Roadless rule proposal

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Make Your Views Count on Roadless Rule Proposal

The comment period for the Forest Service’s proposed new Roadless Rule has begun. The proposed regulations would give states and local communities much more input in the process to determine areas that can be designated as roadless. ARRA encourages you to learn about the Roadless Rule by clicking here and then submitting your comments to the Forest Service by September 14th.

PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK AND FILL OUT THE FORM!
http://www.arra-access.com/campaign/roadless_rule_proposal

If there is just ONE form letter you send in the next 12 months, make it THIS one!
This ONE rule will help keep open more wheelin' land than any other decision in the past 4 years!

Thanks!
I got this from another forum, thought I'd put it up here, hopefully not repost?

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Another link on the same topic........


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"Doug" --

Will you spent 60 seconds to protect your access to America's public lands? Here is how you can.

The federal "Roadless Rule" that was enacted in the closing days of the Clinton Administration was an outrageous land grab that sought to close access to tens of millions of acres of forest lands in the West. It also would have virtually stranded more than one million acres of private land!

Now, the Bush Administration has proposed a new rule that makes more sense. It gives states, counties and localities a greater say in what lands are truly deserving to be "roadless."

This new Rule isn't perfect and needs some tweaking. But it deserves the support of every American who cares about reasonable access to public lands.

Go here to send a pre-drafted and pre-addressed message supporting the new Roadless Rule: http://www.partnershipforthewest.org/take_action_roadless.htm

Then, please forward this email to others who care about defending Americans' access to America's lands!

Thank you!

Jim Sims
Executive Vice President
Partnership For The West
350 Indiana Street, Suite 640
Golden, CO 80401
tel: 303-278-4666
fax: 720-554-7976
[email protected]
http://www.partnershipforthewest.org

Well, done..we all have a steak in this matter..and it's rare that we can impact such decisions..er..damned diet..anyway, wrote 'em.

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have a steak... and it's rare

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09-08) 13:20 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
The Bush administration said Wednesday it will put off until after the election a final decision on whether to allow road building and logging on 58 million acres of national forest where both are now prohibited.

Public comments on the proposed rule change, announced in July, will now be accepted through Nov. 15, instead of an earlier deadline set for next week.

Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who directs U.S. forest policy, called the delay a "fairly straightforward" response to requests from a variety of groups for more time.

"It's unrelated to the elections," Rey said.

But environmentalists said the administration appeared to be rethinking the plan -- at least temporarily -- in the face of widespread opposition.

"I think the administration recognizes the folly of opening up 58 million acres of protected forests during an electoral campaign," said Jay Ward, political director of the Oregon Natural Resources Council, an environmental group.

"With hundreds of thousands of comments pouring into the Forest Service admonishing their proposal, the American people clearly continue to overwhelmingly support protecting our last wild forests," said Robert Vandermark, co-director of the Heritage Forests Campaign, another environmental group.

The administration said in July it is reversing the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a 2001 executive order by President Clinton that prohibits road construction on nearly a third of federal forestland. No roads has meant no logging, mining or oil and gas development.

The new policy calls for governors to decide by 2006 whether to petition the federal government to permit new roads in their forests or keep them untouched.

The bulk of the land is in the West, including 4.4 million acres in Colorado, 2 million acres each in Oregon and Washington state, and 1.6 million acres in New Mexico. All are considered battleground states in the presidential election.

Ward, of the Oregon resources group, said opposition to the proposed rule change is substantial throughout the West, and may have been enough for the administration to recalculate its plans. More than 2.5 million people commented on the original Clinton plan, with about 95 percent in favor of forest protection.

Opposition to the Bush rule "may not be significant in every state, but in a swing state like Oregon or New Mexico it's enough to cost the president the election," Ward said.

Rey called that wishful thinking and said the delay should be taken at face value.

"It indicates only that we've had a number of requests from a wide range of groups who made a reasonable case they need more time, and we're giving it to them," he said.



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Comments may be mailed to the Forest Service, Attn: Roadless State Petitions, P.O. Box 221090, Salt Lake City, Utah 84122, or e-mailed to statepetitionroadless(at)fs.fed.us.



Don Amador
Western Representative
BlueRibbon Coalition, Inc.
555 Honey Lane
Oakley, CA 94561
925.625.6287 Office
925.625.6287 FAX
925.783.1834 Cell
www.sharetrails.org

filled out both! GOOD POSTING!!! Thanks guys!


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