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#Sierra Club Hardens its Line against Logging on U.S. Land

Question:

Okay, any Home Depot, Dixieline, or mom & pop lumberyard owners:         Next time some yuppie couple comes in to buy any wood product, ask them if they’re Sierra Club owners. At the same time, make sure you have a prominent sign that says, "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." Kindly explain the SC members that they have voluntarily opted not to partake of the benefits of renewable wood fiber products. Now, can I show you a substitute product made from petrochemicals… or maybe from high energy-content steel? Jim —  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."  – Proust

Response:

Sierra Club Hardens its Line against Logging on U.S. Land The Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1996. Reflecting the environmental community’s increasing polarization over management of the national forests, the Sierra Club membership has gone on record opposing all commercial logging on federal lands. The new policy, adopted 2-1 in a ballot referendum of the group’s more than half a million members, marks an important turning point for the nation’s oldest conservation organization, a group that historically has been a moderate advocate for environmental protection. Wracked by the same tumultuous debates that have driven the nation’s political stalemate over logging on public lands – jobs vs. timber, hard-line advocacy vs. real protection for the most crucial of resources – more than 66 percent of the members who voted elected to adopt a tough position in opposition to all private logging on federally managed lands, including the national forests. The position puts the Sierra Club in league with some of the nation’s most strident environmental groups and sets the stage for tougher bargaining in Washington over the future of federal forest lands. It reflects the growing anguish among environmental activists over political and legal setbacks that have loosed chain saws on thousands of acres of federal forest that previously were protected. Advocates of the new policy, which will shape the organization’s lobbying position on federal timber policy but leave intact the possibility of bargaining on the local level, said it reflects widespread public dissatisfaction with management of the national forests and a growing concern that the environmental movement has become too oriented toward compromise. "I think it signals a new era of environmental activism. It’s especially significant coming from a large, national environmental group like the Sierra Club," said Chad Hanson, a Eugene, Ore., activist who drafted the new policy. "I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.  And God granted it."                                                   Voltaire

Response:

Filed under: Lobbying

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