Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Bush tries to get rid of 90% of the wildlife refuge in the U.S.
The U.S Fish & Wildlife Service website says "Congress has designated 75 wilderness areas on 63 units of the National Wildlife Refuge System in 26 states. Over 90 per cent — or 18.6 million acres — of Refuge System wilderness is in Alaska. The remaining 2.5 million wilderness acres are in the lower 48 states." That means that 90% of our refuge area would be destroyed by opening ANWR to drilling.
Wildlands threatened by this administration:
Now, since I am personally from the four corners area of Colorado (the junction of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona) you can see why I take this really seriously. The San Juan National Forest was like my childhood playground.
Every organization that deals with the outdoors from Greenpeace to Ducks Unlimited has blasted the Bush administration on this as well as the "Forest Initiative". See the article "Conservative Sportsmen Turn Against Bush" Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 by USA TODAY
Wildlands threatened by this administration:
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska
- Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah
- Rocky Mountain Front, Montana
- Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, Montana
- Red Desert, Wyoming
- California Coastal National Monument, California
- Carrizo Plains National Monument, California
- Little Missouri National Grasslands, North Dakota
- Otero Mesa, New Mexico
- Vermillion Basin, Colorado
- Book Cliffs, Utah
- Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming
- Hanford Reach National Monument, Washington
- Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado
- Ironwood Forest National Monument, Arizona
- Crown Point, New Mexico
- Kaibab National Forest, Arizona
- Valle Vidal/Carson National Forest, New Mexico
- San Juan National Forest, Colorado
- Weatherman Draw, Montana
Now, since I am personally from the four corners area of Colorado (the junction of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona) you can see why I take this really seriously. The San Juan National Forest was like my childhood playground.
Every organization that deals with the outdoors from Greenpeace to Ducks Unlimited has blasted the Bush administration on this as well as the "Forest Initiative". See the article "Conservative Sportsmen Turn Against Bush" Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 by USA TODAY
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