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To:       All Forest Activists
From:     Sean Cosgrove, National Organizer
Date:          July 15, 1996

Subject:  Opportunity To Save Warner Creek


     Because of a recent directive to the US Forest Service by
Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, Warner Creek's ecological
attributes should exempt it from being logged under the Clearcut
rider.  Calls and letters are needed in the next several days to keep
the timber industry out of Warner Creek.

     On July 2 Secretary Glickman issued a directive entitled
"Revised Direction For Emergency Timber Salvage Sales Conducted
Under Section 2001 (b) of Public Law 104-19."  The directive
mandates: 1) salvage rider sales may not go forward in inventoried
roadless areas, 2) trees that are needed to maintain resource
conditions may not be removed and 3) proposals that have been
previously withdrawn and then reclassified as "salvage" may not be
logged under the rider.  Under paragraphs 1, 6, and 5, respectively,
of Glickman's directive Warner Creek should be exempted from
"salvage" logging.

     The Warner Creek fire occurred within the inventoried
Cornpatch Roadless Area and parts of the proposed Warner Creek
timber sales also occur in the Cornpatch Roadless Area.  Warner
Creek also holds special qualities that are required to maintain
watershed, soil, wildlife and fisheries conditions.

     The Warner South timber sale was originally offered to help
recover spotted-owl habitat and to increase knowledge of owl habitat
recovery.  Since the Clearcut Timber Rider, the Warner Creek South
timber sale has been modified for the purpose of timber production. 

     A flood of calls and letters drawing notice to these aspects of
the Warner Creek timber sale should be sent to Secretary
Glickman's office.  Urge the Secretary to withdraw the sale.
 
     Direct your comments to:

               Secretary Dan Glickman
               Department of Agriculture
               14th and Independent Streets, SW
               Washington, D.C.
               Telephone: 202/720-3631
               Fax: 202/720-2166

     For more information call Doug Heiken of the Oregon Natural
Resources Council at 541/344-0675 or Tim Ingalsbee of the Cascadia
Fire Ecology Education Project at 541/343-7305.
     
     For a copy of Secretary Glickman's July 2 directive call Sean
Cosgrove at 202/789-2844 ext. 294.