[APWG] Need a little Help
ialm at erols.com
ialm at erols.com
Mon Jan 26 07:48:24 CST 2009
Does the proposed legislation allow the removal of all non-native invasive
trees including Norway Maple, Tree of Heaven, etc? Can we present this as
alternative legislation? Marc
Original Message:
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From: Sam Booher SBOOHER at aol.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:27:44 EST
To: CONS-WPST-WES-FORUM at LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG
Subject: Need a little Help
Gang
I thought GA had a local problem but I now see it is Nation wide. See the
below E-mail
Small BioMass Generating plants are being build next to GA's National
Forest. The fuel was to be the brush in the forest. Now they have run
out of local fuels and National Forest brush and are asking the Forest
Service to let them thin the National Forest of small trees.
Next they will want to timber them for Biomass fuel.
I hope you will join me so we can contact all of our Congressional House
Members.Senate Bill 22 has a Tital IV. This needs to be removed.
Sam Booher
GA
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From: Sequoia ForestKeeper <_ara at sequoiaforestkeeper.org_
(mailto:ara at sequoiaforestkeeper.org) >
Date: Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Subject: [] S.22 Title IV would implement biomass removal projects from
500,000 acres of public land
S.22 Title IV is a real problem. It has passed the Senate and will be
heard in the house in a couple of days. S.22 Title IV would implement
biomass removal projects - removing small diameter trees from a minimum
of 500,000 acres of public land, supposedly to protect public lands from
wildfires. However, establishing these large projects would degrade huge
amounts of habitat for many species.
If you kill all the kindergartners, you will soon find out there are no
sixth graders. Every Congressperson must be informed of the dire
consequences of S.22 Title IV as soon as possible.
Below are excerpts from S.22 Title IV, which we oppose because it
authorizes ten project of a minimum of 50,000 acres of biomass removal from
public lands.
S.22
_http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111g0Bbdr:e528873_
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111g0Bbdr:e528873) :
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
TITLE IV--FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION
SEC. 4001. PURPOSE.
(3) facilitates the reduction of wildfire management costs,
SEC. 4003. COLLABORATIVE FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION PROGRAM.
(B) identifies and prioritizes ecological restoration treatments for a
10-year period within a landscape that is--
(i) at least 50,000 acres;
(ii) comprised primarily of forested National Forest System land, but may
also include land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management,
land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or other
Federal, State, tribal, or private land;
(iii) in need of active ecosystem restoration; and
(iv) accessible by existing or proposed wood-processing infrastructure at
an appropriate scale to use woody biomass and small-diameter wood removed
in ecological restoration treatments;
(i) focusing on small diameter trees, thinning, strategic fuel breaks, and
fire use to modify fire behavior, as measured by the projected reduction of
uncharacteristically severe wildfire effects for the forest type (such as
adverse soil impacts, tree mortality or other impacts); and
(3) describe plans to--
(F) use woody biomass and small-diameter trees produced from projects
implementing the strategy;
(H) take into account any applicable community wildfire protection plan;
(3) DOCUMENTATION- With respect to each proposal that is nominated under
paragraph (2)--
(A) the appropriate Regional Forester shall--
(i) include a plan to use Federal funds allocated to the region to fund
those costs of planning and carrying out ecological restoration treatments
on National Forest System land, consistent with the strategy, that would
not be covered by amounts transferred to the Secretary from the Fund; and
(3) LIMITATION- The Secretary may select not more than--
(A) 10 proposals to be funded during any fiscal year;
(B) 2 proposals in any 1 region of the National Forest System to be funded
during any fiscal year;
(B) a business plan that addresses--
(i) the anticipated unit treatment cost reductions over 10 years;
(ii) the anticipated costs for infrastructure needed for the proposal;
(iii) the projected sustainability of the supply of woody biomass and
small-diameter trees removed in ecological restoration treatments;
Ara
Mr. Ara Marderosian,
Executive Director
Sequoia ForestKeeper
P.O. Box 2134,
Kernville, CA 93238
(760) 376-4434
www.sequoiaforestkeeper.org
ara at sequoiaforestkeeper.org
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