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- Title:
- Press release [July 14, 2004]
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- Georgia. General Assembly. House. Public Information Office
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- Georgia. General Assembly. House. Public Information Office
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- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia. General Assembly. House. Public Information Office
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July 29, 2002B; title from Georgia Government Publications citation, viewed September 19, 2007. - External Identifiers:
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7-2059-5217
House Information Office Room 505, Legislative Office Building
Atlanta, Georgia 30334 404-656-5082 1-800-282-5800
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 14, 2004
Rep. Mosley to Pres. Bush: Don't Open National Forest to Logging Says Action will hurt local farmers and tree growers
Atlanta Representative Hinson Mosley (D-Jesup), recently sent a letter to President George W. Bush, and members of Georgia's congressional delegation asking them to reconsider the President's decision to open more than 58 million acres of national forestland to commercial logging operations.
Rep. Mosley stated that the decision will hurt many of our local farmers and tree growers, especially the smaller operations.
He is reacting to a decision by the Bush Administration to allow logging by permitting roads to be constructed in national forests, which would provide commercial logging access to some 58.5 million acres of forestland.
"The federal government encouraged farmers to plant pine trees on their land, and many of our local landowners responded," said Mosley. "Opening up 58 million acres of new forestland will only serve to further depress the market for timber growers. If the President doesn't reconsider this action, our local farmers and growers will be practically giving their trees away without proper compensation, and that will be devastating, especially to smaller landowners."
Copies of the letter were sent to President Bush, U.S. Senators Zell Miller (D-GA) Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), and U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-1st district).
Rep. Mosley, a lawmaker since 1992, is Vice Chairman of the Transportation and the Human Relations and Aging Committees and serves on the Appropriations and Special Rules committees.
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For further Information contact Rep. Mosley @ 404-657-8442