by Rick Bass

URGENT
January 2004

Yaak Valley Forest Council member Tony Johnson named "Wilderness Hero!"
Please check out the following web site. Yaak Valley Forest Council member Tony Johnson has been named a Wilderness Hero for the month of January 2004 by the Campaign for American Wildlands! Congratulations, Tony!
www.wildernessforever.org

Also: Urgent! The Kootenai National Forest, in conjunction with the Idaho Panhandle National Forest, are presently undertaking one of the largest Forest Plan Revisions ever attempted. This plan will govern management direction for the next fifteen years, so your input is critical. Please write and ask that the last roadless lands in the Yaak--and on the Kootenai National Forest--be managed as wilderness. Less than 5% of the Kootenai National Forest is designated as wilderness, and, as you know, there's no designated wilderness in the Yaak. Many healthy forests elsewhere in the state possess between a third and half of their land in wilderness condition. (The Yaak's roadless lands comprise only a third of the valley, and possess little to nil timber value, which is why they're stilll roadless).

Send your comments to:

KIPZ Revision Team
Gail Kimbell, Regional Forester
Kootenai National Forest
1101 U.S. Highway 2 West
Libby, MT 59923


Senator Max Baucus
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510


Senator Conrad Burns
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dale Bosworth, Chief
U.S. Forest Service
Box 96090
Washington, D.C. 20090

US Forest Service
P.O.Box 7669
Missoula, MT 59807

Yaak Valley Forest Council
155 Riverview
Troy, MT 59935

KIPZ Revision Team
Idaho Panhandle Forest
3815 Schreiber Way
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83815

Dennis Rehberg
U.S. House
Washington, D.C. 20515


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