Help save MT's Glacier Park and the Grizzlies that live there

Dec 22, 2006 20:09

Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,

Thanks to our legal action, we now have even more to celebrate
this holiday season. Last week, a federal court rejected a plan
to expand destructive road-building in the Cabinet-Yaak and
Selkirk wildlands that span Montana, Idaho and Washington. They
are home to two of America's most imperiled grizzly bear
populations.

But elsewhere in the vast, snow-covered ranges of the Rockies, a
new 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.

(just click and send your letter!)

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's
southern 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-old
system 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 to
the 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 and
other imperiled Rockies wildlife.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
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