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NFC: Fw: DEN ALERT: Help Support a Strong Conservation Funding Bill
DEN ALERT:
Support A Strong Funding Bill for Our Parks, Forests and Wildlife
Refuges
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to
consider potentially historic legislation that would provide more
than $2.5 billion from off-shore oil and gas drilling royalties to
fund our last-remaining parklands, forests, undeveloped coastal
areas and wildlife habitat.
However, we need your help to ensure that the Conservation and
Reinvestment Act (CARA) is amended to correct a number of critical
conservation issues. Problems in the bill include providing
incentives for more offshore oil drilling, providing funds for
damaging roads and other infrastructure, preventing dedicated Land
and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) funds from being spent to protect
our national parks, wildlife refuges and forests, and failing to
ensure that funds given to states for wildlife conservation be spent
to benefit all wildlife.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Please take a minute and send a free fax to your senators urging them
to fix this legislation to ensure that an environmentally sound bill
is passed out of committee guaranteeing that CARA genuinely protects
our nation's special places. The committee vote is scheduled for
mid-July so YOUR COMMENTS ARE NEEDED ASAP!!
INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB:
If you have access to the web, simply click on the link below which
will take you to the DEN Action Center web site:
http://www.denaction.org
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