HR 1975 essentially "locks up" an area equal to Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont, combined. This area, larger than 19 individual states, would become inaccessible to most Americans. There would be no roads and minimal handicapped access.
Not one of the six Members representing the affected areas cosponsored this bill.
HR 1975 designates over 24 million acres of new wilderness, and nearly 2,000 miles of wild and scenic rivers. It withdraws nearly 3 million additional acres from oil, gas and mineral entry and prepares those lands for inclusion in the wilderness system. It designates nearly 2,000 miles of wild and scenic rivers within these same areas.
HR 1975 negatively affects private property rights and state sovereignty. This bill creates a multitude of express, federal reserved water rights, thereby precluding future development upstream of any of the wilderness areas. The language is inconsistent with, and much more draconian than, the language of the Wilderness Act which states: "Nothing in this Act shall constitute an express or implied claim or denial on the part of the Federal Government as to exemption from State water laws."
HR 1975 essentially "locks up" an area equal to Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont, combined. This area, larger than 19 individual states, would become inaccessible to most Americans. There would be no roads and minimal handicapped access.
Here's the SAWS link if you want to know more. http://www.snowmobile-alliance.org/07/aler...tection_Act.htm
Please go here and just basically say to your Congressmen please vote NO on HR 1975.
It's simple and takes less than 5 min. http://www.house.gov/writerep/