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Re: Petition re: wilderness bills



George,

Please remove me from your broadcasting of this and similar types of 
messages.  Thank you.


On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, George Weston Manning wrote:

> 
> ! * ! * ! * 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
> 
> 
> 


Jim - Farmer - Iowa City, IA, 
jnmeade@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu



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