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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







GENERAL RESOLUTION FOR ALL FWOC MEMBERS AND MEMBER CLUBS
1995 FWOC Resolution No. 1, addressed to all Clubs:

We the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs, are appalled to recognize that the environmental laws we have all worked so hard to implement over the last several decades are now under vicious attack by key members of Congress.
Many of these laws and regulations are in very real danger of being overturned (or made very ineffective) during this and upcoming sessions of Congress as to offer little or no protection to many of our unique wild lands, wild waters, and wildlife in the western states.  This unethical and unprincipled endeavor is directly counter to previous laws that were written to provide permanent protection for such public lands and waters that are owned in-common by ALL OF THE CITIZENS of the U.S.!

We, the Federation, feel that a virtual state of war on our country's public natural resources has been declared by the anti-environment special interests in Washington, D.C.  Such efforts do NOT represent the will of the people of this country, as many nation-wide polls has shown, only the interests of the greedy few!
We call upon our member organizations to acknowledge the imminent danger to those natural resource values which we all hold dear, and to fully recognize that NOW is the time (especially for those who have previously remained quiet) to become intimately and effectively involved in the political aspects of this most serious issue.

Now is the time to encourage our memberships get to work at the grass roots level to individually and collectively to communicate their opinions loudly and clearly, to their respective members of Congress.  Now is the time to be relentless in our mutual pursuit of protection of the environment and to reverse those losses in protection where it may have already occurred.

Everyone who cares about the western outdoors must get to work!  We must ensure that this small, misguided group of people in Congress who care nothing about natural resources except for its exploitation, do not decide the fate of our wild lands for all time to come because of our own lack of efforts and our own silences.  That would be both tragic and shameful!






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