Hello Treehuggers!  The other petition thread for tree and forest petitions became quite long, so I decided to close that one and start a brand new thread.  The first thread is still blue-pinned to the discussion list, in case you'd like to see if you signed them all. 

Please post any petitions or actions pertaining to trees or forests on this thread.  If you have other non-related petitions you'd like to give more exposure to, please feel free to post them on the "ACTIONS & PETITIONS-TREEHUGGERS HELPING PEOPLE AND ANIMALS " thread: http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=4119&pst=365645&archival=

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Once again the Bush administration has quietly launched an attack on America's most treasured places.  This
time political appointees in the Department of Interior have devised a
plan to radically overhaul the way our National Parks are managed. 
The plan could have a detrimental effect on air quality, visibility,
wildlife management, and more.  The plan could also increase
commercialization in our parks. 

We only have until February 18 to weigh in on this proposal - click here to submit your comments now.

We're
offering a brand new technology called BrightText(TM) which allows you
to personalize your letter instantly so that you'll be more effective
in stopping Bush's plans.  Once you click through to our advocacy page,
simply hit the "instant re-write" button or mouse over portions of the
text to personalize your letter!

Since
their inception, our National Parks have been protected by the strict
standards designed to protect and conserve these special places for
generations to come. But now, without any justification or explanation
for changing the way our parks are managed, the new proposal
fundamentally weakens key protections and dilutes the Park Service’s
core mission of conserving the Parks for future generations. 

Despite
shifts in political climate, the core mission of the National Park
Service has remained unchanged for nearly a century.  We cannot let
this administration be the first to abandon the spirit of conservation
that been the cornerstone of the park service mission. 

We still have a chance to protect our national parks, but only if you act now.  The deadline to submit comments on this proposal is February 18, 2005, so please don’t wait – click here to submit your comments now!
Once
you've submitted your comments, please help us spread the word and save
our National Parks by forwarding this email to ten friends.

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The Bush administration recently announced its proposal to sell more than 300,000 acres of national forests and public lands to raise money for the federal treasury.

The land sales could total more than $1 billion and would be the largest sale of forestland in decades.

Forest Service officials say the sales are needed to raise $800 million over the next five years to pay for schools and roads in rural counties hurt by logging cutbacks on federal land.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called the plan a “terrible idea based on a misguided sense of priorities.” While increasing military funding by 6.9%, the Bush administration cut education spending by 3.8% in this FY2007 budget. And now it wants to sell our natural heritage to pick up the slack?

Selling public land to pay down the deficit would be a shortsighted and irresponsible shift in federal land-management policy. The monetary gains would be temporary, but the land would be gone forever. There are better ways to fund public schooling.

The public has until late March to comment on the sales. Sign the petition below to urge your congressional representatives to oppose this reckless effort.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/664381213

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Protect the Castle Wilderness

Please send a letter to Alberta's Premier Klein today telling him to protect the Castle today!

http://www.cpaws.org/action/castle-wilderness.php

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From National Parks Conservation Association

Paving Through Great Smokey Mountains National Park?
The National Park Service published a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS )on January 4, 2006, cataloging the environmental damage that would be caused by construction of the North Shore Road. The road would cut a 35-mile gash through the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and destroy one of the largest remaining roadless areas in the eastern United States, at a cost of at least $600 million to U.S. taxpayers. NPCA supports a monetary settlement for Swain County, North Carolina, in lieu of the road it was promised during World War II, and absolutely opposes the construction of any additional road north of Fontana Lake.

 Voice your support for a monetary settlement for Swain County and opposition to the construction of any additional road north of Fontana Lake. Take Action Now!

Go to http://www.npca.org/ActionCenter/Login.aspx?nid=1

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Action Alert: Panama Power Line Plan to Destroy Darien Gap

RainforestShort sighted energy policy threatens regional ecosystem, security and indigenous rights

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet - December 29, 2005

Large, Intact Ancient Rainforests Are a Requirement for Global Ecological Sustainability  (link)

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Hidden deep within President Bush's proposed budget, is a terrible provision that would allow as much as 800,000 acres of US public lands to be sold, allowing them to fall into the hands of logging companies, mining interests, and other developers. The Bush Administration proposal comes less than two months after bipartisan opposition in the Congress defeated a similar scheme. This fire sale of Americans’ birthright deserves the same reaction from all of us. 

Please send that message to your members of Congress: Our public lands are not for sale!

Also, please sign this petition:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/664381213

More information:

Forestland on Sale List Not All Bare

California acreage considered 'nonvital' in a Bush administration plan is worth keeping, say local officials and conservationists.

REDDING — Mountain property with dramatic views, the headwaters of salmon streams, tall timber and rugged backcountry, even a cave or two — all could be sold as part of a Bush administration proposal to auction roughly 300,000 acres of national forestland to fund rural schools and roads.

Administration officials have characterized the land, more than a quarter of which is in California, as isolated parcels that don't belong in the 193-million-acre national forest system because they're expensive to manage and aren't vital to wildlife or recreation.

But a closer look at the 85,500 California acres that the U.S. Forest Service listed for possible sale two weeks ago reveals that the tracts aren't all scraggly odds and ends. According to interviews with local forest officials and conservationists, some of the land — most of which lies in Northern California — borders scenic river corridors or has been proposed for possible wilderness protection by U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). Some has valuable timber. Other acreage provides winter range for deer or habitat for threatened species.

Full LA Times article at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-forests28feb28,0,5353265.story?coll=la-home-local

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ACTION DEADLINE: March 16, 2006

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Greenpeace have done an online letter to send to Stora Enso and the Finance Departement in Finland about the purchase of timber from the Sámi reindeer forests

Stop pulping the Sámi reindeer forests!

The Sámi reindeer forests of northern Lapland are being pulped by the Finnish State controlled paper giant, StoraEnso. These areas of forest provide vital food resources for free-grazing reindeer during the Arctic winter months.

StoraEnso can stop this destruction by not buying logs from these areas.

Pressure them to change!  go to

http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=1700&s=FRS

and then pass it around!

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From Center for Biological Diversity

Four proposed hydroelectric dam projects threaten free-flowing rivers, rare tropical species, indigenous cultures and a biologically diverse World Heritage Park in the remote rainforest of western Panama. Promoted by the Panamanian government and major Columbian and U.S. corporations, the dam projects would forever alter the free-flowing rivers of the Changuinola basin.

Rio Teribe begins in the heart of La Amistad Biosphere Reserve in western Panama and flows into Rio Changuinola, where three dams are proposed. Construction of the lowest Changuinola dam alone would biologically deplete over 500 miles of streams. A fourth proposed dam on Rio Bonyic, a major tributary of the Teribe, would permanently impact more than 100 miles of stream habitat. The dams, roads, bridges and power lines slated for construction as part of these projects would devastate unique native fish, impact the entire ecosystem of the Changuinola basin and open this remote jungle for development.

Full details and to take action go to -

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/panama_rainforest?rk=Ep%5fYLs51LRyYE

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From NRDC/ biogems

The Bush administration is moving ahead with a huge timber sale that would devastate some of the last remaining wild forests of Alaska's Kuiu Island, in our Tongass National Forest BioGem.

We need your help to stop this attack on the rainforest habitat of abundant populations of black bears and salmon, which is of vital importance to Native Alaskans.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction.asp
and tell the Forest Service you oppose the Kuiu timber sale, which would use taxpayer dollars to build roads and clearcut this island refuge.

Last year, in response to an NRDC lawsuit, a federal judge ruled that a management plan calling for large-scale clearcut logging in the Tongass National Forest was illegal. Nonetheless, the Forest Service is now pushing forward with newly proposed timber sales on Kuiu Island and in other sensitive habitat areas.

Decades of clearcutting have already devastated much of Kuiu Island. Continued logging there would destroy key habitat for one of the highest densities of black bears in North America, as well as Sitka black-tailed deer, marten, wolves, several species of salmon and the rare Queen Charlotte goshawk.

This remote area of southeastern Alaska provided hunting, fishing and gathering grounds to Native Alaskans for hundreds of years.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction.asp
right away and urge the Forest Service to cancel the Kuiu timber sale.

Thank you for taking action to save our last wild national forests

http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction.asp

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Please sign: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/110229420

Some info on this issue here:http://www.cccen.org.au/Issues/LakeMac/Awaba_mine.htm

Thanks,

Isaac R

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Ask the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to release the provincial protected areas strategy

It comes as a surprise to many people that the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is three times the size of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island put together. Although the Province is known world-wide for its once-proud marine fish stocks, many other globally significant natural features occur there. These include seabirds (up to 40,000,000 every year), rare and endemic plants, and the Province's spectacular geology and fossils. Yet, many of these globally significant features remain unprotected because the Provincial Government has not released the protected areas strategy called the "Natural Areas Plan".

The Natural Areas Plan, or NAP, has been "sleeping" for over 10 years. The candidate protected areas were originally designed by a Government committee in 1995-1996. When the committee submitted its final report in 1996, they recommended the immediate release of the plan for public and industry review. As of February 22, 2006 the plan and the candidate areas had not been released. Unfortunately, this means that Newfoundland and Labrador is the only Province in Canada that has not released (let alone implement) its protected areas strategy. More importantly, candidate area boundaries are being revised or even eliminated without public debate.

The current administration of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador was elected in 2003. One of their election platforms was the release of the Natural Areas Plan. They have been in office now for over two years, yet the plan remains hidden in the halls of Government.

Please help CPAWS-NL by letting Premier Danny Williams know that you support the release of the Natural Areas Plan.

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From Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.
http://www.RainforestPortal.org/

Project Will Devastate South America's Rainforests, Water & Climate
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=amazon_pipeline

Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina plan to build a massive natural
gas pipeline of up to 9,000 km in length from Venezuela to
Argentina through Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Construction of
the pipeline would be the most ambitious physical infrastructure
initiative in South America's history, costing up to $25 billion
and taking up to seven years to build. The pipeline would pierce
the heart of the Amazon and ensure its destruction as a large,
operable whole. Large areas of pristine rainforests will be
destroyed during construction, and new roads will open the rest
for colonization by ranchers and loggers. The multitude of
waterways traversing the Amazon will be polluted during
construction and inevitable pipeline leaks. The pipeline will
contribute to global warming through deforestation and oil
production to access the gas. The similar existing Camisea gas
pipeline through rainforests in Peru - which was touted as a
model of sustainable development, environmental protection and
respect for indigenous peoples - offers a cautionary tale of the
damage caused by gas pipelines during construction and their
operation. In three years of operation is has already
experienced five major spills, severely damaging the environment
and local communities. The proposed pipeline is a major threat
to the existence of the Amazon rainforest, as well as regional
and global ecological sustainability. The leaders of Brazil,
Venezuela and Argentina must be called upon to scrap plans for
its construction. Take action now:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=amazon_pipeline

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SAVE BILLANGROVE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY AND LAKEMACQUARIE - Please Take Action. All signatures from all nations welcome - air knows no borders.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/110229420

The site in it's present form. An open cut mine here would replace much of the bush pictured which is home to koalas and many, many other species.

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From NPCA

The departing Secretary of Interior wants to leave a legacy. Unfortunately, it is not the kind of legacy the Secretary should be promoting. It appears as though RS2477 is rearing its ugly head once again, but this time parks and wilderness areas have been added to the bounty. Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has recently given her blessing to open up abandoned roads, winter sled-dog trails, old Jeep tracks and cattle paths--including those throughout national parks--for highway construction.

Take action: Every place where there has been a Jeep trail, a cow path or other road rarely traveled could be at risk under
RS 2477, resulting in a web of roads across some of America's most remote and unspoiled lands. Your senators have the power to halt this misguided application of a ridiculous, antiquated statute. Urge your senators to put a stop to RS 2477 today!

go to
http://www.npca.org/ActionCenter/Process.aspx?a=l&l=8j&e=16ex5&r=36qz

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Kimberly-Clark manufactures the vast majority of its disposable tissue products from freshly cut trees instead of from recycled fiber, contributing to the destruction of Canada's boreal forest. Send a message urging the company to increase the post-consumer recycled content of its products.

Please note: After you take action, you'll most likely receive an auto-reply from Kimberly-Clark claiming that it is committed to sustainable forestry practices. Click here to learn the truth behind the claims.

http://www.nrdcaction.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=53107

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From Center for Biological Diversity

Save Morrell Canyon from Hydroelectric Boondoggle

Morrell Canyon, a beautiful, biologically diverse, oak-filled canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains of southern California's Cleveland National Forest, is at serious risk of imminent destruction. A private energy company, Nevada Hydro, is proposing to flood the canyon to create a reservoir for generating electricity, by pumping water up from Lake Elsinore below. Associated transmission lines will further degrade and fragment the biologically rich natural habitats of the forest. Please send a comment letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on their draft Environmental Impact Statement and attend a public meeting sponsored by FERC on April 4 in San Juan Capistrano or April 5 in Lake Elsinore to voice your opposition to this ill-conceived energy boondoggle. 

Go to http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/Morrell_Canyon

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I signed all I could!

Giuliana aka Princess Little Rock

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You've signed it for NRDC,now you can do it all over again for The Wilderness Society!

Stop Logging Plan in Oregon's Wild Siskiyou Forest

We've successfully staved off all logging in roadless forests for the last 5 years, but now the Bush Administration is proposing to log in roadless areas in the Siskiyou National Forest. This beautiful and remote old-growth forest is home to rare plants found nowhere else in the world, making it one of the most biologically important and botanically diverse places in the U.S. If implemented, these two projects would be the first ones allowed in roadless forests anywhere in the United States this century. At risk are rare plants, ancient forests and a key watershed that supports wild salmon and steelhead trout. We need your help to stop them.
Got to http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/siskiyou?rk=%5f72Bb8E17azIE (Comment deadline is April 5th.)

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From Earth Justice -http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/MT_monument

The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in north-central Montana is a rugged, unspoiled landscape with a spectacular array of wildlife and wild areas.

Recently, the Bureau of Land Management released a draft plan that will determine the future of the 377,000-acre area. Unfortunately the draft plan fails to safeguard the area’s wildlife, scenic, historical, and biological resources that the monument status was intended to preserve.

We need your help: please take action now and tell the BLM to draft a management plan that will give real protection to this unique monument, and the resources that make it so special!

take action at http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/MT_monument

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Tell OfficeMax to stop destroying Southern forests

The Southern forest region of the U.S. contains some of the most biologically rich ecosystems in North America. It is home to hundreds of forest and aquatic species -- especially amphibians, reptiles, snails and trees -- that are found nowhere else on earth.

Unfortunately, the Southern U.S. is also the largest paper-producing region in the world, supplying nearly 60% of the paper in the United States.

Our Southern forests are being rapidly wiped out to meet surging demand for office copy paper and paper packaging. Unless consumers insist that such throwaway products be produced from recycled fiber instead of trees, the great forest that once cloaked the southeastern U.S. is in danger of being into turned into vast, biologically sterile pine plantations.

OfficeMax, the third largest retail office supply store in the US, endangers forests of the South by doing business with the most irresponsible logging company in the region.

OfficeMax’s two largest competitors, Staples and Office Depot, have already committed publicly to increase recycled content in the paper they sell and avoid sourcing paper from endangered forests.

Urge Office Max to follow suit. Demand that OfficeMax stop sourcing paper from endangered forests! Tell Office Max CEO Sam Duncan to make a commitment to the environment and Southern Forests.

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signed. thank you Tracy! Have a Happy Earth Day!! peace and hugs

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Old Forest, New Vision: An Evening in Canada's Boreal
Wed May 10, 2006, Ottawa, ON
7:00pm (doors open 6:30)
Hampton Inn & Conference Centre, 100 Coventry Rd. (at Vanier Parkway, Ottawa)
Tickets: $10 available at MEC, Agora Bookstore, and Arbour Environmental Shoppe

Join CPAWS for a bird's eye view of the boreal and learn about the exciting new efforts in conserving Canada's largest ecosystem. Keynote speakers include Gregor Beck, Director of Avian Science and Conservation with Bird Studies Canada, Martha Copestake of the Eastern Ontario Model Forest, and Marie-Eve Marchand, Dumoine Campaign Coordinator of CPAWS. A live auction concludes the evening with many fabulous items, including a Dumoine Getaway trip courtesy of Black Feather!

Check http://www.cpaws-ov.org for more information.

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Donna, I am flabbergasted!!!  You will not believe this but about 20 minutes ago I emailed the CEO's of Kimberly-Clark asking if their paper products are recycled!!  I was even going to start a Group about recycling!!  WOW!!  My boss uses copy paper by them and no where does it say "recycled".  So I asked him if they don't use recycled paper could we switch companies.  HE SAID YES!!!!  If everyone would quit buying products from paper companies that do NOT recycle then maybe we could put an end to all of this very unnecessary deforestation!!  I told Kimberly Clark we will quit buying their products.  WHY WOULD COMPANIES NOT RECYCLE???  Does anyone know which companies use recycled paper so that we can order from them?   Oregon has their stuff together.  They make magazines from recycled paper and people now insist on it.  THANKS FOR POSTING THIS!!

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The following Care 2 Petition needs signing; deadline is August 7th: Its important on this one if you personalize with a comment, thanks.

http://mail.care2.com/caremail/noframes/view/t_viewhtml.asp?SID=%A3%A3%AF%AE%AA%AB%A8%AC%AB

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(Ask permission post here,if not adequate,please delete. Thanks.)Treehugs.

URGENT-NEED SIGNS-PETITION BEING CLOSED!!!PLS. 3:23 PM

WE DO NEED MORE SIGNS IN THIS PETITION - TO BE IN A FEW HOURS PRINTED FOR DELIVERY - - PLEASE, DO HELP! TKS.

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This isn't a petition or action but I thought you would all want to see this video. It brought me goosebumps! When you first click o the link the video is playing already. When it is over play it again on the player link as it is really about a five minute video.

http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/film/film-detail.jsp?id=1575

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Since Hurricane Katrina we have lost so many cypress trees!  It is vital to our wetlands, etc and people are under the misconception that it is disease resistant.  ONLY if it is 100 yrs old.  Until then it is no more resistant to disease than pine mulch or bark.  Young cypress are now being harvested/logged and these groves will NOT regenerate.  PEOPLE NEED TO BUY ANYTHING BUT CYPRESS MULCH so that we can save what is left.  Please sign the following petition.  Thank you!

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/GRN/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=5892

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       INCREDIBLE Satellite Image of Rainforest Destruction in the Amazon

This incredible satellite image shows a HUGE 300 mile long swath of Brazilian Amazon rain forest completely destroyed due to logging. This incredible display of deforestation is hard to believe when you observe the multi-million acre scale seen here.

Was not sure where to post this, received from a friend and just wanted this group to see what is happening in Brazil.

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Margaret, I noted it but Internet Explorer aborted my efforts to get into the site via the link.   I bet it is heartbreaking to see.   I am so sick of logging!!   GREEDY, GREEDY, GREEDY!! 

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  Hello everyone. I want to let you know that in Argentina 75 % of the forests have been destroyed . There is a law that needs to be accepted ASAP to stop this irresponsible destruction right now!!.

 Sign my petition and read more about it. Pass it on to your friends. Let's work to stop this!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/227554852

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Hi Vicky.

I will explain this to you. It is a lie that starving people will benefit from this destruction. The only ones who benefit from the destruction are the big corporations who make their own profits but, sooner or later, NOBODY will benefit because the consequences of this will cause a great economic deficit. The conclusion is that abuse of political and economic power is leading to unnecessary devastation. There is no progress here. I can also inform you that there are communities of people who will be left homeless as a DIRECT consequence of the forest destruction. It is sad, but these politicians do not care about the people, the animals, the forests or the planet. They just trade with corporations!

  Thanks for helping to make a difference and I appreciate your comment

Galia 

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http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/295109
It’s Back! For Second Year in a Row, President’s Forest Service Budget Proposes Massive Sell off of Public Lands

 

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TAKE ACTION: NIAGARA ESCARPMENT THREATENED BY DEVELOPMENT DECISION


Deadline for Comments February 19, 2007

http://www.ontarionature.org/news/template.php3?n_code=371

Late last year, the Ontario Municipal Board issued a decision that paves the way for extensive residential development on the Niagara Escarpment within the Town of Blue Mountain in Grey County. Castle Glen Developments wants to build over 1,600 residential units, 300 hotel units as well as commercial and retail space, and up to three golf courses on a 620 acre tract that spills over the brow of the Escarpment. It will be the largest single development on the Niagara Escarpment since 1975. Use the letter template below to help convince the Minister of Municipal Affairs to overturn this decision.

Located just south-east of Blue Mountain in the Collingwood area, the area forms part of the UNESCO World Biosphere Designated Zone of the Niagara Escarpment. It is over 70% forested, is the source for headwaters of Silver Creek (the most productive salmon and trout spawning river in Georgian Bay) and Black Ash Creek, has two provincially significant wetlands and a significant Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI), and is home to two at-risk species: the hart’s tongue fern and the butternut tree. The Bruce Trail runs through the property. The Ontario Greenbelt Alliance (of which Ontario Nature is a founding member) has named the area as one of the Top 10 Greenbelt Hotspots under threat from poorly-planned development that could destroy significant natural features.

http://www.ontarionature.org/news/template.php3?n_code=371

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Dear friends,

Some of you signed a petition a few days ago to protect the forests that are left in Argentina. Now we need to copy and paste those words in e-mails to the four deputies who have not decided whether to vote for or against the law to protect the forests.

These are their e-mails:

cmoreno@diputados.gov.ar

arossi@diputados.gov.ar

acanterog@diputados.gov.ar

ckunkel@diputados.gov.ar

You may send them the following message if you don't feel like writing something yourself:

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/973989783

~Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be printed on FSC/recycled paper, in accordance to J.K. Rowlings wishes, the previous books were like that too, but now the U.S. publisher is following suit, please send your thanks! (For those who don't know J.K. Rowling is Brittish).

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http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=jersey_boardwalk

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet - August 13, 2007

Caption: Ipê belongs in ancient rainforest canopies, not Jersey boardwalks  (link)

www.rainforestrelief.org) the City Council adopted a Resolution in May 1997 which stated that they "...will no longer purchase tropical rain forest hardwood for the boardwalk in Ocean City and recommends to future governing bodies that they investigate all the ramifications of using tropical rainforest hardwood before changing the policy". Environmentalists cheered the victory and thought that Ocean City would be doing its part to protect ancient rainforests from that point on.

Fast forward ten years to January 2007 and the issue of using ipê industrially harvested from ancient rainforests rears its ugly head again. But this time, the city presents ipê as an environmentally responsible choice as long as it is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified. While the evidence is mounting worldwide regarding major problems with the FSC's certification of ancient forest logging as "responsible" while implying environmental sustainability, the city uses the endorsement that major environmental organizations give to FSC certified products as justification for using ipê. With support letters in hand and the green light from FSC supporters such as Rainforest Alliance-SmartWood, Greenpeace, and WWF, the city council, media, and public are told that the way to save the rainforest and its people is through the purchase of FSC wood from first-time ancient rainforest logging. Educating the city council, the administration, and the public regarding the mounting evidence to the contrary has become a major task.

Certifiers admit that they only certify operations as "well managed" and never "sustainable". Yet the public and buyers are continually told by importers, retailers and journalists that certified wood is "sustainable". Ipê is being logged only from old growth rainforests and scientific studies have shown that even so-called selective "low-impact" logging is permanently damaging to old growth rainforests and the biodiversity they support. There is no such thing as ecologically sustainable first time industrial logging of primary and old-growth forests, and keeping large ancient forest intact is a requirement to address climate change and achieve global ecological sustainability. Citizens have repeatedly requested a public forum to discuss the failures of FSC certification and the insufficiencies of the city’s materials analysis, but their requests have been ignored. In addition, the city lied regarding the availability and viability of alternate materials, and the economic analysis presented to City Council was incomplete and flawed.

More and take action:

http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=jersey_boardwalk

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Received today (US only ):

Dear Elena,

We need your urgent action to make sure that Congress stands firm against taxpayer subsidies for destroying America's
greatest temperate rainforest.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction
right now and tell your senators and representative to protect the Tongass, a thriving habitat for grizzly bears, salmon runs, bald eagles and the elusive Alexander Archipelago wolf.

Thanks to pressure from you and other online activists, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in June to halt taxpayer subsidies for destructive new logging roads in Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

But Alaska's senior senator, Ted Stevens, is now working feverishly behind closed doors to make sure that this long-overdue legislation never sees the light of day. And he's
drafting his own, underhanded, amendment to restrict sharply the public's ability to halt wasteful and devastating Tongass logging in court.

Over the last 25 years, more than 1 billion taxpayer dollars have been spent to clearcut and build roads through this irreplaceable BioGem.

NRDC activists like you have spoken out again and again against these wasteful handouts, which have enabled timber companies to
expand their reach into the unspoiled heart of America's rainforest.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction
and demand that House and Senate negotiators stand up to Senator Stevens and his destructive logging-road subsidies in the
Tongass!

Thank you for helping to defend this priceless rainforest refuge for imperiled Alaskan wildlife.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
 

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Giant Sequoias are among the oldest living trees on the planet. Many took root long before our great, great grandparents were born, and will live to see our great, great grandchildren -- if we don't allow the timber industry to destroy them first.

The Giant Sequoias were here before our nation was founded, quietly witnessing the evolution of our society. Now our "progress" is the greatest threat to their continued survival.

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This petition is to ask Borneo's 3 nations (Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia) to conserve the area known as the Heart of Borneo - a total of 220,000 km2 of equatorial rainforest - through a network of protected areas and sustainably-managed forests, and through international co-operation led by the Bornean governments.

The remaining Borneo rainforest is the only natural habitat for the endangered Bornean Orangutan. It is also an important refuge for many endemic forest species, and the Asian Elephant, the Sumatran Rhinoceros and the Bornean Clouded Leopard.
When they get the goal of 100.000 sign ups they will send the petition to the 3 governments of Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia. Please help to save these wonderful forests. Sign now:  http://www.tree-nation.com/community/petition.php?id=28

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/474028203

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We need help in convincing our (my ) Canadian government to support a moratorium on GE trees. Please note and take action - send an e-mail.

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Support a U.N. Moratorium on Genetically Engineered Trees
Environment  (tags: GE trees, environment, ecosystems, conservation, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, pollution, protection, trees )

Elena
- 2 days ago - rightoncanada.ca

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 Take Action: Create our Next National Park
In honour of Parks Day, help us establish Canada’s next national park, in the Mealy Mountains of Labrador!  This park will protect five boreal natural regions and provide habitat protection for wolves, bear, wolverine and the threatened Mealy Mountains woodland caribou herd. Sign our Petition to the Canadian Government!

All can sign -  just enter "None" under State/Province.

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Here is another action for the trees we can help out with:

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Tell J. Crew's CEO to Stop Destroying Forests for Catalogs

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Environment  (tags: ecosystems, conservation, climate, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, destruction, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, nature, protection, habitatdestruction, habitat, greenhousegases, green, trees, Sustainabililty )

BiLL
- 1 day ago - thepetitionsite.com

Tell J. Crew CEO Millard Drexler and demand that J. Crew commit to an ecologically responsible paper policy for its catalogs by signing this petition.

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/clearfellingdestruction-of-tazmanian-old-growth-forests

petition overview | letter

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Sadly, future generations of Californians may not have that experience. Gov. Schwarzegger has proposed closing 220 of the 279 state parks in California to make up for the budget crunch. The financial benefit to the state will be a mere .3% of the shortfall.

I don't think that's worth it - shutting down 79% of the state's parks, places where families go to spend time together away from work and school and the pressures of modern life will cause irreparable harm to the state.

Sign our petition to Gov. Schwarzenegger right now, and tell him not to rob the people of one of their few places of sanctuary:

http://www.environmental-action.org/save-ca-parks?id4=ES

In 2008, 80 million people in California alone visited state parks - experiences that will be lost forever if these parks close.

Whether it's camping, boating, hiking, or watching the sunrise with friends, our state parks are human sanctuaries. It doesn't matter whether you live in California or not - many of us travel to California for the scenic beauty, and the solace their parks offer.

Take a minute today and sign our petition to Gov. Schwarzenegger asking him to keep the parks open.

http://www.environmental-action.org/save-ca-parks?id4=ES

Forests throughout America are in danger!  The U.S. Congress passed the Omnibus Public Lands Act of 2009, which contains questionable fuels reduction projects in Title-IV, which includes approval of projects of undefined fuel treatment and biomass power generation on more than 5 million acres. Concerned conservationists and honest scientists from across the country oppose these actions due to the potential climate changing characteristics, damaging outcomes to public forest lands, energy costs that exceed energy production, and taxpayer costs that exceed revenues. This bill is a gift to the timber industry, allowing sawmills to continue profiting from forested public lands.

Now, Congress has funded the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the Department of Agriculture just released the list of projects it intends to implement in your National Forests across the country.  These include non-specific fuel reduction, trail maintenance, and biomass extraction projects that would support inefficient and expensive power generating facilities that cost far more energy than they produce. These projects have the potential to damage national forests and wilderness, continue bad management practices, give gifts to the timber mills, and exacerbate climate change. 

*Picture of "Trail Maintenance" project done on the Golden Trout Wilderness in 2007

Could you please take a moment to draft a letter to your representatives and ask them to ensure oversight of projects done by the U.S. Forest Service?

Send a letter to your representative

thanks davida for your information site. i have taken action. peace and love from ildi p.

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