Action Needed - Call/write your Senators:
This bill promotes extensive unregulated logging as a remedy for combating the increase in devastating wildfires. This will be done by greatly decreasing public oversight. It will prevent the public from going to court to enforce environmental laws. It also caps endangered species consultation for environmental issues arbitrarily to 90 days, and grants the Forest Service unilateral authority to forgo Endangered Species act consultation. Tom McClintock is a co-sponsor of this bill.
Read more www.npca.org/articles/1674-position-on-h-r-2936-resilient-federal-forests-act-of-2017
Status - passed House 232-188 on 11/1/2017, referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. Currently there is a 49% chance of H.R. 2936 becoming law according to GovTrack.us.
Action Needed - Call/write your Senators:
Senator Dianne Feinstein 202-224-3841 or 415-393-0707
Email: www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Senator Kamala D. Harris 202-224-3553 or 916-448-2787
Email: www.harris.senate.gov/content/contact-senator