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>Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 08:54:06 -0700
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>Subject: Wild Wyoming Needs Your Help 
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>Wild Wyoming Needs Your Help
>
>Action Alert:
>Prevent Development Adjacent to Wyoming's Spectacular Washakie Wilderness
>
>From Greater Yellowstone Coalition; Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance;
>Wyoming Chapter of the Sierra Club; Wyoming Outdoor Council
>
>More Clearcuts, New Oil Wells In the Heart of the Shoshone National Forest,
>the Forest Service May Allow Both.  Unless...
>
>Ramshorn Peak is one of the most prominent landmarks in the Absaroka
>Mountains. Motorists traveling through the Wind River Valley are awed when
>they first catch sight of its jagged peak, rising from a sea of spruce,
>fir, and whitebark pine.  The cliffs tower over the headwaters of Tappan
>and Brent Creeks, just outside the Washakie Wilderness, north of Dubois,
>Wyoming.
>
>The Shoshone was the nation's first national forest, created on March 30,
>1891 by President Harrison to protect forests threatened by overcutting for
>railroad ties to make the nation's growing railways.  Near the town of
>Dubois - which is making the switch from timber town to tourism economy -
>is the amazing and beautiful Dunoir Special Management Area, a vast
>forested valley below the colorful cliffs of the Continental Divide,
>draining into the Wind River.
>
>This is where the Forest Service is preparing the Ramshorn Environmental
>Impact Statement (EIS) to simultaneously consider a major timber harvest
>and an oil company's proposal to develop an exploratory well.
>
>The latter would involve bulldozing a road, gouging out waste pits, pouring
>concrete pads, erecting drill rigs and - if the company hits oil or gas -
>installing pipelines, dehydrators, condensate tanks, gas "sweetening"
>plants, and many other eyesores.  The proposed timber sale will "treat"
>over 700 acres of forest, and build more than 5 miles of new road.  All
>this development will take place on the same 14,000 acres.
>
>Do you want industrial development a few miles from the Washakie
>Wilderness?  If not, please consider writing to the Forest Service.
>
>More than scenery is at stake! Biologists have called the Ramshorn area
>some of the the best grizzly bear habitat in the Greater Yellowstone
>Ecosystem.  At least 15 bears use the area.  It's also the first place
>outside Yellowstone Park where recently reintroduced wolves chose to den,
>one of the few remote places in Wyoming where lynx tracks have been found
>and it provides some of the best elk habitat in the state.
>
>The site is also a favorite recreation spot for locals and visitors to the
>Upper Wind River Valley. Hiking, backpacking, horsepacking, fishing, and
>hunting would be compromised by traffic, flaring of gas, and other round
>the-clock activity that comes with oil and gas development.
>
>The Shoshone is facing too many pressures:
>
>* Over the next ridge, the Forest Service has already approved the Double

>Cabin Timber Sale for 1999-2000, which will further compromise important
>habitat and inevitably send the area's unstable soils into the Wiggins
>Fork-- a nominated  Wild and Scenic river.
>
>* Also in the Wind River Valley, contractors are gearing up to straighten
>and widen Togwotee Pass Highway.  In areas where grizzly bears are known to
>cross, the highway's footprint on the landscape will grow as trees are
>removed and more surface is paved.
>
>The combined effects of these projects - some already approved, others
>under consideration - could be disastrous for wildlife in the area.
>
>Please write the Shoshone National Forest and tell them:
>
>The exploratory well under the Ramshorn should not be approved. Grizzlies
>and other wildlife depend on this important habitat and it should not be
>sacrificed as a development zone! The Ramshorn EIS must analyze:
>
>* The cumulative effects of the proposed Brent Creek timber sale, as well
>as the Double Cabin Timber sale, the Togwotee Pass highway reconstruction,
>oil and gas leasing in the Brent Creek and Sheridan Pass areas and in four
>management areas being considered for leasing on the other side of the
>Continental Divide in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
>
>* The effects that oil and gas leasing, exploration and development on
>lynx, grizzly bears, wolves, elk, moose and goshawks.
>
>* The impacts of increased human activity and the potential for human/bear
>encounters.
>
>* The impacts to roadless areas, wilderness, air quality, water quality,
>wildlife migration routes, historic/cultural resources and
>visual/recreational resources.
>
>* The environmental impacts of exploration and full field oil and gas
>development including the construction of roads and all the other
>facilities and activities associated with petroleum development.
>
>
>Other points you may wish to emphasize:
>
>* As required by the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental
>Policy Act, the Forest Service must consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
>Service regarding the combined projects' potential effects on grizzly
>bears, lynx and wolves.
>
>* Because Hudson Oil stands to make a substantial profit by developing our
>national forest, taxpayers should not foot the bill for the costs of the
>EIS.  Furthermore, the EIS should include a reclamation plan, backed up by
>a bond, that will ensure the area can be restored to its natural condition.
>
>* The Forest Service should study the impacts of oil and gas development on
>the society and economy of Dubois including balancing the economic benefits
>of hunting, fishing, recreation, wildlife viewing with the short term
>economic benefits of oil and gas.
>
>Send your comments to:
>
>Bob Rossman, ID Team Leader,
>808 Meadow Lane, Cody WY 82414
>(307)527-6241
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(if you send an e-mail, be sure to also send a hard copy).
>
>Please act soon! The deadline for comments is January 15.
>
>Caroline Byrd
>Staff Attorney
>Wyoming Outdoor Council
>262 Lincoln Street
>Lander, Wyoming 82520
>ph. (307) 332-7031
>fax (307) 332-6899

>http://www.wocnet.org
>
>The Wyoming Outdoor Council represents Wyoming citizens who are concerned
>about our quality of life, our communities and our environment.
>
>Transfered by:
>
>Phil Knight
>Native Forest Network, Yellowstone Branch
>Last Refuge Campaign
>Gondwana Forest Sanctuary
>PO Box 6151
>Bozeman, MT 59771-6151
>(406) 586-3885
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Visit:
>
>The Native Forest Network Northern Hemisphere Web Site:
>http://www.nativeforest.org
>
>The Native Forest Network's Last Refuge Campaign web page:
>www.nativeforest.org/campaigns/last_refuge/index.html
>        Keeping the Wild in Wild West!
>
>The Native Forest Network Southern Hemisphere Web Site:
>http://www.nfn.org.au
>
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