Please Urge Assemblymember Wood To Support Improved Wild & Scenic River Protection
Ask Him To Vote “Yes” On AB 975 (Friedman)
AB 975 modifies California’s Wild & Scenic River protections to meet Federal standards by expanding the area of state protection beyond the edge of the river to ¼ mile on each side of the river and recognizing all river-associated values protected in the federal system, including historical, cultural, geological, and other similar values. Logging and water development interests have targeted AB 975, making outrageous claims that the bill adds rivers to the system, expands 200-foot special treatment areas under the state’s logging regulations, and that it would adversely affect the state’s current wild and scenic study of the Mokelumne River. None of these claims are true.
