Guest guest Posted December 3, 2000 Report Share Posted December 3, 2000 URGENT, STRENGTHEN FINAL ROADLESS PLAN EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTION Dear Friend of animals, Previously we sent you the email address for President Clinton was wrong. The following is the correct Email Address : The correct email address should be : http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_President.html All of the rest info is correct : 1. Send an Express mail if you wish or Regular Mail(may take long time for someone to read it) : President Bill Clinton The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 U.S.A. 2: Fax 202-456-2461 (in USA) 3: Call Tel: 202-456-1111 , 202-456-1414 (in USA) or call toll free : 866/366-3655 (9am to 5 pm eastern time; press 0 to bypass recording) 4: Email. Please use Form Email : http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_President.html We apologize for the inconvenience and thanks so much for your action .. citizens concerns. - <action Friday, December 01, 2000 11:18 AM ACTION: Ask President to strengthen final roadless area plan Dear WildAlert Subscriber, President Clinton is expected to approve the final rule to protect roadless areas on our National Forests by mid-December (WildAlert 11/16/00). While the final proposal is a great improvement over the earlier draft, some concerns remain that President Clinton must resolve in the final plan. Take action today -- http://www.wilderness.org/roadless.htm YOUR COMMENTS BROUGHT RESULTS " Never before have the American people so actively participated in helping to decide how their public lands should be managed. The fact that more than 1.5 million comments were received from Americans show that these truly are all of the people's lands, not just a few, and they care deeply about how they are cared for. " So said Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, in response to the huge number of comments received by the Forest Service on the Administration's proposal to protect roadless areas on our country's National Forests. By an overwhelming margin, the majority of comments received by the Forest Service were in support of strong roadless area protection. YOUR COMMENTS MADE THE DIFFERENCE -- THANK YOU! The draft version of the Roadless Area Protection Plan, released in May, banned *road-building* in the remaining National Forest roadless areas. But the draft still allowed *logging* in these wild forests, and completely exempted America's largest National Forest, the Tongass rainforest in Alaska, from all protection. Due to the overwhelming number of comments received, the Forest Service modified the proposal in the Final Plan to prohibit all commercial logging in these roadless areas, and to include the Tongass National Forest. FINE TUNING NEEDED Despite the great strides by the Forest Service between their draft and final proposals, some problems remain that President Clinton must resolve in the final plan. Specifically, the proposal allows for " stewardship " logging operations to proceed, and protection for the Tongass is delayed for four years. The Forest Service has used " stewardship " logging as an excuse to conduct business as usual -- including clear-cutting old-growth forests on public lands. And waiting four years to include the Tongass would result in hundred of miles of new roads and thousands of acres of clearcuts in Alaska's ancient rainforest. TAKE ACTION : By mid-December, President Clinton will finalize the Roadless Area Protection Plan. Please send him a free FAX from http://www.wilderness.org/roadless.htm, or contact him directly with this message: -- Thank him for the dramatic improvements by the Forest Service to the Roadless Area Protection Plan. -- Ask him to strengthen the final proposal to ensure an enduring and historic legacy for future generations, specifically: -- Provide strong environmental and scientific guidelines for stewardship logging, and -- Immediately protect the Tongass National Forest and its priceless roadless areas from all logging and road construction. Send your comments to: President William J. Clinton The White House, Washington, DC 20500 FAX: 202/456-2461 EMAIL: president CALL TOLL-FREE: 866/366-3655 (9am to 5 pm eastern time; press 0 to bypass recording) For more information and to send a prepared fax: http://www.wilderness.org/roadless.htm ******************************************** (Dear friend, If you would like to join our campaign for animals together, Reply with " JOIN " and stating your Email Address, Name (can be initial) , Country . thanks. To Remove, please state ALL of your email addresses to reply with " remove " . Or you may block our messages permanently from this email address or run some of the free software to block . Thanks. cc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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