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  • From: Wilcox_D@hccs.cc.tx.us
  • 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
  • Subject: Petition re: wilderness bills
  • Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 14:11:07 -0500 (CDT)


! * ! * ! * 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







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