No one voted on Election Day to hand over Utah's Redrock wilderness to oil companies.

Dear Friend,

No one voted on Election Day to hand over Utah's Redrock

wilderness to oil companies.

But the Bush Administration cynically chose that very day to

advance an outrageous plan that will sell off leases for some

160,000 acres of spectacular Utah canyonlands to oil and gas

speculators.

While America was voting for Barack Obama and his vision of a

clean energy future, Bush and Cheney's underlings were

conspiring to plunder one of the crown jewels of our natural

heritage for their fossil fuel cronies.

Please register your own opposition right now:

http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/u14eyZE13PJm/

The auction of Redrock country will take place on December 19.

At stake are world-renowned vistas near Canyonlands and Arches

National Parks, as well as near Dinosaur National Monument. The

highest bidders will earn the right to turn vast tracts of

pristine wilderness into industrial wastelands.

It's bad enough that Bush officials went behind the backs of the

American people with this disastrous scheme. But what's worse,

they didn't even tell their own National Park Service until

after the fact.

In my mind, this theft of our heritage goes beyond the cynical

-- it's criminal. What will be left to give to our children and

their children if we allow this administration, in a parting

shot, to destroy our legacy of public lands for short-term gain?

I hope you're as angry as I am about this blatant land grab,

because we've got to stop it -- and we have to act fast. The

NRDC Action Fund is mobilizing more than one million Americans

in an outpouring of protest over the coming days.

Send your own message of opposition immediately:

http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/u14eyZE13PJm/

Tell the Bush Administration that you will not allow it to

destroy one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

We'll automatically send copies of your message to your two

senators, your representative and to the Obama transition team,

which has signaled their opposition to this disastrous attack on

our Redrock heritage.

The Bush Administration is racing to complete the auction of our

lands before Inauguration Day, which will make sales difficult

to reverse.

We must fend off this land grab now -- before the oil and gas

companies can lay claim to the spoils.

Those spoils include stretches of Desolation Canyon, which has

been proposed for national park status. Bush's own Interior

Department describes the canyon as "a place where a visitor can

experience true solitude -- where the forces of nature continue

to shape the colorful, rugged landscape."

The very idea of oil and gas operations invading these remote

sanctuaries -- which have remained untouched for millennia -- is

deeply upsetting. Once the dirty deed is done, our wilderness

can never be restored. That's why I'm asking you to help us

sound the alarm and organize now.

Tell the Bush Administration to cancel the Redrock auction:

http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/u14eyZE13PJm/

Remind them that we the people are the rightful owners of this

majestic wilderness and that we won't stand for its destruction.

And thank you for joining with me and the NRDC Action Fund to

save these beautiful wildlands for all future generations.

Sincerely,

Robert Redford

NRDC Action Fund

P.S. After you send your own message of protest, I'll let you

know of an easy way to spread the word to your friends and

family:

http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/u14eyZE13PJm/ . With only 10 days

to mobilize one million Americans, I'm counting on you to rally

everyone you know to speak out and save this precious wilderness

from destruction.

Dear Friend,

No one voted on Election Day to hand over Utah's Redrock

wilderness to oil companies.

But the Bush Administration cynically chose that very day to

advance an outrageous plan that will sell off leases for some

160,000 acres of spectacular Utah canyonlands to oil and gas

speculators.

While America was voting for Barack Obama and his vision of a

clean energy future, Bush and Cheney's underlings were

conspiring to plunder one of the crown jewels of our natural

heritage for their fossil fuel cronies.

Please register your own opposition right now:

http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/u14eyZE13PJm/

The auction of Redrock country will take place on December 19.

At stake are world-renowned vistas near Canyonlands and Arches

National Parks, as well as near Dinosaur National Monument. The

highest bidders will earn the right to turn vast tracts of

pristine wilderness into industrial wastelands.

It's bad enough that Bush officials went behind the backs of the

American people with this disastrous scheme. But what's worse,

they didn't even tell their own National Park Service until

after the fact.

In my mind, this theft of our heritage goes beyond the cynical

-- it's criminal. What will be left to give to our children and

their children if we allow this administration, in a parting

shot, to destroy our legacy of public lands for short-term gain?

I hope you're as angry as I am about this blatant land grab,

because we've got to stop it -- and we have to act fast. The

NRDC Action Fund is mobilizing more than one million Americans

in an outpouring of protest over the coming days.

Send your own message of opposition immediately:

http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/u14eyZE13PJm/

Tell the Bush Administration that you will not allow it to

destroy one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

We'll automatically send copies of your message to your two

senators, your representative and to the Obama transition team,

which has signaled their opposition to this disastrous attack on

our Redrock heritage.

The Bush Administration is racing to complete the auction of our

lands before Inauguration Day, which will make sales difficult

to reverse.

We must fend off this land grab now -- before the oil and gas

companies can lay claim to the spoils.

Those spoils include stretches of Desolation Canyon, which has

been proposed for national park status. Bush's own Interior

Department describes the canyon as "a place where a visitor can

experience true solitude -- where the forces of nature continue

to shape the colorful, rugged landscape."

The very idea of oil and gas operations invading these remote

sanctuaries -- which have remained untouched for millennia -- is

deeply upsetting. Once the dirty deed is done, our wilderness

can never be restored. That's why I'm asking you to help us

sound the alarm and organize now.

Tell the Bush Administration to cancel the Redrock auction:

http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/u14eyZE13PJm/

Remind them that we the people are the rightful owners of this

majestic wilderness and that we won't stand for its destruction.

And thank you for joining with me and the NRDC Action Fund to

save these beautiful wildlands for all future generations.

Sincerely,

Robert Redford

NRDC Action Fund

P.S. After you send your own message of protest, I'll let you

know of an easy way to spread the word to your friends and

family:

http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/u14eyZE13PJm/ . With only 10 days

to mobilize one million Americans, I'm counting on you to rally

everyone you know to speak out and save this precious wilderness

from destruction.

Dave, we only have a few days left to mobilize one

million Americans against the Bush-Cheney plan to auction off

America's Redrock wilderness to oil and gas speculators.

Please FORWARD my message to everyone you know and help block

this outrageous giveaway of our natural heritage. Thank you for

doing your part to save this natural treasure. -- Robert Redford