TAKE ACTION:  http://www.wildcalifornia.org/actions/number-51

On February 26th, the Forest Service began a comment period on a proposal to auction our national forests. After six years of undermining protections for public lands and forests, President Bush's FY 2007 budget proposes to sell more than a quarter of a million acres of public lands. The Administration claims that selling forests managed by the U. S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is necessary to generate $800 million to "offset" payments to rural schools. The permanent sale of these forest lands will only temporarily fund the program.

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