The Great Bear Rainforest is tucked amongst majestic mountain fjords creating a cool, misty world of soaring eagles, towering cedar trees, grizzly bears and the globally unique Spirit Bear. Despite being the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest left on Earth it remains unprotected. Over the last decade, blockades and marketplace actions brought world attention to this region, but a solution, agreed to by industry, environmental groups, communities and workers, does exist. Now is the time for the Government of British Columbia to protect one third of the region from logging and create a new approach to forest management.

Tell the Premier of British Columbia to seize this moment in time for the future of the Great Bear Rainforest.

Write to the Premier of British Colombia:  http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=1806&s=gen

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The Bush administration, after rolling back crucial restrictions on logging and roadbuilding in our national forests earlier this year, is plowing ahead with dozens of huge timber sales in the wild reaches of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. One of these proposed sales would devastate parts of Port Houghton -- the largest unbroken tract of unprotected old-growth forest left in the Tongass. Bald eagles nest along the shoreline, while black bears and wolves roam undisturbed among cedar, hemlock and towering 500-year-old spruce trees. Thriving populations of salmon and trout fill miles of local streams. Tell the Forest Service to halt any plans to build roads or cut down trees in the Port Houghton area: http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/  and click on "Save this BioGEM" for e-letter campaign! Sponsored by the National Resources Defense Council ****************************************************

HELP PROTECT MONTANA'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT

The Forest Service is poised to choose among five possible plans that will set rules for off-road vehicle use and other travel in Montana's spectacular Rocky Mountain Front for the next 10 to 15 years. Of these proposals, only one includes the restrictions necessary to protect the region's sensitive wildlife habitat areas from noisy and polluting snowmobiles, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. The Front, a 100-mile-long ridge of granite cliffs overlooking the Great Plains, is a key migratory route linking America's largest herd of bighorn sheep, as well as grizzly bears, elk and wolves, to the vast ranges of the Canadian Rockies.

Urge the Forest Service to adopt a plan that protects the Rocky Mountain Front's wildlife and stunning landscapes: http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/ and click on "Save this BioGem"

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