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Stop the stealth attack on our National Parks!

Target: Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior
Sponsored by: The Wilderness Society

The Bush administration has launched yet another stealth attack on America's most treasured wild places - our National Parks.

Grand Canyon National Park. Photo courtesy of the National Parks Service

Their plan would dramatically reduce protections for our parks, which could lead to increased off-road vehicle use, additional commercialization, smog and other forms of degradation.

These changes could erode the look and feel of places like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon. We only have until February 18 to weigh in on this outrageous proposal.

Take action today by signing The Wilderness Society's petition to Interior Secretary Gale Norton. Be sure to include a personal statement about why our National Parks matter to you - your own thoughts will make your comment much stronger!

deadline: 2-18-2006
goal: 10,000

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Dear Secretary Norton,

As a person who treasures and visits our national park system to enjoy its beauty and history, I am strongly opposed to the effort now underway to drastically change the policies that protect our national parks.

The Interior Department has offered no credible reason for the drastic revisions now under consideration and I believe that is because no practical need exists.

These sweeping changes will abandon the long-standing pledge of our government to its citizens that the units of our national park system will be managed in such a way as to preserve them unimpaired for future generations. In fact, that bedrock promise, from which all else ought to flow, is replaced with proposed revisions that will allow for development and commercialization.

Under these new policies, park managers are encouraged to allow activities that directly conflict with the mission and long time management of the park service.

I urge you to abandon this ill-advised proposal. We love our parks. And over the years we have been justifiably confident that our parks will endure, even as politics shift, even as administrations come and go. Please do not be the first Interior Secretary ever to betray that promise.

Sincerely,

[Your name]
[Your address]

We signed the “Stop the stealth attack on our National Parks!” petition!

# 50:

6:54 pm PST, Feb 1, Name not displayed, Florida
Our National Leaders seem to be behind the wheel of the Big Yellow Taxi. Why do they insist on destroying are park lands. Yes, pretty soon, the only place that one can view a tree will be in a museum.

# 49:

6:52 pm PST, Feb 1, Sarvo Pama, Illinois

# 48:

6:49 pm PST, Feb 1, Lawrence Smith, BA, Georgia
"For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you did not take me in, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me. Then they also will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then will he answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me." (Matthew 25:42-45) Contained within every evil(greedy profiteering republican) act are the seeds of its own destruction. Adhere to the teachings of Jesus, as contained in The Urantia Book, or else suffer the consequences. It IS that simple. TRUTH has been spoken to power, Peace will prevail. Buck Fush! SUPPORT U.S. TROOPS, AND GLOBAL PEACE AND ECONOMIC STABILITY, AS WELL AS ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY... IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY NOW!

# 47:

6:49 pm PST, Feb 1, Nyla Wilkinson, New York

# 46:

6:48 pm PST, Feb 1, Lynn B Price, California
They are the last great areas for wildlife and plant life...the rest have been demolished!

# 45:

6:30 pm PST, Feb 1, Mike Audette, Washington

# 44:

6:29 pm PST, Feb 1, Aimee Wilson, Arkansas

# 43:

6:27 pm PST, Feb 1, Sylvia Negrete, California

# 42:

6:25 pm PST, Feb 1, Nicole Rae, Georgia

# 41:

6:24 pm PST, Feb 1, Randy Boogren, Minnesota
National Parks are not ours, they belong to our children, grandchildren and all that go after us. Why can there be now TRUST with our national trusts like the park system.

# 40:

6:19 pm PST, Feb 1, Jessica Yeo, California

# 39:

6:18 pm PST, Feb 1, Carol Bischoff, Netherlands

# 38:

6:04 pm PST, Feb 1, Tiffany Smith, Indiana

# 37:

5:57 pm PST, Feb 1, Katie Mauritz, Oregon
Bush, Bush, Bush. What are you THINKING!?! National Parks are a place of beautiful nature, and should be preserved as well as possible so that people can keep enjoying them as the years go on. If you ruin them in anyway, that part of the park will be gone forever! Please help protect our National Parks, Bush. It's what's important. Why can't you see that?

# 36:

5:53 pm PST, Feb 1, Barbara Martin, Tennessee

# 35:

5:50 pm PST, Feb 1, Kenneth Miller, Arkansas

# 34:

5:36 pm PST, Feb 1, Chandra Patel, Tennessee

# 33:

5:35 pm PST, Feb 1, Name not displayed, California

# 32:

5:11 pm PST, Feb 1, Tom Farrow, North Carolina

# 31:

5:01 pm PST, Feb 1, Anna Asbury, Kentucky

# 30:

4:51 pm PST, Feb 1, Terry O'Neal, Virginia

# 29:

4:49 pm PST, Feb 1, Shirley Semple, Delaware

# 28:

4:48 pm PST, Feb 1, Brian Baxter, Florida

# 27:

4:41 pm PST, Feb 1, Paul Uecker, Minnesota

# 26:

4:17 pm PST, Feb 1, Fred Fall, New Jersey

# 25:

4:00 pm PST, Feb 1, Wendy Hojohn, New York

# 24:

3:55 pm PST, Feb 1, Alessandra Reyes, Washington

# 23:

3:29 pm PST, Feb 1, Dana Stewart, Missouri
The parks are beautiful and God put them there, leave them alone.

# 22:

2:50 pm PST, Feb 1, Amberr Beal, Massachusetts

# 21:

2:24 pm PST, Feb 1, Barbara Chapman, California

# 20:

2:17 pm PST, Feb 1, Jessica Ebel, Ohio

# 19:

2:09 pm PST, Feb 1, Greg Humphrey, Ohio

# 18:

2:04 pm PST, Feb 1, Charles Mcclure, Indiana

# 17:

2:03 pm PST, Feb 1, John Dziak, Pennsylvania
My parents had the good fortune a few years ago to visit Everglades National Park. From their description of it, it sounds like one of the most amazing natural places on earth. The thought of harm coming to it makes me extremely upset and sad.

# 16:

2:02 pm PST, Feb 1, Pamela Mcclure, Indiana

# 15:

1:59 pm PST, Feb 1, Yarsabar Lindrmar, Canada
NATURE OWNS YOU!!!!! (plus without nature we die)

# 14:

1:51 pm PST, Feb 1, Justine Smith, Pennsylvania

# 13:

1:37 pm PST, Feb 1, Judith L. Hamilton, South Carolina
Greed and politics are becoming synonymous. These parks have been around longer than Man. They are a source of education and inspiration and should be left alone. Must we possess everything?

# 12:

1:34 pm PST, Feb 1, Name not displayed, Canada

# 11:

1:01 pm PST, Feb 1, Alan Carroll, Ireland

# 10:

12:59 pm PST, Feb 1, Nikki Vaughan, Utah

# 9:

12:41 pm PST, Feb 1, Jenny Beier, Wisconsin
I have not yet been able to visit a National Park and would like them to still be in good shape when I do.

# 8:

12:24 pm PST, Feb 1, Evelyn Krueger, Illinois

# 7:

12:06 pm PST, Feb 1, Diane A. Nelson, Montana

# 6:

11:58 am PST, Feb 1, David Dunkleberger, Pennsylvania

# 5:

11:20 am PST, Feb 1, Margaret Baylor, Florida

# 4:

11:16 am PST, Feb 1, Valerie Lurie, New Hampshire

# 3:

11:10 am PST, Feb 1, Richard Artley, Idaho
They are still on land owned by 297 million Americans and not turned over to corporations to "manage" for large amounts of money.

# 2:

11:00 am PST, Feb 1, Wendy Horn, California

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