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LOGGING WITHOUT LAWS BULLETIN #21, from the Western
Ancient Forest Campaign, (202)789-2844x291 or e-mail
WAFCDC@igc.apc.org
 
Tuesday, January 9, 1996, the 167th Day of Lawless Logging
 
KEY HEARING YESTERDAY: The themes of greed and lawlessness
were at the forefront of a Court of Appeals hearing on the timber
rider Monday in Portland, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
reports.  "Since its enactment in July, the timber industry has
greedily sought as many healthy green tree stands as it can under
the rider, which was sold in Congress as an emergency salvage
measure" SCLDF says.  SCLDC explains that the timber industry
has argued that the "logging without laws" rider extends to all sales
ever offered in Washington or Oregon under the original contract
terms and prices.  "The Court of Appeals hearing explores whether
the Oregon District Court was wrong when it agreed with the
timber industry in an October ruling, doubling the amount of
healthy timber that could be logged lawlessly," SCLDF says.
 
30 ROADLESS AREAS TARGETED:  At least 22 salvage timber
sales under the "logging Without laws" rider are planned in 30
roadless areas in National Forests in Montana and Idaho, The
Ecology Center and other Missoula MT groups report in their
"Salvage Fact Sheet #5."  The fact sheet, produced by TCE, the
Alliance for the Wild Rockies, and Citizens Against Lawless Logging
looks at the Jericho sale in the Helena NF, the Skyline Ridge sale in
the Kootenai NF, and three sales in the Boise NF in Idaho.  All
would enter roadless areas.  The fact sheet says that rider sales
proposed for roadless areas in the two states would log in prime
grizzly bear and elk habitat, degrade water quality and spawning
habitat in sensitive watersheds, violate Forest Plans and conservation
agreements, and cut large tracts of healthy, green forests including
old growth.
 
WALL LIST ANNOUNCED:  A new automated, open email list and
conference for organizing salvage rider protests, demonstrations, and
actions will be called WALL, Witness Against Lawless Logging (wall-
list@igc.apc.org.).  Kelpie Wilson, list administrator, says that
anyone on the list can send a message to everyone else on the list. 
"Your announcement about an action, non-violence prep, rally or
campaign will go out to everyone who has subscribed," she says. 
"Announcements are also automatically posted to a conference on
econet called wall.events."  To subscribe, send email to: 
majordomo@igc.apc.org.  Leave the subject line blank, and in the
body write: subscribe wall-list.
 
KLAMATH MARSH SALE:  A 7.5 million board foot, old growth
Ponderosa Pine timber sale awarded to Boise Cascade on the
Winema National forest is "another logging and clearcut atrocity
being misrepresented as a 'salvage' sale," says Wendell Wood of the
Oregon Natural Resources Council. A report on the Yoss Ridge sale,
located within 1/2 mile of the Klamath Marsh National Wildlife
Refuge, was recently prepared by ONRC.  "Under the guise of a
poorly conceived law to force the logging of dead and dying trees,
totally healthy old growth Ponderosa Pines, 300 to 400 years old,
are presently being cut in critical wildlife habitat on the Winema
NF," the report says.  
 
81 COSPONSORS NOW: The list of cosponsors of the Furse
"logging without laws" repeal bill has grown to 81, with the
addition of Reps. Sam Farr (D-CA), John Conyers (D-MI), Andy
Jacobs (D-IN), and Ben Cardin (D-MD).  With the Congressional
recess, many forest activists are planning visits with their
Representatives to urge them to cosponsor the Furse bill, HR 2745.