From the EPA to fighting fires to protecting wildlife on wildlife refuges, our nation's environmental needs have been significantly shortchanged in recent years.
Under President Bush, budgets for public lands were so low that the Forest Service had to eviscerate programs for wildlife and research in order to fight wildfires, and some Wildlife Refuges had to close their doors for lack of funding. Critically important climate research needs went begging, year after year.
The Senate will vote soon on the Interior Department's budget in 2010. Please sign the letter below to urge adequate funding levels for federal environmental programs that have been on starvation diets for far too long.
We took action on “Restore Conservation Funding for Our National Parks”!
# 9,790:
1:20 am PST, Feb 2,Richard Hollister, Arizona
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9:54 pm PST, Jan 28,Michelle Van Soelen, South Africa
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7:35 pm PST, Jan 27,Joanne Cannon, United Kingdom
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11:36 am PST, Jan 27,Tonya Butts, New York
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8:02 am PST, Jan 24,Mathias Rodriguez, New York
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12:59 pm PST, Jan 20,Julia Maeder, Germany
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11:53 pm PST, Jan 15,Sarah Luchetta, California
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8:41 pm PST, Jan 13,Doris Telles, California
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7:53 am PST, Jan 10,Asli Gedik, Germany
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12:00 am PST, Jan 6,Georgia Karagianni, Florida
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7:09 am PST, Dec 30,Ghazale Jamsheed, Massachusetts
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5:24 pm PST, Dec 29,Name not displayed, California
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2:08 am PST, Dec 24,Carrie L., Canada
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3:52 pm PST, Dec 21,Adriana Guevara, Colombia
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10:04 am PST, Dec 21,Shaktiva Irahs, Netherlands
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9:39 am PST, Dec 20,Alexandra MAUVE, France
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9:01 am PST, Dec 19,Sandra Denise Wiersma, Netherlands
# 9,773:
7:26 am PST, Dec 19,Penni Norman, Iowa
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7:27 pm PST, Dec 18,Tracy Brown, New Jersey
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7:26 pm PST, Dec 18,NAIMA CHIORANDO, New York
# 9,770:
3:45 pm PST, Dec 18,Carol Leuenberger, California
# 9,769:
2:28 pm PST, Dec 18,Barbara Duval, Tennessee
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12:25 pm PST, Dec 18,Magdalena Kucharska, Poland
# 9,767:
10:50 am PST, Dec 18,Linda Dunne, Ireland
# 9,766:
10:47 am PST, Dec 18,Heather Antaya, Canada
We must take pride in our National Parks!
# 9,765:
10:42 am PST, Dec 18,Frank Gerry, Florida
The national parks are the most precious our country has. They must be maintained.
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8:59 am PST, Dec 18,Maria Fongaro, Italy
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10:50 pm PST, Dec 17,Deborah Outman, Georgia
# 9,762:
6:34 pm PST, Dec 17,Deanna Zimmerman, California
# 9,761:
3:35 pm PST, Dec 17,Darren Tortoise Protection, United Kingdom
# 9,760:
11:01 am PST, Dec 17,Lisa Koehl, Connecticut
We must have ample funding in 2010 to support wildlife conservation and research on U.S. public lands. PLEASE ensure that this crucial program is not short-changed ever again!
# 9,759:
10:34 am PST, Dec 17,Pam Wilkinson, Michigan
# 9,758:
9:19 am PST, Dec 17,JULIIE ANN ZSERDIN, Tennessee
# 9,757:
9:05 am PST, Dec 17,Jade Hawks, Arizona
They are part of the planet.