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LOGGING WITHOUT LAWS BULLETIN #115 from WAFC, the Western
Ancient Forest Campaign.  (202)789-2844x291 or email
WAFCDC@igc.apc.org

Tuesday, September 17, the 418th Day of Lawless Logging

SENATE ON INTERIOR BILL:  The Senate continues to debate the Interior
Appropriations bill with votes scheduled today on an amendment on grazing
fees, but no amendments on forests have yet been offered.  The schedule for
consideration of the bill during the remainder of the week is uncertain. 
Negotiations started yesterday between White House Chief of Staff Leon
Panetta and House and Senate Appropriations Committee chairman on the
outlines of a FY 97 omnibus appropriations bill that would wrap six FY 97
spending bills into one measure, including the Interior bill which funds the
Forest Service.

CA SUPPORT:  The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed
a resolution to repeal the Rescissions Act logging rider and cancel the worst
Rider sales in CA, reports Joan Reiss, consultant for the CA Ancient Forest
Alliance.  The resolution was introduced by Supervisor Kevin Shelly.  San
Francisco is now the fourth California city to pass such a resolution, following
Los Angeles, West Hollywood, and Davis.  Similar resolutions are pending in
other cities.

OMB AGAIN CALLS FOR RIDER REPEAL:  A new "Statement of
Administration Policy" sent to the Senate last Friday on the Interior
Appropriations bill says that the President would be advised to veto the
measure unless the Rescissions Act Timber Rider and other previous riders are
repealed.  OMB also says that new riders should not be included in the
legislation.

WALL PROTESTS:  Two "Witness Against Lawless Logging" sponsored and
organized protests against the Rider were held last Friday.  One was in Los
Angeles at the Federal Building, another in Portland OR.  In Portland, 50
protesters with signs and banners including one reading "Clinton Clearcut
Headquarters" gathered at the front door of the Clinton campaign
headquarters.  A street theater skit dramatized Clinton's signing of the Rider. 

DARK DIVIDE:  A hike in the Dark Divide Roadless area on September 28
and 29 complete with campout and potluck bar-b-q are being sponsored by the
Washington Trails Association to "highlight public attention" on the 57,000
acre area in the Gifford Pinchot NF south of Randle WA.  Eventual wilderness
designation may be sought for the area, which the WTA describes as "steep,
open, mile-high ridges and deep, old-growth forested valleys . . networked
with over 90 miles of trails."  Call the WTA at (206)625-1367 for
information. 

JOHN SALE BEING CUT:  Cutting on the John Sale on the Winema NF in
Oregon began Friday, after an injunction the Klamath Tribe had won was
lifted.  Marc Valens reports that he observed large downed ponderosa pine
already cut on the site.  Valens also says that without Rider repeal, the Blue
Ford Sale on the Fremont NF may also be logged.  "They have almost every
Ponderosa pine larger than ten inches marked and ready to cut," Valens says.

CLINTON AT KAIBAB:  Southwest forest activists will gather at the site of
the proposed Bridger Fire Salvage Sale at the Kaibab NF when President
Clinton visits the Grand Canyon later this week.  The 35 mmbf Rider sale
would log up to the boundary of the Grand Canyon NP, reports the Southwest
Center for Biological Diversity.  The group will "greet and educate" Clinton.