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>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:21:38 -0800 (PST)
>From: Western Ancient Forest Campaign <wafcdc at igc.apc.org>
>Subject: Rocky Sale on the Block/Rep. Dicks to Blame
>To: Recipients of conference <mlist.wafcdc at conf.igc.apc.org>
>
>TO: All Forest Activists
>FROM: Steve Holmer/Bonnie Phillips
>DATE: January 18, 1996
>
>SUBJECT: Rocky Sale on the Block/Rep. Dicks to Blame
>
> Logging is expected to begin Saturday on the Rocky Old
>Growth Timber Sale on the Olympic National Forest. The Logging
>Without Laws rider brought this illegal timber sale forward, and the
>decision by Judge Hogan last week to release sales from 1990-1995
>that were stopped because of environmental law violations means
>there is little hope to save the old growth sale from being clearcut.
>
> Messages of outrage for this old growth sale should go to
>Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA), who Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) has
>referred to as the "co-author" of the logging without laws rider.
>Rep. Dicks' staff has made claims on several occasions that he was
>not involved with creating or promoting the logging rider, but the
>March 15, 1995 Congressional Record where Dicks spoke in support
>of the rider and Rep. Taylor made the co-author reference speaks
>for itself.
>
> Rep. Dicks recently said that he feels that the rider has had
>unintended consequences and needs to be fixed but not completely
>repealed. Rep. Dicks needs to understand that the Rocky sale is
>only one of many environmentally destructive timber sales under the
>rider and that many more sales could be logged this spring and
>summer if the rider is not repealed. We must remind Dicks that
>only a full repeal will "fix" the problems that he helped to create.
>
> There are two call-in days scheduled. Please contact Rep.
>Dicks at his Tacoma office Friday, Jan. 19 at 800/947-6676 and tell
>him that you are outraged at the logging of Ancient Forests on the
>Olympic and urge him to co-sponsor Rep. Furse's Rider Repeal Bill,
>H.R. 2745. Also call his Washington, D.C. office on Monday, Jan.
>22 with the same message at 202/225-5916. His fax number is
>202/226-1176.
>
>
>Doonesbury Auction Alert
> Sunday, in papers across the nation, Gary Trudeau's
>Doonesbury called on citizens to send in their bids for valuable
>national assets put on the auction block by the 104th Congress.
>Please send Speaker Gingrich a message that you don't want to see
>our nation's natural heritage sold to the highest bidder. The fax
>number is 202/225-7733 and Rep. Gingrich's number is 202/225-0600.

Dennis Paulson phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416