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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







1996 FWOC Resolution No. 5:
SAVE GIFFORD PINCHOT NATIONAL FOREST

Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest includes Mount Adams, all of Mount St. Helens and foothills of Mount Rainier as well as hundreds of lakes and miles of rivers and streams.  It also includes the Goat Rocks, Indian Heaven, and the Trapper Creek Wilderness areas.  Extending from the south border of Mt. Rainier National Park to the banks of the Columbia River, the Gifford Pinchot NF is the most-visited national forest in Washington, and is also the seventh most popular recreational forest in the United States.
In spite of these impressive qualities, the U.S. Forest Service is planning to auction off (via timber sales) thousand of acres of old-growth and late-succession forest in (or immediately adjacent to) areas highly prized for their recreation, wilderness, and scenic values.  Additionally, many of the proposed sales will severely impact habitat for spotted owls and many other species of birds and wildlife - including more than a dozen listed under the Endangered Species Act.

The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs calls on the U.S. Forest Service to: (1) Initiate an immediate critical review of its timber sales program. (2) To take all actions necessary to cancel any old-growth or late-succession sales adjacent to existing administratively or legislatively protected areas adjacent to trails, or within forest tracts identified by wildlife professional as habitats of endangered or threatened species.
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FWOC members Member Clubs with an interest in this important issue are urged to write the following persons providing comments of their own along with a copy of the above Resolution to:

Forest Supervisor, Gifford Pinchot National Forest (see attached listing at the end of these Resolutions)

Regional Forester, Pacific Northwest Region

Chief, U.S. Forest Service, Washington, DC



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