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URGENT - OCS Sign-on Letter Needs Immediate Action -Forwarded (fwd)
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: URGENT - OCS Sign-on Letter Needs Immediate Action -Forwarded (fwd)
- From: Joshua Stuart Rose <jsr6@duke.edu>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:32:29 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
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/