May, 2003
Robert Vandermark and Tiernan Sittenfeld
Co-Directors, Heritage Forests Campaign
The U.S. Forest service is actively trying to stifle
your voice on important issues relating to the management
of your public lands and tax dollars. Please, take
a moment of your time to tell the Forest Service that
your voice counts! All you need to do is hit REPLY
to send your objections to Forest Service Chief Dale
Bosworth. If you would prefer to personalize your comments,
please go to http://www.actioncenter.org/campaign/spam .
In recent months, a number of our members have contacted
us at the Heritage Forests Campaign to let us know
that their emails to the Forest Service have been returned
to them, unread. We've investigated the situation and
found that the Forest Service is using a SPAM blocker
that frequently rejects letters from our members as
well as those from nearly every other environmental
and business membership group. Although we have asked
the Forest Service to allow your letters to get through,
they've refused.
This is just one example of the Forest Service's attempts
to limit your ability to comment. Regulations tucked
deep into the National Forest Management Act would
also allow the Forest Service to deny pre-printed postcard
comments, emails, and even petitions in certain circumstances.
We won't stand for this sort of treatment and neither
should you. The Heritage Forests Campaign, along with
several other concerned environmental and business
groups, has already written to the Forest Service expressing
our dismay at this treatment. Now it's your turn. Please
take a moment to write the US Forest Service Chief,
Dale Bosworth, and let him know that your comments
aren't Spam!
All you need to do is hit the REPLY button to send
a message to Chief Bosworth. If you would like to personalize
your comments, please go to http://www.actioncenter.org/campaign/spam .
Particularly to our members with AOL, Juno, Yahoo,
MSN and Prodigy.com email addresses, there is a decent
chance your letter will be blocked by the Forest Service's
Spam filter. If this happens, please follow the directions
below to make sure Chief Bosworth knows you are not
Spam:
1. print out the text of your email and FAX it to 202-205-1765
2. Call Chief Bosworth at 202-205-1661 and tell him
that your comments aren't Spam.
3. Place your letter in an envelope and mail it to:
Chief Dale Bosworth
U.S. Forest Service
P.O. Box 96090
Washington, D.C. 20090-6090
4. Drop us a line at comments@ourforests.org and let
us know what response, if any, you receive.
For additional information, check out some of these
recent articles and editorials that have covered this
issue:
Some comments on forest rules axed
http://www.msnbc.com/news/905259.asp
Originality counts, says Forest Service
http://www.ourforests.org/columbian.pdf
The Send Button
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/5810061.htm
Thanks so much for your help!
Sincerely,
Robert Vandermark and Tiernan Sittenfeld
Co-Directors, Heritage Forests Campaign
Thank you.
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