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The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee will vote on Tuesday, October 21 to pass the so-called “Fix Our Forests Act” (S. 1462) out of committee so the full Senate can vote on the bill.
The U.S. House passed its version of the bill this past spring, and while the Senate version is slightly different, the "Fix Our Forests Act" will dramatically change how America’s national forests will be managed, and Wilderness won't be spared.
The “Fix Our Forests Act” will expand destructive livestock grazing in national forests, including in Wilderness. Taxpayers already heavily subsidize livestock grazing, as livestock are permitted to displace wildlife, trample streamside vegetation, and spread invasive, flammable weeds for literally just a few pennies a day.
Dominating Wilderness with more livestock grazing and manager-ignited fires will not eliminate climate and weather-induced fire severity, but will eliminate the purpose of Wilderness—landscapes and communities of life undominated and “untrammeled” by humans.
There are many other problems with this bill. It hobbles public participation in public lands management, National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act requirements, and imposes very short timelines for judicial review and relief.
Thank you for speaking up for Wilderness, public lands, and the wildlife that call it home!
Urge your senators to vote NO on the falsely-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Tell your senators to vote NO on the "Fix Our Forests Act"
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Please visit www.wildernesswatch.org to see what other actions you can take to protect and defend America's National Wilderness Preservation System.
Thank you for urging your senators to oppose the falsely-named “Fix Our Forests Act”
Please also call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and ask them to vote NO on the "Fix Our Forests Act."
Tell your senators that the bill threatens Wilderness with more livestock grazing and manager-ignited fires, and the "Fix Our Forests Act" is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt dramatically increase logging, roadbuilding, and livestock grazing on federal public lands by undermining our nation’s bedrock environmental laws.
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