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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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