The August coup - US Forest Service and timber policy
Paul Rauber
Counterrevolution in the Rockies: The timber industry flexes its muscle.
... The timber companies and their allies in Congress were apoplectic. In a May 23 letter, Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) sternly reprimanded Forest Service Chief Dale Robertson. "Dale, I am very disappointed with the Forest Service's accomplishment and accountability for timber outputs in Idaho and the nation as a whole," he wrote. "You have serious management problems that must be addressed. It is my hope you will move to assure targets are met and line officers are held accountable." Craig's complaints were echoed by Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Representative Ron Marlenee (R-Mont.).
The political heat being directed at the Forest Service is a result of the severe overcutting of private woodlands in the northern Rockies. (From the air, western Montana and northern Idaho look like checkerboards, forested areas alternating with clearcut land belonging to Plum Creek and other giant timber companies.) Having exhausted its own resources, the timber industry expects the Forest Service to increase the cut on the public lands, and is outraged when it does not.
Reintroduction of wolf is a howling success
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Sep 3, 2003
... at another press conference [in 1989], the anti-wolf forces were also out. Former Rep. Ron Marlenee, R-Mont., threatened to call for introduction of wolves in Utah along the Jordan River, City Creek Canyon or Liberty Park.
But, while he was against wolves hunting, he was entirely in favor of hunting by humans.
Sierra, May-June, 1994
Home on the rifle range - National Rifle Association opposition to Mojave National Park
by Paul Rauber
Since the Desert Bill's introduction in 1986 [to create Mojave National Park], opposition has come mostly from the mining industry, welfare ranchers, the BLM, and off-road-vehicle yahoos. The gun buffs did not come out shooting until 1991, when then-Representative Ron Marlenee (R-Mont.) introduced an NRA-inspired amendment that would have allowed hunting in what is now the East Mojave National Scenic Area once it became Mojave National Park. Marlenee's amendment passed the House, but the bill stalled in the Senate and went no further that year.
or:
Common Cause Magazine, Jan-March, 1992
How special interests cater to Congress
Peter Overby
[It] bought a 30-page advertising section in Sports Afield to publicize the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, a two-year-old organization that fights for hunting and fishing enthusiasts on such issues as gun control and animal rights. Jointly produced by Hearst and the foundation, and packed with ads from Smith & Wesson, Anheuser-Busch, Colt, Winchester and Remington, the magazine section featured articles by and about the caucus. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) linked outdoor sports and national oil policy to explain "Why Alaskan Sportsmen Support Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." Rep. Ron Marlenee (R-Mont.) wrote that "America's Hunting Tradition Must Be PROTECTED FROM FANATICS."
In 1992, congressman Marlenee was forcibly retired by the voters:
National Review, Oct 19, 1992
Cleaning House - 1992 congressional elections
Michael Fredenburg
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