Stop Logging without Laws
- by: The Wilderness Society
- recipient: President George W. Bush
Protect Our Forests! The Bush administration recently proposed to Congress an amendment which will remove environmental protections from our forests and increase logging. This amendment is the single greatest threat to our forests since the Salvage Rider of 1995, which waived environmental laws and opened up thousands of acres of untouched wildlands to unrestricted logging.
Please tell the President and his administration that you oppose this plan and to keep the Interior Appropriations bill free of riders that would waive environmental laws and lead to increased logging in our national forests. Please send a letter today and ask your friends and family to send one too!
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The Senate could soon pass legislation that contains an amendment that
would suspend laws that protect our national forests from unrestricted
logging.
The amendment is masquerading as a "solution" to wildfire control on our national forests, but in reality will allow timber companies to log in some of our most pristine national forest areas, fragmenting habitat and destroying wild places.
Wildfire and its threat to homes and communities is a very real problem; but scientists and policy makers agree it can be addressed without sacrificing our wild forests and the wildlife that depend on them. Science tells us that the 
quickest and best way to protect communities from wildfire is to clear flammable brush and small trees away from the areas right around homes. The legislation Congress is considering would suspend environmental protections, allow logging deep in the forest far from communities, and restrict the publics right to appeal any of these decisions about our public lands.
Please sign this petition and send a strong message to the President and his administration that we can protect homes and communities without suspending environmental protections.. Logging without laws must not be allowed!
The logging without laws fire rider must not pass.
Citizens have a right to be involved in determining how their forests should be managed. Legitimate fuel reduction work has nothing to fear from citizen involvement we all agree that our first priority must be protecting communities, but we do not have to suspend environmental protections to do so!.
I ask you to oppose any effort to weaken or suspend environmental laws, such as the National Environmental Policy Act, which has been the cornerstone of environmental protections for more than three decades and guarantees a citizen's right to participate in decisions affecting our National Forests.
Please do all you can to ensure that community protection is the top priority of a national fire plan and that our environmental laws remain intact.
cc:
Interior Secretary Gale Norton
Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman
Interior Deputy Mark Rey
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