From: owner-cwild@lists.xmission.com Date: 22 Mar 2001 15:44:44 -0700 Well we're up and ready to run. It was a tough one getting it going but it was all my fault; one little detail that I overlooked. There's still one kink to iron out but we're mostly ready to go. Sender: owner-cwild@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: cwild You have been sent this email because you asked to participate in the SLC Wilderness List. This is a "Send Only" list and is not open to receiving your posts or email. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. All references to the list administrativia (comments, questions, bounced email addresses, etc) should now point to letterstoeditor@yahoo.com. If you reply to any of these tests with any problems or concerns, direct them to that address. It's set up the way it is to free UWC of the more mundane tasks associated with maintaining the list. Any volunteer can then administrate bounced list addresses and answer simple questions from the public. I now administrate that Yahoo! address but UWC will know the password and will pass that duty off as volunteers come and go, etc. Because this list will be highly visible to the public eye, it's best that UWC has control over what is mass-mailed through the list. The volunteer who reads the news to identify worthy articles for distribution (thank you Amy!) will forward the text to UWC (wildutah@xmission.com) for approval and follow up with a phone call to Ken. Again, with this set-up any volunteer can do this in Amy's absence, etc. UWC will first add the pertinent addresses so subscribers will have the info to reply to the respective journal. This will be a simple cut and paste from http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/lte.html#where_send. UWC will then cut and paste the journal text, approve and send distribution with the unique password for cwild. This makes UWC gauge for the quantity and quality of what should or should not be distributed. I'll show UWC the details of how to do this sometime over the next few days. Regarding these last two items, volunteers must let UWC know when they are out of town, on vacation, burned-out - whatever so that UWC can pass-off responsibilities, etc. If not, the timeliness and urgency of the information are lost. Further, there is a potential for problems associated with the list that, if not maintained and addressed immediately, could cause XMission and all their hundreds of list owners a lot of heartache and trouble. I'll advise UWC about this potential at the same time. UWC must likewise pass off their administrative responsibility when out of town or else administrate the list remotely if near a computer. XMission says: Because of a few recent problems, some rules must be set down for responsible list management. Be sure to read and understand these rules before completing this form. Failure to follow these rules can result in your list privileges being revoked. "Keep your lists clean of bad addresses. Do *NOT* approve things that should not be approved. A good example is that somehow a list got an error message that was "From" the list directed "To" the list. This caused a loop which eventually brought the list server to a crawl. Another suggestion is not running with a list that accepts postings from everyone. Mail loops affect everyone's lists, not just your own. Be responsible list owners. Running a list is akin to having the water running. If you are going out of town for a couple weeks, please transfer management responsibility. Anyway, late last week I subscribed everyone on Amy's existing list (and added Bill and Vi yesterday). Please reply to the Yahoo! account ONLY IF YOU DIDN'T receive a FAQ that begins: "What's it all about" etc late last week. You can get a duplicate copy by sending an email to cwild@uwcoalition.org and put only the word "intro" (without the quotes) in the body of the letter (but please email if you didn't receive it). There might be one or two more tests but this could be a final test before we make the list live. Thanks for your patience through these early tests and if you have occasion, thank XMission and refer your friend and associates to them. They are exemplary corporate citizens and have been great to the UWC and Utah wilderness for many, many years now. Ken will have the flyer and the business cards in a day or two so all wwe have to do now is promote it. Thanks again, Richard Dixon (letterstoeditor@yahoo.com) EOF __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Thank you for your interest in Utah Wilderness issues! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Dixon Subject: (cwild) Older News from Amy as a test Date: 23 Mar 2001 07:52:54 -0700 You have been sent this email because you asked to participate in the SLC Wilderness List. This is a "Send Only" list and is not open to receiving your posts or email. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. Time: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:20:01 -0700 letters@desnews.com Forum rules: Keep your letter short. Include your full name, address and phone number. Copyright 2001 The Deseret News Publishing Co. The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) March 12, 2001, Monday SECTION: WIRE; Pg. A01 LENGTH: 378 words HEADLINE: Hansen calls a hearing on Clinton monuments BYLINE: By Lee Davidson Deseret News Washington correspondent WASHINGTON -- House Resources Committee Chairman Jim Hansen, R-Utah, has called a hearing on the first of what may be many bills to rework national monuments created or expanded by former President Bill Clinton. He scheduled a hearing for Tuesday on a bill by Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, to amend the management plan to allow hunting in Idaho's Craters of the Moon National Monument, which Clinton expanded. Simpson said hunting has been a popular activity there, but the monument's new management plan would block it. Earlier this year, Hansen wrote to House members whose districts include the 21 monuments created or expanded by Clinton. He offered to help them rework or even erase boundaries residents oppose, or to amend unpopular management rules. "This legislation (on Craters of the Moon) is precisely what I had in mind when I offered the committee's help in redrawing the boundaries or management plans of these Clinton monuments," Hansen said. "Like most of the Clinton monuments, this designation was crammed down the throats of the local people with complete disregard for their wishes or the impact on their local economy. "Now, the local people want the monument's management plan changed to accommodate their long-standing use of that land. We're going to help them make it happen," Hansen said. The hearing will be before the Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands. Hansen and Subcommittee Chairman Joel Hefley recently added the word "recreation" to its title because they said public lands management has too often ignored that use and tilted too heavily toward environmental protection. Hefley said, "What Bill Clinton did to the people of Idaho and 14 other states with his national monuments was an arrogant abuse of power." Simpson said his bill is "about fairness and fulfilling the promises that the federal government made to the people of Idaho. It ensures that Idahoans can continue to enjoy hunting and are not locked out of traditional hunting areas." Among the monuments the committee may revisit is Utah's vast Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, said he is soliciting comment from local officials about changes they may want. END Thank you for your interest in Utah Wilderness issues! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Dixon Subject: (cwild) Older news-Test-Please email: letterstoeditor@yahoo.com to tell m Date: 23 Mar 2001 07:59:34 -0700 You have been sent this email because you asked to participate in the SLC Wilderness List. This is a "Send Only" list and is not open to receiving your posts or email. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. - Time: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:28:25 -0700 - letters to: letters@sltrib.com Make sure your submissions meet the criteria below. E-mail letters lacking full name, postal address and daytime telephone number and those sent to other e- mail boxes will be deleted. E-mail with attachments will be deleted. The letter must submitted as a plain text in the body of the message. Does Utah Congressman Jim Hansen Have a Heart of Environmental Green? The Salt Lake Tribune; Salt Lake City, Utah; Mar 11, 2001; HEIDI MCINTOSH; Copyright Salt Lake Tribune Mar 11, 2001 Rep. James Hansen (R-Ut.), the recently-appointed chairman of the Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, has mounted a public relations campaign to soften his image as a hard- core foe of wilderness and environmental protection. In a recent op-ed piece he sent to newspapers around the country, Rep. Hansen vowed to "seek a wise balance between the protection of lands and species, appropriate public access to public lands and the environmentally sound extraction of energy resources," and rightly argues that Republicans have fielded strong environmental leaders like Theodore Roosevelt. There are many Republicans in Congress today who are sensitive to Americans' concerns about the environment. However, whether Hansen has truly undergone a last-minute conversion remains to be seen. Either way, conservationists will look for opportunities to work with him to advance meaningful conservation initiatives. As committee chair, Hansen will wield enormous influence over the fate of America's wilderness areas, national parks, and national forests, and on the congressional environmental agenda. Much is at stake. Conservationists, however, view Hansen's conversion with skepticism. He is, after all, a man with a record on these issues, one that doesn't exactly glow with green credentials. Since he has put his record at issue, it bears close scrutiny. In 1995 and 1996, he fought to pass a watered-down wilderness bill for Utah that included just a fraction of the nine million acres of pubic lands that qualify for wilderness in that state. With a dash of salt to the wound, he included atrocious language that would have rolled back the 1964 Wilderness Act by permitting dams, roads and other developments smack dab in the middle of designated wilderness areas. Fortunately, this bill died on Capitol Hill in 1996, with every major environmental group aligned against it. Meanwhile, Hansen continues to block a House vote on America's Redrock Wilderness Act, put together by citizens throughout the country and which contains some of the most spectacular canyons, sandstone spires and sweeping desert landscapes in the country. The Redrock bill has broad public support from coast to coast, with 168 co-sponsors in the House (including 23 Republicans) and 15 co- sponsors in the Senate. Wilderness isn't the only part of our natural heritage that Hansen has targeted. National monuments have also borne the brunt of his ire. These monuments, protecting diverse areas from the Sonoran desert of Arizona to the historic Missouri Breaks of Montana, are enormously popular. Moreover, despite the torrent of criticism that Hansen has rained on these monuments, experience at Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, created in 1996, shows that they provide an economic boost to struggling rural towns. In Utah, both jobs and per capita income have increased in areas near the monument according to state data. One of Hansen's chief complaints is that President Clinton designated these national monuments without public input. These complaints not only overlook the public hearings and open discussion about the monument proposals, but they ring hollow in light of Hansen's own checkered history of shielding pet projects from public review and environmental analysis. One bill exempted from public review a reservoir on the doorstep of Zion National Park which drew water from the Virgin River where two endangered fish species struggle for water in a river that carries barely a trickle of its natural flow. All to irrigate the golf courses of St. George, a desert community where per capita water consumption rates are among the highest in the nation. Another case involved granting wealthy campaign contributor and ski resort developer Earl Holding immunity from environmental laws that would have otherwise required public participation and environmental review of a four-season resort to be built on Forest Service land and which Holding claimed he needed for the 2002 Winter Olympics. This after a federal judge ruled that the environmental analysis that was already done violated federal law by glossing over environmental impacts and public safety issues like avalanche danger. Other bills raise doubts about Hansen's green credentials. Just last year, Hansen and his colleague from eastern Utah, Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Ut.), introduced a bill which would have created a "conservation area" in central Utah, in an area of geologic and scenic wonders known as the San Rafael Swell. Sounds good, but again, look more closely. While this area contains breathtaking wilderness quality lands, the bill did nothing to protect them. In fact, it facilitated the continued unregulated use of dirt bikes and ATVs, whose vivid scars stretch like spider webs across the land and grow every year. Hansen has also supported bills that would eliminate wilderness study areas within 10 years of their creation; would have halted an ongoing study of federal lands in Utah to determine their wilderness eligibility; would have given the Air Force unprecedented primacy in the management of wilderness lands in western Utah; would have transferred federal public lands to the states; decommissioned certain national parks; and would pave the way for the construction of highways across pristine public lands under a Civil War-era statute known as R.S. 2477. Most recently, in a Dec. 27, 2000 letter to President Bush, Hansen identified no less than 14 diverse environmental policies he intends to scuttle. These include the Park Service's attempts to protect our national parks from loud, pollution-spewing snowmobiles and jet- skis, and to its renewed commitment to manage use of the parks to ensure that they are not damaged by off-road vehicles or other inappropriate uses. Not surprisingly, Hansen would also strip the Forest Service roadless area protections put in place after two years of widespread public support and involvement, and he maligns the Fish and Wildlife Service's plans to restore the health of wildlife refuges. According to Hansen's letter, mining companies can also expect an easier ride if he succeeds in his stated goal of rolling back even modest regulations on that industry, which already gets federal lands virtually cost free, and mines gold, silver and other metals with no royalty payments to the U.S. Treasury. Hansen's history provides a clear picture of his vision for this nation's last wilderness frontiers. Our unique heritage as Americans is on the block, and we should look more closely at what Mr. Hansen does than what his press releases say. _________ Heidi McIntosh is the SUWA conservation director. END Thank you for your interest in Utah Wilderness issues! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Dixon Subject: (cwild) Last Test? - More (Good) Old News Date: 23 Mar 2001 16:41:45 -0700 You have been sent this email because you asked to participate in the SLC Wilderness List. This is a "Send Only" list and is not open to receiving your posts or email. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. - Here's the last test, an nice article that Amy wrote (click the link). I only got one person to email letterstoeditor@yahoo.com. This is discouraging because for all I know, I'm one of only two people who are receiving the tests and we need to know. If the footer problem is fixed the next email will be the live list. Time: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:37:14 -0700 article by me (Amy Brunvand) about Salt Creek Jeep Trail in Canyonlands, from Inside/Outside Southwest Magazine, Durango, CO. http://insideoutside.webdurango.com/index.asp Letters to: editorial@insideoutsidemag.com - - Thank you for your interest in Utah Wilderness issues! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Utah Wilderness Coalition Subject: (cwild) test Date: 26 Mar 2001 17:52:22 -0700 You have been sent this email because you asked to participate in the SLC Wilderness List. This is a "Send Only" list and is not open to receiving your posts or email. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. - Hey this is Ken, I'm kinda retarded when it comes to techie stuff. Please igonre, this is just a test! Salt Tribune letters@sltrib.com Fax: (801) 257-8950 Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, P.O.Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 www.sltrib.com Salt Tribune letters@sltrib.com Fax: (801) 257-8950 Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, P.O.Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 www.sltrib.com - Thank you for your interest in Utah Wilderness issues! ** TO SUBSCRIBE: If you have been forwarded this message and would like to subscribe to the list, send a message to cwild@uwcoalition.org with only the word "subscribe" in the body of the message (without quotes) or visit our web site at http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/list_server.html#faq ** TO UNSUBSCRIBE: reply to this message and write only the word "unsubscribe" in the message body or send an identical message (with only the word "unsubscribe" in the body) to cwild@uwcoalition.org. ** To view the list FAQ please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/list_server.html#faq. If you would like to review the tips on writing effective letters to the editor, please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/lte.html#writing To view a complete list of where to send your letters please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/lte.html#writing If you would like to view the privacy policy please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/privacy.html ** To give FEEDBACK regarding this list, please send your comments or questions to: letterstoeditor@yahoo.com. ** Thanks again for your interest in Utah wilderness issues! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Utah Wilderness Coalition Subject: (cwild) another test Date: 27 Mar 2001 16:12:40 -0700 You have been sent this email because you asked to participate in the Utah Wilderness List. This is a "Send Only" list and is not open to receiving your posts or email. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. - Folks, This is just another test to make sure that our header and footer for each message sent out on this list has correct info. Sorry for the delays in getting this set up. If everything goes well, (info. on list serve and webpage accurate) we should be ready to go by the end of the week. Thanks for your patience. Ken _ - Thank you for your interest in Utah Wilderness issues! ** TO SUBSCRIBE: If you have been forwarded this message and would like to subscribe to the list, send a message to cwild@lists.xmission.com with only the word "subscribe" in the body of the message (without quotes) or visit our web site at http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/list_server.html ** TO UNSUBSCRIBE: reply to this message and write only the word "unsubscribe" in the message body or send an identical message (with only the word "unsubscribe" in the body) to cwild@lists.xmission.com. ** To view the list FAQ please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/list_server.html#faq If you would like to review the tips on writing effective letters to the editor, please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/lte.html#writing To view a complete list of where to send your letters please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/lte.html#writing If you would like to view the privacy policy please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/education/privacy.html ** To give FEEDBACK regarding this list, please send your comments or questions to: cwild@xmission.com ** Thanks again for your interest in Utah wilderness issues! -