EcoUprising: October 2017

Friday, October 20, 2017

Tweet Sheet: Save Our Wild Horses and Burros

.@SenThadCochran @lisamurkowski Please OPPOSE any effort to euthanize or kill America's wild horses and burros. pic.twitter.com/yCKGMJHwBn

.@SenatorLeahy @SenatorTomUdall Please oppose any effort to euthanize or kill America's wild horses and burros. pic.twitter.com/yCKGMJHwBn

.@SenatorCollins Pls oppose ANY effort to euthanize, kill or slaughter America's wild horses and burros. pic.twitter.com/1p2AHO468z

.@SenBobCorker @SenAlexander Please OPPOSE any effort to euthanize or kill America's wild horses and burros. pic.twitter.com/yCKGMJHwBn

Click on THIS TWEET. Click RETWEET and the QUOTE THIS TWEET. TAG YOUR SENATORS (find their Twitter IDs HERE). Tell them that you are a constituent and you oppose any effort to allow killing of America's wild horses and burros.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

CALL TO ACTION: VOTE NO HR 424 WAR ON WOLVES

Gray Wolf State Management Act of 2017

HR 424 is a bill that requires the Department of the Interior to reissue two rules that removed protections under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 for the gray wolf populations located in Wyoming and the western Great Lakes (all of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, as well as portions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio). In addition, this bill prohibits judicial review of the reissued rules.

H.R. 424 will set the stage for trophy hunters and commercial trappers to kill grey wolves. This bill is a war on wolves and anti-wolf legislation disregards our government’s system of checks and balances by blocking citizens from using federal courts to challenge this politically-motivated and unscientific action by Congress.

Tweet: Please quote THIS TWEET and then tag your Representative (find his or her Twitter ID HERE) and ask him or her to vote NO.

Tweet sheet is HERE.

Email/Phone Calls : Take Action calling and emailing your Representative

Contact forms for your Representative HERE. Write, in your own words, why you want him or her to vote NO on HR 424 or copy and paste the following:

I am your constituent. Please oppose H.R. 424 which would expose wolves in four states to cruel trophy hunting without judicial review of the reissued rules."

PETITIONS TO SIGN:

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/413/107/388/oppose-the-war-on-wolves-bill-hr-424/

http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/51421/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=23134

https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=7301

http://www.bornfreeusa.org/legislation.php?p=5921&more=1

https://www.change.org/p/paul-ryan-stop-hr-424-it-will-remove-federal-protection-for-gray-wolves-in-mn-wi-mi-and-wy

Campaign for Yellowstone's Wolves

Sign this petition below and take the Tourist Pledge to cut your spending in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming until these states end trophy hunting and trapping of Yellowstone National Park wolves

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/488/206/287/stop-yellowstone-wolf-hunting-with-your-tourist-dollars/

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Sunday, October 8, 2017

PETITIONS to Save The Arctic

The proposed budget would allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Please sign and share the following petitions to stop it.

Wilderness Society
Audubon Society
NextGen America
Sierra Club
Earthworks
League of Conservation Voters
National Wildlife Refuge Association
Center for Biological Diversity
Alaska Wilderness League
NRDC

Thursday, October 5, 2017

PUBLIC COMMENTS: Save Alaska's Bristol Bay

Please comment on proposal to withdraw proposed Clean Water Act restrictions for mining the Pebble ore deposit. Comments are due October 17, 2017

ELECTRONIC COMMENTS: Submit HERE. Copy and paste your comments into the contact forms for your Senators and your Representative. What to say:

- Don’t put the interests of a foreign mining company above thousands of American jobs and keep the EPA’s Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay in place.

- I oppose this plan which basically puts the interests of a foreign mining company above those of two-thirds of Alaskans, 80% of Bristol Bay residents and indigenous communities, and 85% of commercial fishermen.

- The EPA has previously determined that the planned pebble mine would cause great damage to the unparalleled salmon runs and local fisheries as well as to local Native communities.

- The foreign owned pebble mine would cause significant damage to the world-renowned salmon runs of Bristol Bay. This fishery is worth moth than 1.5 million dollars a year and supports 14,000 jobs. All of this would be put at risk for the interests of a non-American mining company.

- More than 1.5 million Americans have previously submitted public comments opposing this pebble mine.

- Please listen to the local communities, the best available science and the American people and do not reverse course on this pebble mine.

POSTCARDS: Write "I oppose the EPA proposal to withdraw proposed Clean Water restrictions for mining the Pebble ore deposit in Bristol Bay."
Water Docket, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Mail Code 28221T
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20460
Attention: Docket ID No. EPA-R10-OW-2017-0369

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THESE PETITIONS:

Pacific Environment

Center for Biological Diversity

NRDC
EarthJustice

League of Conservation Voters
Wilderness Society

CALL TO ACTION: Save Our Forests! NO on HR2936

Action needed. The House Agricultural Committee just approved the "Resilient Federal Forests Act (HR2936) and it could go to a full House vote any day. This legislation sets arbitrary limits on the Endangered Species Act, overrides Cascade-Siskiyou's National Monument status, permits a huge number of logging projects to go forward without environmental review and much much more. We cannot let this happen to our national forests! Please stand with conservation groups in the region to demand a NO VOTE.

Please make sure that your representative knows that we value our forests, our national monuments and the Endangered Species Act. Please ask them to VOTE NO on HR2936.

EMAILS: Contact forms for your Representative HERE. Write, in your own words, why you want him or her to vote NO on HR2936 or copy and paste the following:

I urge you to VOTE NO ON HR2936 (The Resilient Federal Forests Act). This law would put our forests at risk to clearcutting, circumvents the Endangered Species Act, threatens biodiversity and watersheds, and threatens National Monuments by rescinding that designation for the Cascade-Siskiyou monument. I care about our national forests as an avid hiker, wildlife watcher and photographer. Please VOTE NO ON HR2936.

PHONE CALLS: Find your Representative's phone numbers HERE. Tell the staffer who answers that you expect a NO VOTE on HR2936, the Resilient Federal Forests Act.

RESISTBOT: Text 504-09 and type RESIST. The ResistBot will convert your texts to faxes to your Senators and representative. Please send a text to your Representative asking for a NO VOTE on HR2936 or copy and paste the following:

I urge you to VOTE NO ON HR2936 (The Resilient Federal Forests Act). This law would put our forests at risk to clearcutting, circumvents the Endangered Species Act, threatens biodiversity and watersheds, and threatens National Monuments by rescinding that designation for the Cascade-Siskiyou monument. I care about our national forests as an avid hiker, wildlife watcher and photographer. Please VOTE NO ON HR2936.

PETITIONS:
Wilderness Watch
EarthJustice
Cascadia Wildlands

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