[Vision2020] Flood the Senate

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (March 5, 2014) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks and aporeciation to Brett Haverstick.

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LETTER: Flood the Senate
We need to stop Sen. James E. Risch's intentions of legislating the corrupt Upper Lochsa Land Exchange. We don't have to trade tens of thousands of acres of valuable public lands to obtain the Lochsa lands. The 39,000-acres of checkerboard land owned by Western Pacific Timber can be purchased through the Land & Water Conservation Fund. Congress created the fund for this type of situation.
Two Environmental Impact Statements and five years of U.S. Forest Service analysis failed to prove an exchange was in the public's best interest. Records indicate the comments received by the agency during this time were approximately 90 percent in opposition to an exchange. This bipartisan opposition includes a host of retired USFS employees.
Any legislation sponsored by Risch has to go through the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources. Please send letters to Chairman Mary Landrieu at 304 Dirksen Senate Building, Washington, D.C., 20510. Include the above committee name in the address. The phone number is (202) 224-4971.
Let's not lose fishing, hunting and other recreational opportunities, including productive low-elevation fish and wildlife habitat. These lands are part of our national heritage too. Flood the Senate with letters and calls.
Brett Haverstick, Moscow

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still.
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

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