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  Exempt livestock grazing on the National Forests from all 
  environmental laws?   Holy cows! (at the public trough)
  Some believe that subsidized cattle grazing in our
  Public Lands have caused more environmental damage than all
  the clear-cutting there combined.  We were born into this damage,
  (it is also less violent,) so it is less obvious.  --Doug

  **  ELIMINATE PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
  **  COST TAXPAYERS MILLIONS. 

  From: Western Ancient Forest Campaign <PacBell.COM!igc.apc.org!wafcdc>
  Subject: Stop the New Rescissions Riders
 
  
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  HELP STOP THE LAWLESS GRAZING RIDER ON THE "NEW" RESCISSIONS BILL.
  
  Negotiations on the compromise rescissions package are moving like a
  freight train; PLEASE CALL OR WRITE TODAY. Details are at the end of
  this alert. 
  Now that Clinton has officially VETOED the Rescissions Bill (HR 1158),
  we should be first of all thanking the President and second of all
  heading off the sneaky little riders which will be appearing on the new
  (slightly modified) Rescissions Bill that Congress has vowed to pass
  and Clinton may well sign.  One of the riders is a provision that would
  exempt livestock grazing on the National Forests from all environmental
  laws.  This was section 504 of the old Rescissions Bill.
  
  Grazing is the most extensive commercial use made of public lands in
  the United States.  87 million of the Forest Service's 191 million
  acres are allotted for livestock grazing.  Yet in many places,
  especially in the dry intermountain west, the land is unsuited for
  livestock and grazing causes serious environmental harm.  Grazing use
  on public lands needs more scrutiny and more enforcement, not less, but
  the lawless grazing rider will suspend indefinitely all environmental
  laws and allow livestock to continue its pattern of destruction.  The
  lawless grazing rider will: 
  **  ELIMINATE ALL ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARDS-- requiring continued
  grazing on allotments with expiring permits, even where continued
  grazing  * fouls salmon and trout streams and contaminates
  drinking water in violation of the Clean water Act;
  * destroys habitat necessary to support endangered species;
  * conflicts with other forest uses such as recreation, thereby
  violating forest plans.
  
  **  ELIMINATE PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
  * by overturning court cases requiring federal agencies to study
  the environmental impacts of their actions and solicit public
  participation before they make decisions about grazing as
  required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA);
  * eliminating citizens' access to the courts to challenge
  destructive and illegal grazing; and
  
  **  COST TAXPAYERS MILLIONS.  One way or another the public will
  have to pay to restore public lands damaged by overgrazing.
  
  PEOPLE MUST SPEAK NOW OR NEVER -- NO FREE RIDE FOR GRAZING.
  
  President Clinton and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle are the key
  players negotiating a compromise Rescission Bill that the President
  will sign.  Tell them to drop any lawless grazing rider from the New
  Rescission Bill.  Tell them that public lands grazing is terribly
  mismanaged and needs more oversight, not less.  Write and call now to
  stop the lawless grazing rider. 
  Sen. Tom Daschle                          President Clinton
  U.S. Senate                               c/o Council on Enviro.
  Quality Washington D.C. 20510                     Washington D.C. 20500
  (202) 224-5566                            (202) 456-6224
  TOM_DASCHLE@daschle.senate.gov            
  
  For more information contact:
  
  Ted Zukoski                               Doug Heiken
  Land and Water Fund of the Rockies        AFSEEE 
  (303) 444-1188                            (503) 484-2692  
  landwater@igc.apc.org                     afseee@igc.apc.org
  
  Please feel free to redistribute.

  From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
  To:   doug.bashford@f129.n102.z1.fidonet.org
  Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 17:59:31 PDT


... * Multi-generational environmental degradation is rarely noticed...