USA: The Act to Save America’s Forests
Carl Ross has spent 20 years in Washington DC on behalf of the grassroots forest protection movement lobbying for legislation to provide greater protection for our nation’s forests – the Act to Save America’s Forests. In that time, he has shown remarkable persistence and consistency with respect to his original vision and to crafting the strongest bill he believes can gain enough support for hearings, a vote, and a presidential signature to become law. That possibility is perhaps closer now than it has been at any time in the past twenty years. Heartwood has endorsed the Act to Save America’s Forests and we ask you to do the same. Information on lending your support for the passage of this important measure can be found in the message from Carl Ross, below. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or would like any additional information. –Andy Mahler, Heartwood http://www.heartwood.org
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The Act to Save America’s Forests is the largest, most comprehensive forest protection and restoration legislation ever considered by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. The main section of the bill primarily affects how the U.S. Forest Service manages the 190 million acres of our national forest system. It will stop the U.S. Forest Service from using destructive forms of logging, such as clearcutting, and will prevent the Forest Service from logging ecologically important forest areas such as Ancient forests and roadless forests. The Act to Save America’s Forests will: 1) Stop clearcutting in our national forests, 2) Require the Forest Service to protect and restore the biological diversity of the natural forest ecosystems in our national forests, 3) Prevent logging in the last Ancient and roadless forests throughout our national forest system, 4) Transfer the Giant Sequoia National Monument to the National Park Service, 5) Require the National Park Service to undertake a comprehensive national study for potential new national parks
We believe that the Act to Save America’s Forests is a major step in that direction and legislation whose time has come. Heartwood has endorsed the Act to Save America’s Forests and we ask you to do the same. Information on lending your support for the passage of this important measure can be found in the message from Carl Ross, below. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or would like any additional information.
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In reviewing the ‘Act to Save America’s Forests,’ it seems policy I basically would greatly support. I remain convinced that the present US Forest Service, and the mindset which created it, must fundamentally change towards new and positive directions. That our land and all forests must be respected, nourished, and allowed to thrive in a wild state to the greatest degree possible.
I’ve only discovered to this specific bill, still studying it, but in principle something I would suggest to President Obama see done ASAP. Something I did not notice, although perhaps included, or implied, the present practice of the US Forest Service to largely butcher forests in the name of ‘fire prevention,’ and scare the greater populace into sanctioning and contributing to such an abomination.
Also, in looking, it appears that SEC. 502 (Effect on Existing Contracts): “This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not apply to any contract for the sale of timber that was entered into on or before the date of enactment of this Act. ” . . . a loophole large enough to drive a flotilla of logging trucks through.
Please let me know how I may best help in the passage of this bill, or refer me to those who could use such help. Thank you.