The U.S. Forest Service is planning to withdraw proposed protections for
crucial grizzly bear habitat in the Cabinet-Yaak wildlands of northwestern
Montana.
We need your immediate action to fight this proposal, which jeopardizes the
future of North America's most endangered grizzly population.
Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53356
and urge the Forest Service to help save the 20 or so grizzlies that survive in the Cabinet-Yaak wildlands, part of our Yellowstone/Greater Rockies BioGem, by restoring its plan to protect key habitat areas.
The lush valley bottom and rugged alpine slopes of this region provide a vital ecological link between endangered grizzlies in Yellowstone and more robust bear populations in Canada. This untouched stretch of the Kootenai National Forest also provides expansive ranges and rich food sources for wolves, bighorn sheep, elk and trout.
With proposals looming to expand mining, logging and roadbuilding in this
region, it is more important than ever that the Forest Service abide by a
congressional mandate requiring it to recommend appropriate lands for
wilderness designation.
Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53356
and urge the Forest Service to help protect the last grizzlies of the Cabinet-Yaak and revise its Kootenai Forest management plan to include life-saving habitat protections.
Thank you for all your efforts to help save endangered grizzlies in the lower 48 states.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org
for more information:
U.S. Plan to Remove Protections from Yellowstone Grizzlies Threatens Their Long-Term Survival
As many as 100,000 grizzly bears once roamed the western United States, but they were killed off and their habitat destroyed -- only about 1,500 inhabit the lower 48 states today.
http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/index.asp
crucial grizzly bear habitat in the Cabinet-Yaak wildlands of northwestern
Montana.
We need your immediate action to fight this proposal, which jeopardizes the
future of North America's most endangered grizzly population.
Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53356
and urge the Forest Service to help save the 20 or so grizzlies that survive in the Cabinet-Yaak wildlands, part of our Yellowstone/Greater Rockies BioGem, by restoring its plan to protect key habitat areas.
The lush valley bottom and rugged alpine slopes of this region provide a vital ecological link between endangered grizzlies in Yellowstone and more robust bear populations in Canada. This untouched stretch of the Kootenai National Forest also provides expansive ranges and rich food sources for wolves, bighorn sheep, elk and trout.
With proposals looming to expand mining, logging and roadbuilding in this
region, it is more important than ever that the Forest Service abide by a
congressional mandate requiring it to recommend appropriate lands for
wilderness designation.
Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53356
and urge the Forest Service to help protect the last grizzlies of the Cabinet-Yaak and revise its Kootenai Forest management plan to include life-saving habitat protections.
Thank you for all your efforts to help save endangered grizzlies in the lower 48 states.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org
for more information:
U.S. Plan to Remove Protections from Yellowstone Grizzlies Threatens Their Long-Term Survival
As many as 100,000 grizzly bears once roamed the western United States, but they were killed off and their habitat destroyed -- only about 1,500 inhabit the lower 48 states today.
http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/index.asp