Coming from Wolf Conservation Center ALERT! A Department of Defense bill is about to pass --- and with it, a slew of riders attached to it, that are terrible for our public lands and wildlife. bit.ly/1G7V93Mvia The Wildlife News Please call Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and urge him to strip the damaging public lands “riders” from the Defense spending bill. His office number is: (202) 224-3542 The Senate will vote tomorrow on an extremely controversial rider containing numerous damaging provisions to public lands, wildlife, water and the climate. Tell him that the poison pills in the bill are too high a price to pay for a few conservation gains. Title defense appropriations bill includes several harmful proposals, including: - Exchanging National Forest land to a foreign-owned mining company seeking to operate a mine on land sacred to the Apache; - A giveaway of 70,000 acres on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Sealaska Corporation (the Tongass is home to the Alexander Archipelago wolves), notorious for its scorched-earth logging practices; - Automatic renewals of all grazing permits in sage grouse habitat—even grazing known to harm sage grouse; and - Privatizing tens of thousands of acres of federal lands for mining and logging. We need greater protection for our public lands, but this package’s cost -- in the damage it will do to other public lands in the tradeoff -- is simply too high. (directions from Center for Biological Diversity)
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:16:47 +0000
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