<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of today's (March 5, 2014) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks and aporeciation to Brett Haverstick.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 34px; font-size: 30px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="blox-headline entry-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); line-height: 38px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LETTER: Flood the Senate</span></h1><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We need to stop Sen. James E. Risch's intentions of legislating the corrupt Upper Lochsa Land Exchange. We don't have to trade tens of thousands of acres of valuable public lands to obtain the Lochsa lands. The 39,000-acres of checkerboard land owned by Western Pacific Timber can be purchased through the Land & Water Conservation Fund. Congress created the fund for this type of situation.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two Environmental Impact Statements and five years of U.S. Forest Service analysis failed to prove an exchange was in the public's best interest. Records indicate the comments received by the agency during this time were approximately 90 percent in opposition to an exchange. This bipartisan opposition includes a host of retired USFS employees.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Any legislation sponsored by Risch has to go through the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources. Please send letters to Chairman Mary Landrieu at 304 Dirksen Senate Building, Washington, D.C., 20510. Include the above committee name in the address. The phone number is (202) 224-4971.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let's not lose fishing, hunting and other recreational opportunities, including productive low-elevation fish and wildlife habitat. These lands are part of our national heritage too. Flood the Senate with letters and calls.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brett Haverstick, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Moscow</span></p></div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></body></html>