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2001 12:26 AM
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LIVE IN ARIZONA? SEND A FREE FAX TO SAVE PIMA
COUNTY’S SONORAN
DESERT CONSERVATION PLAN
§ RALLY AGAINST BUSH’S ENVIRONMENTAL
ATTACK-
TUCSON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 11:30 AM
§ WOLF
SLIDESHOW AT PHOENIX ZOO 4-5-01 7pm
§ CATTLE ALLOTMENT IN WOLF
RECOVERY AREA CLOSED-
THANK THE FOREST SERVICE FOR A GOOD
DECISION
LIVE IN ARIZONA? SEND FREE FAX TO SAVE PIMA
COUNTY’S
SONORAN DESERT CONSERVATION PLAN
Arizona Governor Jane Hull and
Herb Guenther have introduced an
amendment to HB2362 giving the Governor veto
power over all city
and county conservation plans. The amendment is clearly
designed
to torpedo Pima County's "Sonoran Desert Conservation
Plan."
Developers have tried to derail the plan here in Tucson without
effect,
so they are taking their money and energy to the state
legislature
which is always developer-friendly.
Hull, whose southern
Arizona campaign chairman was Don Diamond,
Pima County’s largest and most
notorious developer, asked
Representative Guenther to introduce the bill.
If you are from Arizona, click the link below to send a free fax to
Hull,
your state senator, and your state representative. Tell them to
veto
HB2362.
<http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/StopHB2362>
___________________
RALLY
AGAINST BUSH’S ENVIRONMENTAL ATTACK
TUCSON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6TH,
11:30 AM
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Oregon
Natural
Resources Council are sponsoring an EARTHWAKE in downtown
Tucson
to protest George W. Bush's environmental rollbacks. Bush
is outdoing
his father and Ronald Reagan to become the most anti-
environmental president
in history.
PLEASE JOIN US, Friday, April 6
11:30 am meet at the corner of 4th Ave. and Congress/Toole
(train station parking lot)
12:00 pm march to the
federal building, 300 W. Congress
12:30 pm
rally/press conference for environmental protection
Place a message to
the White House in a casket which will tour
several other cities and be
delivered to the White House in
Washington, DC on Earth Day.
Please
wear black - humorous/creative theatricality is encouraged.
Speakers
- Rose Augustine Tucsonans for a Clean
Environment
- Kieran
Suckling Center
for Biological Diversity
- Raul
Grijalva Pima
County Board of Supervisors
- Tim
Lengerich Coronado
Cougar
- Susan
Ash Oregon
Natural Resource Council
- Jimbo
Watson AFL-CIO
Daniel
Patterson Center
for Biological Diversity
Carolyn
Campbell Coalition
for Sonoran Desert Protection
Al
Decker Earth
First! Journal*
Randy Serraglio Southwest Alliance to
Resist Militarization
Scotty Johnson Defenders of
Wildlife
Contact Sonya Diehn for more information 623.5252 x300
www.earthwake2001.com
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WOLF
SLIDESHOW AT PHOENIX ZOO 4-5-01 7pm
Michael Robinson, the Center for
Biological Diversity’s predator
recovery specialist, is presenting a slide
show on the Mexican
gray wolf at the Phoenix Zoo auditorium, Thursday, April
5th,
7:00 pm. The zoo is located at 455 N. Galvin Parkway in
Papago
Park.
The Mexican gray wolf is one of North America's most
imperiled
mammals, the victim of a concerted government campaign of
extermination that came within five animals of wiping out the
species
entirely. After two decades of an emergency captive
breeding program,
Mexican wolves were reintroduced to southern
Arizona and New Mexico.
But the forces behind the original
extermination campaign are gearing up to
sabotage the recovery
and put the final nail in the wolf's coffin. Come find
out what you
can do help wolves stay forever wild in the Southwest.
For more information contact Laurie Nessel (480)
968-5614
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CATTLE ALLOTMENT IN WOLF RECOVERY AREA
CLOSED-
THANK THE FOREST SERVICE FOR A GOOD DECISION
Good news for wolves,
spotted owls, loach minnows, flycatchers,
grass, and taxpayers: the
Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest has
agreed to prohibit cattle on the Lower
Campbell Blue Grazing
Allotment for ten years.
The allotment is at
the headwaters of the Blue River and the
northern boundary of the Mexican
gray wolf recovery zone. A
plan to rest the allotment until 2003 was enacted
in 1998 due
to lawsuits, critical habitat designations, and endangered
species
listings by the Center for Biological. This January, however, the
lessee saw the writing on he wall and gave up his grazing permit.
In
response to a barrage of public comments, the Forest has
elected to keep the
permit out of circulation until at least 2001.
Please call Buck McKinney
or Carolyn Painter at the Alpine
Ranger District (520) 339 4384 and thank
them for making the
right
decision.
Kierán
Suckling
ksuckling@biologicaldiversity.org
Executive
Director
520.623.5252 phone
Center for Biological
Diversity 520.623.9797 fax
<www.biologicaldiversity.org>
POB 710, Tucson, AZ 85702-0710