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1992 FWOC RESOLUTION #1

_SEQUOIA NATIONAL MONUMENT_

The groves of giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the Sequoia National Forest, which contains more than half of all trees of this species on earth, have been heavily logged under unannounced policies of the U.S. Forest Service beginning in 1982, to the lasting detriment of the Forest and at a heavy monetary burden to the American taxpayer.

The Sequoia Forest Citizens Coalition has adopted a position with respect to the Sequoia National Forest whose provisions will:

1. Change the emphasis from resource extraction to non-consumptive uses of the Forest;

2. Sustain functioning forest ecosystems;

3. Stop logging, road-building, and other development in remaining unroaded areas;

4. Ban development, road-building, and further logging in ancient (old growth) forest stands;

5. Ban "intensive" timber harvesting, including clear-cutting;

6. Maintain natural bio-diversity.

The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs endorses this position of the Sequoia Forest Citizens Coalition and urges its members to write to the Congress of the U.S. in support of HR 5594 (The Sequoia National Monument Act of 1992). This bill would accomplish the above objectives and is now pending in Congress, which has referred it to the House Interior Committee. Your letters should request that this bill be favorably reported out of committee to the full House by September 22, 1992, in order to be acted upon during this session of Congress. Letters should be directed to Rep. Mel Levine (D-Ca), the sponsor of the bill; to Rep. George Miller (D-Ca), chairman of the House Interior Committee; and to Rep. Bruce Vento (D-Mn), chairman of the sub-committee now handling the bill.

The boundaries of the three-unit Sequoias National Monument should be those recommended and mapped by the Sequoia Forest Alliance, a copy of which is attached.

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