Fee Demo-A CHANCE TO ACT NOW!

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I belong to the Western Slopes No-Fee Coalition, the only group I know of dedicated to fighting fee demo. I received this email today. We can bitch about fee demo all we want on this board, but times for a vote in Congress come up rarely, so please, even if you never call or write, etc, DO IT NOW! (I am not 100% sure if this came to a vote last Wednesday, and so it is worth calling in case it is still on the table).

 

 

Here is the text of the email info I received today

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OUR PREZ, ROB FUNKHOUSER IS IN DC WORKING HARD ON THIS! PLEASE SUPPORT

HIS

EFFORTS IN OUR BEHALF!! MAKE ONE CALL TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN SUPPORT

OF

THE DEFAZIO/BRADLEY AMENDMENT! ( details below)

 

At 3:PM (EST) today, July 16, the House of Representatives will begin

debate

on the

Fiscal Year 2004 Interior Appropriations Bill . Contained

within that legislation is language that would, unless it is removed,

extend

the Recreation Fee-Demonstration Program for yet another two years. That

is

not only ridiculous, it is unacceptable. In 1996, Congress authorized

Fee-Demo as be a THREE year test. The time has come for this unpopular

and

ineffective program to be recognized, once and for all, as a failure and

for

fee-demo to end.

 

Fortunately, a bipartisan effort has come together within the House of

Representatives for the purpose of removing the offending language from

the

Appropriations Bill and to allow Fee-Demo to peacefully terminate next

year.

 

Within the next 24 hours, Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Jeb

Bradley (R-NH) will introduce an amendment to remove the Fee-Demo

extension

language. Your help is urgently needed to help pass that amendment.

 

HERE'S WHAT TO DO:

 

Please call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and asked to be

connected with the office of your Representative. When connected, ask to

speak with the Public Lands Staffer. If that person is unavailable, then

speak directly to the receptionist.

 

Tell him or her that you strenuously oppose the Recreation Fee

Demonstration

Program and that you encourage your Representative to vote in SUPPORT of

the

DeFazio / Bradley amendment that will strike the two-year extension of

Fee-Demo from the Interior Appropriations Bill.

 

This call is IMPORTANT.

Thanks you for your help.

 

Scott

 

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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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