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  • From: Jim Meade <jnmeade@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
  • To: George Weston Manning <georgem@csn.net>
  • Cc: pete@holly.ColoState.EDU, jrhall@iastate.edu, mhoover@journals.uchicago.edu, permaculture-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu, wilcoxs@ac.grin.edu, jowilcox@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
  • Subject: Re: Petition re: wilderness bills
  • Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 07:05:25 -0600 (CST)

George,

Please remove me from your broadcasting of this and similar types of
messages. Thank you.


On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, George Weston Manning wrote:

>
> ! * ! * ! * SIGN THIS PETITION IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, THE
> DESERT, PROTECTION OF PRISTINE WILDERNESS AREAS! * ! *
>
> As this editorial in the New York Times states, two very very
> bad bad bad bills: HR 1745 and its senate counterpart S884, are
> currently proposing wilderness annihilation in the beautiful desert lands
> of Utah. Read the following article if you want more details. This
> is a NATIONAL issue, and an issue of misrepresentation-- the people
> of Utah do not want this bill passed and their representatives are not
> listening.
> ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SIGN YOUR NAME TO THIS LIST AND SEND IT ON TO 5 OTHER
> PEOPLE.
> IF YOU ARE A TENTH PERSON TO SIGN YOUR NAME, FORWARD THE LIST BACK TO ME:
> whittle@owlnet.rice.edu
> (i.e. the 10th, 20th, 30th person will forward this message to me in
> progress)
> I will compile the petition and send it to the important senators, etc.
>
> ------Editorial in the New York Times, November 15,1995----------
> . . .There is another test just around the corner. Companion bills in
> the House and Senate would take about 22 million acres of Federal land in
> Utah now run by the Federal Bureau of Land Management,give wilderness
> protection to a mere 1.8 million acres in southeastern Utah's
> fabled canyonlands and open the rest to mining, road-building and
> development.
> The bills are sponsored by Representative James Hansen and Senator Orrin
> Hatch, both Utah Republicans. A competing bill sponsored by Representative
> Maurice Hinchey of New York is much better. It would protect 5.7 million
> acres, which environmentalists think is the minimum required to maintain the
> integrity of the canyonlands. According to several polls, Utah's
> rank-and-file citizens prefer the Hinchey approach and believe that there
> is more to be gained from tourism if the terrain is left alone than from
> bulldozing some of the nation's most fragile and scenic lands. But Utah's
> Congressional delegation prefers the bulldozer.
> Critics of the Hatch-Hansen bill have two further complaints.
> First, it would undermine the intent of the 1964 Wilderness Act--an act
> that designates wilderness as a place "where man himself is but a
> visitor"--by allowing development even in the 1.8 million protected acres.
> Second, it
> forecloses the possibility of future wilderness designations. The B.L.M.
> will continue to manage the 20 million Utah acres left unprotected by the
> Hansen-Hatch bills. But the bills say the land must hence- forth be
> reserved for commercial users. Wilderness designation will no longer be an
> option. Finally, victory for the Hansen-Hatch bills could provide smoother
> sailing for other measures that are aimed at stripping the Federal
> Government of control over public lands. The most brazen of these are
> identical bills sponsored by Senator Craig Thomas, Republican of Wyoming,
> and Mr. Hansen that would transfer to the states every single acre managed
> anywhere by the B.L.M., some 270 million acres in all. A variant has been
> offered by Senator Conrad Burns, Republican of Montana, who would establish
> a commission to identify national forests and other public lands that could
> be sold or transferred to the states or private
> interest. The Thomas-Hansen measure proposes a give-away. The Burns bill
> threatens a national yard sale of the country's natural heirlooms. Mr.
> Thomas
> says the lands would be better administered "by the people who truly
> understand the needs of local citizens. That, of course, means Western
> state legislatures, which tend to be far more inclined to exploit public
> resources for commercial gain than even this Congress.
> These are destructive ideas, and the only sure way to stop them is
> to send a clear conservationist signal by defeating the Utah lands bill.
> The main hope is on the House floor, where a growing group of moderate
> Republicans is having strong second thoughts about legislation that
> endangers
> the environment. The preservation of a sound national public lands strategy
> may lie in their hands.
>
> PETITION BEGINS HERE:
>
> "I do not support wilderness annihilation bills HR 1745 and S884. I
> am in favor of Senator Hinchey's and the Utah citizen's proposal
> to designate AT LEAST 5.7 million acres of PROTECTED wilderness in southern
> Utah."
>
> # NAME E-MAIL (not obligatory) PLACE OF
> RESIDENCE
>
> 1. Elizabeth Whittlesey whittle@owlnet.rice.edu Texas,orig. Utah
> 2. Cori Nelson corin@leland.stanford.edu CA, orig.Utah
> 3. Erin Johnson ejohnson@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT, orig. Utah
> 4. Sung-Min Chung sucker@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT, orig.MD
> 5. Thomas Socci NY, NY
> 6. Sofia Yakren NY
> 7. Elizabeth Kanter MA, orig. NJ
> 8. Amelia Kaplan akaplan@fas.harvard.edu NJ
> 9. Emily Hobson ehobson@fas.harvard.edu CA
> 10. Adam Dylan Hefty hefty@fas.harvard.edu KS
> 11. Eric Albert edalbert@fas.har vard.edu NJ
> 12. Daniel Mason dmason@fas.harvard.edu CA
> 13. Joshua Mooney moondog@dartmouth.edu CA
> 14. Erica Brandling-Bennett beeb@dartmouth.edu VA
> 15. Allison Brugg Alli.Brugg@Dartmouth.edu CT
> 16. Leah Campbell Cams@Dartmouth.edu NY
> 17. Tamar Kraft-Stolar tk38@cornell.edu NY
> 18. Zoe Weinrobe zrw1@cornell.edu MA
> 19. Anna Spraycar ams40@cornell.edu MD
> 20. Jessica Shattuck MD
> 21. Karen E. Thomas kethomas@phoenix.princeton.edu CA
> 22. Steven W. Thomas Providence, RI
> 23. Chris Harley harley@zoology.washington.edu
> 24. Jennie Hoffman WA
> 25. Eric Sanford sanforde@bcc.orst.edu OR
> 26. Philip Brownell brownell@bcc.orst.edu OR
> 27. Ben Brownell bbrownell@pomona.edu OR
> 28. Brian Cross bcross@pomona.edu CA
> 29. Nathaniel Gilbert ngilbert@pomona.edu CA, WA
> 30. David Severson severson@lclark.edu OR, WA
> 31. Benjamin Kalm kalm@lclark.edu UT
> 32. Sandy Kalm sk637@bard.edu UT
> 33. Tiare Sheller ts396@bard.edu WA
> 34. Nathan Sheller ns573@bard.edu WA
> 35. Joel Krist joelkr@microsoft.com WA
> 36. Kym Krist WA
> 37. Angela Linse linse@u.washington.edu WA
> 38. Barbara Knox-Seith bknoxs@scn.org WA
> 39. Lisa Dabek ldabek@fish.washington.edu WA
> 40. Tamara Jackson instruct@fish.washington.edu WA
> 41. Alyssa Reischauer alyssar@fish.washington.edu WA
> 42. Robert Bellsey bellsey@brahms.biosci.arizona.edu AZ
> 43. A. Ellinor Michel emichel@umich.edu MI (voter reg. AZ)
> 45. Sara Roos roos@hsc.usc.edu CA
> 46. George Ruben George.C.Ruben@Datmouth.EDU, NH
> 47. Martha Luehrmann MRLuehrmann@LBL.gov CA
> 48. Dariush Arasteh dariush@lbl.gov CA
> 49. Robin Mitchell rmitchell@xenergy.com CA
> 50. Joseph Ball jball@xenergy.com CA
> 51. Mark D'Antonio mdantonio@xenergy.com MA
> 52. Derek Shuman DBShuman@lbl.gov CA
> 53. Phillip Price pnprice@lbl.gov CA
> 54. Greg Klunder glklunder@lbl.gov CA
> 55. Laura Yee lauray@qei.com CA
> 56. Thayon Barton thayonb@qei.com CA
> 57. Joseph Sullivan jsullivn@uiuc.edu IL
> 58. Christine Armer caarmer@uiuc.edu IL, CA
> 59. Ryan Gossen 10247,554@compuserve.com TX, CA
> 60. Laura M. Smith TX
> 61. Suzanne D. Ramo sramo@mail.utexas.edu TX
> 62. Stephen Bright bright@ened.com TX
> 63. April Parra ap16572@swt.edu TX
> 64. Eileen Bamberger bamberge@ralph.southwestern.edu TX
> 65. Stephen Rice rices@ralph.southwestern.edu TX
> 66. Vicki Albright vickia@bcm.tmc.edu TX
> 67. David Wilcox wilcox_d@hccs.cc.tx.us TX
>
>
>


Jim - Farmer - Iowa City, IA,
jnmeade@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu





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