Help protect Wyoming's Red Desert wildlands
The Bush administration wants to turn the expansive ranges and prime wildlife habitats on the eastern edge of Wyoming's Red Desert into a dense industrial web of oil and gas wells.
We need your help right now to block this attack on one of the premier wildlife areas in our Yellowstone/Greater Rockies BioGem.
Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53329 and tell the Bush administration to protect the extraordinary natural, recreational and cultural values of the Red Desert's Atlantic Rim region from massive oil and gas development.
The Atlantic Rim provides crucial winter range for elk and mule deer, as well as irreplaceable nesting grounds for sage grouse, hawks and eagles. Steeped in history, this region is the ancestral homeland of the Shoshone and Ute peoples and the site of the Overland and Cherokee trails traveled by the pioneers.
Yet the administration's preferred development plan -- which calls for constructing 2,000 wells at double the usual density and 1,000 miles of new roads -- would despoil the critical wildlife habitats and pollute the clear streams of this storied landscape. Little of the native wildlife in this quarter-million-acre stretch of the Red Desert would be able to survive over the long term.
Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53329 right now and tell the administration to withdraw its proposal and replace it with a responsible management plan that protects the Atlantic Rim's most sensitive areas.
Thank you for helping save this natural treasure of our Yellowstone/Greater Rockies BioGem.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President Natural Resources Defense Council
We need your help right now to block this attack on one of the premier wildlife areas in our Yellowstone/Greater Rockies BioGem.
Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53329 and tell the Bush administration to protect the extraordinary natural, recreational and cultural values of the Red Desert's Atlantic Rim region from massive oil and gas development.
The Atlantic Rim provides crucial winter range for elk and mule deer, as well as irreplaceable nesting grounds for sage grouse, hawks and eagles. Steeped in history, this region is the ancestral homeland of the Shoshone and Ute peoples and the site of the Overland and Cherokee trails traveled by the pioneers.
Yet the administration's preferred development plan -- which calls for constructing 2,000 wells at double the usual density and 1,000 miles of new roads -- would despoil the critical wildlife habitats and pollute the clear streams of this storied landscape. Little of the native wildlife in this quarter-million-acre stretch of the Red Desert would be able to survive over the long term.
Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53329 right now and tell the administration to withdraw its proposal and replace it with a responsible management plan that protects the Atlantic Rim's most sensitive areas.
Thank you for helping save this natural treasure of our Yellowstone/Greater Rockies BioGem.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President Natural Resources Defense Council
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