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The
Campaign to End Commercial Logging in National Forests
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Lady's Slipper, Cypripedium reginae
Tionesta
old growth forest, Allegheny National Forest
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In 1996, the Allegheny
Defense Project met with a coalition of other groups on a farm in
Indiana to discuss a national campaign to end commercial logging
on all national forests. Since that time, the ADP has played an
active role in this national campaign.
As a result
of meetings among grassroots as well as national-level groups, a
piece of legislation was formed, called the "National Forest Protection
and Restoration Act", introduced by Representatives Cynthia McKinney
(D-GA) and Jim Leach (R-IA.) This comprehensive bill will end the
commercial logging program on national forests while redirecting
the $1 billion annual timber sale subsidy to restoring our forests
rather than cutting them down.
The
National Forest Protection and Restoration Act (NFPRA):
- Preserves America's
national forest heritage, protecting and restoring the ecological
values of our federal public forests by ending the federal government's
timber sale program on National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges,
and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands.
- Immediately protects
all roadless areas by cancelling existing timber sales in those
areas.
- Immediately prohibits
all new timber sales, cancels Salvage Rider sales, and phases
out all existing timber sales within two years.
- Saves taxpayers over
$300 million annually.
- Redirects logging
subsidies to provide funds for worker retraining and gives hiring
preference to displaced loggers for restoration work.
- Redirects logging
subsidies to provide funding for a scientifically-based ecological
restoration program for federal forests.
- Redirects logging
subsidies, providing funding to replace 25% revenue-sharing payments
to schools and townships.
- Redirects logging
subsidies to provide funding for environmentally-sensitive non-wood
alternative paper and construction materials.
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