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Take Action Now
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M712360139241337221152265 November
16,2005
As early as this week, the US House of Representatives will vote on
House Reconciliation Bill (HR 4241) that, if passed into law, could lead
to extensive damage to trout and salmon watersheds on our public lands.
Sections 6201-6207 of the bill would amend the 1872 Mining Law to allow
public lands to be patented, or sold off, to mining companies that
expressed an interest in mining an area for $1,000 per acre.
We need you to let your Representative know this is a bad idea by
clicking here. http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M712360149241337221152265
These harmful provisions, inserted into the bill without any public
hearings by Representative Richard Pombo of California, weaken standards
set under the lax 1872 Mining Law by allowing miners and other
development interests to privatize public land without any review or
federal oversight. Public lands are home to more than half of the
nation's blue-ribbon trout streams, are strongholds for all of the
imperiled native trout in the western United States and Brook trout in
the East, and contain some of the best remaining habitat for migrating
salmon and steelhead. As more private lands are subdivided or posted,
public lands provide the last access for sportsmen who wish to fish,
hunt, and camp with their families and friends. That access would be
effectively lost as a result of Representative Pombo’s legislation.
Representative Pombo's fire-sale of public lands would reverse a 30-year
Congressional mandate that public lands should remain in public ownership.
First, we need you to use the link below to write an e-mail to your
Member of the House of Representatives and ask him or her to vote
against the House Reconciliation Bill unless sections 6201-6207 are
removed. Once you've done that, please tell your representative how you
feel by calling their office through the Capitol Switchboard at
202.224.3121. When you get the operator, simply ask him or her to
transfer you to the office of your Representative.
The vote is likely to occur soon, so please, do it today.
Click here to take action now
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M712360159241337221152265
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