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URGENT - OCS Sign-on Letter Needs Immediate Action -Forwarded (fwd)



Hi C-birders,

The attatched letter is apparently intended for the heads of conservation 
organizations. Since many folks on this list either head or belong to 
organizations such as CBC, CBS, assorted local Audubon chapters, various 
land conservancies, and the like, I thought you all might want to take 
note of this and bring it to the attention of anyone who qualifies but 
is not on the listserv. If you can do so, please do it quickly; the new 
deadline is Friday November 5, the day after tomorrow!

Cheers,

Josh

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Subject: URGENT - OCS Sign-on Letter Needs Immediate Action -Forwarded
EJ Williams <EJ_Williams@MAIL.DNR.STATE.GA.US> 
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 08:57:50 -0500

The deadline for support of this letter has been extended through Friday, 
Nov. 5.  This legislation is critical for providing much needed funding 
for bird and other wildlife conservation.

Please address any questions or comments to those listed in the letter. I 
have no further information on the letter and I will be out of town at 
meetings for the next week.

Thanks!
EJ

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MEMORANDUM

TO:             State Fish and Wildlife Directors
                  State TWW Contacts
                  TWW Supporters

FROM:       R. Max Peterson, Exec Vice President, IAFWA

SUBJ:        URGENT - OCS Sign-on Letter Needs Immediate Action

DATE:        October 25, 1999

A number of conservation organizations, including the International 
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (IAFWA), have been working with 
the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) on a broad-based general letter of 
support to Congress for conservation funding legislation. We hope to have 
this important letter signed by hundreds of national, state, and local 
conservation organizations within the next week. IAFWA whole-heartedly 
supports this letter because it sends a positive message and emphasizes 
the need for wildlife conservation funding.

We strongly encourage you to get your state and local chapters of various 
wildlife conservation, recreation, and environmental organizations to 
lend their names to this letter as soon as possible. Below you will read 
a letter from NWF President and CEO Mark Van Putten followed by the 
actual letter for which we are asking you to gather signatures. To 
sign-on, please contact Krista Koberlein at (202)797-6894 or 
koberlein@nwf.org by Friday October 29, 1999.

Please call Naomi Edelson, Sara Marinello or me at (202) 624-7890 if you 
have any questions.

Thank you for your help.

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October 21, 1999


Re: Urgent sign-on letter in support of historic conservation funding 
legislation

Dear Colleagues:

I strongly encourage you to join the National Wildlife Federation and 
many others in signing the attached letter to Congress in support of 
permanent conservation funding legislation.  Now is the time to 
demonstrate the very deep and diverse support that this issue enjoys 
across the nation.

As many of you know, Congress is now considering several important 
legislative proposals that would use revenue from offshore oil and gas 
drilling to reinvest in programs that benefit our nation's natural and 
cultural resources. State wildlife programs, the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund (LWCF), coastal and marine conservation efforts, 
historic preservation, urban parks, and a variety of other programs would 
benefit. This legislation would ensure that the unfulfilled promise of 
the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) would not only be met, but 
surpassed.

We are at a crucial point in the legislative process.  To make permanent 
conservation funding a reality, it is vital that Congress hear now from 
the diverse array of interests who care about protecting our natural and 
cultural environment.

Please join us in this effort to pass an historic conservation bill by 
signing your organization on to this letter and circulating it broadly so 
that other like-minded organizations might add their names as well. We 
have deliberately kept the letter brief and the message simple so that it 
can be embraced by as many organizations as possible. The letter will be 
sent to every Member of Congress and leading officials in the 
Administration.

To sign-on, please contact Krista Koberlein at (202)797-6894 or 
koberlein@nwf.org by Friday October 29, 1999.  She will need the name and 
location of your organization, as well as the name and title of the 
individual representing your organization.  If you have questions about 
the legislation, please contact Sara Barth at (202)797-6666 or 
barth@nwf.org.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Mark Van Putten
President and CEO
National Wildlife Federation

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PROPOSED SIGN-ON LETTER

November 1, 1999

United States Senate/House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator/Representative:

As the twentieth century draws to a close, Congress has a rare 
opportunity to pass landmark legislation that would establish a permanent 
and significant source of conservation funding. A number of promising 
legislative proposals would take revenues from non-renewable offshore oil 
and gas resources and reinvest them in the protection of renewable 
resources such as our wildlife, public lands, coasts, oceans, cultural 
treasures, and outdoor recreation. Securing this funding would allow us 
to build upon the pioneering conservation tradition that Teddy Roosevelt 
initiated at the beginning of the century.

The vast majority of Americans recognize the duty we have to protect and 
conserve our rich cultural and natural legacies for future generations. A 
diverse array of interests, including sportsmen and women, 
conservationists, historic preservationists, outdoor recreationalists, 
the faith community, business interests, and others, support conservation 
funding legislation because they recognize it is essential to fulfill 
this obligation.

We call upon you and your colleagues to seize this unprecedented 
opportunity. Pass legislation that would make a substantial and reliable 
investment in the conservation of our nation's wildlife, public lands, 
coastal and marine resources, historic and cultural treasures, urban and 
rural parks, and open space. Design a bill that provides significant 
conservation benefits, is free of harmful environmental impacts to our 
coastal and ocean resources, and does not unduly hinder land acquisition 
programs.

An historic conservation funding bill is within our grasp. It will be an 
accomplishment that all can celebrate.  We look to Congress to make this 
legislation a reality.

Sincerely,



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Joshua S. Rose
Duke University
Department of Zoology

jsr6@acpub.duke.edu
http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/