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August 26, 2003  
We the undersigned, endorse the following petition:
Block Assault on Wilderness
Target: US Senate
Sponsor: Wilderness Society.r>
pen nibSIGNATURES.16,265

pen nibGOAL: 25,000

pen nibDEADLINE: 8-31-2003

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.

MORE INFO:
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:

  1. The Interior prohibited the BLM from designating lands as Wilderness Study Areas (areas protected from development until Congress acts to permanently protect them).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
These actions threaten key wilderness-quality land throughout the West.
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. ..... See full petition below.td>
  


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.>MOST RECENT 25 of 16,265 SIGNATURES
Number Date Name I support protection of wild lands because Wildlife & National Parks are important because
16,265  3:27 pm PDT, Aug 26 Anonymous    
16,264  2:57 pm PDT, Aug 26 May Herskovitz without free, open wild land there will be nothing left for humans to live off of. we are not the only beings who live on this earth.
16,263  2:00 pm PDT, Aug 26 marisa brandstetter It is necessary to protect what there is left of the beautiful wilderness of the world. Our survival is dependent on the survival of all the other beings on the earth and if we continue to destroy their habitats, then we cause our own destruction.  
16,262  1:17 pm PDT, Aug 26 Cat Smith When humans have destroyed all that is natural and vital (oxygen-giving trees, clean water, breathable air etc) they will have destroyed themselves. It will be their own fault and serve them right. But why should the rest of the planet have to suffer and die for their arrogance and stupidity? Life on this planet cannot survive without them. It's as simple as that.
16,261  1:09 pm PDT, Aug 26 Anonymous Wild Lands are the sustaining life of our environment. Our wildlife and national parks are the most valuable asets that we can leave to our future generations. They are a measure of our progress and civilization.
16,260  12:19 pm PDT, Aug 26 Lester App It all boils down to greed. We are told to recycle to help save the environment yet open beautiful forests to rape for profit. This rape can only continue so long before there is nothing left to plow under, burn off or level for monetary gain. It has to stop at some point in time before we are all walking on blacktop where trees use to stand. We need them more than they need us!
16,259  12:09 pm PDT, Aug 26 Sabina Caliguri I believe we have destroyed so many animal species because of their land not being protected! It's time to protect what little they have left! I would truly not be the same person if I wasn't able to hike in our forest's. I see enough concrete, and smell enough bad air in the city! Please lets protect our beautiful wildlife, and National Forests.
16,258  11:50 am PDT, Aug 26 Anonymous What would this world be like without wild lands? So much beauty would evaporate without them and we would be left with millions of golden arches and other grotesque signs instead. There is nothing quite like nature and its graceful wonder. We have no right to treat everything else on this earth as though it were here to serve us. We kill, maim, and destroy with little conscience. Our responsibility towards wildlife should be that of stewardship not destruction.
16,257  10:11 am PDT, Aug 26 Anonymous    
16,256  8:14 am PDT, Aug 26 Janice Sulwen Pride I am sick and tired of the foolishness that the rich have to be able to get their greedy mitts on everything and "use" it until naught but a barren wastland is left, and all for a temporary benefit to their pocketbooks. A)The rest of us can go there and get away from all the damned advertisments, and the other pollution. B)The preservation of species is necessary. Aside from the practical fact that we haven't even catalogued every species out there, our own survival is in doubt if wildlife can't be left in peace. The notion that we can live without them is arrogant and shortsighted.
16,255  6:30 am PDT, Aug 26 sherry salomon    
16,254  6:29 am PDT, Aug 26 Anonymous They are a non-renewable resource: when they're gone, they're gone. In our materalistic world we need to remember to provide for our spiritual, as well as physical needs; and these wilderness areas speak to our spirit as nothing else can. They are infinitely valuable to us, and as such, should be preserved. Our national parks provide access to the beauty of the outdoors to many people who would otherwise be barred. When developers are allowed to exploit the land, inevitably it is the wealthiest people who benefit, who buy up the most beautiful places for their own privte use. Every citizen of this country should have at least some access to such places. As for wildlife: that is an integral part of our environment - each species is important in it's own right, many times in ways we don't fully comprehend until the natural order has been disturbed, and the damge is done.
16,253  6:17 am PDT, Aug 26 Anonymous    
16,252  6:16 am PDT, Aug 26 Anonymous    
16,251  5:55 am PDT, Aug 26 Noelle Ensign    
16,250  5:01 am PDT, Aug 26 Jeanette Edwards Because they're are free from man's destruction so far, but man in his greed will destroy this planet. Leave the best and last for the future perhaps other generations will take better care of the world they live in. If we leave them anything to care for!!!! Money for a few, does not mean destruction for all!!!!!! They are all that's left that man has not wiped out yet!
16,249  11:48 pm PDT, Aug 25 lm strouts Once they are gone, they are gone forever. They represent a small fraction of what once was.
16,248  11:01 pm PDT, Aug 25 kay kumke    
16,247  9:34 pm PDT, Aug 25 Anonymous we and the future generations need them to survive. it is our only "pure" connection left with earth.
16,246  8:55 pm PDT, Aug 25 Anonymous God created the environment. People should not destroy the environment through greed or ignorance.  
16,245  8:54 pm PDT, Aug 25 Irene Kitzman MD    
16,244  7:25 pm PDT, Aug 25 Larry Franklin they're all the REAL world we have left! Save SOMETHING from being destroyed by man! they protect REAL, true nature and beauty. NOTHING is more important than that! Man is a product OF nature, NOT it's owner!
16,243  7:22 pm PDT, Aug 25 Callie Reynolds Our Parks and Nationl forest along with the Little bit of Wilderness areas we have left need to be off limits to corrupt greed and distruction. Period. Hands off public lands.....these places are all we have left in a world that is getting smaller everyday. There is more then one species in the world and all species have a right to exist---live without fear. In a perfect world. For now we need to be husbandmen to what we have left for the generations to come.
16,242  7:21 pm PDT, Aug 25 Anonymous I care about this land and want to our future gentarations to come to enjoy the same land we enjoy. to preserve our land
16,241  6:29 pm PDT, Aug 25 Tricia French    

.>Block Assault on Wilderness
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

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