Save Public Lands! by Liora Leah .....

Eco-Action Alert! Save Public Lands! Bush Administration wants to auction our national forests! Take Action by signing e-letter to U.S.D.A. Forest Service by May 1!

Date:   4/17/2006 9:24:56 PM ( 18 y ago)

Stop the Auction of Our National Forest Lands--New Comment Deadline May 1!

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.

 
The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination (SRS) Act of 2000 ended the perverse incentive of funding rural schools and county roads from logging sales on national forests by guaranteeing funding to counties based on historic levels of logging revenue. The Bush Administration wants to sell national forests to fund the SRS program. Our children's education should be paid for responsibly with a dependable funding source--not by recklessly pawning our national forest inheritance. Many of the lands up for sale provide important wildlife habitat, clean drinking water and air, and a natural legacy for future generations.
 
TAKE ACTION:  http://www.wildcalifornia.org/actions/number-51
 
 
ACTION sponsored by EPIC, the Environmental Protection Information Center
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/index.shtml

 

 

 


 

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