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February,
2005Save
America's Forests begins new campaign to protect
the most biodiverse forest on earth, Yasuni National
Park and World Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador. Jane
Goodall, E.O. Wilson sign letter asking Ecuador
to protect Yasuni. See new Yasuni Rainforest Campaign
website at www.YasuniRainforestCampaign.org
October,
2004Save
America's Forests attends Eastern Forest Summit/old
growth conference at Holyoke Community College in
Massachusetts, pictures of glorious New England
fall forests in full color along the Mohawk Trail
State Forest
July,
2004Save
America's Forests visits local art school
December
11, 2003OREGONIAN-Former
Oregon Representatives Charles Porter and Jim Weaver
Attack Timber Industry "Healthy Forests"
law, Support the Act to Save America's Forests
November
24, 2003Senator
Jon Corzine Introduces Act to Save America's Forests
of 2003, S. 1938, in the U.S. Senate. Read his floor
statment, A "Dear Colleague", and read
the new bill itself.
April
2003Summary
and Fact Sheet for Act to Save America's Forests
August
7, 2002Representative
Eshoo's Press Release
July
17, 2002Representative
Eshoo's "Dear Colleague" announcement
of her reintroduction of the Act to Save America's
Forests
June 28, 2002Yale
Scientist Dr. Oswald Schmitz's letter of Endorsement
for the Act to Save America's Forests
February 9, 2001Letter
from Dr. Peter Raven to Sen. Jean Carnahan (D-MO)
Dr.
Peter Raven, world reknowned botanist and director
of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, sends letter
to Congress endorsing the Act to Save America's
Forests.
January
17, 2001Interior
Secretary Bruce Babbitt's Siskiyou announcement
No
Siskiyou River National Monument designation, requesting
2-year mining moratorium.
January
11, 2001Carl
Ross, E.O. Wilson, Stuart Pimm send letter to
President Bill Clinton,
vice-President Al Gore, Interior Secretary Bruce
Babbitt, and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman
asking them to designate the Siskiyou Wild Rivers
National Monument.
Winter
2000Article
about The Act to Save America's Forests
in Diplomatic World Observer by Dr. Jud Newborn
April
16, 2000NEWSDAY
Life Magazine Cover Story
featuring Save America's Forests Executive Director
Carl Ross
July
14, 1999A
coalition of over
100 Representatives and Senators announced their
intention to pass the Act to Save America's Forests
Act to Save America's Forests, legislation to
reverse a century of wasteful and destructive logging
practices in the federal forest system.
Senator
Max Cleland (GA) co-sponsors
the Act (press release)
Rep. Anna Eshoo introduces the Act
(press release)
Thank
you to our Congressional champions:
Statement of Carl Ross, Director
April 28, 1998
600 Scientists Endorse Act to Save America's
Forests Act to Save America's
Forests (AP Story)
Scientists'
letter to Congress: Dr. Peter
Raven, Dr. Jane Goodall, Dr. E.O. Wilson, 600 other
scientists
We
Can Win--Senator Robert Torricelli's
speech
Rep. Anna Eshoo welcomes scientists'
support (press release)
Dr.
E.O. Wilson presents an important
slide show
Scientists
Statements:Stuart
Pimm, Ph.D.,
Gary Meffe, Ph.D.,
Arthur Partridge, Ph.D.
David Montgomery, Ph.D.,
Seth Reice, Ph.D.,
Henry Mushinsky, Ph.D.
March 27, 1998Historic
Victory For Forests. "Son of Salvage Rider"
Defeated.
1998Save
America's Forests
receives praise in the book, A Pocket Guide to
ENVIRONMENTAL BAD GUYS (and a Few Ideas on How to
Stop Them) by James Ridgeway & Jeffrey St. Clair
read the quote
November 1994History
of Save America's Forests campaign for early version
of the Act to Save America's Forests in Wild Forest
Review Magazine
September 19,
1993Featured
Profile of Carl Ross, Founder of Save America's
Forests, in the NEW YORK TIMES
Summer 1992Wild Earth-Two articles: one by Ned Fritz and another by Reed Noss.
Ned Fritz explains why legislation to protect biodiversity and stop clearcutting (The Forest Biodiversity and Clearcutting Prohibition Act - H.R. 1969) is important to protect federal forest lands. He also explains that other legislation of that time - the Ancient Forest bill - could be combined with the anti-clearcutting legislation into one bill to give the greatest amount of forest protection.
The Act to Save America's Forests , which was introduced 4 years after Ned wrote this article, is exactly that - a combination of both bills - and Ned Fritz did support the Act to Save America's Forests.
Reed Noss countered Ned's article in Wild Earth with a rebuttal, criticizing the Anti-Clearcutting legislation because it allowed logging. Noss did not consider Fritz's suggested combined legislation.