<font color="yellow">its a little far for me to walk, but maybe you WA guys could make a showing and take up an extra seat for me <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"></font c>

YOUR PRESENCE IS REQUESTED:
>
> The USFS Cle Elum R.D. has started on the Patty Murray project. Tim Foss
> handed out info sheets about the public meetings that will be held about
> scoping on these Wilderness Study Areas . We must get our people out to
> oppose this. If we don't, all of these 9? land parcels will probably be
> added to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. Some have jeep roads and some
are
> highly used snowmobile areas.
>
> Here is a list of meetings to be held:
>
> Monday May 7, 2001, Snoqualmie Ranger District
> 42404 SE North Bend Way
> North Bend, WA
>
> Tuesday, May 8, 2001, Summit Inn
> 603 State Route 906
> Snoqualmie Pass, WA
>
> Thursday , May 10, 2001, Hal Holmes Community Center
> 201 N Ruby
> Ellensburg, WA
>
> All meetings are open house type meetings that run from 4 PM to 8 PM.
>
> PLEASE FORWARD to your mailing lists. We must have people at the meetings
to
> let them know we use some of the proposed areas and that we want to be
part
> of the process to determine wilderness boundaries. If they don't hear from
> us then they won't know that they are trying to lock us out of areas that
we
> currently use. Plan to ATTEND.