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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!

# 11,850:

4:33 pm PST, Feb 22, David Massie, Washington

# 11,849:

4:31 pm PST, Feb 22, Catherine Hamel, Florida
Leave our parks alone! But DO continue to protect them from culprits who would ravage and destroy their natural beauty; as well as hurt the wildlife that live thereupon.

# 11,848:

4:28 pm PST, Feb 22, Michael Skidmore, Illinois

# 11,847:

4:20 pm PST, Feb 22, Beth Olsen, Arizona

# 11,846:

4:20 pm PST, Feb 22, Denise Tachoid, Michigan

# 11,845:

4:09 pm PST, Feb 22, Chikako Hoshino Powers, Hawaii
The land need to be protect and preserve for our generations. NP help and understand for many different level of people. It can see how to live human and other.

# 11,844:

4:08 pm PST, Feb 22, Rachelle Jandreau, New Hampshire

# 11,843:

4:01 pm PST, Feb 22, Bethany MacKenzie, California

# 11,842:

3:59 pm PST, Feb 22, Candice Washington, New York

# 11,841:

3:54 pm PST, Feb 22, Elaine Williams , New York
We have given away too many of our natural treasures to large companies and ambitious developers. It has to stop...NOW.

# 11,840:

3:54 pm PST, Feb 22, Sam Acevedo, New York

# 11,839:

3:51 pm PST, Feb 22, Howard Foster, Virginia

# 11,838:

3:45 pm PST, Feb 22, Sue Martin, California

# 11,837:

3:30 pm PST, Feb 22, Marigrace Furby, Ohio

# 11,836:

3:26 pm PST, Feb 22, Bonny Branch, Virginia

# 11,835:

3:19 pm PST, Feb 22, Frank Caffrey, New Jersey

# 11,834:

3:11 pm PST, Feb 22, Laura Branch, Colorado
I am weary of the Carlyle Group investments. Yes, you want power and control. Can you really afford the backlash?

# 11,833:

3:10 pm PST, Feb 22, Lucinda Inzunza, Nevada

# 11,832:

3:09 pm PST, Feb 22, Susan Turner, Illinois

# 11,831:

3:05 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Brazil

# 11,830:

3:03 pm PST, Feb 22, Cheryl Bowden-renna, California

# 11,829:

2:47 pm PST, Feb 22, Marie Bonsaint, Maine

# 11,828:

2:41 pm PST, Feb 22, Virginia Carlson , New York

# 11,827:

2:38 pm PST, Feb 22, KARI HUSTON, Oregon

# 11,826:

2:34 pm PST, Feb 22, Doug Myers, Alaska

# 11,825:

2:24 pm PST, Feb 22, Barbara Zatrine, Washington
I am unwilling to give up this part of our national heritage without a fight.

# 11,824:

2:22 pm PST, Feb 22, Debby Swanson, Rhode Island
This is Bush's quality of life. A life riddled with pollution!! I beg our politicians, if they have any integrity or appreciation for the future generations, put a stop to this. PROTECTING PARKS PROTECTS OUR HEALTH. Life is cyclical.

# 11,823:

2:15 pm PST, Feb 22, Rose Gonzales, New Mexico

# 11,822:

1:58 pm PST, Feb 22, Ane Holm, Denmark

# 11,821:

1:56 pm PST, Feb 22, Charles Broyles, Oregon

# 11,820:

1:46 pm PST, Feb 22, Mark Lungo, Ohio

# 11,819:

1:44 pm PST, Feb 22, Carmine Gallicchio, New Jersey
the one thing that we can actually feel good about our tax dollars going to good use

# 11,818:

1:39 pm PST, Feb 22, Afsaneh Mostajab, California

# 11,817:

1:37 pm PST, Feb 22, Deleen Marie, Ohio

# 11,816:

1:33 pm PST, Feb 22, Joyce Doughty, Tennessee

# 11,815:

1:29 pm PST, Feb 22, Sunny Dey, New Jersey

# 11,814:

1:28 pm PST, Feb 22, Cher Johnson, Minnesota

# 11,813:

1:26 pm PST, Feb 22, Susan Llorca, Connecticut
Our national parks are a treasured resource, a precious legacy of the richness of our native environment and biology. It is a travesty and a national disgrace that there are those unprincipled enough to trade on our heritage.

# 11,812:

1:25 pm PST, Feb 22, Nina Hauptman, California

# 11,811:

1:16 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Colorado

# 11,810:

1:06 pm PST, Feb 22, Justin Chatten-Brown, California

# 11,809:

1:06 pm PST, Feb 22, Deborah Bernardy, Illinois
I lived in Cody, Wyoming for two years. The greatest joy of that two years was to be able to drive to Yellowstone regularly and take in the majesty of that beautiful place God created. This is a place that mUST be protected. Human beings, in all their supidity have encroached on almost every bit of open land that ever existed in this country. We need to preserve some open space, we need to preserve some animal and plant life. Our national parks need to be left alone!

# 11,808:

1:04 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Washington
Tell Bush and his friends to sell there family land and stop selling our great American Places. These lands should remain untouched period!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# 11,807:

1:03 pm PST, Feb 22, Adam Silver, Connecticut
When Teddy Roosevelt established our great national parks, his intent was that they would be available for future generations. Opening up our great national assets to greedy developers and polluters is not what Americans want. Keep the parks in their natural glory.

# 11,806:

1:03 pm PST, Feb 22, Vincent Longo, New York

# 11,805:

1:02 pm PST, Feb 22, Stephanie Hausdoerffer, Colorado

# 11,804:

12:51 pm PST, Feb 22, Linda Fleeger, Pennsylvania

# 11,803:

12:47 pm PST, Feb 22, Buffy Reilly, New Jersey

# 11,802:

12:38 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Iowa

# 11,801:

12:35 pm PST, Feb 22, Brendan Vahey, Colorado
Wilderness is a taste of what the Earth was before the industrial revolution...its so untamed and raw...humans have taken over nearly every place on Earth...free open space is necessary for countless experiences that are rare in this consumer driven pollution, trash filled concrete jungles!

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