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Hi National Trails System Leaders:

Please give this Action Alert from AHR IMMEDIATE attention.  A  telephone
call to several members of Congress from each of you could make quite an
impact on this issue.  For the Appalachian Trail Land & Water Conservation
Fund money is critical for 1999.  For the Pacific Crest, Continental
Divide, North Country, Ice Age and Florida National Scenic Trails LWCF
funding will be critical in coming years to completing those trails.  I
know of a number of important sites along the Lewis & Clark, Oregon,
California and Trail of Tears National Historic Trails that can be
permanently protected if LWCF money is available when it is needed to
finance purchases from willing sellers.  You probably know of many more
sites along the trails that are threatened with loss or destruction.  Thus
we all have a stake in seeing that the promise, made more than 30 years ago
by Congress, to reinvest $900 million annually of the revenue from offshore
oil and gas leases in protecting significant natural, cultural and
recreational resources for all Americans to enjoy.

Please call members of the House of Representatives that are champions for
your trails by WEDNESDAY, MAY 20th.  

Thanks,

Gary Werner 


AHR ADVOCATE

Time Sensitive! Alert!Alert!Alert!Alert!

Land and Water Conservation Fund Advocates:

The Republican leadership is proposing a budget that would eliminate all
funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY '99 and the
forseeable future. We need you to contact Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich, your Senators, and your own member of Congress to let them know
that we will not stand for the destruction of America's open spaces and
Great Outdoors. 

The proposed House budget encourages the use of "land swaps" to acquire
high-priority lands, neglecting existing legislation that mandates the use
of offshore oil and gas development royalties through LWCF to protect
wilderness, wetlands, and refuges. 

If this budget makes it through, then natural ecosystems such as Everglades
National Park, Columbia River Gorge, and Cumberland Island National
Seashore could lose critical habitat. Recreation areas such as Cape Cod
National Seashore and Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area will be
threatened by encroaching development, while sites such as Petroglyphs
National Monument and Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
that preserve America's cultural identity could be lost forever.  

The House Leadership is looking to introduce the House budget bill on
Wednesday, May 20,1998. It is critical that you call both Speaker Gingrich
and your own member of Congress before Wednesday.

Rep.Newt Gingrich can be reached at 202-225-4501. Your members of Congress
can be reached at 202-224-3121 

 
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