-This may already be floating around, however it is important...please take a minute to send an email. However, has anyone considered starting a legal fund to contest this should it pass? GRE has an attorney that could take this on... (hes already filing against the BLM for us). If RME or U4 is interested in taking this on, let me know and I can pass the info on to whoever needs it.
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Congress trying to pass into law The Babbitt National Landscape Conservation System
(NLCS) (HR 2016) (S 1139).
A one-page letter from you will help stop HR 2016. Please act fast.
Please forward this message quickly and as widely as possible.
The NLCS Essentially Places A National Park Type Overlay Over Millions Of Acres Of
BLM Land. Multiple-Use and private property will be eliminated or threatened.
The Babbitt National Landscape Conservation System (HR 2016) threatens:
-----Multiple-Use in BLM areas;
-----Convert Wilderness Study Areas into Wilderness;
-----Access to BLM area;
-----Oil and Gas exploration;
-----Miners and mineral exploration;
-----Off-Highway Vehicle Use;
-----Private Property inside and adjacent to BLM area;
-----All kinds of recreation like shooting, hunting and rock collecting;
-----Hunting for some is essential to their survival;
-----Sightseeing;
-----River rafting;
-----Grazing;
-----Forestry and logging;
-----Many more types of recreation.
The list could go on and on.
You still have time to e-mail or fax in a one page or more letter as testimony against
HR 2016. This will be a disaster for BLM multiple-use lands.
The House National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee held a hearing on June 7th. You have until Thursday, June 21st to send your testimony by fax or e-mail.
Below are listed all the Members of the Natural Resources Committee including their fax and e-mail addresses. Be sure to say at the top of your letter:
*****What You Should Do Now!
-----1. Write a one page letter (or more) opposing HR 2016. Mark it at the top in the Subject Line: Testimony, HR 2016, National Landscape Conservation System. E-mail it to the Committee Chairman -- Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) FAX: (202) 226-2301 – e-mail it to his staff at: david.watkins@mail.house.gov
-----2. Important: E-mail a copy to the Ranking Minority Member Rob Bishop (R-UT) by sending it to his staff (casey.hammond@mail.house.gov).
Be sure to label your e-mail in the subject line as Testimony on HR 2016. Please send it by Thursday, June 21st. Don’t worry. If you are late, send it anyway. They will likely accept. It.
-----3. Send a copy of your testimony to your Congressman by e-mail or fax and tell him or her to oppose the NLCS Land Grab (HR 2016). Write: Honorable___________ US House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. Send it by fax or e-mail. Mark it Testimony on HR 2016. It is too late to use the US Mail. Call any Congressman at (202) 225-3121 to ask for his best e-mail address.
-----4. Send a copy of your testimony or letter to both your Senators. Write: Honorable _________, US Senate, Washington, DC 20510. You should call immediately. Any Senator can be called at (202) 224-3121. Ask for their fax and e-mail. The Senate bill, S 1139, has already passed out of Committee. It could be voted on any time. Ask your Senator to commit to block the bill. He or she can do that if they want.
-----5. Send copies of your testimony to other members of the House National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee. A complete list is at the end of the e-mail.
***Congress Seeks To Codify New NLCS Land Grab -- (Portions from Federal Parks and
Recreation Newsletter) -- Seventeen House members from both parties teamed up in April to introduce legislation (HR 2016) that would give the National Landscape Conservation System official Congressional certification.
The system, administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was created administratively by former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt during the Clinton years.
In June 2000 the Interior Department under the guidance of former Secretary Bruce Babbitt established the 26 million acre NLCS in BLM to protect special areas.
The NLCS consists of major conservation areas in 12 western states, including 15 national monuments, 13 national conservation areas, Steens Mountain area in Oregon, Headwaters Forest Reserve in northern California, 36 wild and scenic rivers, 148 wilderness areas, 4,264 miles of national trails, and more than 600 wilderness study areas.
Making the NLCS permanent threatens recreation, access, grazing, mining, oil and gas and many other uses. Gradually these areas will be turned into parks with traditional uses strangled and roads cut off. Private property owners and inholders in the areas can say so long to their property rights. You will see new areas nominated for NLCS status gradually eroding BLM multiple-use.
Four Democratic senators introduced counterpart legislation (S 1139) April 18. Said chief sponsor of the Senate bill, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), "Given the broad public support for these areas, I expect this bill to be non-controversial and it is my hope that it will be able to move quickly through the Congress and enactment into law." Bingaman chairs the Senate Energy Committee. Non-Controversial?
Take a look at the Republicans sponsoring HR 2016. You need to bury them with calls.
The four lead House sponsors of HR 2016, all co-chairs of an NLCS caucus, are Reps. Mary Bono (R-CA), Rick Renzi (R-AZ), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Jim Moran (D-VA). Reps. Bono and Renzi need to receive lots of contacts. The others are not likely to change their position.
Creating this massive new conservation area program (read land grab) will take money especially from the National Park Service that is way behind in deferred maintenance and other uses. The NLCS will eventually become a huge new agency with thousands of additional bureaucrats added over time. A new National Park Service.
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________________________________________
Congress trying to pass into law The Babbitt National Landscape Conservation System
(NLCS) (HR 2016) (S 1139).
A one-page letter from you will help stop HR 2016. Please act fast.
Please forward this message quickly and as widely as possible.
The NLCS Essentially Places A National Park Type Overlay Over Millions Of Acres Of
BLM Land. Multiple-Use and private property will be eliminated or threatened.
The Babbitt National Landscape Conservation System (HR 2016) threatens:
-----Multiple-Use in BLM areas;
-----Convert Wilderness Study Areas into Wilderness;
-----Access to BLM area;
-----Oil and Gas exploration;
-----Miners and mineral exploration;
-----Off-Highway Vehicle Use;
-----Private Property inside and adjacent to BLM area;
-----All kinds of recreation like shooting, hunting and rock collecting;
-----Hunting for some is essential to their survival;
-----Sightseeing;
-----River rafting;
-----Grazing;
-----Forestry and logging;
-----Many more types of recreation.
The list could go on and on.
You still have time to e-mail or fax in a one page or more letter as testimony against
HR 2016. This will be a disaster for BLM multiple-use lands.
The House National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee held a hearing on June 7th. You have until Thursday, June 21st to send your testimony by fax or e-mail.
Below are listed all the Members of the Natural Resources Committee including their fax and e-mail addresses. Be sure to say at the top of your letter:
*****What You Should Do Now!
-----1. Write a one page letter (or more) opposing HR 2016. Mark it at the top in the Subject Line: Testimony, HR 2016, National Landscape Conservation System. E-mail it to the Committee Chairman -- Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) FAX: (202) 226-2301 – e-mail it to his staff at: david.watkins@mail.house.gov
-----2. Important: E-mail a copy to the Ranking Minority Member Rob Bishop (R-UT) by sending it to his staff (casey.hammond@mail.house.gov).
Be sure to label your e-mail in the subject line as Testimony on HR 2016. Please send it by Thursday, June 21st. Don’t worry. If you are late, send it anyway. They will likely accept. It.
-----3. Send a copy of your testimony to your Congressman by e-mail or fax and tell him or her to oppose the NLCS Land Grab (HR 2016). Write: Honorable___________ US House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. Send it by fax or e-mail. Mark it Testimony on HR 2016. It is too late to use the US Mail. Call any Congressman at (202) 225-3121 to ask for his best e-mail address.
-----4. Send a copy of your testimony or letter to both your Senators. Write: Honorable _________, US Senate, Washington, DC 20510. You should call immediately. Any Senator can be called at (202) 224-3121. Ask for their fax and e-mail. The Senate bill, S 1139, has already passed out of Committee. It could be voted on any time. Ask your Senator to commit to block the bill. He or she can do that if they want.
-----5. Send copies of your testimony to other members of the House National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee. A complete list is at the end of the e-mail.
***Congress Seeks To Codify New NLCS Land Grab -- (Portions from Federal Parks and
Recreation Newsletter) -- Seventeen House members from both parties teamed up in April to introduce legislation (HR 2016) that would give the National Landscape Conservation System official Congressional certification.
The system, administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was created administratively by former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt during the Clinton years.
In June 2000 the Interior Department under the guidance of former Secretary Bruce Babbitt established the 26 million acre NLCS in BLM to protect special areas.
The NLCS consists of major conservation areas in 12 western states, including 15 national monuments, 13 national conservation areas, Steens Mountain area in Oregon, Headwaters Forest Reserve in northern California, 36 wild and scenic rivers, 148 wilderness areas, 4,264 miles of national trails, and more than 600 wilderness study areas.
Making the NLCS permanent threatens recreation, access, grazing, mining, oil and gas and many other uses. Gradually these areas will be turned into parks with traditional uses strangled and roads cut off. Private property owners and inholders in the areas can say so long to their property rights. You will see new areas nominated for NLCS status gradually eroding BLM multiple-use.
Four Democratic senators introduced counterpart legislation (S 1139) April 18. Said chief sponsor of the Senate bill, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), "Given the broad public support for these areas, I expect this bill to be non-controversial and it is my hope that it will be able to move quickly through the Congress and enactment into law." Bingaman chairs the Senate Energy Committee. Non-Controversial?
Take a look at the Republicans sponsoring HR 2016. You need to bury them with calls.
The four lead House sponsors of HR 2016, all co-chairs of an NLCS caucus, are Reps. Mary Bono (R-CA), Rick Renzi (R-AZ), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Jim Moran (D-VA). Reps. Bono and Renzi need to receive lots of contacts. The others are not likely to change their position.
Creating this massive new conservation area program (read land grab) will take money especially from the National Park Service that is way behind in deferred maintenance and other uses. The NLCS will eventually become a huge new agency with thousands of additional bureaucrats added over time. A new National Park Service.