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!!!!!!!LOGGING RIDER ALERT!!!!!!!

HELP STOP THE FOREST SERVICE CUTTING IN CALIFORNIA
ROADLESS AREAS

CALL OR FAX AGRICULTURE SECRETARY DAN GLICKMAN ASAP!

Dear Forest Activist,

I'm contacting you to ask your help in stopping the
Forest Service from logging in two California roadless
areas under the infamous Salvage Logging Rider.

BACKGROUND:

As you probably know, the logging rider allowed the
Forest Service to cut in roadless areas for a number of
so-called salvage sales.  Recently, Secretary Dan Glickman
directed the Forest Service to stop cutting in roadless
areas under the provisions of the logging rider.  It didn't
stop the sales but it did force the Forest Service to
subject the sales in roadless areas to environmental laws
suspended under the logging rider.

SITUATION:

Now, however, the Forest Service is asking Secretary Glickman
to grant exemptions to his directive.  Here in California,
the Forest Service wants Glickman to exempt the Siskiyou
Roadless Area in Klamath National Forest and the Orleans
Mountain Roadless Area in Six Rivers National Forest.  Each
area harbors old-growth groves and their dependent fauna and
flora, as well as critical watersheds.  Dillon Creek in the
Siskiyou RA is the spawning stream for 10% of the remaining
summer run of steelhead trout.  The proposed logging would,
if Glickman approves the exemption requests, degrade the
watersheds and further threaten already imperiled species.

ACTION:

Call Secretary Glickman's office ASAP--if possible on the
morning of the 17th or the 18th of September.  Tell his
staff that you are urging Secretary Glickman "NOT to grant
any exemptions to his directive regarding Timber Salvage
Rider sales in roadless areas."  Let them know you live
in California.  Remind his office that granting the
exemptions would undermine the spirit and the letter of
Secretary Glickman's own directive.

I know all this probably makes your blood boil, but
PLEASE be polite when calling.

Any questions?  Please call Bill Corcoran at 213-383-2438.

Please pass this alert along to others as you see fit.  We
need as many phone calls as we can muster.  Thanks for all
you've done, are doing, and will do!!

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From: Bill Corcoran <103450.3221@CompuServe.COM>
To: Tom Baldwin <tbaldwin@earthlink.net>
Cc: Celia <cece@ix.netcom.com>, Carolyn Chase <auriek@aol.com>,
Subject: !!!URGENT  LOGGING RIDER ALERT!!!
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