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Utah Wilderness Petition (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Seelig)
Wed Feb 14 19:12:04 1996
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 19:08:43 -0500 (EST)
From: David Seelig <david.seelig@yale.edu>
To: whittle@owlnet.rice.edu, agupta1@email.unc.edu,
grthro@minerva.cis.yale.edu, seelig@MIT.EDU, vsg@MIT.EDU, save@MIT.EDU
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:26:02 -0500 (EST)
From: donnan steele <donnan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
To: ysec-list@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Subject: Utah Wilderness Petition (fwd)
! * ! * ! * 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.
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
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1 Elizabeth Whittlesey whittle@owlnet.rice.edu TX, orig UT
2 Cori Nelson corin@leland.stanford.edu CA, orig UT
3 Erin Johnson ejohnson@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT, orig UT
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 Ben Harder harder@fas.harvard.edu MA
12 Dan Epstein depstein@fas.harvard.edu MA orig VT
13 Kate Imholt kate@inferno.resnet.uconn.edu CT
14 David Krinsky krinsky@fas.harvard.edu CT
15 Liz Gehrlein gehrlein@fas.harvard.edu CT
16 Jason Jay jay@fas.harvard.edu CO
17 Elora Lee Raymond Elora_Raymond@Brown.edu MA
18 Nicholas Lanoie Nicholas_Lanoie@brown.edu RI
19 Danya Reda Danya_Reda@brown.edu RI (orig MA)
20 Karen Yen Karen.L.Yen@Dartmouth.edu NH (orig MA)
21 james A. McCowan JAMcCowan@vaxsar.vassar.edu NY (orig MA)
22 Susan Barry NY (orig NC)
23 David R. Grenier drgst21+@pitt.edu Pgh, Pa
24 Cara Ferrier stk2189@pollux.stockton.edu NJ
25 Shawn Saving ssaving@glinda.kbs.ukans.edu CA
26 Andy Richardson andy@cdf.ca.gov CA
27 Tom Lupo tlupo@dfg.ca.gov CA
28 Ken Biswell kbiswell@accessone.com WA
29 Kenyon A. Larsen klarsen@usva5.dyncorp.com VA
30 David Redding dredding@usva5.dyncorp.com VA
31 Alfred Thieme alfred_thieme@mentorg.com OR
32 Doug Viner dviner@CapAccess.org MD
33 Cindy Wilson cindyw@edmark.com WA
34 Rita Conley ritac@edmark.com WA
35 Robyn Brook robynb@edmark.com WA
36 Mark Eaton marke@edmark.com WA
37 Kirk McCallum c526861@showme.missouri.edu MO
38 Melissa Barfield mab6@verner.ssrc.msstate.edu MS
39 Ralph Brown brown@soc.msstate.edu MS (orig UT)
40 Katherine Stone kstone@lan.ssrc.msstate.edu MS (orig SC)
41 John Forbes jforbes@lan.ssrc.msstate.edu MS
42 Jeffrey Kessel jkessel@m.cc.utah.edu UT
43 Carie Kessel cariek@nwu.edu IL (orig WV)
44 Michael Fortwengler netrunner@nwu.edu IL (orig CA)
45 Kevin Ramsey kramsey@nwu.edu IL
46 Dominic Co d-co@nwu.edu IL (orig MD)
47 Dawn Shin dcs312@nwu.edu IL
48 Kathy Tritz tritz@students.uiuc.edu IL
49 Martine Delannay mdelanna@students.uiuc.edu IL (orig MO)
50 Laura Latimer c676137@showme.missouri.edu MO
51 Matthew Struckhoff c667954@showme.missouri.edu MO
52 Eric Struckhoff ericcs@u.washington.edu WA
53 Brian Oakley boakley@u.washington.edu WA
54 Ingrid Oakley-Girvan oakley@osiris.stanford.edu CA
55 Carla Winston winston@osiris.stanford.edu CA
56 Erik Wieland choochoo@leland.stanford.edu CA
57 Scott Burles scott@cass154.ucsd.edu CA
58 Jason Kriesel kriesel@sdphu1.ucsd.edu CA
59 Nicolas Buchler nbuchler@umich.edu MI
60 Takashi Buma takbuma@umich.edu MI
61 Suzy McDowell smcdoewll@ucsusa.org DC (orig. CT)
62 Kristin C. Lewis lewis@bos.dmjm.com MA
63 Jennifer Nam TX
64 Jean Nam TX
65 Liza Grandia grandia@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT
66 Liz Alter sealter@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT
67 Charles Duhigg cduhigg@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT
68 Greg Nelson gnelson@minerva.cis.yale.edu OR
69 Donnan Steele donnan@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT (orig. IL)
70 David Seelig seelig@minerva.cis.yale.edu CT
------Article From the New York Times, Wednesday Nov. 15, 1996----------
<<<<-----TIMES ARTICLE STARTS HERE
. . .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 require
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 him-
self 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.
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