We all share the environment. Our back yards are connected to the backcountry. Your back yard and your local city park are connected to the backcountry.
***Latest NREPA Update - Help Save the Northern Rockies Ecosystem
In a world where a single vote can decide an election, your voice matters.
"Call, tweet & email your lawmakers today. Ask them to support HR 980, NREPA then call, tweet & email your network to do the same". Visit NREPA's Facebook page at NREPA.
The Northern Rockies ecosystem overlaps five states-Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming-but all Americans own the affected land, Many Americans don't know that their tax dollars are being spent to subsidize activities that are harmful to the land, water, and wildlife in the Northern Rockies ecosystem.
A hearing was held on May 5th that highlighted the need for protection of the nationally owned public wildlands covered by the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (H.R. 980). No private or state land is affected by NREPA—only federal land owned by all Americans. However, some elected officials in the five states seem to be paying so much heed to the ratcheted-up local rhetoric of fear in the states they represent that they're not listening to the voices of reason within their states. "It's too big" is not a good enough reason not to do something really good. It will take your voice and those of the residents of those states who understand the urgency of the need for NREPA's protection to get through to some of the more recalcitrant elected officials.
Historically local residents tend to resist new proposals for wilderness or parks, yet once such protection becomes law many of those same people speak proudly of their local wilderness or park and benefit from it economically over the long term. To paraphrase an elected official who protected a lot of land in his time: first they want to hang you; 10 years later they take tremendous pride in their local wilderness or park; then 25 years later they name a mountain after you.
Once NREPA becomes law, we'll have some names to suggest of elected officials to have mountains named after them. But right now those mountains, water, and wildlife need your help.
If you have friends or relatives living in one or more of the five NREPA states—again, they are Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming—please forward this email and ask them to contact their U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative and urge them to vote for H.R. 980, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA).
Your voice will help overcome the cacophony of fear. You are one of the smart people who care enough to make the world a better place. Let your voice restore harmony by taking action to save the Northern Rockies. Thank you very much!
Below are links for U.S. Senators and a link to write to your U.S House Representative. Please review their contact page carefully as some prefer phone calls, faxes or regular mail as opposed to email and vice versa depending upon the urgency of the matter.
Idaho: Senator Mike Crapo
Idaho :Senator Jim Risch
Montana: Senator Max Baucus
Montana: Senator Jon Tester
Oregon: Senator Ron Wyden
Oregon: Senator Jeff Merkley
Washington: Senator Maria Cantwell
Washington: Senator Patty Murray
Wyoming: Senator John Barrasso
Wyoming: Senator Michael Enzi
To write your U.S. House representative go to:
Write your Representative
NREPA Introduction 2007
Carole King accepted an invitation to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands at a hearing on the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) H.R.1975 in Washington, DC October 18, 2007 at 2pm Eastern Time.
If you care about the environment, let your elected representatives know your concerns. Remember, no matter whom you voted for, your representatives are there to represent YOU. The only way to overcome apathy and big money interests that want things that aren't good for you or the environment is to TAKE ACTION. Fax, call or Email your elected officials. You may get a form letter back thanking you and saying they'll look into it. Don't let it stop there. Form letters are a way of acknowledging receipt of your communication while getting you off their desk. Don't let them take you off their desk. Keep faxing, calling and Emailing until they realize you're not going away. They'll have to give your concern the attention it deserves.
Click here to read an "open letter" from Carole King regarding NREPA and the work that she does on behalf of NREPA.
Every day is Earth Day!
With the new Obama Administration, the opportunity has arrived to put policies into effect to save wilderness and wildlife, find energy alternatives, conserve the energy we use now, and solve global warming, so that each of us becomes part of the solution to preserve the planet that we, and all species, rely on for our existence.
GREEN LIVING IDEAS
http://www.nrdc.org/greenliving/
If you want to live green, here are some suggestions for things you can do.
Global Warming
Solve Global Warming
How you can fight global warming
Save Forests – Buy Green
Buy green, recycled products
BioGems
Citizen action
Greening Advisor
Be more environmentally-conscious in running your business
Save Energy at Home
Ways to save energy every day
Eat Locally
Use farmer's markets and locally-grown produce
Recycling
Ways to recycle and re-use
Keep Earth in Business – Buy Organic, Recyclable and Biodegradable
1% For The Planet
Thank you for joining in protecting the place we call 'home'!
Below are some groups that I work with to protect the environment. It's your environment. GET INVOLVED!
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