Help Protect America's Wetlands
Our nation's wetlands, streams and other waters have a tremendous impact on everyone's lives. But, development and draining of these areas result in the loss of an average of 80,000 acres of wetlands each year. That is why we need 80,000 people to let the President know how important wetlands are to us. Parents want clean drinking water for their children. Families want to live without fear of their homes being flooded. Sportsmen want to protect habitat for fish and wildlife and enjoy the opportunities to hunt and fish. Wetlands provide all these things and more. Tell the President we need to protect these areas for our future. Sign the petition today!
Our nation's wetlands, streams and other waters have a tremendous impact on everyone's lives. But, development and draining of these areas result in the loss of an average of 80,000 acres of wetlands each year. That is why we need 80,000 people to let the President know how important wetlands are to us. Parents want clean drinking water for their children. Families want to live without fear of their homes being flooded. Sportsmen want to protect habitat for fish and wildlife and enjoy the opportunities to hunt and fish. Wetlands provide all these things and more. Tell the President we need to protect these areas for our future. Sign the petition today!
Dear Mr./Madam President:
Wetlands profoundly benefit the lives of every American.
They control floods and erosion, hold and cleanse water, and give us places to hunt, fish and enjoy the outdoors.
What's more, wetlands provide habitat for many thousands of plant, fish and wildlife species.
Yet we continue to let our last - and best - wetlands slip through our hands.
In fact, we lose an average of 80,000 acres of natural wetlands each year.
A series of recent rollbacks in legal protections now threaten to accelerate our nation's already appalling rate of wetlands loss.
Leadership is needed to restore federal protections that are crucial to maintaining clean water and healthy wetlands.
Please do everything in your power to restore the strength of our national wetlands protections - and please do so quickly.
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10:09 am PST, Dec 16,
Ruby Kapper, Israel
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WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT AND CARE ABOUT OUR WILDLIFE AND THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN!!!!
Save wetlands and their rich diversity of wildlife!
Wetlands are necessary habitat for a number of species and provide ecosystem balance. They are also natures way of water control creating many of the flooding problems we face when they are drained
I think that draining and developing wetlands is one of the most foolish and short sighted things for man to do. This is the kind of thoughtless thing that will come back to bite developers one day, with global warming on the increase as it so obviously is, and anyone buying a house that is built on land that was previously a wet land is asking for trouble. Apart from what this does to our wildlife....its just another nail in the coffin.
We the people should take full control of this Wetland and tell your congress people that it's very much a MUST for them to vote for anything that can help save it and the life that live there! Water is the key source to this and we must make it happen for the future of our children and all other lives that live in and around the WETLANDS! "Indian Boy"
All wild lands are important.
