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Save America's Last Wild Forests
Target: Chief Kimbell, U.S. Forest Service; Congress (cc)Sponsored by: Heritage Forests Campaign
As it heads out the door, the Bush administration is handing the keys to our national forests over to the mining, timber and oil and gas industries. Its targets are the crown jewels of our national forest system -- millions of acres of pristine landscapes in Alaska's Tongass Rainforest and Idaho's Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Now the Administration has set its sights on Colorado's Rocky Mountains, where it is moving forward rapidly with a rulemaking that would remove the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule, the popular policy that protects the last one-third of the nation's most pristine forests for future generations to enjoy.
If adopted, it would dramatically increase logging and road-building in 4.4 million acres of Colorado's best backcountry, while giving the green light to roughly 100 new oil and gas drilling projects, impacting valuable fish and wildlife habitat and outdoor recreation opportunities.
Your help is needed now! Please sign our letter to stop this 11th hour effort to open Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Forests to more drilling, mining, logging and road-building. We encourage you to include your own personal comments to increase the impact of your letter.
It takes decades sometimes more for a forest to recover from man-made destruction. That is why we must carefully consider every encroachment into our beautiful natural lands. PROTECT AMERICANS HERITAGE.
This environment and the creatures who live here are meant to be here and their survival helps us survive by keeping forests intact, cleaning our air, and minimizing global warming. The only reason the planet Earth is habitable is becasue of the life-saving effects of the plants and trees in forests like these. Roads kill animals, people, and forests.
The Forest Service should be about preserving our few, last wild places, not destroying them. We'll have nothing left.
The vaajority of National Forest lands are already open to many uses. Let's save the existing slivers of land (particularly in CO) from the extractive industries. Americans want Roadless Areas on the NFs to reamin exactly that - roadless.
Please protect this important wildlife habitat.
America's wild forests are worth saving because forests are important.
Soon we will have no natural habitat, for it will all be replaced by man-made buildings, homes, businesses, etc; however, more of these things are not needed. Please, remember we are not the sole owners of our earth, for we have other animals cohabitating here, also. How horrible it would feel to have some animals come take over my home & land, and leave me powerless to do anything about it. How tremendously heartbroken that must feel like.
These are places of great beauty and quiet. In this noisy, car-driven world, we need them to get away from the noise and polution.
Please save what little is left of our wild areas