Giant Sequoia Alert
We are asking you to call your elected representatives to oppose the “log the Sequoia Monument” bill, HR 5760, and also tell them to support and co-sponsor the “Act to save America’s Forests”, S.1897. See details below. On July 11, Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California’s 21st District introduced bill HR 5760 titled the “Giant Sequoia National Monument Transition Act of 2006,” which would allow expired timber sales to be implemented in the Monument. The purpose of the bill is to arbitrarily counteract the court decisions of 2005 that halted timber sales grandfathered in by the Proclamation and to forestall …