URGENT CALLS needed to SENATOR FEINSTEIN, BOXER TO STOP FIRE LOGGING RIDER - Possible vote today!
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Former timber industry lobbyist turned undersecretary of Agriculture Mark
Rey is attempting to cut a backroom deal with Senate leaders to insert the
misleadingly titled "Healthy Forests" legislation as a rider into the
Interior appropriations bill. Debate on the bill is scheduled to begin as
early as today.
Please call Senator Feinstein at (202) 224-3841 and Senator Boxer at (202)
224-3553 and urge them to oppose efforts to add HR 1904 to the Interior
appropriations bill.
HR 1904, the so-called "Healthy Forests Restoration Act:"
- Cuts the heart out of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)--the
bedrock of environmental law--by allowing the Forest Service to conduct environmentally
damaging logging projects without considering any alternatives.
- Removes the public from the process by eliminating the right of citizens
to appeal Forest Service logging projects.
- Promotes logging in threatened and endangered species habitat, allows
logging and temporary road building in roadless areas, and gives the
Secretary "sole discretion" to log in old growth areas.
- Does little to prevent fires near homes and communities while promoting
logging of our oldest and most fire resistant trees.
- Provides $125 million in corporate welfare for industry to log the
public's forests.
Thank you for your help on this critical issue.
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