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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!

# 11,900:

8:42 pm PST, Feb 22, Andrea Collins, Montana

# 11,899:

8:39 pm PST, Feb 22, Virginia Phillips, Nevada

# 11,898:

8:29 pm PST, Feb 22, Kathy Kepner, Ohio
God lent this beautiful land to us to take care of for future generations. Please keep these parks from being ruined.

# 11,897:

8:22 pm PST, Feb 22, Corey Hale, California

# 11,896:

8:22 pm PST, Feb 22, Jimmy Jones, Georgia

# 11,895:

8:12 pm PST, Feb 22, Colleen Duarte, California

# 11,894:

8:08 pm PST, Feb 22, Dorothy C. Schultz, Arizona
As a westerner, I grew up in the Shadow of White Sands and Carlsbad Caverns and Bandalier. I have been to many of our Parks and want the same and more for my grandchildren.

# 11,893:

8:02 pm PST, Feb 22, Alan Schein, Washington

# 11,892:

8:00 pm PST, Feb 22, Marisa Faraldo, Florida

# 11,891:

7:43 pm PST, Feb 22, Dawn Marie Dee, California

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7:40 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, California

# 11,889:

7:37 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Missouri

# 11,888:

7:32 pm PST, Feb 22, Jeff Cox, Washington

# 11,887:

7:22 pm PST, Feb 22, Dawn Marie Dee, California

# 11,886:

7:21 pm PST, Feb 22, Ashley Raymond, Delaware

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7:16 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Illinois

# 11,884:

7:14 pm PST, Feb 22, Ellen McIntosh, Vermont

# 11,883:

7:11 pm PST, Feb 22, Kristi Williams, New York

# 11,882:

7:09 pm PST, Feb 22, Michele Schneider, Ohio

# 11,881:

7:08 pm PST, Feb 22, Justina Fedorchuk, New York

# 11,880:

6:55 pm PST, Feb 22, Gail Lang, Oklahoma

# 11,879:

6:52 pm PST, Feb 22, Linda Griffin, Oregon

# 11,878:

6:46 pm PST, Feb 22, Mary Levan, New Jersey

# 11,877:

6:43 pm PST, Feb 22, Alex Clayton, Texas
I've been visiting our wonderful National Park System for years, and am always amazed and rejuvinated by the experience. You can't put a price on that - period!

# 11,876:

6:31 pm PST, Feb 22, Stacey Neathery, Virginia

# 11,875:

6:26 pm PST, Feb 22, Pamela Bearce-lopez, New Jersey

# 11,874:

6:26 pm PST, Feb 22, Jeffery Ewing, Washington

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6:24 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, California

# 11,872:

6:23 pm PST, Feb 22, Lynn Autumn, California
Please put compassion, and the quality of life of future generations above profits and greed. Listen to the will of the people.

# 11,871:

6:21 pm PST, Feb 22, Linda Moore, Florida

# 11,870:

6:20 pm PST, Feb 22, Sarah Brady, California

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6:13 pm PST, Feb 22, Irucka Embry, Tennessee

# 11,868:

6:08 pm PST, Feb 22, Samantha Hlavaty, Texas

# 11,867:

5:57 pm PST, Feb 22, Sara Evans, California
Please allow my child and their children see the beautiful world as God created it.

# 11,866:

5:49 pm PST, Feb 22, Rita Hicks, Michigan

# 11,865:

5:48 pm PST, Feb 22, Frank Laporeiii, Wisconsin

# 11,864:

5:40 pm PST, Feb 22, A G, New Jersey

# 11,863:

5:34 pm PST, Feb 22, Chessie Thacher, New York

# 11,862:

5:32 pm PST, Feb 22, Thom Woodard, California
National Parks keep people in this country sane. It's important for National Parks to have strong protections.

# 11,861:

5:31 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, New York

# 11,860:

5:31 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Illinois
FOR ALL IS UNDER THE EYES OF GOD!!!!

# 11,859:

5:30 pm PST, Feb 22, Delvin Abbey, New York
WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO GO OUT INTO PRISTINE WILDERNESS AND TAKE ALL THEIR NOISY DESTRUCTIVE PLAYTHINGS WITH THEM? Of course these are the same persons who leave all their trash and garbage behind for others to take care of.

# 11,858:

5:26 pm PST, Feb 22, Toni Rubin, California

# 11,857:

5:04 pm PST, Feb 22, Shantee Jaganshi, Idaho
National Parks are basically the only place lumberers cannot tear down the trees! Why destroy the National Parks when we have already destroyed the rest of the world's parks?

# 11,856:

4:56 pm PST, Feb 22, Amy Ryker-Hibbard, Oklahoma

# 11,855:

4:55 pm PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Washington
in our growing urban and sub-urban development, wild areas are more and more necesarry for realzation and communing.

# 11,854:

4:49 pm PST, Feb 22, Christina Hardy, Oregon

# 11,853:

4:41 pm PST, Feb 22, Anjelica Carrillo, California

# 11,852:

4:41 pm PST, Feb 22, Sarah Pierce, New York
It is vitsal that we protect our nastional parks. If we relax the protections, this land may not be around for future generations to enjoy.

# 11,851:

4:40 pm PST, Feb 22, Katie Curry, Canada
Our forests aren't for sale!!!! Email this to everyone you know!!!

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