[APWG] Need a little Help

[ialm at erols.com]

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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