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Wednesday, 09/28/94 11:45pm (PDT)

Help!!!  Please!!! Please!!! Please!!!

The California Desert Protection Act, seemingly headed for successful 
conclusion after nine years and overwhelming votes for House Bill and 
Senate Bill passage, is being prevented from going to House/Senate 
("work out the differences") Conference Committee by Sen. Malcolm Wallop
(R-WY) and sym- pathetic colleagues.

Your help is needed this week to smash this election year ploy 
stonewalling of the largest land protection bill in the history of the 
United States outside Alaska.

1. Contact Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) (Phone: 202-224-3841; 
Fax: 202-228- 3954).  Thank her for sponsoring the Desert Protection 
Act, her bill.  Urge her to do whatever it takes to bring a desert 
bill home this year.

2. Contact Sen. George Mitchell (D-ME) (Phone: 202-224-5344; 
Fax: 202-224-6853). Tell him that passage of Senator Feinstein's 
California Desert Bill this year is very important to you.  Urge him 
not to let Senator Wallop and company control the fate of the 
California desert and to get the bill to the President's desk before 
Congress adjourns this weekend or next.

3. Determine an amount of time (10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 
1 hour) you will devote to disseminating/networking this information 
to others.  The goal is 1000 communications in the next 48 hours!!!

Thanks in advance for whatever you are able to do!

Bob Barnes, Western Regional Office, National Audubon Society
Chair, Audubon's California Desert Task Force
bob.barnes@audubon-ny.smtcn.langate.sprint.com


Background for the California Desert Protection Act:

Crafted (maps and text) by over 100 grassroots volunteers in the early 
1980s. First introduced by Sen. Cranston in 1986. Nearly 8 million acres
...largest in the history of the lower 48 states. Redesignates and 
expands Death Valley as the largest National Park in the lower 48...over
3 million acres. Redesignates and expands Joshua Tree as a National Park
...3/4 million acres Creates a 1.5 million acre Mojave National Park.
Designates and adds nearly 80 units comprising almost 4 million acres of 
Bureau of Land Management land to the National Wilderness Preservation 
System. Officially endorsed and supported by over 100 Audubon Chapters 
nationwide. Now in its 9th year. Has finally passed both the House and 
Senate...overwhelmingly. Being held up by Sen. Malcolm Wallop using 
procedural means. Passage will clear the way for attention and work on 
a backlog of other land protection/environmental proposals according to 
Congressional sources.