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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (250444)	4/24/2002 8:38:16 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Now, that's unbiased reporting if I ever saw it. - Not. "...Oust.Bush.htm" ROFLMAO.

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (250444)	4/24/2002 8:48:41 AM
From: RON BL	Respond to of 769670

Save our Forests With Good Science & Management Our forests are dying, and the environmental frauds—the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and parts of the U.S. Government— are the ones doing the damage. pushback.com The remains of the forest after the Storrie Fire. Notice that all of these trees are destroyed, because the fire was hot and high enough to reach the very tops of the trees, rather than just the brush and smaller trees at the ground level.Some of the best examples of the damage being done to the public forests can be found in Northern California. Over the past several years, large, unnaturally large fires have wiped out vast stretches of forest in Plumas and Lassen Counties. Just four of these fires have damaged or destroyed over 130,000 acres, leaving over 100 million board feed of dead timber that could be logged and used to build homes and other essentials—instead of cutting green trees that are supporting wildlife. This simple, intelligent act is the “salvage logging” that the eco-fraud orginizations have (wrongly) criticized and prevented from ocurring. Please visit these areas and see for yourself how great the damage is, and then contact your government representatives and ask that they stop hurting the forests. Ask them to make sure that the Feinstein-Herger law created by the Quincy Library Group, is actually started before the bugs have a chance to spread from these dead trees and infect the surrounding healthy forests. This must start before June, 2002!. The full name of the act is The Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act (click on the link for the full text of the law.), and there is an official site for the implementation plan. See the Evidence of Dying Forests Yourself Storrie fire Stream fire [3D topo map of fire area] [Photo Gallery] Bucks fire Lookout fire Further Reading Now They Have Burned Los Alamos The huge fire in Los Alamos during May of 2000 prompted Bill to post this entire article, portions of which were published earlier in the journal Science, describing the idiotic policies that allowed and even encouraged this disaster to occur. The Real Danger to the California Spotted Owl This article notes that while forest thinning is not allowed in many areas to protect the Spotted Owl, large forest fires completely destroy areas of its habitat, yet the U.S. Forest Service ignores the impact of these fires on its habitat. Who’s Responsible These are the people that Bill Wattenburg believes are responsible for the harm done to the forests you see here. Chad Hanson, Executive Director of the John Muir Project of the Earth Island Institute Mr. Hanson is also a national director of the Sierra Club. Here is the contact information listed on the Web site: John Muir Project P.O. Box 697 Cedar Ridge, CA 95924 Phone: (530)273-9290 Fax: (530)273-9260 Call To Action You must write, call, or email your representatives in Congress and the President immediately and tell them in your own words what is suggested below: Subject: Save our burned-over forests immediately If you want my vote in the next election, and votes from my friends, you must quickly sponsor and approve an emergency bill in Congress that orders the removal and salvaging of the millions of dead and dying trees in burned-over areas of our national forests. This work must start before June 2002 or the dead trees will rot and the bugs and beetles will infest millions more green trees. I will never again vote for you if you do not make this absolutely minimal effort to protect our greatest natural resource. All environmental laws and restrictions that we supported in good faith must be waived for this purpose. For decades, Congress directed that the U.S. Forest Service remover all dead and dying trees immediately. But lately, the environmental laws that we supported to protect our green forests are being exploited by greedy lawyers to delay and subvert the rescue of our burned-over forests. This is not what our honest and sincere representatives in Congress intended. Meaningless technicalities in our environmental laws and our federal courts are being exploited by radical religious cult members who believe that all human activity in our forests is “against God’s will”. What they really want are enormous attorney’s fees for bringing frivolous, but vicious legal actions. They want to take over total control of our forests from Congress and government agencies designated to manage our forests. And they have done it. You must prove to me and the public that you have personally walked over and inspected our burned-over forests and seen first hand the destruction of delay that is taking place. If you do not stop this crime against our forests immediately, I will personally contact at least ten friends and associates before the next election and tell them that you have failed your responsibility to protect our national resources. I ask you to sponsor an emergency act of Congress that includes at least the following provisions: Removal of the dead and dying trees must be put up for sale to the highest bidder within 60 days after a fire. The successful bidder must begin removal of the dead and dying trees within 90 days and all dead and dying trees designated by local federal officials responsible for the burned area must be removed within one year. All proceeds from the sale of dead and dying trees must first be applied to the replanting and rehabilitation of the burned-over forest areas by qualified contractors before these funds may be used for any other governmental purposes. All existing environmental laws and regulations must be waived and cannot by used by any government agency or third party to impede or delay the removal of dead and dying trees from burned over areas. This page was last modified on Sunday, 14-Apr-2002 02:39:11 EDT. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless otherwise noted, contents of this site Copyright © 1996–2002 by Peter K. Sheerin, All rights reserved. \| Masthead \| E-mail, Postal, Phone and Fax Contact Information \| This article, and many other interesting ones, can be found at PushBack.com Good Forestry Web Sites Greenspirit.com This orginization is run by Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, who left when the lawyers took it over and turned a good thing into something filled with fraud. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have any suggestions for other sources related to this page, such as books, magazine/newspaper articles, or other Web sites? Drop me a line and I’ll consider adding them.