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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!

# 150:

9:30 am PST, Feb 2, Norma Stewart, Oregon

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9:29 am PST, Feb 2, Ann Jenkins, Georgia
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# 148:

9:18 am PST, Feb 2, Name not displayed, Missouri
We are lucky to be able to enjoy the gifts that Mother Nature has given us. It is our job to take care of those gifts so that they can be enjoyed by the next generation. We can not do that if they are destroyed. Quote: "The Earth was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."

# 147:

9:02 am PST, Feb 2, Jack Armstrong, Tennessee

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9:02 am PST, Feb 2, Cathe Romano, California

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8:51 am PST, Feb 2, Name not displayed, Wisconsin
They are some of the most beautiful areas left in our countrly and should continue to be fully protected, especially from the dammage that off road vehicles cause.

# 144:

8:42 am PST, Feb 2, Diana Moon, Florida
Our parks Our Treasure to appreciate and protect.

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8:42 am PST, Feb 2, Ann Brown, Oregon

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8:42 am PST, Feb 2, Virgil Butler, Arkansas

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8:31 am PST, Feb 2, Timothy Brown, Washington

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8:22 am PST, Feb 2, Vanessa Sayre, Ohio

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8:19 am PST, Feb 2, Jennifer Lynde, Massachusetts

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8:12 am PST, Feb 2, Shelley Errington Nicholson, New Hampshire

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8:04 am PST, Feb 2, Catherine Buchanan, Ohio
the national park system belongs to all persons who live in the united states. millions of people visit the parks every year, including myself, to enjoy the beauty that each park holds. the parks were NOT set aside so that they may be raped in the future by industry. are you considering to rip off the people of the united states by raping all the resources that are in the parks that belong to the people? who is going to get the profit from the resources? i know i am definitely NOT going to see a return on this, so why should i support you stealing from me?

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7:53 am PST, Feb 2, Pamela Vandi, Louisiana
I have not visited OUR national parks, but others I know have. I want OUR national parks to be NATURAL when I visit them. Please don't ruin the parks. Do NOT raid OUR national treasures for short-term profit for YOURSELF. DON'T BE A THIEF.

# 135:

7:35 am PST, Feb 2, Carmen Mazon Costa, California
We need nature to live !!

# 134:

7:33 am PST, Feb 2, Derek Wilcox, United Kingdom

# 133:

7:31 am PST, Feb 2, Thomas Pirovano, Switzerland

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7:17 am PST, Feb 2, Matthew Blaisdell, Texas

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6:56 am PST, Feb 2, Angela Jardine, United Kingdom

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6:48 am PST, Feb 2, Joanne Ferguson, Ohio

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6:48 am PST, Feb 2, Patrice Mallery, Pennsylvania
Save our National Parks so the future generations can enjoy and experience the beauty.

# 128:

6:46 am PST, Feb 2, David Blakley, Missouri

# 127:

6:43 am PST, Feb 2, Mary Beth Wilson, Massachusetts
Once our parks are gone, it's too late for regrets. Save them now for our future generations.

# 126:

6:38 am PST, Feb 2, Amin Amin, Egypt

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6:35 am PST, Feb 2, Molly Heidemann, Indiana

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6:26 am PST, Feb 2, Bruce Combs, Virginia
My wife and I want our grandchildren -- and yours, too! -- to have at least as much opportunity as we do to enjoy nature and all its varied and wondrous wildlife all over the world. Fortunately for us, we can afford that kind of travel, but no amount of money can replace what has already disappeared or been destroyed. The world simply cannot afford to lose any more of its marvelous creatures or their precious habitat.

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6:19 am PST, Feb 2, Toni Sokoloski, Massachusetts

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6:18 am PST, Feb 2, Char Shumate, Arkansas
This lands belong to us, as Americans, we paid for them with our tax dollars. This administration is hell bent on destroying everything that ever "was". Remember this at election time and what party is slowly destroying our parks and national forests.

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6:12 am PST, Feb 2, Robin Johnson, North Carolina

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6:11 am PST, Feb 2, Sandra Nunes, Massachusetts

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6:11 am PST, Feb 2, Brenda Breckenridge, Arkansas

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6:06 am PST, Feb 2, Rajesh Shetty, India

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6:05 am PST, Feb 2, Name not displayed, Utah

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6:01 am PST, Feb 2, Dakota Doucette, Massachusetts

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5:54 am PST, Feb 2, Walter McMillan, Alabama

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5:30 am PST, Feb 2, Bonnie Bell, Alabama

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5:25 am PST, Feb 2, Name not displayed, Netherlands

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5:25 am PST, Feb 2, John Beard, California

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5:20 am PST, Feb 2, Michael Williams, Texas

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5:03 am PST, Feb 2, Brad James, Maryland

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4:41 am PST, Feb 2, Elizabeth Acuna, Texas

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4:19 am PST, Feb 2, Michaelene Pederson, Virginia

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4:17 am PST, Feb 2, Cindy Baide, Florida

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3:51 am PST, Feb 2, Christine Turk, Ohio
They are one of the last places on earth that one can visit and truly get a breath of fresh air!

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3:48 am PST, Feb 2, Sophie Leclerc, Canada

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3:28 am PST, Feb 2, Bonnie Margay Burke, California

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3:26 am PST, Feb 2, Paul Ernest, Virginia

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3:16 am PST, Feb 2, Marla Levine, Ohio

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3:04 am PST, Feb 2, Name not displayed, United Kingdom

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