National Forest Protection and Restoration Act (NFPRA) needs your help to reverse the abusive trend set by the timber industry and the US Forest Service. For several decades USFS has spent billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing the timber industry through building timber roads - all 440,000 miles of them! This led to serious damages to the environment by clearcutting causing destruction of natural beauty, wildlife, and other environmental damages such as soil erosion.
Fortunately,a bill has been introduced by Representatives Jim Leach (R-IA) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) to reverse this trend. Please take a moment to take action and write to your representatives in the congress asking them to support the bill. Clearcutting is the practice of stripping a forest bare by cutting down every single tree. This practice causes severe and irreversible damages to the land and the communities surrounding the clearcut areas. Floods and other mud slides are among the consequences of clearcutting. To the timber industry, clearcutting is perhaps the most profitable approach. Other people who loves clearcutting is land developers. The impacts of clearcutting is far reaching. Many wildlife habitats are upset and so is the ecosystem, given the large-scale clearcutting. There have been growing concerns about the personnel management manuvers at the Department of Interior: many forest ranger positions have been cut or transferred to "desk jobs", leaving the forests unprotected from one of the most dangerous beasts: the timber industry. Illegal logging is on the rise as a result. It looks as if the DOI is "assisting" the timber industry in exploiting natural resources on public lands, according to many environmentalists. And this problem isn't unique to the US alone. Illegal logging in Central America and the Philippines have also attracted international attention.
The time is now to save what is left of the world's natural resources from the voracious greeds of the timber industry and land developers.
Fortunately,a bill has been introduced by Representatives Jim Leach (R-IA) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) to reverse this trend. Please take a moment to take action and write to your representatives in the congress asking them to support the bill. Clearcutting is the practice of stripping a forest bare by cutting down every single tree. This practice causes severe and irreversible damages to the land and the communities surrounding the clearcut areas. Floods and other mud slides are among the consequences of clearcutting. To the timber industry, clearcutting is perhaps the most profitable approach. Other people who loves clearcutting is land developers. The impacts of clearcutting is far reaching. Many wildlife habitats are upset and so is the ecosystem, given the large-scale clearcutting. There have been growing concerns about the personnel management manuvers at the Department of Interior: many forest ranger positions have been cut or transferred to "desk jobs", leaving the forests unprotected from one of the most dangerous beasts: the timber industry. Illegal logging is on the rise as a result. It looks as if the DOI is "assisting" the timber industry in exploiting natural resources on public lands, according to many environmentalists. And this problem isn't unique to the US alone. Illegal logging in Central America and the Philippines have also attracted international attention.
The time is now to save what is left of the world's natural resources from the voracious greeds of the timber industry and land developers.
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