Land Rights Network
American Land Rights Association
PO Box 400 – Battle Ground, WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 – Fax: 360-687-2973
E-mail: alra@pacifier.com
Web Address: http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE – Washington, DC 20003

Hearing about: “Failed Federal Forest Policies: Endangering Jobs,
Forests and Species”

Alert – Alert – Monday, May 21st Congressional Hearing-Longview.

Come tell your story about how Spotted Owl management by the US
Forest Service has damaged and destroyed local communities all over
the Northwest.

Urgent Action Needed By All Private Property and Federal Land Use
Allies.

You may not realize how terrific this is that Rep. Jaime Herrera
Beutler (R-WA) was able to get the Natural Resources Committee to
hold a hearing in Longview. A terrific job by Congresswoman Beutler.

See the press release below. You must make plans to be in Longview on
Monday, May 21st at 9:00 AM. Come late if you can’t get there by
9:00 AM.

This is your chance to be heard in Washington, DC. No matter where
you live in Oregon or Washington State, this is a hearing you cannot
miss.

WHO:

Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04)
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03)

WHAT:

Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands oversight
field hearing on:

“Failed Federal Forest Policies: Endangering Jobs, Forests and
Species”

Witnesses will be by invitation only.

WHEN:

Monday, May 21, 2012
9:00 A.M. PDT

WHERE:

Cowlitz County Convention Center
1900 7th Avenue
Longview, Washington, 98632

You can bring written testimony for the record. Just address it in
the form of a letter to:

Honorable Don Hastings, Chairman, Natural Resources Committee
US House of Representatives,
Washington, DC 20515

Put the hearing date and time on your letter.

If you cannot hand your letter in at the hearing, then fax or e-mail
it.

Action Items:

—–1. Forward this message to at least 10 people. Your whole list
if possible.

—–2. Call your friends, neighbors and business associates to alert
them to the House Natural Resources Committee hearing.

—–3. Bring signs supporting the use of Federal lands for good
forestry. Bring signs supporting schools and local counties.

—–4. Call your Congressman to urge him or her to attend this
hearing. Call any Congressman at (202) 225-3121.

—–5. Bring handouts to tell about what has happened in your
community as a result of the failed Northwest Forest Plan and the
failed Forest Service forestry policies.

—–6. Bring a letter or press release to hand to the press at this
hearing. This is critically important.

—–7. Bring signs to hold at the hearing support families and
communities. You can make your signs up on your computer or go to
Fred Meyer to buy white signboard. Buy colored wide mouth felt time
pens. This hearing is a big deal. You must be heard and seen.

—–8. Bring pictures of your family, your home, your business to
help the press understand the negative impact on real people by the
failed forest management policies.

—–9. If you cannot attend in person, then send an e-mail with your
testimony to jill.strait@mail.house.gov
<mailto:jill.strait@mail.house.gov>
. Mark it Testimony for the record for the Longview Field Hearing.

—–10. Send a copy of your testimony to your own Congressman by
e-mail, fax or letter. If you don’t have their e-mail or fax
addresses, call your Congressman at (202) 225-3121 to ask for the
staff person who handles forestry, Endangered Species Act or Natural
Resources issues. Ask for his or her e-mail address.