<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><p dir=ltr>Is there anyway we csn get a petition going to reduce the Idaho Legislative Session to one day every other year? I think it would be easier to slow down their damage to the State. </p>
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Moscow Cares <moscowcares@moscow.com>; <br>
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Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>; <br>
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[Vision2020] Transparent as mud <br>
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<td valign="top"><div><span></span></div><div><div style=""><span></span></div><div><div style=""><span></span></div><div><div style=""><span></span></div><div><div style=""><i>Esto perpetua</i></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Courtesy of today's (March. 18, 2014) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks to Marilyn Beckett.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">-----------------------------------</div><div style=""><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="font-size:30px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:400;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:34px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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: Transparent as mud</span></h1><p style="outline:0px;margin:10px 0px
0px;padding:0px;background-image:none;float:none;"><span style="">Recent news articles on the Lochsa Land Exchange reveal the "transparency" promised by Idaho Sen. Jim Risch doesn't exist.</span></p><p style="outline:0px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;background-image:none;float:none;"><span style="">People are being deprived of due process via the congressional delegation's instruction to the U.S. Forest Service to halt their administrative decision. The public deserves to see a final environmental impact statement and have their questions and concerns addressed by the agency. And, although we are told they won't be disclosed, we have a right to know what federal parcels are being appraised and what the appraisal says. It's our land.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:none;"><p style="outline:0px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;background-image:none;float:none;"><span
style="">Essentially, Western Pacific Timber is trying to write a blank check on the public's bank account. They are creating their own prescription for a land exchange through legislation. While many people, including the Concerned Forest Service Retirees, wait for response to their letters to Congress, WPT communicates directly with our officials, unduly influencing them. This represents more than an unjust land exchange. We are confronting the erosion of ethics as the public faces being ripped off.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:none;"><p style="outline:0px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;background-image:none;float:none;"><span style="">To most of us, it appears WPT is being encouraged to extort value from something of lesser value. The well-managed, low-elevation public lands should not be swapped for scalped, slide prone rocky terrain. As the CFSR said in its letter to the
committee on resources, "the proposed land exchange never gained general public approval because the Forest Service was unable to give a good and compelling reason(s) for doing it or describe clear, significant and measurable public benefit."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:none;"><p style="outline:0px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;background-image:none;float:none;"><span style="">Risch publicly took charge. Sen. Mike Crapo and Rep. Raul Labrador signed on. They have interrupted a process that could clearly show the loss to the public. They have not openly shared the communications they've had with WPT and its lobbyists. Transparency is sorely lacking.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:none;"><p style="outline:0px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;background-image:none;float:none;"><span style="">Both Risch and
Labrador are up for re-election this year.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:none;"><p style="outline:0px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;background-image:none;float:none;"><span style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700;">Marilyn Beckett, </span><span style="">Moscow</span></p><p style="outline:0px;margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;background-image:none;float:none;"><span style="">--------------------</span></p><div><br></div><div>House Concurrent Resolution 56</div><div style=""><span style=""><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2014/HCR056.htm">http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2014/HCR056.htm</a></span></div><div><br></div><div style=""><table class="print" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><span style="">HCR056</span></td><td valign="bottom" nowrap
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-width:2px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(119, 119, 119);width:387px;"><span style=""> </span></td><td nowrap style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:right;"><span style="white-space:normal;">by STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style=""><br></span><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="">LAND EXCHANGES - Stating findings of the Legislature and requesting for the submission of proposed land exchanges to the Legislature for concurrence or nonconcurrence.<br></span></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">-----------------------------------</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><div><span style="">Seeya at
the polls, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style=""><br></span></div><div><span style="">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style=""><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style=""> </span></div><div><div><span style="">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></td>
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