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<div style=""><br class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"michele dieterich (via bozone-orgs list)" <<a href="mailto:bozone-orgs+telechele=hotmail.com@npogroups.org" class="">bozone-orgs+telechele=hotmail.com@npogroups.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[bozone-orgs] Call, Tweet, e-mail. Protect forests from the Farm Bill</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">November 27, 2018 at 4:03:59 PM MST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:bozone-orgs@npogroups.org" class="">bozone-orgs@npogroups.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:bozone-orgs@npogroups.org" class="">bozone-orgs@npogroups.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:telechele@hotmail.com" class="">telechele@hotmail.com</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class="">I may be stepping over the bounds of this group, if so, let me know and I will not send another like this. But I think this is important.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class="">If care about forests and homes near forests...</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class="">Please put the pressure on! </span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Representative Pelosi: </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">(202) 225-4965</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </p></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Senator Schumer: </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Avenir LT W01 45 Book', serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">(202) 224-6542</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </p></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Avenir LT W01 45 Book', serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Tell them NO DEAL ON House Farm Bill Forestry Title - we don't need more logging we need actual community protection and to combat climate change. The answer is not complicated - and it doesn't involve a chainsaw and gifting our national forests to the timber industry!</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </p></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Avenir LT W01 45 Book', serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">ALSO IF YOU ARE ON SM - please tweet and facebook Pelosi and Schumer as well as your Rep and Senators. Send them good stories, podcasts, radio interviews - anything - just keep the pressure up! Send them any of these links below!</span></div></div></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class="">Science has proven with a study of 1400 fires, that logged areas burn faster than "non-managed areas." <span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Bradley et al 2016 Does increased forest protection correspond to higher fire severity in frequent-fire forests of the Western United States?</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span class=""><a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecs2.1492" class="">https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecs2.1492</a></span></span>If this link does not work, copy and paste it into your browser</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in 0.000133333px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">It is worth noting that the forest around Paradise had been heavily logged... the wind/fire burned so fast and furious through those highly spaced trees that residents did not have time to evacuate. <a href="https://californiachaparralblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/its-about-flammable-homes-on-flammable-terrain/" id="LPlnk632831" class="">https://californiachaparralblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/its-about-flammable-homes-on-flammable-terrain/</a></div><div id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly9jYWxpZm9ybmlhY2hhcGFycmFsYmxvZy53b3JkcHJlc3MuY29tLzIwMTgvMTEvMTcvaXRzLWFib3V0LWZsYW1tYWJsZS1ob21lcy1vbi1mbGFtbWFibGUtdGVycmFpbi8." class="LPBorder247938" contenteditable="false" style="width: 800px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; position: relative; max-width: 800px; min-width: 424px;"><table id="LPContainer247938" role="presentation" style="padding: 12px 36px 12px 12px; width: 750px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><td class=""><div id="LPImageContainer247938" style="position: relative; margin-right: 12px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden; width: 240px;" class=""><a target="_blank" id="LPImageAnchor247938" href="https://californiachaparralblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/its-about-flammable-homes-on-flammable-terrain/" class=""><img id="LPThumbnailImageId247938" alt="" height="160" width="159" src="https://californiachaparralblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/tree-mortality-14-final.jpg" style="display: block;" class=""></a></div></td><td style="width: 488px;" class=""><div id="LPTitle247938" style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: 300; margin-right: 8px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, 'Segoe UI Light', 'Segoe WP Light', 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px;" class=""><a target="_blank" id="LPUrlAnchor247938" href="https://californiachaparralblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/its-about-flammable-homes-on-flammable-terrain/" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--themePrimary);" class="">It’s about Flammable Homes, not forests</a></div><div id="LPDescription247938" style="font-size: 14px; max-height: 100px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-right: 8px; overflow: hidden;" class="">Here’s how to respond to those misleading posts claiming our recent fires are all about tree huggers preventing logging and a supposed fuel build up via past fire suppression. 1. Most of Cali…</div><div id="LPMetadata247938" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(166, 166, 166); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://californiachaparralblog.wordpress.com/" class="">californiachaparralblog.wordpress.com</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Zinke and Trump are using propaganda and out and out lies, long ago proven incorrect, to get the cut out. These are great stories with renown scientists that debunk the myth that we can log our way out of fires... It is simply not the case.</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in 0.000133333px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><a href="https://www.podshipearth.com/firemyths" id="LPlnk617562" class="">https://www.podshipearth.com/firemyths</a> Scientist Chad Hansen<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in 0.000133333px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/" class="">https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/</a> Fire Scientist Jack Cohen</div><div style="margin: 0px 0in 0.000133333px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucG9kc2hpcGVhcnRoLmNvbS9maXJlbXl0aHM." class="LPBorder328732" contenteditable="false" style="width: 800px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; position: relative; max-width: 800px; min-width: 424px;"><table id="LPContainer328732" role="presentation" style="padding: 12px 36px 12px 12px; width: 750px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><td class=""><div id="LPImageContainer328732" style="position: relative; margin-right: 12px; height: 225.812px; overflow: hidden; width: 240px;" class=""><a target="_blank" id="LPImageAnchor328732" href="https://www.podshipearth.com/firemyths" class=""><img id="LPThumbnailImageId328732" alt="" height="225" width="240" src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e9ef8a_3168f3e825c645978c24388056c624f8%7Emv2_d_3197_3008_s_4_2.jpg" style="display: block;" class=""></a></div></td><td style="width: 488px;" class=""><div id="LPTitle328732" style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: 300; margin-right: 8px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, 'Segoe UI Light', 'Segoe WP Light', 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px;" class=""><a target="_blank" id="LPUrlAnchor328732" href="https://www.podshipearth.com/firemyths" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--themePrimary);" class="">Podship Earth - Environmental Podcast</a></div><div id="LPDescription328732" style="font-size: 14px; max-height: 100px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-right: 8px; overflow: hidden;" class="">Podship Earth is an environmental podcast about how we connect with ourselves, each other, nature and the universe.</div><div id="LPMetadata328732" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(166, 166, 166); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.podshipearth.com/" class="">www.podshipearth.com</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><br class=""></div></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </p></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Avenir LT W01 45 Book', serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">ALSO please tweet at this reporter so that maybe her next story talks about the fact that forests aren't the problem, that the areas around Paradise and Concow were heavily logged on both private and public lands and that didn't stop the fire - because logging and vegetation management don't stop fires and won't protect communities or save people's lives! </span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </p></div><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 11.25pt; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 37.5pt; font-family: LyonDisplay-Black, serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">Forest Fires Add Snag to Getting Farm Bill Passed</span></h1><h2 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 18pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 11.25pt; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 15pt; font-family: GothamNarrow-Book, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">House-passed version would change forest management policies that opponents say would ease oversight</span></h2><div style="margin: 11.25pt 0px 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 24pt; font-family: GothamNarrow-Book, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><a href="https://www.rollcall.com/author/efergusoncq-com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Ellyn Ferguson</span></a> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/vaferguson" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: GothamNarrow-Bold, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">@vaferguson</span></a></span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: GothamNarrow-Book, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""></span></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0in 15pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Forestry provisions have emerged as the latest snag in farm bill negotiations, sending the issue to congressional leaders for talks to break the impasse.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0in 15pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">The forestry provisions in the House-passed version of the farm bill say the proposed changes to federal forest management policies would prevent forest fires — an issue that is now at the forefront after the deadly California fires. Opponents say the proposed changes would ease federal oversight and safeguards needed to limit logging on public lands that could destroy forests habitats and reduce protections for endangered wildlife.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0in 15pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">“The big, big question right now is this debate on forestry,” Democratic Sen. <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?247&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">Debbie Stabenow</span></a> of Michigan told reporters Monday night. “Last-minute provisions can be the death of any complicated bill. ... If it were not for that, we’d be close to wrapping this thing up.” House and Senate lawmakers are racing to craft a compromise 2018 farm bill by December. The 2014 farm bill expired on Sept. 30.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0in 15pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Stabenow said she, Senate Agriculture Chairman <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?195&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">Pat Roberts</span></a> of Kansas, and House Agriculture Chairman <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?17363&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">K. Michael Conaway</span></a> of Texas, and ranking member <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?264&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">Collin C. Peterson</span></a> of Minnesota have a handful of other issues to finish up including federal payment limits of farm subsidies.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0in 15pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Stabenow said the forestry issue is the only one to be sent to Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?202&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">Mitch McConnell</span></a>, Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?371&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">Charles E. Schumer</span></a>, House Speaker <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?523&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">Paul D. Ryan</span></a> and House Minority Leader <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?35&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">Nancy Pelosi</span></a>for action. The four are expected to discuss the issue Tuesday.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0in 15pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">The House farm bill would streamline the federal review process for certain forest projects through categorical exclusions for thousands of acres designated by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management and USDA’s Forest Service for removal of dead or diseased trees that can serve as kindling in forest fires. In a Nov. 20 conference call, Interior Secretary <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?53584&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">Ryan Zinke</span></a> and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said those farm bill forestry provisions would give them tools to reduce wildfire threats and destruction.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0in 15pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">“Active (forest) management doesn’t necessarily mean clear-cutting or large-scale logging, as some environmentalists would have you believe,” Zinke wrote Monday in an opinion piece for CNN.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0in 15pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Stabenow and Senate Agriculture Committee member <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?510&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Click to view member info in a new window" style="margin: 0px; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class="">Patrick J. Leahy</span></a>, D- Vt., say Congress already has approved changes in legislation this year that both departments can use to reduce wildfire risks. The departments should use those new authorities, Stabenow and Leahy argue.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0in 15pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Environmental and conservation groups say the proposed provisions also would exempt some forest projects from environmental analysis and public comment and ease oversight of the Endangered Species Act.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px 236.25pt 0px 2.5in; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lyon_Text-Regular, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border: none; clear: both; display: block; float: none; position: static;" class=""><br class="">Read about the list guidelines:<br class=""><a href="http://npogroups.org/lists/info/bozone-orgs" class="">http://npogroups.org/lists/info/bozone-orgs</a><br class=""><br class="">Get a new password:<br class=""><a href="http://npogroups.org/lists/renewpasswd/" class="">http://npogroups.org/lists/renewpasswd/</a><br class=""><br class="">... so that you can post and view items on the new Bozone-Orgs Calendar:<br class=""><a href="http://npogroups.org/lists/calendar/bozone-orgs" class="">http://npogroups.org/lists/calendar/bozone-orgs</a><br class=""><br class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the bozone-orgs email list.<br class=""><br class="">To send a message to everybody on this list, email to:<br class=""><a href="mailto:bozone-orgs@npogroups.org" class="">bozone-orgs@npogroups.org</a><br class=""><br class="">If you are not yet a subscriber to the bozone-orgs list, but would like to be added, send an email to:<br class=""><a href="mailto:bozone-orgs-subscribe@npogroups.org" class="">bozone-orgs-subscribe@npogroups.org</a><br class=""><br class="">To unsubscribe, send an email to:<br class=""><a href="mailto:bozone-orgs-unsubscribe@npogroups.org" class="">bozone-orgs-unsubscribe@npogroups.org</a><br class=""><br class="">To contact the folks in charge of the bozone-orgs email list, email to:<br class=""><a href="mailto:bozone-orgs-owner@npogroups.org" class="">bozone-orgs-owner@npogroups.org</a></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>