🚀 go-pugleaf

>to Senator Feinstein, President Clinton, Deputy Secretary of the Interior
>John Garamendi, Governor Wilson, Senator Boxer, etal:
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>What provisions are being made for the Indian inhabitants, from
>whom the land was originally confiscated through a grisly campaign of
>slavery and extermination?

What can we do?  Where are the Indian inhabitants?  They can speak for
themselves and we'll support them.

>What are you doing to ensure that no cutting, removal of trees,
>or other disturbance occurs anywhere in the 60,000 acre Headwaters
>Forest or any other Maxxam asset until the FDIC and OTS suits are
>concluded and the forests can be repossessed intact?

Nothing can be done because of the "salvage" rider.  We
have tried to litigate, but the bill made this impossible.  Civil
disobedience is the last resort here.  Literally, people hanging in trees.

>Offering land or any other compensation or swap to Hurwitz prior
>to the settlement of the FDIC and OTS suits would be a betrayal of
>the public trust and possibly subversion of justice.

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>What are you doing to enforce the Endangered Species Act?
>No significant disturbance of the land can occur without driving
>endangered species closer to extinction, so claims it is valued at
>hundreds of millions of dollars, based on the value of extracted
>timber, are predicated on criminal actions and completely bogus.

Because of the "salvage" rider, passed in a recissions bill cloaked under
the guise of helping Oklamhoma City Bombing victims, the ESA and virtually
all environmental laws and protections for old-growth were rescinded by our
government after being lobbied and paid to do so by timber barons.  This,
under the guise of "emergency" measures to protect forests from fires,
insects, and disease.

>What you are doing to protect _all_ of Headwaters Forest, which is
>60,000 acres, not just the 3000 acre Headwaters Grove?
>What should we think of someone who triumphantly proclaims they
>are saving the heart of an assault victim, while standing by and
>doing nothing about the hemorrhaging lungs, pancreas, and limbs?
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What?  Our hands are tied!!!  We had a protest recently of over 3,000
environmentalists trying to protect the Headwaters from being logged!!  150
people were arrested for civil disobedience.
If you have any brilliant ideas, I am sure The Sierra Club, Audobon Society,
Earth First!, etc.. would be happy to hear them!!!!

Kelly.cowan@ebbs.cts.com
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