Stop Bush's Midnight Raid Upon Oregon's Wild Forests and Rivers
ACTION ALERT
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
FORESTS ALERT!
By Ecological Internet's Forests.org, http://forests.org/ November 17, 2008
TAKE ACTION Like his Presidency, it is time for President Bush's looting, plundering, and pillaging of America’s natural beauty, ecological treasures and vital ecosystems to end
http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=oregon_midnight_raid
The Bush Administration is rushing out long-term plans that would convert over 2 million acres of Oregon's national forests, with their towering trees, rushing rivers, and superb wildlife habitat, to empty clearcuts. Much of the forests under siege are in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Crest, which contains some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the continent. There are some 20,000 miles of rivers, where wild Pacific salmon thrive. Ancient old-growth forests are abundant -- home to huge Douglas fir, western hemlock and western red cedar trees -- some well over 400 years old.
The plan increases logging by 400% and would target 100,000 acres of old-growth forests for destruction. Oregon Governor Kulongoski is the only elected official standing between the Bush Administration and western Oregon's forests, rivers and salmon. He is allowed a 60-day "consistency review" period to propose recommendations for changes to land use plans. Please encourage the governor to propose significant amendments, pushing this decision to the Obama administration.
TAKE ACTION NOW: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=oregon_midnight_raid
DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://forests.org/blog/2008/11/alert-stop-bushs-midnight-raid.asp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Old+Growth
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=logging
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
FORESTS ALERT!
By Ecological Internet's Forests.org, http://forests.org/ November 17, 2008
TAKE ACTION Like his Presidency, it is time for President Bush's looting, plundering, and pillaging of America’s natural beauty, ecological treasures and vital ecosystems to end
http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=oregon_midnight_raid
The Bush Administration is rushing out long-term plans that would convert over 2 million acres of Oregon's national forests, with their towering trees, rushing rivers, and superb wildlife habitat, to empty clearcuts. Much of the forests under siege are in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Crest, which contains some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the continent. There are some 20,000 miles of rivers, where wild Pacific salmon thrive. Ancient old-growth forests are abundant -- home to huge Douglas fir, western hemlock and western red cedar trees -- some well over 400 years old.
The plan increases logging by 400% and would target 100,000 acres of old-growth forests for destruction. Oregon Governor Kulongoski is the only elected official standing between the Bush Administration and western Oregon's forests, rivers and salmon. He is allowed a 60-day "consistency review" period to propose recommendations for changes to land use plans. Please encourage the governor to propose significant amendments, pushing this decision to the Obama administration.
TAKE ACTION NOW: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=oregon_midnight_raid
DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://forests.org/blog/2008/11/alert-stop-bushs-midnight-raid.asp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Old+Growth
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=logging
rudkla - 18. Nov, 08:47
