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Re: Petition re: wilderness bills





On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, Rob Squires / Gill Ellison wrote:

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> >Date:	Fri, 2 Feb 1996 19:11:07 -0000
> >Subject: Petition re: wilderness bills
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> >! * ! * ! * SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, THE
> >DESERT, PROTECTION OF PRISTINE WILDERNESS AREAS! * ! *
> >
> >As this editorial in the New York Times states, two very very
> >bad bad bad bills: HR 1745 and its senate counterpart S884, are
> >currently proposing wilderness annihilation in the beautiful desert lands
> >of Utah.  Read the following article if you want more details. This
> >is a NATIONAL issue, and an issue of misrepresentation-- the people
> >of Utah do not want this bill passed and their representatives are not
> >listening.
> >ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SIGN YOUR NAME TO THIS LIST AND SEND IT ON TO 5 OTHER
> >PEOPLE.
> >IF YOU ARE A TENTH PERSON TO SIGN YOUR NAME, FORWARD THE LIST BACK TO ME:
> >whittle@owlnet.rice.edu
> >(i.e. the 10th, 20th, 30th person will forward this message to me in progress)
> >I will compile the petition and send it to the important senators, etc.
> >
> >------Editorial in the New York Times, November 15,1995----------
> >. . .There is another test just around the corner. Companion bills in
> >the House and Senate would take about 22 million acres of Federal land in
> >Utah now run by the Federal Bureau of Land Management,give wilderness
> >protection to a mere 1.8 million acres in southeastern Utah's
> >fabled canyonlands and open the rest to mining, road-building and
> >development.
> >The bills are sponsored by Representative James Hansen and Senator Orrin
> >Hatch, both Utah Republicans. A competing bill sponsored by Representative
> >Maurice Hinchey of New York is much better. It would protect 5.7 million
> >acres, which environmentalists think is the minimum required to maintain the
> >integrity of the canyonlands. According to several polls, Utah's
> >rank-and-file citizens prefer the Hinchey approach and believe that there
> >is more to be gained from tourism if the terrain is left alone than from
> >bulldozing some of the nation's most fragile and scenic lands. But Utah's
> >Congressional delegation prefers the bulldozer.
> >         Critics of the Hatch-Hansen bill have two further complaints.
> >First, it would undermine the intent of the 1964 Wilderness Act--an act
> >that designates wilderness as a place "where man himself is but a
> >visitor"--by  allowing development even in the 1.8 million protected acres.
> >Second, it
> >forecloses the possibility of future wilderness designations. The B.L.M.
> >will continue to manage the 20 million Utah acres left unprotected by the
> >Hansen-Hatch bills. But the bills say the land must hence- forth be
> >reserved for commercial users. Wilderness designation will no longer be an
> >option. Finally, victory for the Hansen-Hatch bills could provide smoother
> >sailing for other measures that are aimed at stripping the Federal
> >Government of control over public lands. The most brazen of these are
> >identical bills sponsored by Senator Craig Thomas, Republican of Wyoming,
> >and Mr. Hansen that would transfer to the states every single acre managed
> >anywhere by the B.L.M., some 270 million acres in all. A variant has been
> >offered by Senator Conrad Burns, Republican of Montana, who would establish
> >a commission to identify national forests and other public lands that could
> >be sold or transferred to the states or private
> >interest. The Thomas-Hansen measure proposes a give-away. The Burns bill
> >threatens a national yard sale of the country's natural heirlooms. Mr. Thomas
> >says the lands would be better administered "by the people who truly
> >understand the needs of local citizens.  That, of course, means Western
> >state legislatures, which tend to be far more inclined to exploit public
> >resources for commercial gain than even this Congress.
> >        These are destructive ideas, and the only sure way to stop them is
> >to send a clear conservationist signal by defeating the Utah lands bill.
> >The main hope is on the House floor, where a growing group of moderate
> >Republicans is having strong second thoughts about legislation that
> >endangers
> >the environment. The preservation of a sound national public lands strategy
> >may lie in their hands.
> >
> >PETITION BEGINS HERE:
> >
> >"I do not support wilderness annihilation bills HR 1745 and S884.  I
> >am in favor of Senator Hinchey's and the Utah citizen's proposal
> >to designate AT LEAST 5.7 million acres of PROTECTED wilderness in southern
> >Utah."
> >
> >    #    NAME                  E-MAIL (not obligatory)     PLACE OF RESIDENCE
> >
> >    1.  Elizabeth Whittlesey    whittle@owlnet.rice.edu     Texas,orig. Utah
> >    2.  Cori Nelson            corin@leland.stanford.edu   CA, orig.Utah
> >    3.  Erin Johnson            ejohnson@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT, orig. Utah
> >    4.  Sung-Min Chung          sucker@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT, orig.MD
> >    5.  Thomas Socci                                        NY, NY
> >    6.  Sofia Yakren                                        NY
> >    7.  Elizabeth Kanter                                    MA, orig. NJ
> >    8.  Amelia Kaplan           akaplan@fas.harvard.edu     NJ
> >    9.  Emily Hobson            ehobson@fas.harvard.edu     CA
> >    10. Adam Dylan Hefty        hefty@fas.harvard.edu       KS
> >    11. Eric Albert             edalbert@fas.har  vard.edu  NJ
> >    12. Daniel Mason            dmason@fas.harvard.edu      CA
> >    13. Joshua Mooney           moondog@dartmouth.edu       CA
> >    14. Erica Brandling-Bennett beeb@dartmouth.edu          VA
> >    15. Allison Brugg           Alli.Brugg@Dartmouth.edu    CT
> >    16. Leah Campbell           Cams@Dartmouth.edu          NY
> >    17. Tamar Kraft-Stolar      tk38@cornell.edu            NY
> >    18. Zoe Weinrobe            zrw1@cornell.edu            MA
> >    19. Anna Spraycar           ams40@cornell.edu           MDÚü?ý> >    
20. Jessica Shattuck                                    MD
> >    21. Karen E. Thomas         kethomas@phoenix.princeton.edu  CA
> >    22. Steven W. Thomas                                 Providence, RI
> >    23. Chris Harley            harley@zoology.washington.edu
> >    24. Jennie Hoffman                                      WA
> >    25. Eric Sanford            sanforde@bcc.orst.edu       OR
> >    26. Philip Brownell         brownell@bcc.orst.edu       OR
> >    27. Ben Brownell            bbrownell@pomona.edu        OR
> >    28. Brian Cross             bcross@pomona.edu           CA
> >    29. Nathaniel Gilbert       ngilbert@pomona.edu         CA, WA
> >    30. David Severson          severson@lclark.edu         OR, WA
> >    31. Benjamin Kalm           kalm@lclark.edu             UT
> >    32. Sandy Kalm              sk637@bard.edu              UT
> >    33. Tiare Sheller           ts396@bard.edu              WA
> >    34. Nathan Sheller          ns573@bard.edu              WA
> >    35. Joel Krist              joelkr@microsoft.com        WA
> >    36. Kym Krist                                           WA
> >    37. Angela Linse            linse@u.washington.edu      WA
> >    38. Barbara Knox-Seith      bknoxs@scn.org              WA
> >    39. Lisa Dabek              ldabek@fish.washington.edu  WA
> >    40. Tamara Jackson          instruct@fish.washington.edu WA
> >    41. Alyssa Reischauer       alyssar@fish.washington.edu WA
> >    42. Robert Bellsey          bellsey@brahms.biosci.arizona.edu  AZ
> >    43. A. Ellinor Michel       emichel@umich.edu MI (voter reg. AZ)
> >    45. Sara Roos               roos@hsc.usc.edu             CA
> >    46. George Ruben            George.C.Ruben@Datmouth.EDU, NH
> >    47. Martha Luehrmann        MRLuehrmann@LBL.gov          CA
> >    48. Dariush Arasteh         dariush@lbl.gov              CA
> >    49. Robin Mitchell          rmitchell@xenergy.com        CA
> >    50. Joseph Ball             jball@xenergy.com            CA
> >    51. Mark D'Antonio          mdantonio@xenergy.com        MA
> >    52. Derek Shuman            DBShuman@lbl.gov             CA
> >    53. Phillip Price           pnprice@lbl.gov              CA
> >    54. Greg Klunder            glklunder@lbl.gov        CA
> >    55. Laura Yee              lauray@qei.com     CA
> >    56. Thayon Barton          thayonb@qei.com     CA
> >    57. Joseph Sullivan         jsullivn@uiuc.edu            IL
> >    58. Christine Armer         caarmer@uiuc.edu             IL, CA
> >    59. Ryan Gossen             10247,554@compuserve.com     TX, CA
> >    60. Laura M. Smith                                       TX
> >    61. Suzanne D. Ramo         sramo@mail.utexas.edu        TX
> >    62. Stephen Bright          bright@ened.com              TX
> >    63. April Parra		ap16572@swt.edu		     TX
> >    64. Eileen Bamberger    bamberge@ralph.southwestern.edu  TX
> >    65. Stephen Rice	       rices@ralph.southwestern.edu  TX
> >    66. Vicki Albright	   vickia@bcm.tmc.edu              TX
> >    67. David Wilcox	wilcox_d@hccs.cc.tx.us              TX
> >    68. Rob Squires           robgil@yesyou.u-net.com      U.K.  
> >    69. German Poleo                                       VZLA
> >
> >
> >
> >
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