Crowdog
10-07-2002, 08:30 AM
Have you asked your representatives to support President Bush's Healthy Forest Initiative?
You can do so here:
http://capwiz.com/share/issues/alert/?alertid=511661
Jon
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Congressman James V. Hansen, (1st District - Utah)
Chairman, Committee on Resources; U.S. House of Representatives;
1324 Longworth House Office Building; Washington, D.C. 20515-6201; 202-225-2761
Website address: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Marnie Funk (Marnie.Funk@mail.house.gov) / Tracey Lynn Shifflett (Tracey.Shifflett@mail.house.gov)
(202) 226-9019
October 1, 2002
Two California Fires Destroy 100-plus Homes, Kill Wildlife, Ruin Watershed and Scorch More Than 40,000 Acres
But small, 3rd fire dramatically illustrates success of thinning projects
Washington , D.C. – House Resources Chairman James V. Hansen noted today that while the attention the nation is riveted on two raging California wildfires that have destroyed more than 100 homes and eaten through 40,000 acres, the true drama is a small, quiet third fire that has done little damage to an experimentally thinned forest in northern California .
Chairman James V. Hansen’s statement:
“National media has focused its cameras and pens on two California wildfires that have raged through rural communities, wildlife habitat, 40,000 acres of national forests and nearly $20 million dollars of taxpayers’ money in the past week.
“The media should be paying more attention to a third fire – a smaller, low-intensity fire in northern California that is burning in the Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest and the Lassen National Forest . This fire -- burning both through thinned and unthinned forest -- has proven the stark, dramatic truth that professional foresters have been telling us for years: Fires kill fewer trees and fewer wildlife in thinned forests. These low-intensity fires leave mature trees standing, wildlife habitat intact and precious watershed in place.
“I wish I could ship Carl Pope and the entire Sierra Club’s Board of Directors up to that fire to see for themselves what everyone else – Democrat and Republican alike – has been trying to tell them. Forest thinning works. It saves wildlife; it saves habitat; it saves watershed; it saves lives and it could have saved the 6.75 million acres of forest that we lost this year.”
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You can do so here:
http://capwiz.com/share/issues/alert/?alertid=511661
Jon
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Congressman James V. Hansen, (1st District - Utah)
Chairman, Committee on Resources; U.S. House of Representatives;
1324 Longworth House Office Building; Washington, D.C. 20515-6201; 202-225-2761
Website address: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Marnie Funk (Marnie.Funk@mail.house.gov) / Tracey Lynn Shifflett (Tracey.Shifflett@mail.house.gov)
(202) 226-9019
October 1, 2002
Two California Fires Destroy 100-plus Homes, Kill Wildlife, Ruin Watershed and Scorch More Than 40,000 Acres
But small, 3rd fire dramatically illustrates success of thinning projects
Washington , D.C. – House Resources Chairman James V. Hansen noted today that while the attention the nation is riveted on two raging California wildfires that have destroyed more than 100 homes and eaten through 40,000 acres, the true drama is a small, quiet third fire that has done little damage to an experimentally thinned forest in northern California .
Chairman James V. Hansen’s statement:
“National media has focused its cameras and pens on two California wildfires that have raged through rural communities, wildlife habitat, 40,000 acres of national forests and nearly $20 million dollars of taxpayers’ money in the past week.
“The media should be paying more attention to a third fire – a smaller, low-intensity fire in northern California that is burning in the Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest and the Lassen National Forest . This fire -- burning both through thinned and unthinned forest -- has proven the stark, dramatic truth that professional foresters have been telling us for years: Fires kill fewer trees and fewer wildlife in thinned forests. These low-intensity fires leave mature trees standing, wildlife habitat intact and precious watershed in place.
“I wish I could ship Carl Pope and the entire Sierra Club’s Board of Directors up to that fire to see for themselves what everyone else – Democrat and Republican alike – has been trying to tell them. Forest thinning works. It saves wildlife; it saves habitat; it saves watershed; it saves lives and it could have saved the 6.75 million acres of forest that we lost this year.”
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