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Help Protect America's Wetlands

Target: The President of the United States
Sponsored by: The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

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!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 80,000
 

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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.
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We signed the “Help Protect America's Wetlands” petition!
# 23,100:
10:43 am PDT, May 11, Courtney Vanasse, Florida
# 23,099:
10:43 am PDT, May 11, Susan Carter, California
# 23,098:
10:38 am PDT, May 11, Karen Gillum, Washington
# 23,097:
10:28 am PDT, May 11, Harry Drake, California
Wetlands are going away, be nice to still have some around when my grandkids are grown.
# 23,096:
10:24 am PDT, May 11, DeShan Kann, Texas
all Nature is important to us, it provides clean air and a habitat for many animals and insects that are important to the cycle.
# 23,095:
10:16 am PDT, May 11, Dessa Whitlow, Georgia
# 23,094:
10:15 am PDT, May 11, Jodi Swanson, Washington
# 23,093:
10:12 am PDT, May 11, Barbara Shaw, Missouri
I think developer's have destroyed enough of the natural beauty in our country. I also think that eminent domain should be abolished forever, steel and concrete cannot replace the natural beauty that nature provide's.
# 23,092:
10:12 am PDT, May 11, Judith Ann Gilman, Missouri
# 23,091:
10:11 am PDT, May 11, Dorthy Chase, Oregon
# 23,090:
10:10 am PDT, May 11, Emmy Dudley, Georgia
# 23,089:
10:08 am PDT, May 11, Elaine Wittert, California
# 23,088:
10:07 am PDT, May 11, Sara Chetkowski, Pennsylvania
# 23,087:
10:05 am PDT, May 11, Judy Nichols, North Carolina
# 23,086:
9:56 am PDT, May 11, Lisa Archer, California
# 23,085:
9:49 am PDT, May 11, Annmarie Little, Washington
# 23,084:
9:48 am PDT, May 11, Karin Sahlman, Sweden
# 23,083:
9:47 am PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, Oklahoma
# 23,082:
9:44 am PDT, May 11, Carol Gosselink, Missouri
As we are the stewards of this beautiful gift, Planet Earth, I want the U.S. to lead the way in sustainability. Please protect our wetlands now!
# 23,081:
9:36 am PDT, May 11, Kelly RODRIGUEZ, New York
To keep this Earth as best as we can because we don't have another one handy.
# 23,080:
9:35 am PDT, May 11, Kyra Brown, Illinois
# 23,079:
9:33 am PDT, May 11, Maria Aicardi, California
# 23,078:
9:29 am PDT, May 11, Brenda Bowman, New Jersey
The wetlands are an ecological necessity, such as is all of nature's habitats...stop killing them for greed.
# 23,077:
9:28 am PDT, May 11, Liz Peng, New York
# 23,076:
9:22 am PDT, May 11, Lorena Silva, Mexico
# 23,075:
9:19 am PDT, May 11, Louise Holton, Maryland
# 23,074:
9:19 am PDT, May 11, Lisa Land, Florida
# 23,073:
9:13 am PDT, May 11, Johanna Gyuro, New York
# 23,072:
9:10 am PDT, May 11, Susan Campbell, California
The wetlands are part of the balance of nature that is needed for all of us to survive.
# 23,071:
9:10 am PDT, May 11, Joyce Pendleton, California
Wetlands are home to many animals that we need to keep in our food chain for survival, not to mention that they keep our environment stable. Stop destroying them.
# 23,070:
9:09 am PDT, May 11, Ms Kirsten Speer, Arizona
Wetlands are crucially important to all creatures, including mankind! They need to be protected and sheltered, otherwise all of the creatures in them, as well as the water and the necessary things we depend on, will be GONE!
# 23,069:
9:09 am PDT, May 11, Aaeron Robb, Maryland
# 23,068:
9:04 am PDT, May 11, Juliet Noor, North Carolina
# 23,067:
8:55 am PDT, May 11, Claudia Potter, Washington
# 23,066:
8:54 am PDT, May 11, Emily Wallace, Indiana
# 23,065:
8:39 am PDT, May 11, Joshua Goodman, Missouri
# 23,064:
8:37 am PDT, May 11, Vanessa Beach, Maine
Wetlands are where moose like to hang out to get away from flies, frogs sing there, herons and egrets fish there, and wetlands look a lot nicer than Home Depots ar WalMarts.
# 23,063:
8:31 am PDT, May 11, Kathleen Donzelli, Illinois
# 23,062:
8:30 am PDT, May 11, Kristine M. Udall, California
# 23,061:
8:25 am PDT, May 11, Jefferson Nolan, California
# 23,060:
8:25 am PDT, May 11, Mary Kellow, Florida
i live in florida and we are verfy dry so save what we have left
# 23,059:
8:24 am PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, Florida
# 23,058:
8:22 am PDT, May 11, Art Meeder, South Carolina
# 23,057:
8:21 am PDT, May 11, Kendria Byrd, South Carolina
# 23,056:
8:16 am PDT, May 11, Teme Levbarg, North Carolina
# 23,055:
8:15 am PDT, May 11, Karen Shovein, Michigan
# 23,054:
8:15 am PDT, May 11, Christi Oates, Georgia
Destruction of any part of the earth results ultimately in the destruction of man - please let us live!
# 23,053:
8:13 am PDT, May 11, Eva Lightfoot, Maryland
# 23,052:
8:08 am PDT, May 11, Ruthann Yeaton, Illinois
Because I care
# 23,051:
8:07 am PDT, May 11, Monica Corbett, California
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