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Siskiyou Wild Rivers National Monument
Letter to President Clinton
Days
before President Clinton's second term as president ended,
a Siskiyou Wild Rivers national campaign was asking Clinton
to designate the Siskiyou National Forest as the Siskiyou
Wild Rivers National Monument. This letter brought the world
famous ecologist and advocates for nature E.O. Wilson on the side of the Siskiyous.
Unfortunately,
as can be seen in the news item a week later, that was not
done. In 2005, under draconian new policies instituted by
the Bush Administration, the unprotected Siskiyou National
forest was subjected to massive ecologically catrastrophic
logging of Ancient and roadless forest areas in the infamous
"Biscuit" timber salvage sale.
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January 11, 2001
President William J. Clinton
Vice President Al Gore
Secretary Bruce Babbitt
Secretary Dan Glickman
Dear Mr. President and Mr. Vice President, and Secretaries
Babbitt and Glickman,
We strongly urge you to designate the Siskiyou Wild
Rivers National Monument. The Siskiyous are one of
the most biologically rich temperate forests in the
world. It is essential to protect these unique forests
from destructive mining and logging in order to maintain
healthy biodiverse forest ecosystems in the United
States for future generations. The permanent protection
of this area will not only be an important benefit
for science, but will also rank as one of the great
environmental achievements in American history.
Sincerely,
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Carl
Ross
Founder and Executive Director
Save America's Forests
Washington, DC
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Edward O. Wilson, Ph. D.
Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Stuart
Pimm, Ph.D.
Professor in Conservation Biology
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
Columbia University
New York, New York |
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Return
to E.O. Wilson Main Page
E.O.
Wilson, Jane Goodall, Carl Ross Letter to Protect
Most Biodiverse Forest in the World, Yasuni National
Park in Ecuador
E.O.
Wilson Lecture and Slide Show in the U.S. Senate
Dr.
Jane Goodall's Press Conference and Lecture in the
U.S. Senate
Dr.
Peter Raven's letter to the Senate endorsing the
Act to Save America's Forests
Read
more information and a summary of the Act, and
link to the Act text
Save
America's Forests Home Page
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