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SENATE TO HOLD HEARING ON THE PROTECTION OF CALIFORNIA'S OLD-GROWTH TREES
PRESS CONFERENCE TO FOLLOW THE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE HEARING TO STOP OLD-GROWTH LOGGING
For Immediate Release
February 13, 2002
Contacts: Susan Moloney, CFOG Executive Director 310-926-0090 (cell)
Lisa Beyer 415-370-5808 (cell)
Sacramento, Calif., - January 24, 2003 - International environmentalists and academics will be presenting testimony on the urgent need to protect California's old-growth trees to the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildlife, Tuesday, January 28, 2003. The hearing will address the State's responsibility to protect California's remaining old-growth trees. Senate President John Burton (D-San Francisco) and Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Los Angeles), both long-time environmental advocates, requested the hearing out of concern for the State's lack of old-growth protection measures.
Environmental activists Susan Moloney and Julia Butterfly Hill will be presenting testimony in Room 112, along with Conservation Biologist Michael Soule and members of the California Department of Forestry and California Forestry Association.
A press conference on the West Steps of the Capitol will follow the committee hearing. John Quigley, whose recent efforts to save an old-growth oak tree in Southern California brought statewide attention to the issue, will also speak with Julia Butterfly Hill, Susan Moloney, and others.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2003 |
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Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildlife Hearing |
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9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Room 112 |
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| WHAT: |
Press Conference after Senate Old-growth Hearing |
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11:30 a.m. West Steps of the Capitol |
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