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2004 News Releases and Action Alerts!
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April 6, 2004, Conservationists Challenge Salvage Logging
Project— loses taxpayer dollars, harms environment, and fails
to protect communities. (Phoenix) Today, the Sierra Club,
Southwest Forest Alliance, and Center for Biological Diversity
announced they are challenging the Rodeo-Chediski salvage logging
project that is proposed on 41,059 acres of the Tonto and Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forests. The proposed salvage logging project will cost
$1.8 million at a loss of about $150,000 in taxpayer dollars, cause
environmental damage, plus it will not protect Arizona communities. More...
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March 13th at 9:00 a.m. ARIZONA GAME & FISH COMMISSION
MEETING Please come to this critical Game and Fish Commission
Meeting and speak up for the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (SDCP)
and the Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness proposal. More...
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March 1, 2004, Sierra Club Endorses Legislation to Reduce
Livestock Grazing on Public Lands (Phoenix) The Sierra Club's
Grand Canyon (Arizona) Chapter announced today that it is supporting
legislation introduced by Representatives Raśl Grijalva (D-Ariz.)
and Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) to reduce livestock grazing on
public lands. The Grand Canyon Chapter is endorsing two separate
bills, one focusing on the country and one specific to Arizona.
H.R. 3324, the Voluntary Grazing Permit Buyout Act has nation-wide
scope and the Arizona Voluntary Grazing Permit Buyout Act of 2003
is a pilot program for Arizona. More...
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February 19, 2004, Conservation Groups Challenge Bush Administration
Old Growth Timber Sale Overlooking Grand Canyon National Park Phoenix,
Arizona -- Two conservation groups today challenged a Bush administration
proposal to log in an old growth forest less than three miles from
the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The groups contend
that the Forest Service’s proposed East Rim timber sale in
remote areas of the Kaibab National Forest would harm rare wildlife,
create an increased risk of fire, and illegally log within designated
old growth forests as well as the Grand Canyon Game Preserve, a
protected area set aside by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906
for the benefit of wildlife. The lawsuit was filed by the Center
for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter
in the District of Arizona’s Phoenix courthouse. More...
Page updated: 08/06/04
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