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On
July 14, SB754 was granted "reconsideration", meaning that it
can be brought back -- but no sooner than NEXT year. But next year may
be too late. The Dems may have blown their chance.
This
is very bad.
The
two alleged Democrats who, essentially, killed the bill for this year
voted in accordance with the bill opponents, not with the trees.
The
two so-called Dems who sat down and let the bill die -- at least for this
year -- are:
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Montanez, Cindy: LET THE HERITAGE TREE BILL DIE THIS YEAR
District Office
11541 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Suite C
Mission Hills, California 91345
Phone 818-838-3939 Fax 818-838-3931
Assy Office
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0039
Phone: 916-319-2039 Fax: 916-319-2139
Email: Assemblymember.Montanez@assembly.ca.gov
Johanna or Janell in Assym. Montanez office stated that "she voted
for reconsideration" the next week, and that "she felt she did
not know enough about it" to vote.
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Wolk, Lois: FAILED TO VOTE, LETTING THE HERITAGE TREE BILL DIE District
Office
555 Mason Street, Suite 275, Vacaville, CA 95688
Phone 707-455-8025 Fax: 707-455-0490
Assy Office
State Capitol, Room 6012, Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-319-2008, Fax: 916-319-2108
Email: Assemblymember.Wolk@assembly.ca.gov
Craig Reynolds in Assym. Wolk's office was not available for comment on
this story.
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-----ADAPTED
FROM AN ALERT BY THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
"...SB 754 has passed the California State Senate and is now moving
in the California State Assembly...the logging industry is already lobbying
Assembymembers, looking to kill the bill.
"...PLEASE take just one minute ... To find your Assemblymember's
contact information, please go to http://www.ancienttrees.org
and click on "Contact your Assemblymember." Phone, fax and/or
write until you are sure that they will vote "Yes" on SB 754,
The Heritage Tree Preservation Act...
"SB 754 will protect 'heritage' trees on non-federal forestland that
were alive in 1850, marking the year of California's statehood and the
onset of commercial logging. The trees must also meet species-specific
diameter requirements. California has already lost 97% to 99% of its ancient
trees, this bill will save the remaining 1% of trees on non-federal forestland
that qualify for heritage protection. For more information on the Heritage
Tree Preservation Act ... http://www.ancienttrees.org
or call Lisa Beyer at 510-444-4710 ext. 308."
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Note
that SB754 is just the *first* step in the right direction of a series
of necessary new laws:
--Much stronger Coastal Act. Can be strengthened by revision of key PRC
sections, to plug loopholes and make the Coastal Act more vibrant on "Local
Coastal Program" review, on watershed protections, and on stopping
the armoring of the Coast and re-affirming public access as practical
and necessary -- and preserving what little is left of the priceless Coastal
rainforest-like diversity.
--No building on virgin land in California. Most people would rather not
see the destruction of hillsides, lakes, etc., for private benefit housing
tracts since they don't see themselves as buying one of the new houses,
but can see themselves someday visiting the flowering habitat. All it
takes is circulation of a statewide initiative to propose, and pass, such
an initiative, which will end the viability of such projects as SaddleXXX
and Rancho Mission Viejo.
--Revision of water resource policy. Conserve, reuse, source separation
instead of our policy of getting water from, and dumping waste, "somewhere
ELSE" that hearkens from days of the Roman aquaducts and vomitoria.
/Doug
REGISTERED
SUPPORT (the good people):
Campaign for Old Growth (sponsor)
Audubon California
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
California Democratic Party Environmental Caucus
California League of Conservation Voters
California Oaks Foundation
Center for Biological Diversity
Defenders of Wildlife
Earth Island Institute
Environmental Protection Information Center
Forestry Monitoring Project
Forests Forever
Friends of the Eel River
Green Party of California
National Wildlife Federation
Planning and Conservation League
Sierra Club California
The Walden Woods Project
approx. 60 individuals
REGISTERED
OPPOSITION TO THE BILL: ROGUES GALLERY
Applied Forest Management, LLC
Big Creek Lumber Company
California Farm Bureau Federation
California Forestry Association
California Licensed Foresters Association
Campbell Timberland Management
Collins Almanor Forest
Collins Lakeview Forest
Forest Products Industry National Labor Management Committee
Hancock Natural Resource Group, LLC
Harwood Products, Inc.
Howlett Ranch
Mailliard Ranch
Mendocino Redwood Company
Olympic Resource Management
Red River Forests Partnership
Roseburg Resources Company
Shasta Forests
Simpson Resource Company
W. M. Beaty & Associates, Inc.
2 individuals
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