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President Obama, Please Protect the Grand Canyon
Target: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar; CC: Congress
Sponsored by: Pew Environment Group
Sponsored by: Pew Environment Group
Recently, President Barack Obama visited the Grand Canyon, America's most iconic landmark. But uranium mining within miles of its majestic rim threatens to tarnish this timeless treasure. The nation still has on the books a 19th century law that allows mining in and around dozens of national parks and most national forestlands. Signed by President Ulysses S. Grant with prospectors and pack mules in mind, the 1872 Mining Law allows gold, uranium and other hardrock metals to be taken from most western public lands almost for free and with few restrictions or cleanup requirements.
The Obama administration recently took emergency action to halt temporarily new claimstaking around Grand Canyon National Park. Now, its Department of Interior is asking the public whether mining should be prohibited on a long-term basis around the park's boundaries.
Thank the Obama administration for taking emergency action and offer your support for the proposed 20-year "withdrawal" of 1 million acres around Grand Canyon National Park from new mining claims. Ask Secretary Salazar to protect our parks and forests on a permanent basis by working with Congress to modernize the 1872 Mining Law.
The Obama administration recently took emergency action to halt temporarily new claimstaking around Grand Canyon National Park. Now, its Department of Interior is asking the public whether mining should be prohibited on a long-term basis around the park's boundaries.
Thank the Obama administration for taking emergency action and offer your support for the proposed 20-year "withdrawal" of 1 million acres around Grand Canyon National Park from new mining claims. Ask Secretary Salazar to protect our parks and forests on a permanent basis by working with Congress to modernize the 1872 Mining Law.
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Susel Perez, Iowa
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Linda Hurley, New York
Public assets are part of public trust, and any privatization or profiteering are theft from the People now and future. Unless it is to compensate native Americans...
Public assets are part of public trust, and any privatization or profiteering are theft from the People now and future. Unless it is to compensate native Americans...
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David Sundland, Washington D.C.
I have spent enough time in the Grand Canyon to recognize that it is an incredibly unique place and that there is nothing that mankind can do to it save detract from it. Some places on this planet are far too precious to allow any alteration. The Grand Canyon is among those places. Yet even the most destitute of places should not be subjected to the 1872 Mining Law - as a taxpayer, I would expect to be justly compensated for the exploitation of even the most desolate of places. To do otherwise would be to steal from every citizen, present and future, of this country.
I have spent enough time in the Grand Canyon to recognize that it is an incredibly unique place and that there is nothing that mankind can do to it save detract from it. Some places on this planet are far too precious to allow any alteration. The Grand Canyon is among those places. Yet even the most destitute of places should not be subjected to the 1872 Mining Law - as a taxpayer, I would expect to be justly compensated for the exploitation of even the most desolate of places. To do otherwise would be to steal from every citizen, present and future, of this country.
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Adam Garcia, California
The idea of desecrating one of Americas' most important & recognized monuments is surely a no brainer for representitives
The idea of desecrating one of Americas' most important & recognized monuments is surely a no brainer for representitives
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