Stop the Attack on America’s National Wildlife Refuges
Birds, wildlife, and American communities who benefit from The National Wildlife Refuge System are facing an unprecedented attack. HR 3009, the National Wildlife Refuge Review Act of 2011, would effectively halt the growth of the refuge system, which is critical to wildlife conservation.
Your letters of opposition are critical right now. The House Natural Resources committee is expected to vote on this misguided legislation this month.
Act Now!
Urge your U.S. Representative to vote NO on HR 3009. TODAY.
Why it Matters
At-risk Florida Scrub-Jay Photo: Robert Ownes, USFWS
The National Wildlife Refuge System is a cornerstone of bird and wildlife conservation in the United States, historically receiving broad support from Americans who understand the importance of a healthy ecosystem. HR 3009 is an affront to the wildlife that the refuge system protects and to the local communities who benefit from these refuges, people who partake in the public process to create them.
- HR 3009 would make it impossible for any President to establish new refuges. That’s a huge problem, because the Executive branch—including every President since Theodore Roosevelt— and Congress has established 90 percent of all refuges1 since 1903.
- Passage of this bill will also undo important conservation work that’s already been accomplished after September 2011.
According to David Yarnold, President & CEO National Audubon Society:
The creation of new wildlife refuges has always been bipartisan, with nearly the same number created by Republican and Democratic administrations, including the recent addition of the 50 million acre Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument added by President George W. Bush in 2009. HR 3009 is a blatant attempt to halt any growth of the Refuge System and is retroactive from September 30, 2011, meaning the newly established Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area would cease to be a refuge should this bill pass.
We can turn the tide right now, before necessary expansions are crippled forever.
Write to your U.S. Representative TODAY.
1 The National Wildlife Refuge Association has prepared a spreadsheet of refuges in chronological order of establishment, with “A” (Administrative) or “C” (Congress) denoting how each was established.
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Hi Kim,
What a horrible bill. I hope it never passes.
It’s not just an affront to wild life and refuges. It’s an affront to me. I should be such an affront that no one should have ever considered writing such a bill.
Obviously it’s about increasing population, greed, and diminishing resources.
I say we spay and neuter humans
If we have no problem doing it to cats and dogs then why wouldn’t we be willing to have it done to us?
As the human population decreases over time, there would be less demand for things such as wood, water, and land. Then no one would have to destroy existing refuges or prevent new ones from being established.
Only problem is first getting enough people to agree and then getting the bill put into law. I don’t see that happening…in the near future.
Oh well :;
Guess that’s a little far-fetched
On a more serious note – Thanx for helping bring this to the attention of the public.
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