Mostly to Al and Mary...
I like the way you think. I've six ac+ of 2nd growth, sinkholes and
weeds. I love every peaceful inch, including the weeds' flowers, and
the, what are considered to be pests...bugs and animals (xcept Mosquitos).
I've gone thru' 69 messages. Is a noxious weed an imported escapee like
kudzu? or S. Florida brazilian holly or malelucca?
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Sep 10 12:36:38 1995
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 14:41:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ronnie Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ACTION ALERT - Young/Pombo bill to be introduced (fwd)
This might be of interest to listmembers, tho the intro date has passed.
Much still needs to be done to defeat it!
Ronnie
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 00:37:26 -0400
From: Roger Featherstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ACTION ALERT - Young/Pombo bill to be introduced
ACTION ALERT
YOUNG/POMBO ESA BILL SLATED FOR INTRODUCTION,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.
KEEP YOUR REPRESENTATIVE FROM BECOMING AN ORIGINAL
CO-SPONSOR OF THE BILL.
Congressman Richard Pombo has announced a press conference for Thursday
September 7, 1995, to announce the introduction of his ESA Bill. We do
not know how many co-sponsors his bill will have, but we need to make
sure that your Representative is not one of them.
Please contact your Representative and make sure that s/he does not co-
sponsor the Young/Pombo "extinction" bill.
The Young/Pombo bill will be worse than the Gorton "Planned extinction"
bill.
Use the following points when you contact your Member of
Congress:
YOUNG/POMBO:
Allows the Secretary of the Interior to choose extinction.
The Young/Pombo bill would end this Nation's long-standing
commitment to ensuring that our great diversity of fish, wildlife,
and plant species is passed to future generations. Under the
bill, the secretaries of Interior and Commerce would no longer be
required to attempt to recover imperiled species.
Pays off landowners for complying with stewardship obligations.
The Young/Pombo bill contains "takings" language that would create
a huge new entitlement program for anyone who complies with the
ESA. Under the Young/Pombo bill, the ESA could not be enforced to
prevent a landowner from destroying spawning habitat relied upon
by endangered salmon and by thousands of downstream commercial and
recreational anglers -- unless the landowner is paid off by the
government.
Eliminates essential habitat protections.
The Young/Pombo bill would overrule the recent Sweet Home Supreme
Court decision.
Imposes costly bureaucracy and delay.
The Young/Pombo bill calls for enormous hurdles before listing a
species. The taxpayers would foot the bill for not only these
costs, but the costs in recovering more species latter.
Shrinks protection of habitat on public lands.
Under the guise of creating a "National Biological Diversity
Reserve" the bill would be able to dramatically eliminate
protection of biodiversity on public lands.
These are only a few of the ways that the Young/Pombo bill would roll
back over 20 years of endangered species protection. Please contact
your Member of Congress today and make sure that they "stay away from
Young/Pombo". The bill is extreme and is not the will of the American
Public.
The Capitol Hill switchboard is (202)224-3121;
call and ask for your Representative.
Ask them not to "Roll Back the ESA" and stay off Young/Pombo!
