Roadless Rule Action Alert August 12, 2006 2:33 AM
Keep our last wild forests wild: Reinstate the Roadless Rule!
Protecting our nation’s last roadless forests has enjoyed broad support from the public ever since it was originally proposed almost ten years ago. Most recently, with your help the conservation community delivered a petition signed by over 265,000 Americans to the Bush administration, calling for the reinstatement of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Now, we need to keep the momentum going! A recently introduced Senate bill would make the Roadless Rule law, immediately protecting 58.5 million acres of untouched national forests from logging, mining, and energy development projects.
With your help, we can build support for this important bill, and keep the pressure on the Bush administration to listen to the American people and keep our nation’s last wild forests wild.
Arizona rivers suffer greatly from groundwater pumping. Many rivers, seeps, and springs that once ran year-round are now dry most of the year. Groundwater pumping can drain the most robust watercourses, leaving behind lifeless, dry river channels that do little more than channel stormwater to lower elevations. The majority of the living landscape that rivers nurture is lost.
Bobcat. Photo by Robin Silver
Sadly, the Verde River in central Arizona is no exception. For now, the Verde is a still-wild, lush, and beautiful scenic area throughout most of its range. It deserves protection of its wildlife resources and recreational opportunities—not just the municipal and farming uses that its extracted waters satisfy.
Plans by communities to remove huge quantities of water out of the Big Chino aquifer that feeds the upper Verde River threaten the river’s continued health.
The Center is urging the City of Prescott and Town of Prescott Valley to look at aggressive water conservation and growth management activities in order to avoid depleting the Big Chino aquifer. Before proceeding with their plans to pump and transport groundwater, the cities must prepare a comprehensive mitigation plan to ensure that stream flow will not be diminished in the Verde River.
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's greatest biological treasures. It is home to dozens of unique wildlife and plant species, many found nowhere else on Earth. Unfortunately, many of these species are on the brink of extinction, and the precarious status of San Francisco's wildlife and plants has become a topic of global concern.
Only a tiny fraction of the native forests and open spaces are preserved in the Bay Area today, but there is currently an opportunity to ensure such places are protected for generations to come. San Francisco’s Natural Areas Program is a bold plan to expand parkland protection, and your help is urgently needed to help make sure it becomes a reality!
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The issue of manmade global warming is a heated debate. Movie stars and politicians alike are putting the issue up for debate with movies like The 11th Hour and An Inconvenient Truth, but planting a tree is simply a good thing to do, like recycling. Trees are a beautiful natural resource and they happen to absorb carbon dioxide or CO2, a common greenhouse gas. With your help, we hope to have an impact on climate change and the world.
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Stop The U.S.A. from cutting funding for rainforest conservation December 09, 2007 4:45 AM
Stop The U.S.A. from cutting funding for rainforest conservation
Treasury Department will cut funding for the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA), the largest pool of U.S. government money exclusively for helping developing countries conserve threatened tropical forests, according to the Tropical Forest Group, a forest policy group based in Santa Barbara.
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