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  • From: s740648@aix1.uottawa.ca
  • To: Rob Squires / Gill Ellison <robgil@yesyou.u-net.com>
  • Cc: m.ryan@chemistry.salford.ac.uk, robgil@yesyou.u-net.com, e.foster@chemistry.salford.ac.uk, s.j.todkill@chemistry.salford.ac.uk, r.a.coldwell@chemistry.salford.ac.uk, j.p.rummery@chemistry.salford.ac.uk, m.j.pickersgill@suns.salford.ac.uk, Myk@rockbase.demon.co.uk, rsl@letsgo.u-net.com, tj@lcs.u-net.com, h.j.ventham@chemistry.salford.ac.uk, Squires_Peter/nmpca@nmp.nokia.com, landsman-lcs@u-net.net, econ-lets@mailbase.ac.uk, PERMACULTURE-MG@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
  • Subject: Re: Petition re: wilderness bills
  • Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:36:40 -0500 (EST)



On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, Rob Squires / Gill Ellison wrote:

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> >Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 19:11:07 -0000
> >Subject: Petition re: wilderness bills
> >To: achilles@iastate.edu, EMMETT@ac.grin.edu, jrhall@iastate.edu,
> > mhoover@journals.uchicago.edu, permaculture-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu,
> > wilcoxs@ac.grin.edu, jowilcox@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
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> >
> >! * ! * ! * 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 MDÚü?ý> >
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
> > 68. Rob Squires robgil@yesyou.u-net.com U.K.
> > 69. German Poleo VZLA
> >
> >
> >
> >
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