"S. Michael Kruse" wrote:
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: FW: Announcing - " WILD AND FREE IN THE 21st CENTURY "
> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:24:41 -0700
> From: "Kathy McGovern" <snakathy@sierra.net>
> To: "Scott Kruse" <skruse@lightspeed.net>,
> "Rick Breeze-Martin" <rick@breeze-martin.com>,
> "Martha Davis" <martha_davis@tnc.org>,
> "Marjorie Sill" <msill@juno.com>,
> "Lynn Sadler" <lynnsadler@mountainlion.org>,
> "Linda Blum" <llblum@psln.com>,
> "Katherine Evatt" <Bellevatt@cdepot.net>,
>
> "Joan Boothe" <Hoodooskr@aol.com>, "Jane Baxter" <rangewatch@aol.com>,
>
> "Harriet Burgess" <alc@econet.org>,
> "Glenda Edwards" <gedwards@inreach.com>,
> "Bill Center" <bclotus@innercite.com>,
> "Patty Brissenden" <sorensensresort@yahoo.com>,
> "Angeles Chapter SC" <Ssierran@ix.netcom.com>,
> "CA Mule Deer" <dano@psyber.com>, "CNPS" <emilyr@cnps.org>,
> "CA State Park Rangers" <dampier@psyber.com>,
> "CA Wilderness Coalition" <info@calwild.org>,
> "Center for SN Conservation" <csnc@innercite.com>,
> "Dry Creek Citizens Coalition" <drycrik@cwo.com>,
> "Eastern Sierra Audubon" <jimndebby@qnet.com>,
> "Foothill Conservancy" <fhc@outdoingit.com>,
> "Friends of Donner Summit" <jcobourn@fs.scs.unr.edu>,
> "Friends of the Inyo" <sallym@qnet.org>,
> "Friends of the River" <sevans@friendsoftheriver.org>,
> "Betsy Reifsnider" <breif@friendsoftheriver.org>,
> "High Sierra Hikers Assoc." <hshahike@aol.com>,
> "IEH" <ieh@pa.mother.com>,
> "Jumping Frog Research Institute" <jumpingfrog@earthlink.net>,
> "League to Save Lake Tahoe" <tahoeblue@aol.com>,
> "MERG" <shirbob@sierratel.com>,
> "Mono County Mining Committee" <rwmcn@qnet.com>,
> "Mono Lake Committee" <heidi@monolake.org>,
> "Warren Alford" <warren.alford@motherlode.org>,
> "People for Healthy Forests" <healthyforests@mlode.com>,
> "PCL-Jerry Meral" <jmeral@pcl.org>,
> "PCL-Marc de la vergne" <mdelavergne@pcl.org>,
> "PESTER" <tenney@qnet.com>, "PARC" <parc@jps.net>,
> "Range of Light Group SC" <brycewilma@aol.com>,
> "Sierra Nevada Group SC" <jph@oro.net>,
> "Barbara Rivenes" <rivenes@jps.net>, "SYRCL" <syrcl@nccn.net>,
> "Truckee Donner Land Trust" <dwendin@coldstreampress.com>,
> "Truckee River Habitat Restoration Gp" <eagan@jps.net>,
> "Tule River Conservancy" <lutt@ocsnet.net>,
> "Tuolumne County Land Trust" <mgpowell@sonnet.com>,
> "Tuolumne River Preservation Trust" <tuolumne@igc.apc.org>,
> "Yosemite Area Audubon" <arkun@yosemite.net>,
> "Yosemite Restoration Trust" <info@yosemitetrust.org>,
> "Tom Suk" <tsuk@oakweb.com>The Sierra Nevada Alliance has
> forwarded this message to you.-----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Silver <ssilver@wildwilderness.org>
> Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 12:33 PM
> Subject: Announcing - " WILD AND FREE IN THE 21st CENTURY "
> Announcing - " WILD AND FREE IN THE 21st CENTURY " - A Campaign .
> . .
>
> Friends -
>
> Wild Wilderness needs your help to send an irrefutable message to the
> Forest
> Service, the BLM, Congress and the President, that Industrial Strength
>
> Recreation is not an acceptable use of America's Public Lands. To
> accomplish
> this objective, we intend to work with groups from all across America
> to
> turn Saturday, August 14th into a major National Day of Protest
> against the
> Pay-to-Play Wreckreation Agenda.
>
> Please read and widely distribute the following message. Then contact
> Wild
> Wilderness to let us know how you'd like to participate in this event.
> Also
> be sure to tell us how we can assist you in organizing one or more
> local
> protests.
>
> The Wild Wilderness web site (http://www.wildwilderness.org) will soon
> become a
> clearinghouse for information on this campaign. Share with us your
> plans and
> we will distribute your information widely. Working together, we can
> put the
> brakes on Industrial Tourism and halt the unchecked proliferation of
> motorized wreckreation.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Scott
>
> ------------
>
> " WILD AND FREE IN THE 21st CENTURY "
>
> A Campaign to Halt the Commercialization, Privatization and Increased
> Motorization of Recreational Opportunities on America's Public Lands
>
> In the next millennium, will Americans enjoy free access to pristine
> forests, deserts, mountains, rivers and streams, or will wild nature
> be
> developed into recreational products and sold to those with thick
> wallets or
> those most willing to buy access? The answer to this question will be
> decided in the next few months and you can play a major role in
> determining
> the outcome.
>
> In 1996, Congress began a test to determine whether people were
> willing to
> pay to visit public lands. This program, called the "Recreation Fee
> Demonstration Program" (Fee-Demo), was developed in partnership with
> the
> American Recreation Coalition (ARC). ARC is a trade association which
> primarily represents motorized recreation and has testified before
> Congress
> that "Recreation fees on public lands were one of the issues which
> prompted
> the creation of the American Recreation Coalition in 1979" . ARC also
> represents numerous companies that are eager to construct and operate
> privately-owned recreational facilities on public lands now managed by
> the
> US Forest Service and other federal agencies. Current laws severely
> restrict
> such private undertakings, strictly limit the fees which may be
> charged and
> attempt to exert some minimal level of regulation upon motorized
> wreckreation. ARC is industry's vehicle for getting around all of
> these
> obstacles.
>
> Fee-Demo is a small part of the larger effort to promote Industrial
> Strength
> Recreation and to redefine how people recreate on public lands in the
> 21st
> century. Fee-Demo is intended to demonstrate how to most effectively
> charge
> for the enjoyment of amenities that have traditionally been free.
> Before
> 1999 ends, ARC and other proponents of this pay-to-play ethic will
> attempt
> to pass legislation to facilitate what many have dubbed: The Corporate
>
> Takeover of Nature and the Disneyfication of Public Lands. Once it
> becomes
> legal to run public lands for their revenue generation potential,
> there will
> be no end to the new products and services that will be offered. For
> the US
> Forest Service and their private partners, the perceived financial
> opportunities are simply irresistible.
>
> In recent months, over 100 environmental organizations, outdoor
> recreation
> groups, state and local governments have called for an end to the
> highly
> unpopular Fee-Demo program. Bipartisan legislation, called the "Forest
> Tax
> Relief Act of 1999" has been introduced to immediately eliminate this
> program from all National Forests. Yet even with all this opposition,
> the
> land managers who stand to gain from charging recreational fees are
> telling
> Congress that people actually like to pay them. They are telling
> President
> Clinton that Fee-Demo is so successful, that he should call for fees
> to be
> permanently authorized without further delay.
>
> To keep these lands wild and to continue the long tradition of free
> access,
> we must use the remaining months of this millenium to send an
> irrefutable
> message to Congress and the Clinton Administration. We must let them
> know
> that we OPPOSE being treated as customers and that we oppose the
> current
> attempt to commercialize, privatize and motorize lands that we own.
>
> To ensure that our intense disapproval is heard loudly and clearly,
> Saturday
> August 14, 1999 shall become a National Day of Action. In communities
> and on
> public lands across this nation, people will be demonstrating their
> determination to protect our forests and other special places and to
> keep
> them forever 'Wild and Free'.
>
> For information on how you can participate in this special event, or
> to
> learn more about this extremely important issue, please contact:
>
> Scott Silver
> Wild Wilderness
> 248 NW Wilmington Ave.
> Bend, OR 97701
>
> phone: 541-385-5261
> e-mail: ssilver@wildwilderness.org
> Internet: http://www.wildwilderness.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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"S. Michael Kruse" wrote:
Subject: FW: Announcing - " WILD AND FREE IN THE 21st CENTURY " Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:24:41 -0700 From: "Kathy McGovern" <snakathy@sierra.net> To: "Scott Kruse" <skruse@lightspeed.net>, "Rick Breeze-Martin" <rick@breeze-martin.com>, "Martha Davis" <martha_davis@tnc.org>, "Marjorie Sill" <msill@juno.com>, "Lynn Sadler" <lynnsadler@mountainlion.org>, "Linda Blum" <llblum@psln.com>, "Katherine Evatt" <Bellevatt@cdepot.net>, "Joan Boothe" <Hoodooskr@aol.com>, "Jane Baxter" <rangewatch@aol.com>, "Harriet Burgess" <alc@econet.org>, "Glenda Edwards" <gedwards@inreach.com>, "Bill Center" <bclotus@innercite.com>, "Patty Brissenden" <sorensensresort@yahoo.com>, "Angeles Chapter SC" <Ssierran@ix.netcom.com>, "CA Mule Deer" <dano@psyber.com>, "CNPS" <emilyr@cnps.org>, "CA State Park Rangers" <dampier@psyber.com>, "CA Wilderness Coalition" <info@calwild.org>, "Center for SN Conservation" <csnc@innercite.com>, "Dry Creek Citizens Coalition" <drycrik@cwo.com>, "Eastern Sierra Audubon" <jimndebby@qnet.com>, "Foothill Conservancy" <fhc@outdoingit.com>, "Friends of Donner Summit" <jcobourn@fs.scs.unr.edu>, "Friends of the Inyo" <sallym@qnet.org>, "Friends of the River" <sevans@friendsoftheriver.org>, "Betsy Reifsnider" <breif@friendsoftheriver.org>, "High Sierra Hikers Assoc." <hshahike@aol.com>, "IEH" <ieh@pa.mother.com>, "Jumping Frog Research Institute" <jumpingfrog@earthlink.net>, "League to Save Lake Tahoe" <tahoeblue@aol.com>, "MERG" <shirbob@sierratel.com>, "Mono County Mining Committee" <rwmcn@qnet.com>, "Mono Lake Committee" <heidi@monolake.org>, "Warren Alford" <warren.alford@motherlode.org>, "People for Healthy Forests" <healthyforests@mlode.com>, "PCL-Jerry Meral" <jmeral@pcl.org>, "PCL-Marc de la vergne" <mdelavergne@pcl.org>, "PESTER" <tenney@qnet.com>, "PARC" <parc@jps.net>, "Range of Light Group SC" <brycewilma@aol.com>, "Sierra Nevada Group SC" <jph@oro.net>, "Barbara Rivenes" <rivenes@jps.net>, "SYRCL" <syrcl@nccn.net>, "Truckee Donner Land Trust" <dwendin@coldstreampress.com>, "Truckee River Habitat Restoration Gp" <eagan@jps.net>, "Tule River Conservancy" <lutt@ocsnet.net>, "Tuolumne County Land Trust" <mgpowell@sonnet.com>, "Tuolumne River Preservation Trust" <tuolumne@igc.apc.org>, "Yosemite Area Audubon" <arkun@yosemite.net>, "Yosemite Restoration Trust" <info@yosemitetrust.org>, "Tom Suk" <tsuk@oakweb.com> The Sierra Nevada Alliance has forwarded this message to you.-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Silver <ssilver@wildwilderness.org>
Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 12:33 PM
Subject: Announcing - " WILD AND FREE IN THE 21st CENTURY "
Announcing - " WILD AND FREE IN THE 21st CENTURY " - A Campaign . . .Friends -
Wild Wilderness needs your help to send an irrefutable message to the Forest
Service, the BLM, Congress and the President, that Industrial Strength
Recreation is not an acceptable use of America's Public Lands. To accomplish
this objective, we intend to work with groups from all across America to
turn Saturday, August 14th into a major National Day of Protest against the
Pay-to-Play Wreckreation Agenda.Please read and widely distribute the following message. Then contact Wild
Wilderness to let us know how you'd like to participate in this event. Also
be sure to tell us how we can assist you in organizing one or more local
protests.The Wild Wilderness web site (http://www.wildwilderness.org) will soon become a
clearinghouse for information on this campaign. Share with us your plans and
we will distribute your information widely. Working together, we can put the
brakes on Industrial Tourism and halt the unchecked proliferation of
motorized wreckreation.Thanks much.
Scott
------------
" WILD AND FREE IN THE 21st CENTURY "
A Campaign to Halt the Commercialization, Privatization and Increased
Motorization of Recreational Opportunities on America's Public LandsIn the next millennium, will Americans enjoy free access to pristine
forests, deserts, mountains, rivers and streams, or will wild nature be
developed into recreational products and sold to those with thick wallets or
those most willing to buy access? The answer to this question will be
decided in the next few months and you can play a major role in determining
the outcome.In 1996, Congress began a test to determine whether people were willing to
pay to visit public lands. This program, called the "Recreation Fee
Demonstration Program" (Fee-Demo), was developed in partnership with the
American Recreation Coalition (ARC). ARC is a trade association which
primarily represents motorized recreation and has testified before Congress
that "Recreation fees on public lands were one of the issues which prompted
the creation of the American Recreation Coalition in 1979" . ARC also
represents numerous companies that are eager to construct and operate
privately-owned recreational facilities on public lands now managed by the
US Forest Service and other federal agencies. Current laws severely restrict
such private undertakings, strictly limit the fees which may be charged and
attempt to exert some minimal level of regulation upon motorized
wreckreation. ARC is industry's vehicle for getting around all of these
obstacles.Fee-Demo is a small part of the larger effort to promote Industrial Strength
Recreation and to redefine how people recreate on public lands in the 21st
century. Fee-Demo is intended to demonstrate how to most effectively charge
for the enjoyment of amenities that have traditionally been free. Before
1999 ends, ARC and other proponents of this pay-to-play ethic will attempt
to pass legislation to facilitate what many have dubbed: The Corporate
Takeover of Nature and the Disneyfication of Public Lands. Once it becomes
legal to run public lands for their revenue generation potential, there will
be no end to the new products and services that will be offered. For the US
Forest Service and their private partners, the perceived financial
opportunities are simply irresistible.In recent months, over 100 environmental organizations, outdoor recreation
groups, state and local governments have called for an end to the highly
unpopular Fee-Demo program. Bipartisan legislation, called the "Forest Tax
Relief Act of 1999" has been introduced to immediately eliminate this
program from all National Forests. Yet even with all this opposition, the
land managers who stand to gain from charging recreational fees are telling
Congress that people actually like to pay them. They are telling President
Clinton that Fee-Demo is so successful, that he should call for fees to be
permanently authorized without further delay.To keep these lands wild and to continue the long tradition of free access,
we must use the remaining months of this millenium to send an irrefutable
message to Congress and the Clinton Administration. We must let them know
that we OPPOSE being treated as customers and that we oppose the current
attempt to commercialize, privatize and motorize lands that we own.To ensure that our intense disapproval is heard loudly and clearly, Saturday
August 14, 1999 shall become a National Day of Action. In communities and on
public lands across this nation, people will be demonstrating their
determination to protect our forests and other special places and to keep
them forever 'Wild and Free'.For information on how you can participate in this special event, or to
learn more about this extremely important issue, please contact:Scott Silver
Wild Wilderness
248 NW Wilmington Ave.
Bend, OR 97701phone: 541-385-5261
e-mail: ssilver@wildwilderness.org
Internet: http://www.wildwilderness.org
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