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[From EcoNet NLNS Newsbriefs]
[Also Posted to alt.activism (by Somebody Else)]

National Forests:  Going, Going, About Gone

	Only 5% of this country's original native forests
remain.  Weyerhauser, Georgia Pacific, the American Fores
and Paper Association and the Washington Contract Loggers
Association are some of their corporate enemies.

	In the last 10 years U.S. taxpayers have lost $5.6
billion dollars subsidizing the logging industry in below-cost
sales of timber from publicly owned forests.  Greenpeace is
calling for people to sign a statement demanding that President
Clinton:

	(1) resolve the crisis in the Pacific Northwest forests
	without sacrificing forests elsewhere in the world,

	(2) immediately ban any "development" in federally
	managed roadless areas,

	(3) ban the export and import of all minimally processed
	forest products (thereby saving tens of thousands of
	U.S. jobs each year),

	(4) support the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection
	Act, and

	(5) reduce U.S. consumption of paper and other wood
	products and increase the government's use of
	non-chlorine bleached, recycled and alternative-fiber
	paper products.

To sign on to these demands, contact Greenpeace at P.O. Box
96128, Washington, DC 20090 (phone 202/462-1177).

[Reminder:  You can send email to President Clinton at
president@whitehouse.gov if you don't have time to send
paper mail.]