FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS

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STOP CLEARCUTTING CALIFORNIA'S FORESTS

    The Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch-supported Stop Clearcutting California (SCC) campaign is distributing a form for individuals, groups, and businesses to sign to express their opposition to massive clearcutting and to demand action from the state of California to stop it. The SCC campaign wants businesses, faith-based organizations, community groups, tribal councils, recreation clubs, homeowner organizations, as well as individuals, to join the coalition so that the combined impact of these voices can be used to affect meaningful change.

    Industrial-scale clearcutting is:

-- converting California's diverse forests to fire-prone tree plantations;

-- endangering wildlife and their habitat;

-- threatening water quality;

-- promoting extensive use of chemical herbicides;

-- contributing to global climate change;

-- damaging private property values and businesses in affected regions; and

-- destroying the state's natural beauty.

    Citizens of California and supporters of responsible logging are calling upon the governor of California, the legislature of California, and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and the Environment and Natural Resources agencies of the state of California to use all means at their disposal to end this destructive practice on state and private lands.

    The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs strongly opposes the clearcutting of California's state and private forests and endorses the Stop Clearcutting California campaign to protect them.





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