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[Currently Earth Justice has a current campaign to protect roadless mational forests. At this link you can take action.] [Please note Judge voids Bush's roadless rules: Clinton-era protections restored.]
[See the Forest Service Plan to sell forests at http://www.fs.fed.us/land/staff/rural_schools.shtml. 85,000 acres are at risk in California.]
[Please consider signing the petition to restore the 2001 Roadless Rule.]
[Please sign the petition to save our wild forests. Stop Bush's attempt to revoke the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Many thanks.]
[Please see the new Bush roadless rule.]
[Send Kimberly-Clark a message, telling them you won't
support their destruction of ancient forests. You can send a message from
here
through Greenpeace.]
[Take Action: Please visit Beaverhead-Deerlodge
Forest Plan Revision. The comment period is over 10/31/05.]
[Please help: The Bush administration is
trying to dismantle protections created for the the Sierra Nevada framework.
Visit Save
California's Forests for help to
submit a letter to the editor of your local California newspaper. Many
thanks in advance for your help.]
The state of the environment has long been a concern
of mine. The state of our forests is something which has become a strong
passion, having its roots in my upbringing which I hope to pass on to
those who visit this page. Should you have an interest in this topic,
explore these different sites. Here you will learn about the necessity
of preserving our ancient forests for future generations, and at some
you will find out what you can do to help. There are also some sites here
which allow you to voice your opinion about the cutting of old growth.
"There are people coming out
of the bush wearing white coveralls. And Your help is needed now to stop the
pro-logging senators from passing a bill that will ban people like you
and me from appealing to the Congress on logging issues. What are they
using as their "fuel"? Why, it's the recent fires that have plagued many
areas in the United States. They are blaming the environmentalists, saying
that they are the ones who have made it impossible for fire protection
of communities. The senators involved in this move are Senators John Kyl,
Pete Domenici, Larry Craig, Diane Feinstein, and Ron Wyden. Don't be snowed
by their doublespeak. Should one of these Senators be one of yours, I
urge you to contact them. For background on this issue, please visit Biological
Activist SearchResults Page. There is also information about
the ecological role of fires in the forests at Center
for Biological Diversity - Fire. There was a flourish of articles
a couple days ago regarding Bush's "forest plan." Visit the links below
to read what's new. Now that Bush has had a chance to settle into office,
check back here often for further developments for what you can do to
help preserve the ancient forests. I will post actions to be taken as
soon as I learn of them. Your help would be greatly appreciated especially
by the future generations who will enjoy the beauty of these forests as
a result of your concern and effort. It appears the inundation of mail
in support of the roadless plan from Americans influenced his decision
though he did leave himself open for other changes regarding logging,
mining, and drilling. Thanks to all of you who wrote to him to express
your views in support of the ban. You can visit Campaign
to Save Out Wild Forests and let the new Forest Service Chief
know your views. In November 2001, another alert has been sent out to
protect the roadless policy. Contact the Forest
Service to let them know you want our wild forests protected.
And keep an eye on the President who seems on a mission to destroy the
environment. Read Bush
Environmental Plans Challenged: Bills Target Logging, Toxic Waste; President
Wins Vote on Nuclear Waste Site but there are those who
are obviously watching. However, now that he thinks he has everyone's
attention focused on this new "homeland security" stuff that if you look
closely, he's protecting big business all the way around, he is also trying
to sneak through other damaging policies. Something is working in the favor of the forests, the
roadless rule being upheld. You can read about this below: Now,
the roadless areas are protected in the Tongass National Forest, the largest
one
in this country.
President Clinton signed a bill into law, one which protects about
one third of the national forests making them "permanently off limits to
road-building and logging." You can read about it in an article published
in the Nearing a Forest Legacy -- New
York Times on January 8, 2001. This is a victory for not only
the forests involved but for future generations as well. However, it seems
like this victory is shortlived. President Bush has now put a delay into
effect regarding the ban on roadbuilding. There is a petition which can be signed and sent to your representative at Help Save The Forests. It appears Tongass is not safe. Bush has been at it again, setting aside no parts of the forest for preservation. He's at it again, perhaps thinking that everyone is so caught up with
his "war on terrorism" that we don't see what he's doing to the environment.
You can help by letting the forest service know your views. You can also visit Don't Log the Old-Growth Tongass, and read about the results. His present policy regarding the forests is also available at Bush tries to loosen rules on logging. Visit also Bush Fire Plan: Smokescreen for More Logging. Of course he is using the recent fires to his advantage. I wonder how many he has fooled by his convoluted ideas. I know should my father still be alive, he would answer this nonsense, and then work to stop this from happening. He did teach me well so I can carry on what I know he would do. Below are more links about this current shift in policy and reactions to this:
Please visit Greenpeace USA to send letters to President Bush, Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, and Secretary Veneman and Forest Service Chief Bosworth, Content Analysis Team, USDA Forest Service to protect our forests from destruction.
For those of you who would
like quick access to the current tree sits, visit the links below.
More information about other
tree sits can be seen at the gaps sucks site for the Medocino area, the
NCTM site and Up You Go for Humboldt County. For those in Oregon, visit
Action (echo) and the CFA (Cascadia Forest Alliance) sites. If you would
like to take an active role in preserving our ancient forests, you can
join two groups at yahoo. Just send an email to Forest-Protection-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
and/or PNW-Forest-Defender-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. More information
can be sent to you through Forest
Bytes. You can also email Art
Bell and ask him to revisit the tree-sitter issue.
For those of you who are concerned
about the preservation of our forests there are a couple simple things
you can do, and I ask that you strongly consider them. One is tree planting. This is easy to do and would
be a blessing in light of the recent actions by the current administration.
To learn about Earth Day and its history visit Earth
Day Network.
The
following I received in an alert email which echoes my feelings for the
forests. These words say
so well why we need to preserve them. They all touch us in different ways.
Think about what these words say. "... I want to come home. To you. To
the forest that I call my home. You lift my spirit and touch my heart.
With your branches reaching out to me in offering, here is my offering
to the forest. I wrote this to the forest, that is my soul..."(Red
Cloud Thunder, 5 June 2000). Also, there are the words of the past
which echo the same reverence for the beauty of the forests which must
be preserved, not destroyed by the logging interests of others. William
Blake said, "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of
others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule
and deformity...and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the
man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." There is also Aldo Leopold
who said, "When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin
to use it with love and respect." These are things to think on.
A travesty occurred over the
long Thanksgiving weekend. For those of you who do not know, Julia Butterfly
Hill had climbed an old growth tree on December 10, 1997 to protect the
tree from the chainsaw. She did this not only to protect this tree but
to call attention to the ancient forests still inexistence and the need
to preserve them. She stayed there for a period of two years, only coming
down after its existence appeared to be preserved, that is, until some
unfeeling poor excuse for a human wielded a chainsaw, cutting through a
majority of this tree, making it vulnerable to a windstorm. This appears
to be an attack not just against the tree but against Julia herself. At
present another page is being created which will focus on her time living
in Luna.
A
B C E
Campaign
for Old Growth
Earthjustice:
Because the Earth Needs A Good Lawyer F
Forests
Index Page - Sierra Club
G H I J K
Guidance
L M N
Mount
Rainier National Park -- Spotted Owl
Northwest
Eco Alliance
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Old
Growth Forests in the United States Pacific Northwest P R S
Pacific Lumbers Record
Preserving
Old-Growth Forest Ecosystems: Valuation and
T U V
TCCP:
Protecting Old-Growth Forests
UW.org:
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"We
will be known by the tracks created February 15, 2000,
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