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To:       All Forest Activists
From:     Steve Holmer and Sean Cosgrove
Date:          July 18, 1996
 
Subject:  National "Stop the Rider" Call-In Day July 26
 
 
     What:     A day for all citizens who care about our
               Nation's forests and the fish, wildlife and waters
               they protect to speak up to protest "lawless
               logging" under the Rescissions Act Timber Rider.
 
     When:     This coming Friday, July 26, 1996 -- almost one
               year after President Clinton signed the Rescissions
               Act in law (July 27, 1995).
 
     Why:      President Clinton must hear from citizens urging
               him to take action to stop the hundreds of timber
               sales nationally pending under the Rider: sales
               that would clearcut Ancient Forests, destroy
               fisheries, and take from citizens the legacy of our
               nation's environment.
 
     Please call President Bill Clinton on Friday, July 26, at
202/456-1111 (9-5), and 202/456-6797 (Chief of Staff Panetta's Message
Line), fax 456-2883 and email president@whitehouse.gov and urge
the President to go beyond the Glickman directive and to cancel all
of the destructive sales under the rider, not just a few.  The
President called for rider repeal in a July 16 letter to Senator Robert
Byrd (D-WV) as part of the Administration's request for the Interior
Appropriations bill.  Urge the President to actively support a
proposed amendment to cut off funding for sales under the rider in
Fiscal Year (FY) 1997.
 
 
Appropriations Bill Awaits Senate Floor Action
     The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FY 1997
Interior Appropriations bill Tuesday, July 16.  The bill is now
awaiting floor action, which is likely to come next week (July 23-26). 
Conservationists are still working to have several amendments
offered to halt the logging rider and cut funding for logging roads.  
 
     Please contact the following Senators and urge them to
sponsor an amendment to halt funding for the logging rider in FY
1997:
 
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)202/228-3954  224-3841     Kathy Lacey
Ron Wyden (D-OR) 202/228-2717 224-5244  Alexandra Buelle
Patty Murray (D-WA) 202/224-0238   224-2621  Marla Marvin
 
     We also need to produce several key votes to win.  Please
contact the following Senators, and also urge any activists you have
in these states to contact: 
 
Robert Byrd (D-WV)202/228-4467     224-3954  Marty McBroom
Bennett Johnston (D-LA) 202/224-2952   224-5824   Ben Cooper
Howell Heflin (D-AL) 202/224-3149  224-4124  Kimberly Waters
John Breaux (D-LA)202/224-4268     224-4623  Michael Arceneaux
Harry Reid (D-NV) 202/224-7327     224-3542  Gregg Danes
William Cohen (R-ME) 202/224-2693  224-2523  David Wilby
William Roth (R-DE) No Fax    224-2441  Ashley Miller
Olympia Snowe (R-ME) 202/224-1946  224-5344  Clark LeBlanc
Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS)202/224-3514    224-4774    Eric Sartorius
John Warner (R-VA) 202/224-6079    224-2023  Ann Loomis
Judd Gregg (R-NH) 202/224-4952     224-3324  Rick Murphy
 
 
Late Breaking News on Warner Creek
     The fate of Warner Creek could be decided very soon. 
Federal law enforcement agents are currently poised to assault the
encampment that has maintained a 316 day nonviolent blockade of
the logging road leading to the first units to be clearcut.  
 
     After five years of intense citizen resistance, the Clinton
Administration is finally showing signs that it may withdraw the
Warner Creek salvage sales.  Because of the July 2 directive
regarding "salvage" timber sales by Secretary of Agriculture Dan
Glickman, the Warner Creek timber sale should be cancelled. 
Warner Creek complies with the directive because 1) rider salvage
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 to take advantage of the rider may not go forward under
Section 2001 (b).  The decision to cancel the sale now rests with the
Clinton Administration's Chief of Staff Leon Panetta.
 
     Please call, fax and email President Clinton's Chief of Staff
Leon Panetta and urge him to cancel the Warner Creek timber sale
and to withdraw the proposed Warner South sale.
 
     Direct your comments to:
 
          Chief of Staff Leon Panetta
          1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
          Washington, D.C.  20500
          Telephone: 202/456-6797
          Fax: 202/456-2883
          president@whitehouse.gov 
          
     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 541/726-4738.