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UPDATE: Supreme Court Ruling Makes It A No-Go For Attempts To Overturn Roadless Rule.10/8/12: The collective voice of many animal and environmental advocacy groups pays off again! Kinship Circle registered firm opposition with USDA Forest Service to Bush admin proposals to overturn President Clinton's Roadless Area Conversation Rule. The Supreme Court has opted to not hear an appeal to a prior 10th Circuit Court ruling that upheld the Roadless Rule. This is a big win for wild animals, especially those threatened or endangered, whom inhabit the 58.5 million acres of national forest (out of 192 million acres total) without roads. According to U.S. Forest Service, Tongass National Forest alone is home to animals uncommon in other parts of the U.S. “Biologists estimate that 1,700 coastal brown (grizzly) bears roam Admiralty Island and share the island with large populations of nesting bald eagles. The Alexander Archipelago wolf lives in Southeast Alaska. Mountain goats climb along steep, rocky crags above the timberline. Other animals such as moose, deer, beaver, fox and porcupine are common throughout the forest. All five species of Pacific salmon (chum, coho, king, pink and sockeye) thrive and spawn in the streams and waters of the Tongass National Forest. Dolly Varden char, and rainbow, steelhead, and cutthroat trout are common freshwater fish.”
Over the course of an 11-year struggle, those advocating Clinton-admin immunity for roadless areas staunchly oppose opening natural woodlands to road construction, logging, mining, oil/gas and other industrial development. Roadless regions are not only vital haven for animals, but also encompass sources of drinkable water for humans. Environment News Service: Jane Danowitz of the Pew Environment group points out that this Roadless Rule win is the result of the largest public lands review in U.S. history, with more than 1.2 million comments and 600 public hearings. The “Supreme Court action validates one of America's most important and popular land conservation policies,” Danowitz says. “Without the national standard of protection the rule provides, millions of acres of America's last pristine national forests could be lost to logging and other industrial development.”
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Content Analysis Team
ATTN: Roadless State Petitions
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 221090
Salt Lake City, UT 84122
fax: 801-517-1014
email: statepetitionroadless@fs.fed.us
website: http://roadless.fs.fed.us
RE: Public comment for the roadless area management state petition proposal
Please register my firm opposition to the administration's proposal to overturn President Clinton's Roadless Area Conservation Rule and substitute it with a subjective governor petition/rulemaking system. A standardized policy is essential to safeguard close to one third of national forestland from logging, mining, or oil and gas development.
Although the Clinton administration's Roadless Rule generated 600 public hearings, years of scientific analysis, and an astonishing 2.5 million public comments — with 95 percent in favor of a ban on road construction and logging on 58 million acres of national forest — Bush officials are not convinced.
Even before the administration extended the public comment deadline to November 15 (notably after the election) the Forest Service was inundated with remarks condemning the proposed rule change. Now, amid a steady stream of aversion, the administration continues to evaluate a rule reversal that would immediately open 34.5 million acres of natural woodlands to road building and industrial development.
The Roadless Rule maintains haven for wildlife, unspoiled drinking water, and recreational opportunities. Please do not let commercial enterprises encroach upon wildlife habitat and denigrate the land's integrity.
I strongly encourage the U.S. Forest Service to leave the Roadless Area Conservation Rule intact in the Lower 48 states and Alaska's Chugach National Forest. In addition, please restore the rule in the Tongass National Forest.
Ultimately, your decision will resonate for decades.
Thank you, YOUR FULL NAME
ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
COUNTRY
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20500
ph: 202-456-1414
fax: 202-456-2461
email: president@whitehouse.gov
Dear President Bush,
Future generations look to you to protect our nation's forests. Your decision in the Roadless Rule will resonate for decades. A million and a half U.S. citizens felt strongly enough about this rule's import to write to the Forest Service. Ultimately, the preservation of our last wild lands rests in your hands.
Please do not allow more road development to encroach upon wildlife habitat and diminish the land's integrity. Urge the Justice Department to shield the roadless rule from legal blockades and to not pursue settlement arrangements with those who dispute the rule.
Please also ensure that Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman follows in her forerunner's footsteps with a comparable commitment to conserving national forests.
Please weigh the sweeping impact of erecting roads through our country's last wild sanctuaries. I hope I can count on you to safeguard the environment from ruinous commercial enterprises.
Thank-you for your attention to this important issue.
Sincerely, YOUR FULL NAME
ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
COUNTRY
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Content Analysis Team
ATTN: Roadless State Petitions
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 221090
Salt Lake City, UT 84122
fax: 801-517-1014
email: statepetitionroadless@fs.fed.us
website: http://roadless.fs.fed.us
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20500
ph: 202-456-1414
fax: 202-456-2461
email: president@whitehouse.gov
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