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  • From: robgil@yesyou.u-net.com (Rob Squires / Gill Ellison)
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  • Subject: Petition re: wilderness bills
  • Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:43:58 -0000

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>Subject: Petition re: wilderness bills
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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 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
> 68. Rob Squires robgil@yesyou.u-net.com U.K.
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