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Kelly,

This is an urgent action alert.

Situation:
Sen. Daschle has been meeting with Sen. Murray (D-WA) and
Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) to talk about a compromise
forest health bill.  Included in this bill would be a
phony salvage rider repeal that would apply to a few sales
in Washington and Oregon and which would leave all of the
salvage sales in California open to cutting.  The whole
thing might get put in the Interior Appropriations bill,
which may be considered next Tuesday (9/10).

The Problem:
A compromise on this issue is bad news all the way around.

First, the phony rider repeal lets Congress off the hook
from pursuing full rider repeal or defunding of the rider.

Second, such a deal would legitimize the so-called forest
health crisis, which would open the door to bad forest
legislation in the future.

Third, a compromise would do nothing for California's
forests.

What You Can Do:
Please call Sens. Boxer and Feinstein as soon as you can.
Urge them to meet with Sen. Daschle.  Ask them to tell
Sen. Daschle that any compromise on forest health is a
bad deal for California.  It won't protect our forests
and will make our forests even more vulnerable to
unsound forestry practices.  Remind Sen. Boxer that we
want her to introduce an amendment to repeal or defund
the rider.

Sen. Boxer:  202-224-3553
Sen. Feinstein:  202-224-3841

Thanks for your help!

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Date: 05 Sep 96 00:34:24 EDT
From: Bill Corcoran <103450.3221@CompuServe.COM>
To: Kelly Cowan <kelly.cowan@ebbs.cts.com>
Subject: Bad "Forest Health" Compromise
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