LANDSCOPE: Timber Town and Environmentalists Team up to Fight Land

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Subject: LANDSCOPE: Timber Town and Environmentalists Team up to Fight  Land Exchange

LANDSCOPE, News and Views from American Lands - August 2, 1999

Timber Town and Environmentalists Team up to Fight Land Exchange

An alliance between environmentalists and citizens from a rural community is
forming in opposition to the controversial Interstate-90 Plum Creek Land
Exchange, according to The Seattle Times.  Forest activists from the
Cascadia Defense Network (CDN) are occupying one of the plots of public land
proposed for exchange near the timber town of Randle, WA.   According to the
Times and a release by CDN, more people from the town are speaking up
against the exchange of intact federal lands for logged over lands owned by
the Plum Creek Timber Co.  Two hundred citizens attended a meeting with
activists last week to protest the exchange.  The new allies agreed on a
plan to pressure Congress, the Forest Service and Plum Creek to remove two
old growth areas, Watch Mountain and Fossil Creek, from the land exchange.

. . . The federal government has no business trading away our remaining
wildlands for private profit.  "We want to protect these remnant old-growth
and roadless areas," said David Atcheson of Pacific Crest Biodiversity
Project.  "Not trade them away for clearcut lands."  Contact Kim Marks of
CDN at 360/943-7284, mailto:kim2 at chickmail.com or Janine Blaeloch at
mailto:blaeloch at westlx.org for more information.

Forest Service Cancels Timber Sale in Nantahala National Forest: The
Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (SABP) has successfully appealed
the Lambert Cove Timber Sale, according to a release from the group.  The
Forest Service withdrew the sale after SABP found the imperiled Seepage
Salamander at the site and appealed.  The Forest Service must conduct
surveys and maintain viable populations of sensitive and endangered species
under the National Forest Management Act (NFMA).  Contact Marty Berghoffen
of SABP at 828/258-0758 or mailto:marty at sabp.net for more information.

County Board of Supervisors Asks USFS to Reject Quincy Recommendations: The
Nevada County Board of Supervisors has joined activists, citizens and local
businesses in asking for a  alternative to the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for the Quincy Logging Act.  The Sierra Nevada Forest Protection
Campaign and other activists convinced the Board of Supervisors to support
"Alternative Five" that would protect old growth forest and ecologically
significant roadless areas. Contact Scott Hoffman Black for more information
at 916/442-3155 or mailto:sierra_campaign at friendsoftheriver.org

Virginia Forest Health Conference: "Real Forest Health" will be the subject
of a conference Sept 25 at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in
Abingdon, VA.   The presenters include Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and keynote
speaker Dr. Robert Bruck.  For additional information contact Steve Brooks
with Virginia Forest Watch at mailto:vafw at mounet.com 540/479-2176 or
Coalition for Jobs and the Environment at 540/628-8996.


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