Sign-on to our climate change legislation recommendations
Opportunity to sign-on to our climate change legislation recommendations
The RVCC Climate Change working group and the RVCC Core Group have prepared recommendations for The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733) (the Boxer/Kerry climate legislation), as passed out of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
Our recommendations concern: renewable biomass, natural resource adaptation and mitigation funding and planning, supplemental
agricultural and forestry GHG reduction and renewable energy programs,
qualified forest offsets and the role of the USDA Forest Service.
Please sign on by this Tuesday, November 23rd by close of business.
Questions?
Contact: Wendy Gerlitz (wgerlitz@gmail.com, 503-449-0009); Gerry Gray (ggray@amfor.org, 202-737-1944x217); or Kathy Lynn (kathy@uoregon.edu, 541-346-5777)
Thank you to the following individuals who have already signed on to the letter!
Gerry Gray, Vice President, Policy, American Forests,
Washington D.C.
Martin Goebel, President, Sustainable Northwest,
Portland, OR
Lynn Jungwirth, Executive Director, Watershed Research and Training Center
Hayfork, CA
Nils D Christoffersen, Executive Director, Wallowa Resources
Enterprise, OR
Anne Dahl, Executive Director, Swan Ecosystem Center
Condon, MT
Joyce Dearstyne, Executive Director, Framing Our Community, Inc.
Elk City, ID
Mike DeBonis, Executive Director, Forest Guild
Santa Fe, NM
Cassandra Moseley, Director, Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon*
Eugene, OR
Johnny Sundstrom, President, Siuslaw Institute
Deadwood, OR
Jim Walls, Executive Director, Lake County Resources Initiative
Lakeview, OR
Melanie Parker, Executive Director, Northwest Connections
Condon, MT
Carl Wilmsen, Executive Director, Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters
Albany, CA
Jack Shipley, Chair, Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council
Jacksonville, OR
Mary Cox,Executive Director, Communities Committee
Baltimore, MD
Rob Davis, President, Forest Energy Corporation
Show Low, AZ
Carol Daly, President, Flathead Economic Policy Center
Columbia Falls, MT
Jeremy Grose, Kiona Forestry
White Salmon, WA
Stewart Matthiesen, Development Director and Policy Analyst, Northwest Natural Resource Group
Port Townsend, WA
