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I shamelessly copied this info from "The Greenpeace Guide to 
Anti-Environmental Organizations" and I thought some people here might 
want to see it.  

It's a good book, BTW. I highly recommend writing to 
this group and others like it and asking for free stuff.  I got a 
pamphlet from the Society for Environmental Truth (SET) called "Living 
With Our Durable Planet" that was a riot... Seriously though, as the 
environmental movement (and the animal liberation movement) grow 
stronger, so does the backlash:

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People For the West! (PFW!)
301 N Main
Pueblo, CO 81003
(719) 543-8421

People for the West! claims to have organized more than a hundred 
chapters in ten states and involved them in a "grassroots" battle to 
safeguard "Western values".  PFW! activists picket government buildings, 
testify at public hearings and confront environmentalists. Its projected 
budget for 1992 was $1.7 million.

PFW!'s chief crusade is a campaign to save the archaic 1872 Mining Law.  
Originally intended to encourage pick-axe prospectors by selling rights 
to mine on federal lands for a few dollars an acre, the law today is 
abused by large mining companies who buy claims for a fraction of their 
real market value.  Not only are they using legal loopholes to exploit 
the environment, they're also depriving tax-payers of a fortune in lost 
revenues.

While many of PFW!'s individual members have no ties to the mining 
industry, the group is bankrolled by dozens of mining companies.  Members 
are drawn in by PFW!'s propaganda, which blames society's ills on the 
environmental movement.

One foreboding PFW! pamphlet warns that if mining, grazing, or logging 
are restricted, "people will lose jobs, rural communities will become 
ghost towns, education for our children will suffer and state and local 
governments will forfeit critical income for police, fire protection, 
roads and social services."

A Colorade rancher who founded a local PFW! chapter admitter, "I'm not 
real versed with the 1872 Mining Law, but its worked real good for a lot 
of years. And [PFW! says] that if we don't protect our rights we could 
lose everything."

Funding (partial list)
Alaska Miners Corporation
American Mining Congress
Bond Gold
Centurion Gold
Chevron
Cyprus Minerals
Energy Fuels
FMC Gold
Hecla Mining
Homestake Mining
Minerex Resources
Necro Minerals
Northwest Mining Congress
Pegasus Mining
US Precious Metals
Western World Mining
Westmont Mining