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To: California activists
From: Jim Jontz, WAFC
Date: May 28, 1996
 
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED FOR A REPORT ON THE TIMBER RIDER
IN CALIFORNIA
 
One of the major obstacles we face in generating interest in the
Timber Rider in California is communicating to media, government
officials, and the general public the magnitude of the impact of the
rider in the state.
 
For that reason, WAFC is seeking your cooperation in preparing a
report on "The Timber Rider in California," which we hope will be
an effective tool to use with the media and others to advocate
repeal of the rider, and withdrawal of environmentally damaging
sales.
 
We want this report to meet your needs.  In fact, we want you to
be a coauthor of the report.  
 
We have secured the services of Andrew Malk to pull the report
together, assisted with some work in the northern part of the state
from Anthony Ambrose.  Andrew is a scientist who has been
working on a Sierra Bioregion report for The Wilderness Society,
and he will be working out of the Wilderness Society office in San
Francisco.  Anthony is a forest monitor assisting Joseph and Susan
Bower in the Shasta-Trinity NF and he will be working out of the
Northcoast Environmental Center in Arcata.
 
We will be trying to work quickly on this, to have a quality product
with photographs ready to use as soon as possible.
 
What we are thinking about is a report which features maybe 15-20
of the worst sales in the state, covering at least one bad rider sale
in every California National Forest where there is one.  We would
like to print photographs of each of these proposed sale sites.  
 
Then, we want to do a listing of each of the other 250 + rider sales
in the state, with whatever brief information we know about each
one for which there are environmental concerns.
 
Can you help with material/photos/information about the sales in
the forest(s) you are familiar with?  
 
Andrew and Anthony will be making calls, but if you can take a
minute now to ship what information you have that needs to be
reviewed from your forest to Andrew, that would be great.
 
Send the material to him (or fax it if brief) at: Andrew Malk, The
Wilderness Society, P.O. Box 29241, San Francisco CA  94129-0241. 
The fax there is (415)561-6640; you can reach Andrew by phone at
(415)561-6641.
 
Credit is due to Ryan Henson from the California Wilderness
Coalition for the tremendous work he has already done in pulling
this sort of information together.  Also, Theresa Schilling from
SCLDF is assisting with advice and help. 
Thanks to everyone!