<div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-size:12.8px">PLEASE TAKE ACTION! </b><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tell Senator <span class="gmail-il">Tester</span> and Senator Daines that you oppose their attempts to dramatically increase public lands logging by undermining wildlife protection via their so-called </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">"Litigation Relief for Forest Management Act" (S. 605),</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> which has been called </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">"just another cynical attack to weaken a key provision of the Endangered Species Act" by the Center for Biological Diversity. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Senator Jon <span class="gmail-il">Tester</span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">PHONE: </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><a href="tel:(202)%20224-2644" value="+12022242644" target="_blank">(202) 224-2644</a></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-il">EMAIL</span>: </span><a href="https://www.tester.senate.gov/contact/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://www.<span class="gmail-il">tester</span>.<wbr><span class="gmail-il">senate</span>.gov/contact/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Senator Steve Daines</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">PHONE: </span><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="tel:(202)%20224-2651" value="+12022242651" target="_blank">(202) 224-2651</a></span></font><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-il">EMAIL</span>: </span><a href="https://www.daines.senate.gov/connect/email-steve" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://www.daines.<wbr><span class="gmail-il">senate</span>.gov/connect/<span class="gmail-il">email</span>-steve</a><div><p class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-p1" style="font-size:12.8px"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="font-size:small">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small">From: </span><b class="gmail_sendername" style="font-size:small">Matthew Koehler</b><span style="font-size:small"> </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><<a href="mailto:mattykoehler@gmail.com">mattykoehler@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small">Date: Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:46 AM</span><br style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small">Subject: Senator Tester's 100% untrue statement about Forest Service management</span><br style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small">To: <a href="mailto:Missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org">Missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org</a></span><br style="font-size:small"></p><div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-s1"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hello,</span><br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">Last night on Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio there was a story about Senator Tester and Senator Daines efforts to overturn a U.S. Federal District Court ruling (which was affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court also refused to rehear the case) that they don't like.</span><br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">The Tester/Daines public lands logging bill (S.605) has been called "just another cynical attack to weaken a key provision of the Endangered Species Act" by the Center for Biological Diversity.</span><br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">On statewide radio Senator Tester said this:</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br><b>“But Tester says a new forest management plan can take decades to write. So in the meantime: ‘Everything stops," he says. "All the recreational opportunities stop, the tree cuts stop, trail maintenance stops while they redo this forest plan.’”</b> (SOURCE: <a href="http://mtpr.org/post/daines-tester-trying-reverse-court-ruling-lynx-habitat" target="_blank">http://mtpr.org/post/<wbr>daines-tester-trying-reverse-<wbr>court-ruling-lynx-habitat</a>)</span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-p3" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-s1">The public must know that this statement from Senator Tester is 100% not true and doesn't even contain an ounce of truth.<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>The truth is that all National Forests in Montana, and across America, are required to go through a Forest Plan Revision process every 15 to 20 years. At NO POINT during that Forest Plan Revision process does "Everything stop."</span><span class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></p><p class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-p3" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-s1">At NO point during the Forest Plan Revision process does "All the recreational opportunities stop, the tree cuts stop, trail maintenance stops while they redo this forest plan.”</span></p><p class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-p3" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-s1">I appreciate the fact that the reporter talked to someone at the Lewis and Clark National Forest who said revising a forest plan doesn’t stop work. But revising a forest management plan also doesn’t “hamper” it either, as the Forest Service employee apparently claimed.</span></p><p class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-p3" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-s1">This isn't the first time Senator Tester has taken to Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio and demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of National Forest Management.</span></p><p class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-p3" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-s1">In February 2015 Senator Tester said on Montana Public Radio: "Unfortunately, every logging sale in Montana right now is under litigation. Every one of them."</span></p><p class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-p3" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_5239895174956266459gmail-m_-8511480722104954908gmail-s1">That statement was so entirely not true that the Washington Post's official Fact-Checker (Glenn Kessler) investigated the statement and gave Senator Tester "4 Pinocchios" for telling a whopper of a lie. See: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/02/25/montana-senator-twice-gets-his-facts-wrong-on-timber-sales-and-litigation/?utm_term=.5ad0cc6bdfb6" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr>washingtonpost.com/news/fact-<wbr>checker/wp/2015/02/25/montana-<wbr>senator-twice-gets-his-facts-<wbr>wrong-on-timber-sales-and-<wbr>litigation/?utm_term=.<wbr>5ad0cc6bdfb6</a><br><br>This time, Senator Jon </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tester has just told Montana citizens on statewide radio a huge lie about a very basic public lands management process.<br><br>Perhaps it was just a mistake, but regardless, Senator Tester’s statement is 100%, entirely not true and his office should immediately issue a correction so that Montana citizens don't go around thinking that every time the U.S. Forest Service goes through a forest plan revision process that “Everything stops. All the recreational opportunities stop, the tree cuts stop, trail maintenance stops while they redo this forest plan.”<br><br></span><b style="font-size:12.8px">PLEASE TAKE ACTION! </b><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tell Senator Tester and Senator Daines that you oppose their attempts to dramatically increase public lands logging by undermining wildlife protection.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Senator Jon Tester</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">PHONE: </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><a href="tel:(202)%20224-2644" value="+12022242644" target="_blank">(202) 224-2644</a></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">EMAIL: </span><a href="https://www.tester.senate.gov/contact/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://www.tester.<wbr>senate.gov/contact/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Senator Steve Daines</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">PHONE: </span><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="tel:(202)%20224-2651" value="+12022242651" target="_blank">(202) 224-2651</a></span></font><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">EMAIL: </span><a href="https://www.daines.senate.gov/connect/email-steve" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://www.daines.<wbr>senate.gov/connect/email-steve</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:58 PM, John Meyer via Missoula-Community-News <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org" target="_blank">missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I had the opportunity to chat with U.S. Senator Steve Daines yesterday morning for 1 minute about Town Halls and the Endangered Species Act. <br><br></div>You can watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy8e98FUl04&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">video here</a>. <br clear="all"><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="m_-1583034978731981540gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.cottonwoodlaw.org" target="_blank"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B8BXBsjEi27fWVlIbS11X2tocDg&revid=0B8BXBsjEi27fdHhkVDFwZHk5Q1JuRE1tWEE0QWl6d3FSNWRzPQ" width="200" height="83"></a></span><span><br></span><br><span><span><span>John Meyer<br>Executive Director & General Counsel <br>Cottonwood Environmental Law Center</span></span><br>P.O. 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