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Senate: Remove Public Land Riders from Defense Authorization Bill

Posted by on December 8, 2014

Senate: Remove Public Land Riders from Defense Authorization Bill

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Please take action now by calling your Senators and asking that these RIDERS be stripped from the bill.

The Cloud Foundation endorses the following action taken by environmental groups:

GRASSROOTS COALITION BLASTS PUBLIC LAND PROVISIONS IN DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BILL
Grassroots environmental groups from across the country are issuing a LETTER demanding the removal of damaging public land “riders” that have been added to the Defense Authorization Bill now headed for the Senate. Title XXX (30) of the bill includes several controversial and harmful public land proposals, including an exchange of National Forest land to a foreign-owned mining company seeking to operate a mine on land sacred to the Apache, a giveaway of 70,000 acres on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Sealaska Corporation, notorious for its scorched-earth logging practices, and a stealth provision that removes protections from two Wilderness Study Areas in eastern Montana. The bill also contains numerous public land conveyances as well as Wilderness bills with special provisions allowing helicopter use and habitat manipulation.

A coalition of 47 organizations is calling on the Senate to remove Title XXX from the Defense Bill. Some proposals thrown into the mix would gain the groups’ strong support as stand-alone legislation, but the bill’s numerous “poison pills” mean that too high a price would be paid for a few conservation gains. The groups are submitting their letter to Senators ahead of its being brought to the Floor Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2014

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