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Message: [QUOTE="bbbom, post: 83556, member: 16301"] American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network PO Box 400 - Battle Ground WA 98604 Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 - Email: <alra@pacifier.com> - [url]http://www.landrights.org[/url] Legislative Office: 508 First St SE - Washington DC 20003 Phone: 202-210-2357 - Fax: 202-543-7126 - Email: [email]landrightsnet@aol.com[/email] It's Access Stupid!! The Roadless Rule Battle Just Heated Up Additional Action Needed on Roadless - By Friday, May 11 As you know, on Friday, May 4, the Bush Administration decided to uphold the Clinton 58 million acre Roadless Area Rule . . . with an amendment to modify plans as appropriate on a forest-by-forest basis. If you are disappointed with Bush's decision, as most multiple-use activists are, then read further . . . Your help is needed to ensure President Bush gets the message that he did the "wrong thing" on this issue. Let him know that he should have withdrawn the illegal Roadless Rule through the same point-and-click advocacy system that delivered more than 10,000 emails in less than six days last week. Your messages will give President Bush, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, and your Members of the Senate and the House the WILL to untie the red tape, undo the Roadless Lockup, and FREE ALL Americans so they can again have ACCESS TO THEIR NATIONAL FORESTS. Last week was a great success. Over 10,000 letters. No matter whether you care about energy exploration, farming, mining, grazing, recreation, private property, or many other multiple uses, the National Forests should be open to all. Thanks to all people participating in this process. Let's do it again! Please follow directions below to send emails to President Bush and copies of your message to your congressional representatives and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman: -----1. Go to one of the websites listed below: (This will only take you a minute.) American Land Rights Association [url]www.landrights.org[/url] American Forest Resource Council [url]www.afrc.ws[/url] Blue Ribbon Coalition [url]www.sharetrails.org[/url] California Forestry Association [url]www.foresthealth.org[/url] Forest Resources Association [url]www.forestresources.org[/url] Intermountain Forest Association [url]www.ifia.com[/url] SAMS Coalition [url]www.sams-coalition.org[/url] -----2. Click on "Roadless" link on respective home page. All organizations listed above have joined together to make available the same letter. (This is really easy.) -----3 Click on the letter to President Bush, etc.. The software will do the rest of the work. You'll like this. It is really fast. (If you get a notice that refers to a May 3rd letter, ignore it. The Website may be overloaded. Click on the President. If it says the "Action Alert cannot be found, just click on "Legislative Alerts" which will take you to the Roadless page.) -----4. Send a e-letter supporting access to your Members of Congress. For your congressional member type in your zip code and the software on the following Website will do the rest. Congress. Go directly to [url]http://capwiz.com/cfa/home/[/url] -----5. If for whatever reason any of the above website links fail, then go directly to [url]http://capwiz.com/cfa/home/[/url] ________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ -----6. If you prefer to write your own letter, here are the addresses to send it to. A personal one page letter is always the best but President Bush must hear from YOU in the next 24 hours. Send it by Fax as well as E-mail. E-mail AND Fax President George W. Bush President's FAX: (202) 456-2461 [email]president@whitehouse.gov[/email] Phone: (202) 456-1111 -----6. Send a personal message to Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman supporting access to our National Forests. E-mail AND Fax Secretary Ann Veneman FAX: (202) 720-4732 FAX: (202) 720-5437 [email]Ann.veneman@usda.gov[/email] HOW BIG IS 58 MILLION ACRES?? READ THIS----- From American Land Rights, So the east coast liberals can understand better and get a clue of what they are supporting. The abstract concept of wilderness may make you feel all warm and fuzzy. But wait until the next time you try to visit a national forest with your family and find the gates locked and 'No Trespassing' signs posted. Here is the Clinton administration's proposed rule locking up 58 million acres of National Forest Service lands into de facto wilderness status across 38 states: How massive is 58 million acres? Imagine getting into a car at the Capitol building in Washington, DC and heading up Interstate 95 through Maryland and Delaware. You cruise up the turnpike through New Jersey and stop off in Long Island, N.Y. Proceed through Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. When you get to New Hampshire, make sure and take a side trip to Vermont. Then make the long haul through Maine, all the way to the Canadian border. Every inch of those nine states, plus the District of Columbia and southeastern New York state, would be included if it were all in one piece - no access, no people, no recreation. The proposal is 58 million acres locked up by executive fiat over the objections of affected parties and without the average American having any idea of its gigantic scope. We encourage President Bush to reevaluate this ill-advised and unprecedented shortchanging of the average American's opportunities for recreational and resource access. THE ROADLESS RULE: (Pick three or four of these ideas for a personal letter. Be sure to put in your own words.) -----The 58 million acre Clinton-Gore Roadless Rule is the largest land grab in the history of the lower 48 states. -----Remember that nearly all rural counties voted for Bush. The Roadless Rule does great damage to rural economies all across America. -----The Roadless Rule affects all Americans, and yet, appears to be politically driven by a select few special interest groups. -----No Energy Access analysis has been made of the 58 million acres where energy exploration and development would no longer be possible. This does not appear to be responsible with our current energy crisis? -----The Roadless Rule process denied states and local governments their requests for Cooperating Agency Status. -----The Clinton Forest Service ignored Congressional Members requests for an extension of the public input for the Roadless Rule Draft Environmental Impact Statement. -----Millions of Americans will loose both recreational access, as well as, their economic ties to healthy, productive National Forests, as nearly 58 million acres of public land is categorically made into a Wilderness Areas. -----The Roadless Rule was non-scientifically based and politically driven during the public comment process. -----The Roadless Rule process never addressed the environmental or economic consequences of the Rule -----The Roadless Rule is really the Clinton/ Gore Wilderness Preservation Plan. -----The Roadless Rule allocates lands without respect or compliance with existing Forest Plans, on-going Forest Plan Revisions or the administrative and legal process of Forest Planning, NEPA or the Regulatory Flexibility Act. -----The process designating the Roadless Rule circumvented the administrative and legal process because the Clinton-Gore Forest Service was unduly influenced by environmental groups and have made political deals to create Wilderness Areas whether states, local governments or the American people want NO ACCESS to our National Forests or not. -----The Roadless Rule process denied every reasonable request from Senators, US Representatives, Governors, County Commissioners, other qualified non-governmental entities, as well as, petitions from individuals, seeking Cooperating Agency Status in order to participate in the DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (DEIS) and to assess impacts of the Roadless Rule on states and local communities. -----Congress must, by law, vote to designate new Wilderness Areas in the US. The Roadless Rule effectively designates Wilderness Areas in all National Forests. This violates the federal Wilderness Act and individual states' Wilderness Area designation statutes. -----If the Roadless Rule is allowed to stand, access for millions of Americans will be limited to Wilderness Area management criteria. This means that disabled, older, and other recreating Americans, will no longer enjoy access to our National Forests. -----The Forest Service states that driving in the National Forests has increased dramatically over the last ten years. The Roadless Rule closes tens of thousands of miles of roads for tourism access to millions of Americans. -----The local economic impact of the Roadless Rule, especially in states where the Forest Service controls millions of acres of lands, has not been analyzed adequately. -----The economic and environmental impacts of the Roadless Rule were not sufficiently addressed in the DEIS. The Potential Costs of the Roadless Rule were grossly understated and offensive to the States and local governments that will be adversely affected. That is why Cooperating Agency Status was denied the States. -----Forest Health was identified as a Potential Cost of implementing the Roadless Rule. Fuel loading and fire risk, as well as, Forest Health, were not adequately analyzed in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). -----The cost is grossly understated and examples of costs are readily available from the recent fires in New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, Wyoming, Montana, and other states need to be included. -----The Roadless Rule carries out the environmentalist agenda creating a disastrous situation with no management occurring on the ground on every National Forest in the nation. -----As the Forest Service shuts down multiple use of the National Forests under the Roadless Rule and the new Planning Regulations, the economies of the rural areas that have been already and severely impacted by prior Clinton-Gore policy shifts, will be devastated by the Roadless Rule. -----Wildfires and pest infestations will go unchecked under the non-management scenario that the Roadless Rule creates. Remember, emails must be sent by Friday, May 11, 2001. Please Forward This Message To Your Entire List. [/QUOTE]

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