Bureaucracy Conspires To Violate Laws

Bureaucracy Conspires To Violate Laws

Spokespersons for the Siskiyou Mountains Resources Council have charged federal bureaucrats with conspiring to violate the constitution and a number of federal statutes in an effort to cover up an ill-planned pork barrel highway that threatens native american religious freedom, jobs, salmon fisheries and wildlife. The remarks came in response to an announcement by Six Rivers National Forest officials that
they intend to construct the controversial Chimney Rock Section of the Gasquet­ Orleans (G.O. Road). The road would cut through the headwaters of Blue Creek, the most important salmon stream on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation.

Humboldt State Special Collections

Siskiyou Mountain Resource Council

03/12/1982

21.59cm x 27.94cm

Englidh

2 Pages

Jack Norton Papers
Gasquet Orleans Road Composite

SMRC President, Chris Jenican said "The agency has spent hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the highway will assure the destruction of the Indian churches. Experts from around the nation have testified that the Forest Service project will violate the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom as well as the Native American Religious Freedom Act of 1978."
The Native American Religious Freedom Act requires that federal projects not interfere with the practice of Indian religion. The G.O. Road is designed to facilitate logging in watersheds adjacent to the highway and will impact the prayer sites."

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