This is a good opportunity to take Action decoupling US public school funding from logging America's public lands. If you'd like more information, please e me, or Jeanette, or Steve, both listed below. If you're able to make a phone call, please let Jeanette (listed below) through e to help us track progress on this campaign. How far can this campaign reach? That's up to you and me. take care/donna .. Wong Ee Ling, the words you posted are part of my desk top at work, thank you so very much. Subject: County Payments Call-In Day Tuesday, Feb. 15 Negotiations are continuing between key Senate offices and the Administration on county payments legislation. The Administration has not indicated what their final position on the issue will be and needs to be encouraged to support Chief Dombeck's proposal to decouple county payments from timber sale receipts. At the Headwaters' 9th Annual Western Ancient Forest Activists Conference this weekend (which was outstanding!) there was an organizing caucus of grassroots and national activists on the county payments issue. The caucus developed an action plan to: 1) Keep pressure on the Clinton Administration by participating in a national call-in day to Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman. Please call Sec. Glickman at 202/720-3631 on Feb. 15 and urge him to support decoupling county payments from timber sale receipts. His fax number is 202/720-2166 if you wish to send in a letter. Meanwhile, you can contact Undersecretary of Agriculture Jim Lyons at 202/720-7173 or fax 720-4732 with the same message. 2) Keep pressure on key Senators to support decoupling and to oppose S. 1608, the Craig/Wyden bill, by making calls and sending postcards. Senators to contact include Sens. Murray (D-WA), Feinstein (D-CA), Wyden (D-OR), Daschle (D-SD), Bingaman (D-NM), Kennedy (D-MA) and Dodd (D-CT). They can be reached through the Capitol Switchboard at 202/224-3121. 3) Organize support from school teachers and teachers' associations for decoupling. In California, activists have already initiated a teacher sign on letter in support of decoupling. If you are interested in organizing a similar effort in your state please contact Brian Vincent at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 530/265- 3506 for a copy of this letter which you can use as a template for your state. 4) Organize a county payments lobby week in Washington D.C. If you know of any educators, county commissioners, school superintendents or former commissioners etc. who would be willing to come to Washington in March please contact me at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 202/547-9105 as soon as possible. Thanks. Steve Holmer Campaign Coordinator American Lands 726 7th Street SE Washington, D.C. 20003 202/547-9105 202/547-9213 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:www.americanlands.org Jeanette Russell, Network Coordinator National Forest Protection Alliance P.O Box, 8264, Missoula,MT 59807 (406) 542-7565, fax (406) 542-7347 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The NFPA is a national alliance of citizens and organizations dedicated to protecting public lands from commercial exploitation, and in particular, protecting federal public lands from commercial logging.
