Take action so grizzlies can rest easy this winter
Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,
Thanks to our legal action, we now have even more to celebratethis holiday season. Last week, a federal court rejected a planto expand destructive road-building in the Cabinet-Yaak andSelkirk wildlands that span Montana, Idaho and Washington. Theyare home to two of America's most imperiled grizzly bear populations.
But elsewhere in the vast, snow-covered ranges of the Rockies, anew threat to endangered grizzlies is looming. And we need your immediate online action to block it!
A major railroad company is plotting to use powerful military artillery to control avalanches along its railway in Glacier National Park. The deadline for public comments on this disastrous plan is December 29th, so please act quickly.
Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction and tell Glacier officials that you support their preferred alternative, which would protect human safety, while safeguarding the park's magnificent wildlife and winter tranquility.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad has proposed firing explosives and dropping bombs from helicopters at Glacier'ssouthern boundary, even though scientific research has shown that such earth-shattering explosions are likely to disturb grizzly bear denning.
Instead, the company should upgrade its neglected, century-oldsystem of snow sheds to include overpasses for wildlife. Over the past 30 years, trains traveling along the borders of the park have killed at least 42 grizzlies, which are attracted tothe vegetation growing in avalanche chutes by the tracks, as well as grain spilled by railway cars.
Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction and urge Glacier officials to reject Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad's reckless proposal and adopt an avalanche control plan that protects Glacier's natural values.
Thank you for all your efforts to protect grizzly bears andother imperiled Rockies wildlife.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_bears_1206
Thanks to our legal action, we now have even more to celebratethis holiday season. Last week, a federal court rejected a planto expand destructive road-building in the Cabinet-Yaak andSelkirk wildlands that span Montana, Idaho and Washington. Theyare home to two of America's most imperiled grizzly bear populations.
But elsewhere in the vast, snow-covered ranges of the Rockies, anew threat to endangered grizzlies is looming. And we need your immediate online action to block it!
A major railroad company is plotting to use powerful military artillery to control avalanches along its railway in Glacier National Park. The deadline for public comments on this disastrous plan is December 29th, so please act quickly.
Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction and tell Glacier officials that you support their preferred alternative, which would protect human safety, while safeguarding the park's magnificent wildlife and winter tranquility.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad has proposed firing explosives and dropping bombs from helicopters at Glacier'ssouthern boundary, even though scientific research has shown that such earth-shattering explosions are likely to disturb grizzly bear denning.
Instead, the company should upgrade its neglected, century-oldsystem of snow sheds to include overpasses for wildlife. Over the past 30 years, trains traveling along the borders of the park have killed at least 42 grizzlies, which are attracted tothe vegetation growing in avalanche chutes by the tracks, as well as grain spilled by railway cars.
Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction and urge Glacier officials to reject Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad's reckless proposal and adopt an avalanche control plan that protects Glacier's natural values.
Thank you for all your efforts to protect grizzly bears andother imperiled Rockies wildlife.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_bears_1206
Labels: Bears, Glacier National Park, MT, Wildlife
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