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LOGGING WITHOUT LAWS BULLETIN #28, from the Western
Ancient Forest Campaign.  Call (202)789-2844x291 or e-mail
WAFCDC@igc.apc.org
 
Special Edition: Saturday, January 27, 1996, Six Months of Lawless
Logging
 
HOXIE GRIFFIN ACTION TODAY:  The group Headwaters reports
that they have been notified that a peaceful "demonstration of
citizen concern" over the logging of the Hoxie Griffin Timber Sale
will be held by area residents near the timber sale at 11 a.m. Pacific
time today.  Citizens will gather at the gate of the BLM's "closure
area" surrounding the timber sale and part of the Pacific Coast Trail.
Carpooling will originate at the Bi-Mart in Ashland at 9:00 a.m.
 
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR RIDER "REMEDY":  The
Lincoln Co. OR County Board of Commissioners became the first
county board to call for the "remedy" or repeal of "Logging without
laws."  In a letter sent to President Clinton, the Commissioners aid
they urge support "for a remedy to the portion of the Salvage
Timber Rider Bill . . that refers to the Section 3l8 sales," but if there
is no remedy "short of a repeal and a rewrite of the entire bill, then
the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners urges you to support
that action."    The board says that forests in Lincoln Co. "are
healthy, green stands that this law now exempts from the very
environmental protections you safeguarded in your Forest Plan.
Many of our targeted lands are providing habitat to threatened and
endangered species dependent upon old growth forests and riparian
areas."   
REPRIEVE:  The Oregon District Court granted a 60-day reprieve
Thursday from the logging of timber sales used for nesting by the
marbled murrelet, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund has
announced.  But the court turned down a similar stay request for
sales in Washington and Oregon that had previously been cancelled
by the agencies in the face of court proceedings, administrative
appeals, or environmental harm.  "We are relieved that the court
has stayed its order on the marbled murrelet sales," said Kristen
Boyles of SCLDF.  "But we're worried about the devastating impacts
to watershed and salmon that will be caused by logging timber sales
that the agency cancelled a long time ago."
 
"SALVAGE HOAX":  An article on the front page of the sports
section in the Spokane WA Sportsman-Review cites "logging without
laws" as a "gutless rider" with devastating impact on wildlife. "The
law is a hoax, written by the industry in order to cut trees without
public involvement or obeying laws designed to protect fish and
wildlife," writes Rich Landers.  Landers says that massive landslides
caused by building "too many roads in fragile drainages" for logging
are burying fish spawning areas in Idaho and Washington National
Forests.  "Anglers will return this summer to some of their favorite
cutthroat trout steams only to be greeted by the disbelief and
depression of seeing their childhood homes reduced to ashes,"
Landers says.
 
RIDER FOCUS OF SAF:  An 87 page issue of "Save America's
Forests" magazine/newsletter (Winter 1995-96 edition) focuses on the
"logging without laws" rider and the campaign to repeal it.  Calling
the rider "the most anti-environmental law in history," the issue
includes articles on what the rider says and means, the history of
"salvage," specifics of sales across the country which have resulted
from the rider, the "salvage" hoax, the text of the Furse bill and
information about the campaign to pass it, regional reports, fact
sheets and press releases from groups on rider sales and the repeal
bill, and related subjects.