Last year nearly 110,000 volunteers worked on public lands across the country on National Public Lands Day. This year National Public Lands Day is Saturday, September 27th, 2008. Save the date on your calendar and plan to get out into a national park to lend a hand.

Many national parks will be hosting projects this year and could use your help. For example, volunteers in Greenbelt Park in Maryland will work to repair stream erosion and to remove invasive species. Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in Iowa needs volunteers to help restore the 81-acre native tallgrass prairie.

To learn more about projects in a national park near you, visit www.publiclandsday.org.

The Park Service has declared National Public Lands Day a "Fee Free Day" and all National Park Service sites will offer free visitor admission on September 27th, 2008.

The enduring image of nearly every oil spill is a dead or dying bird lying on a blackened beach, its feathers covered with oil. We don’t want to see any more of that in California.

Audubon California needs you to make a clear statement to your elected officials that you do not support new oil drilling off our coasts that would endanger millions of shorebirds and their irreplaceable habitat.

Earlier this month, President Bush removed an executive order banning oil drilling off America’s coastlines, and has been applying increasing pressure on Congress to lift its 27-year ban so that drilling can commence. Oil companies and their friends in government are clearly hoping to take advantage of the pain that many Americans are feeling at the pump to exploit our most precious coastlines.

We need you to help our elected leaders see through the double-talk on this issue. Attempts to lift the offshore drilling moratorium could be attached to several different bills and come up for a vote at any time. Make your voice heard now.

To learn more, click here.

To learn more about Audubon California, visit our website.

Above photo taken of a sea bird found on the beach near Santa Barbara shortly after the 1969 oil spill. Photy by Dick Smith/UCSB.

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Monday

Get started by downloading the free HSUS Guide to Vegetarian Eating, filled with delicious recipes, grocery shopping recommendations and nutrition tips.

Tuesday

Bring some vegetarian goodies to work to share with your colleagues. Browse the Internet or check out our online recipe collection for ideas. Challenge your friends and family to create animal-friendly versions of their favorite foods using the ever-growing alternatives to meat, eggs and dairy available at grocery stores.

Wednesday

Mirror the efforts of an inspiring father-daughter team in Michigan who enjoy humane foods once a week every Vegetarian Wednesday throughout the year.

Thursday

Figure out what delicious plant-based foods suit you best. See where you and your friends fit on our Veg Profiles guide about different types of vegetarian eating.

Friday

Celebrate your Friday with a dinner out on the town at restaurants serving up savory humane fare. Most restaurants include vegetarian items on their menu, but you can always check out VegGuide.org for listings in your city.

Saturday

Visit your library or favorite bookstore to browse some of the incredible cookbooks available on vegetarian cuisine. Some of our staff's favorites include Veganomicon, How It All Vegan, My Sweet Vegan, Eat Drink & Be Vegan, The Joy of Vegan Baking and Vegan Express.

Sunday

Be the hit of your Memorial Day picnic by bringing along these tasty recipes using one of America's favorite mock-meat products—Tofurky. Tuck Tofurky deli slices in sandwiches and grill up some Tofurky beer brats at your holiday weekend barbeques.

Related Links

Humane Eating and the Three Rs

The HSUS Guide to Vegetarian Eating

Humane Eating Recipes

Choice Eats: Chicken-Friendly Products

Delicious and Dairy-Free

Endless Eggless Options

Audubon California helps craft historic conservation pact

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National Parks at a Turning Point

Air pollution has damaged many parks - and it could get much worse

Major Step Forward in Clearing the Air in Our National Parks! Legislation introduced to clean up the four major pollutants from coal-fired power plants Read More >> View Full Report (PDF, 6.5 MB, 76 pages) or view by section: Table of Contents (PDF format) Executive Summary Habitat Health Heritage Horizons Solutions End Notes

Millions of Americans visit our national parks for clean air and healthy fun. Unfortunately, many could find "code red" air quality conditions and hazy skies.

Air pollution continues to affect nearly everything we value about America's national parks. It degrades habitat for the plants and animals that call the parks home, puts the health of park visitors and staff at risk, causes physical damage to symbols of our heritage, and mars the scenic horizons that reveal the grandeur of our land.

Clean air laws are helping the parks gradually recover from decades of pollution. But that could all change as the country is on the verge of a massive increase in the burning of coal, oil and natural gas to meet our growing energy needs.

Technologies exist to burn fossil fuels more cleanly, and renewable energy sources offer viable pollution-free alternatives, but our leaders must take action. The decisions they make today about what energy sources we develop, and how cleanly we use them, will affect our air and our parks for generations to come.

Through stories from parks around the country, Turning Point describes how air pollution damages our national treasures and what we need to do now to restore and protect them for future generations.

Will we continue to protect against air pollution threats to the habitats, health, heritage and horizons of our national parks? Or will we fail to save them for future generations? Read Turning Point to find out!

Even as polar bears face possible extinction from rising temperatures, the EPA continues to block global warming controls on tailpipes. California and 14 other states — accounting for more than 40 percent of new car sales — are prepared to fight global warming by putting cleaner car standards in place. Tell the EPA to stop stalling and give California permission to lead the way!

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