-0338    224-5141  Ken Connolly

     If Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Patty Murray (D-WA), Max Baucus
(D-MT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) want to halt
the rider, they need to take action to support this effort now.

Senator        Fax                 Phone     Staff
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) 415/956-6701  224-3553  Linda Delgado
Ron Wyden (D-OR) 202/228-2717      224-5244  Alexandra Buelle
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)202/228-3954 224-3841  Kathy Lacey
Patty Murray (D-WA)202/224-0238    224-2621  Marla Marvin
Max Baucus (D-MT) 202/228-3687     224-2651  Curt Rich

House Sign-On Letter Has Eighty Eight Signatures
     Letters sponsored by Rep. Elizabeth Furse (D-OR) to the President
and the House Leadership calling for an end to the rider have been signed
by eighty-eight members of Congress.  We hope to raise this total to 146 by
early next week.  This letter will send the White House a strong message to
negotiate an end to the rider on the 1997 appropriations.  Similar
negotiations succeeded in ending the ESA moratorium on the 1996 spending
agreement.  

     Please contact the following Representatives via the Capitol
Switchboard at 202/225-3121 and urge them to sign-on to the Furse letters:
(all of them voted to end the Rider but have not yet signed-on) 

Barrett, Berman, Bonior, Brown (FL), Brown (OH), Clement, Coleman,
Coyne, DeFazio, DeLauro, Dicks, Dixon, Fields (LA), Flake, Flanagan,
Foglietta, Fox, Franks (NJ), Frost, Gejdensen, Goss, Greenwood, Hall,
Hamilton, Harman, Hastings (FL), Inglis, Jackson, Jackson-Lee, Jefferson,
Johnson (CT), Kanjorski, Kasich, Kelly, Kennedy, Lazio, Luther, Martini,
McCarthy, McKinney, McNulty, Menendez, Meyers, Millender-McDonald,
Minge, Moakley, Neal, Owens, Pallone, Payne (NJ), Pomeroy, Portman,
Quinn, Rahall, Rangel, Roemer, Roukema, Sawyer, Schumer, Stokes,
Thompson, Torkildsen, Torricelli, Towns, Velazquez, Visclosky, Ward,
Waters, Williams, Wynn.

The White House Needs to Hear From You
     Please contact President Clinton and urge him to actively support
halting the rider as part of any 1997 Appropriations agreement.  Please call
202/456-1111 (9-5 EST) and 456-6797, fax 202/456-2883, 456-7044, 456-
2710 and 720-2166 and e-mail president@whitehouse.gov 

Status of Sales, Current News Coverage of Rider
     Some Members of Congress believe that, since the rider is going to
expire at the end of the year, they should not bother to restore our
environmental laws now.  While WAFC's "America's Forests at Risk"
report helped to illustrate the dangers of pending rider sales, we are also
hearing some argue that "we don't need to stop the Rider, because the
administration is taking care of the problem."  For that reason, we are
looking for information we can use during visits with Members of Congress
and key Administration officials to show:

     1) that damage and/or threats from the Rider are ongoing, as is
citizen opposition, and

     2) exactly what forests are likely to be cut if the Rider continues
through the end of the year, as compared to termination at the end of
September (in other words, what can we save if we end the Rider now).

     So many of you have been helpful in sending us much information
about sales you are working on.  All of that is still very useful.  But, we
are attempting to prepare some additional materials that will address our
current problems.  Any information of this nature would be extremely
helpful.

Current Rider Clips
     Any clippings from newspapers you can fax us from the past 2-3
weeks would help us explain that the timber sales under the Rider are
ONGOING -- that the issue is current.  Clips about proposed sales, current
sales, opposition to sales, opinion pieces, and letters-to-the-editor would all
be very helpful.  We are going to put together a "clippings book" of
"Current Rider News" that will communicate that things are happening
NOW.

     Please fax clean photocopies of articles to our D.C. office at (202)
682-1943.  Please include the paper's banner and the date of the article at
the top of the page.  Also include your name and organization in the
transmission in case more information is needed.  Thanks!

Status of Rider Sales
     We have our comprehensive list of 288 sales nationwide, but we
want to mark this list to acknowledge:

     a) sales that are sold (whether or not they are being logged yet), and 

     b) sales that have been pulled off of the rider track.

     We are still in favor of cancelling all 288 sales, but we want to be
able to represent accurately what the impact of ending the rider would be. 
So, it would be helpful for us if you could fax or email us a current list of
sales that you are concerned about and annotate their status: "not yet
offered," "sold," "logged," "removed from Rider track," etc.

     Thanks for your help.  Keep those calls coming in!