>Resent-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 12:12:15 -0700 (PDT)
>Resent-From: dpaulson at ups.edu
>Resent-To: DPAULSON at mail.ups.edu
>Date: Sat, 28 Sep 96 12:32:07 PDT
>From: anamaria at grinnell.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Rauch)
>To: bene at straylight.tamu.edu, birdchat at listserv.arizona.edu
>Subject: Your Land, My Land ?
>
>-Are you a birder?
>-A conservationist?
>-An environmentalist?
>-A lover of solice?
>-Do you believe Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp is a nice place to bird?
>-How about the Everglades NP?
>-Do you believe you own the National Parks and Preserves?
>-Do you care what happens to the National Parks/Preserves?
>
>Then, this message is MUST reading for you.
>
>The "ORV Management Planning Effort for Big Cypress National Preserve"
>is underway for ONE year already. This 3-year study is perhaps the
>most critical planning effort for the Big Cypress, ever. It is
>certainly going to be the most impactful on those --what I hope are
>only rhetorical-- questions that I posed above.
>
>Swamp buggies and other off-road-capable vehicles have been in heavy
>use in the Big Cypress NP. The eventual ORV Management Plan will
>"address how, where, and when people operate ORVs. It will affect
>people who visit the Preserve even if they do not ride ORVs."
>To quote another section of the newsletter (see below) "We need your
>help to produce a strategy that turns [Congressional legislative]
>guidelines into a workable plan for managing ORVs. Riding ORVs in
>the Preserve is a long-standing recreational activity. With your help,
>this project can make sure the tradition continues and that the
>Preserve's purpose is protected." !
>
>The Plan will affect you, as an owner of the National Parks and Preserves.
>Not just your Big Cypress NP, but if this study is done "right", it
>will become a model for how such management plans are developed
>for other National Park Service lands. It behooves you to make sure
>it is done right!
>
>WATCH THIS STUDY CLOSELY! PARTICIPATE IT IN! Here's how to begin...
>
>Send email to LISTSERV at LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG with this one-line
>command in the body of your message:
>
>GET ORVMP1-Big.CypressNP
>
>( that's a one: o r v m p 1 ...)
>
>You will receive by return email issue No. 1, Aug 1966, of a copy
>of the Planning Effort's newsletter about the study. In there, you
>ought to find plenty to be concerned about, and to write about. It
>includes a brief questionnaire as well, and invites further feedback.
>(You can reach the Participation Coordinator at Peter_Williams at nps.gov
>until Oct 31,96)
>
>Protect your future environments. This is _not_ for Floridians only;
>it is a National environmental land and resources use issue.
>
>Peter Rauch (Calif to Fla), anamaria at grinnell.berkeley.edu

Dennis Paulson, Director 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