From Appalachian Voices (http://www.appvoices.org/):
Our eastern national forests—including many of the wildest, most beautiful and sensitive places in our central and southern Appalachian Mountains—are facing a grave threat.
These beloved forests provide clean drinking water, support local economies with recreation and tourism, and contain rare and diverse habitats for fish and wildlife. But big timber interests are advancing a bill in Congress to override existing protections for these critical ecosystems.
We need your help to defend against the House of Representatives’ dangerous attack on our national forests. The so-called “Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017,” H.R. 2936, would allow logging on tens of thousands of acres to proceed with no consideration of its impacts to wildlife, critical watersheds, or recreation — and it would set a very dangerous precedent for ignoring public input.
Contact your Representative in Congress at http://appvoices.org/forestry/vote-no-hr-2936/ and ask her/him to VOTE NO on H.R. 2936.
Although the bill has been touted as a solution to prevent and control western wildfires, it actually focuses on eastern forests, most of its provisions have nothing to do with fire, and it doesn’t even provide a complete solution to the massive funding shortfalls that plague the Forest Service during fire season.
Let your Representative know that you expect him/her to protect our national forests, not sell them out to the timber industry under the guise of fighting forest fires.
Thank you for your commitment to preserving our Appalachian natural heritage. Please CONTACT YOUR REP NOW.
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