FW: [NFPA] Feb. 23 Protests - 9 Cities, 3 States : Be There!

Here's one for Jessie.
 
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From: [email protected]
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Sent: February 17, 2004 5:54 AM
To: NFPA News
Subject: [NFPA] Feb. 23 Protests - 9 Cities, 3 States : Be There!


As Bush Administration Eliminates 100's of Rare Species Protests to
Sweep
West Coast Next Week

Do or Die Cascadian Resistance to Species Extinction:
Save the Species! Cascadia wide Day of Action

PLEASE FORWARD FAR AND WIDE!!

Monday February 23rd, join the Cascadia Rising Eco-Defense Network and
Back to the WALL in a region wide day of resistance to species
extinction
and forest destruction in your back yard! Protests are planned in 8
cities
in 3 states: Ashland, OR - Bellingham, OR - Detriot, OR - Eugene, OR -
Eureka, CA - Olympia, WA - Portland, OR - Wenatchee, WA

For exact protest times and locations visit
www.cascadiarising.org/sam/sam3.php

Bush and Mark Rey (former timber industry lobbyist / Undersecretary of
Agriculture in charge of the federal, public lands timber sale program)
just released a final draft of a plan to eliminate "Survey and Manage"
species protections. Survey and Manage was created as a result of the
Spotted Owl controversy of the 80's and 90's mandates that surveys be
made
for rare and little known species before any timber sale in western
California, Oregon, or Washington takes place - a basic "look before you
log" requirement.

Survey and Manage has been a lynchpin of combating timber sales under
the
legal system for years - and was the basis of the Straw Devil / Solo /
Clark timber sale victories last summer.

Some things to think about:
* These and other victories will now all but certainly be reversed. As
many as 100 timber sales deemed illegal over the last decade may be
reopened.
* Several hundred rare and poorly studied species will lose all
protection
under the plan, which should take effect within a few months; already
the
agencies charged with looking for these species have laid off virtually
their entire survey staff.
* The decision could also reopen the original Spotted Owl lawsuit under
the federal Endangered Species Act which was the most significant forest
management controversy in modern times.
* Timber sale planning will be greatly expedited in Cascadia.
* This is only one of several other MAJOR changes to environmental laws
in
the past year - e.g., the Healthy Forest Initiative, downgrading of the
Aquatic Conservation Strategy, the elimination of Clinton's Road-less
Rule, the expansion of so called Categorical Exclusions, etc. etc..

While mainstream environmental groups scramble to access the damage to
their legal system tactics, others are increasingly realizing that a new
era of "lawless logging" is now upon us and that only massive public
outcry can hope to make a difference.

We ask you to join the resistance to species extinction, environmental
collapse, and corporate greed. Please be there February 23rd!

For more information and organizer's resources visit
www.cascadiarising.org/sam/

For more information contact:

o       The Cascadia RiSiNG Eco-Defense Network 503) 493-7495 |
Action-ovwWx3FmQR9r1RtzTs/[email protected]

o       Back to the WALL 503.234.2613 / keats-MyOluDGr5eRWk0Htik3J/[email protected]



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Andrew George
Campaign Coordinator
National Forest Protection Alliance
PO Box 215
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0215
ph: 919 933 3073
cell: 828 280 6956
[email protected]
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