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LOGGING WITHOUT LAWS BULLETIN #114, from WAFC, the
Western Ancient Forest Campaign.  Call (202)789-2844x291 or email
WAFCDC@igc.apc.org 

Friday, September 13, 1996, the 414th Day of Lawless Logging

INTERIOR BILL DEBATE: Debate on the Interior Appropriations bill
began this morning in the Senate, although it was suspended after
a few hours and no votes are scheduled until Tuesday.  Other bills
may interrupt the Interior measure when the Senate meets again the
first of the week, but forest advocates anticipate it will be necessary
to secure a sponsor for an amendment to end funding for the
Rescissions Act Timber Rider by the end of Monday.   

SILENT PROTEST AT GP:  The Northwest Ecosystem Alliance and
the Central Cascades Alliance will conduct a silent demonstration
against the Logging Rider at the Gifford Pinchot NF office in
Vancouver, Washington on Monday, September 16 from 11 a.m. to
noon.  The protest is to deliver the message: "The Clearcut Timber
rider has stolen our voices."  Preceding the event, an appeal of
pending rider sales on the Gifford Pinchot will be filed at the Forest
Service regional office by a coalition of community groups.  For
information and directions call Dan Dancer, Central Cascades
Alliance at (509) 493-1757.

WATERSHED GUARDIANS: The Santiam Watershed Guardians has
been formed to organize mass protests "against continued de-
forestation of National Forest lands in the North Santiam River
watershed," announces Michael Carrigan of Oregon PeaceWorks. 
The watershed is the source of water supplies for 120,000 pepole in
the greater Salem OR area, and is threatened by the 14.8 mmbf
Sphynx Timber sales and other sales of endangered old-growth
forests on the Detroit Ranger District of the Willamette NF.  The
group's goal is to train 1000 Guardians willing to engage in non-
violent civil disobedience.  

"ONE FOR THE FORESTS":  "Congress and President Clinton have
an opportunity . . to correct an error they made a little over a year
ago" by ending the Rescissions Act Logging Rider, says the Christian
Science Monitor in an editorial earlier this week.  The Orange Co. (CA)
Register also calls on the Congress to end the logging rider:
"Congress could do a lot worse than to repeal what is called the
'salvage logging rider'" which the Register argues has "spawned a
rush of taxpayer-subsidized logging" opposed by fiscal conservatives. 
 
EXEMPTION OPPOSED:  A sign-on letter to oppose an exemption
for the Beaver Timber Sale on the Okanogan NF in WA is being
circulated by Brian Vincent of the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance.  
The sale would log in a roadless area and wetlands resulting in
"adverse impacts to water quality, fisheries, and rare amphibian
species," NWEA says.  The Forest Service claims the sale should
move proceed the Rider "to reduce the risk of mountain pine beetle
infestation" but much of the sale is healthy green trees of species
not threatened by the beetle, NWEA argues.  To sign, call Brian
Vincent at (360)671-9950.

"THE E WORD":  The environment will be a major part of
President Clinton's re-election campaign says Madison (WI) Capitol
Times columnist Mike Ivey.  Ivey cites Clinton's signature on the
Timber Rider, "allowing logging companies unprecedented access to
public lands under the guise of 'timber salvage,'" as evidence that
Clinton's record on the environment is mixed.  Nonetheless, "it's
clear Democrats plan to trumpet their 'greenness' early and often,"
Ivey says.