Block Assault on Wilderness
- by: The Wilderness Society
- recipient: US Senate
Protect Our Wilderness Areas! The Department of the Interior (DOI), headed by Interior Secretary Gale Norton, has launched a devastating attack on our nation's wilderness and other special places. These DOI deals will lead to more drilling, more mining, and more road construction -- destroying critical wildlife habitat and beautiful wilderness areas! Thus far, Interior Secretary Norton has ignored the public outcry on this issue, but she cannot ignore the U.S. Senate. Please write your Senators today and ask them to take action.
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The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management oversees a quarter of a billion acres of beautiful & ecologically diverse federal lands including deserts, mountains, forests, redrock canyon country and more! Much of this wilderness -- home to many threatened species -- lacks permanent protections.
The DOI is failing to protect these lands and their wildlife inhabitants:
- The Interior prohibited the BLM from designating lands as Wilderness Study Areas (areas protected from development until Congress acts to permanently protect them).
- The agency made it easier for states, counties and even individuals to claim and build roads across millions of acres of wild roadless lands, including national parks, national monuments and potential wilderness. As you know, roads fragment and damage wildlife habitat.
- Secretary Norton ordered the BLM to halt wilderness reviews in Alaska. That means that millions of acres of wild land in Alaska -- and the wonderful array of wildlife that inhabit those areas -- will not be considered for permanent protection.
Sign this petition and urge your U.S. Senators to force the DOI to reverse these anti-wilderness, anti-wildlife actions.
Monuments images provided by the BLM; burrowing owl by photographer Don Baccus, copywrite.
Attn: U.S. Senate
I strongly protest the Interior Department's recent radical assault on America's wilderness.
In recent weeks, Interior has entered into agreements that would prohibit the Bureau of Land Management from designating lands as Wilderness Study Areas; make it easier for States, counties and even individuals to claim and build roads across millions of acres of wild roadless lands, including national parks, national monuments and potential wilderness; and halt wilderness reviews in Alaska, affecting millions of acres of wild land in Alaska that deserve and should be considered for permanent protection.
These actions leave tens of millions of acres of wild places open to oil and gas development, road construction, wanton off-road vehicle use, mining and other forms of disturbance while locking citizens out of the process entirely.
Interior's back-door deals are grossly out of step with what I and other Americans want for our national lands. These lands are the home to our wildlife, the source of clean air and water, and places of beauty and opportunity. Poll after poll has shown that most Americans favor protection of their public lands and wild places.
I strongly urge you to write a letter to Secretary Norton protesting these actions. Your leadership on this matter would be much appreciated -- not just by me, but by a majority of Americans, present and future.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Sign PetitionSign PetitionI strongly protest the Interior Department's recent radical assault on America's wilderness.
In recent weeks, Interior has entered into agreements that would prohibit the Bureau of Land Management from designating lands as Wilderness Study Areas; make it easier for States, counties and even individuals to claim and build roads across millions of acres of wild roadless lands, including national parks, national monuments and potential wilderness; and halt wilderness reviews in Alaska, affecting millions of acres of wild land in Alaska that deserve and should be considered for permanent protection.
These actions leave tens of millions of acres of wild places open to oil and gas development, road construction, wanton off-road vehicle use, mining and other forms of disturbance while locking citizens out of the process entirely.
Interior's back-door deals are grossly out of step with what I and other Americans want for our national lands. These lands are the home to our wildlife, the source of clean air and water, and places of beauty and opportunity. Poll after poll has shown that most Americans favor protection of their public lands and wild places.
I strongly urge you to write a letter to Secretary Norton protesting these actions. Your leadership on this matter would be much appreciated -- not just by me, but by a majority of Americans, present and future.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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