[acn-l] Fwd: Proposed legislation threatens bears!
Bruce Bernard (bruce_bernard at yahoo.com)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
actionquestions at worldwildlife.org wrote:
>
> Proposed legislation threatens bears!
>
> Dear WWF Conservation Action Network Participant:
>
> We urgently need your help to support public lands acquisition
> funds and to oppose legislation that threatens bears, marine
> mammals, a national wildlife refuge and wilderness area in
> Alaska, and many other animals and wild places. In the next two
> weeks, the U.S. House and Senate will vote on the fiscal year
> 1999 Interior Appropriations bills authorizing federal
> spending for natural resource management programs.
> Unfortunately, some Members have loaded up the bills with
> anti-environmental "riders," provisions that would-
>
> * authorize road construction through the Izembek National
> Wildlife Refuge and wilderness area and the Copper River Delta in
> the Chugach National Forest in Alaska, both
> internationally-recognized wetlands that support brown bears and
> enormous waterfowl and fish populations.
>
> * prohibit funds from being spent to reintroduce the grizzly bear
> in the Selway-Bitterroot ecosystem in the Northern Rockies;
>
> * prohibit phase out of commercial fishing in Glacier Bay
> National Park in Alaska, a marine protected area designated as a
> Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site;
>
> * dramatically increase logging on the Tongass National Forest in
> Alaska;
>
> * eliminate dam removal initiatives in the Pacific Northwest that
> would help restore salmon populations.
>
> These riders are not the first time environmental opponents have
> tried to undo critically important programs by burying damaging
> provisions in must-pass funding bills. Riders are like vandals
> chipping away at our environmental laws in the dead of night.
>
> We have a chance to remove these provisions if people express
> their opposition. Go to http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org to
> send free faxes and/or e-mails urging your Congressional
> delegation to oppose all the anti-environmental riders in the
> bill.
>
> If you receive extra copies of the alert, let us know and we will
> check your account.
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