Editor's Note

Recently, 51 organizations, including the Nature Conservancy, the Grand Canyon Trust, the Western Governors Association and the American Forest Resources Council, jointly signed a letter to Congressman Norm Dicks [D-WA], chairman of the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee and Congressman Mike Simpson [R-IDA] urging their support for adequate funding for the Forest Service's hazardous fuels reduction and forest landscape restoration programs.

To read more about the tragic and unnecessary ecological collapse of millions of acres of national forest land in the western United States, log on to Mike Dubrasich's website at http://westinstenv.org. Mr. Dubrasich is a frequent contributor to our website.

Letter to Norm Dicks