There seems to be no relief from this....

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Just when we'd thought that Clinton's veto of the sufficiency
rider marked the end to this "timber salvage without environmental laws"
folly, here come the Republicans to announce that they're "working on a
deal with the president." Said Representative Wes Cooley, R-Ore.
"somewhere along the ling he will accept this. I'm 99% confident that it
will pass." For those of you not familiar with Wes Cooley's position on
the environment, two weeks ago, when he heard that President Clinton had
vetoed the bill that contained the salvage proposal Senator Cooley said,
"the only ones in opposition to this bill are the environmental
extremists who simply don't know what's good for the forests. There is
no commercial value to a dead tree lying on the forst floor." Obviously,
Mr. Cooley's remarks are similar to those of other republicans who
confuse "what's good for the forests" with "commercial value."
The point is that we need to keep the pressure on the president
and others to take a firm stand on this issue. I'm in complete agreement
that there can be some salvage logging, but I also know that suspending
all environmental laws and eliminating legal challenges to the proposed
logging is nothing more than a license to steal by the timber industry.
They will high-grade (taking only the biggest, healthiest, and most
profitable trees) they will make a bee-line for the last roadless areas
so that they can build roads into these areas under the guise of "forest
health" and then come back later to ask to log them fully because they're
no longer road-less areas.
For those who have toaken the time to write or e-mail the Pres,
do it again, thanking him for the veto and imploring him not to cave-in
to the timber industry and their campaign-fund republican lackeys. If
you haven't written yet, please take the time to do so now, because it is
during these "lulls of public opinion" that the behind-the-scenes
deal-making goes on, and that is when we usually loose our hard fought
battles. I understand that the whitehouse recieved over 20,000 e-mails
against the timber salvage bill, let's send him another 20,000 so he
doesn't forget!!!!!!!