[Letter] Help protect North America's most endangered grizzlies!

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http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction.asp

 

 

The U.S. Forest Service has issued a draft forest plan that fails to provide

needed protections for crucial grizzly bear habitat in the Cabinet-Yaak

wildlands of northwestern Montana.

 

We need your immediate action to fight this plan, which jeopardizes the future

of North America's most endangered grizzly population.

 

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction.asp

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

protecting key habitat areas. Ask the agency to recommend wilderness protection

for the remaining roadless lands in the forest.

 

The lush cedar hemlock forests, wet valley bottoms 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 is also home to wolves, bighorn sheep, lynx,

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 protect the

remaining wildands in a pristine condition.

 

Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction.asp

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