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Save California Wilderness!
The U.S.Senate passed Senator Barbara Boxer's Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act to protect approximately 300,000 acres of public lands in California!Contact your Congressman to vote for the House version of the bill!
Date: 7/29/2005 12:01:48 AM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 1219 times Dear Friend:
Recently, the Senate passed my Northern California Coastal Wild
Heritage Wilderness Act to protect approximately 300,000 acres
of public lands in California. This bill ensures that some of
Northern California’s most treasured wild places will remain
wild. By protecting the natural beauty that is part of
California’s identity, future generations will be able to
cherish and enjoy this land.
My bill, which requires House action, will protect select areas
in Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake Mendocino and Napa counties by
designating portions of the public land as “wilderness.” The
bill also designates a free-flowing portion of the Black Butte
River as “wild and scenic.”
I am deeply grateful to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the lead
cosponsor of the legislation in the Senate, and Congressman
Mike Thompson, who has introduced the House version of the
bill. I also thank the thousands of Californians who have
supported our efforts and contributed to this success.
While we celebrate this victory, I’d like so share with you the
words of former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, who
spearheaded the effort to enact the original Wilderness Act:
[Wilderness] areas offer more than delights to the senses --
they offer the challenge of wilderness experience to those
hardy enough to accept the challenge of the outdoors. The plea
for intact wilderness means more than mere preservation of some
last remnants of the grandeur that once was America. It means a
chance for young and old to pit their human resources against
the earth and the elements. This opportunity will vanish if
wilderness is allowed to vanish. Wilderness will not suit all
tastes. It offers something worthy of your mettle -- both
physical and spiritual. I am convinced that it is our national
character, as well as some pieces of our wild land, that stands
to be preserved by passage of the Wilderness Bill…. We need to
preserve places where nature can maintain her own balance, set
her own pace. These natural places, completely untouched by the
hands, the machines, the tools of man, are absolutely essential
as laboratories of life -- yardsticks against which to measure
our efforts to improve the environment, as well as our dismal
successes in destroying it.
-- Stewart Udall, from “We Must Save the Beauty of Our Land,”
April 1964, Carpenter Magazine
I hope you appreciate Stewart Udall’s vision of wilderness. I
certainly share his view that these unique places contribute to
our national character and deserve preservation.
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
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TAKE ACTION:
Contact your U.S. Congressman and ask him/her to support Congressman
Mike Thompson's House version of the Northern California Coastal Wild
Heritage Wilderness Act!
Go to: U.S. House of Representatives--E-Mail Your Representative: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Sample e-letter: Just copy-and-paste or write your own!
To The Honorable (name of your Congressman)
Recently, the Senate passed Senator Barbara Boxer's Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act to protect approximately 300,000 acres of public lands in California. This bill ensures that some of Northern California’s most treasured wild places will remain wild. By protecting the natural beauty that is part of California’s identity, future generations will be able to cherish and enjoy this land.
Please vote for the House version of this important bill, sponsored by Congressman Mike Thompson.
Sincerely,
Your Name
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