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Help Protect Yellowstone's Grizzlies!
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http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_bears_0509
Help Protect Yellowstone's Grizzlies
Tell the Department of Agriculture to stop a sheep grazing experiment blocking a critical wildlife corridor for grizzly bears
Along the Idaho-Montana border, grizzly bears from Yellowstone
National Park depend on a narrow, undeveloped corridor in order
to access the wildlands of central Idaho. Wolves, black bears
and other species at risk also depend on this last bit of
wildland.
We need your immediate help to close a sheep grazing experiment
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that
currently blocks this critical wildlife corridor for grizzly
bears.
Go to http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/6dMpzvd1lPCE/ and tell USDA
officials to relocate its sheep grazing experiment which sits on
some of the last remaining wildlife habitat that grizzlies can
use to traverse between Yellowstone and Idaho. Allowing domestic
sheep to graze in such a sensitive area for the purpose of
research is simply irresponsible, and likely to lead to
conflicts between the wildlife and the sheep.
Sheep research projects can and should be conducted on more
suitable lands -- not in key wildlife habitat that connects the
Yellowstone and Central Idaho ecosystems.
Please go to http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/6dMpzvd1lPCE/ and
ask USDA officials to immediately halt its experiment and move
grazing and related activities to a more suitable location.
Thank you for all your efforts to protect grizzly bears and
other imperiled wildlife.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_bears_0509
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_bears_0509">http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_bears_0509</a><br /><br />Help Protect Yellowstone's Grizzlies‏<br /><br />Tell the Department of Agriculture to stop a sheep grazing experiment blocking a critical wildlife corridor for grizzly bears<br /><br />Along the Idaho-Montana border, grizzly bears from Yellowstone<br /> National Park depend on a narrow, undeveloped corridor in order<br />to access the wildlands of central Idaho. Wolves, black bears<br /> and other species at risk also depend on this last bit of<br /> wildland.<br /><br /> We need your immediate help to close a sheep grazing experiment<br /> sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that<br /> currently blocks this critical wildlife corridor for grizzly<br /> bears.<br /><br /> Go to <a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/6dMpzvd1lPCE/">http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/6dMpzvd1lPCE/</a> and tell USDA<br /> officials to relocate its sheep grazing experiment which sits on<br /> some of the last remaining wildlife habitat that grizzlies can<br /> use to traverse between Yellowstone and Idaho. Allowing domestic<br /> sheep to graze in such a sensitive area for the purpose of<br /> research is simply irresponsible, and likely to lead to<br /> conflicts between the wildlife and the sheep.<br /><br /> Sheep research projects can and should be conducted on more<br /> suitable lands -- not in key wildlife habitat that connects the<br /> Yellowstone and Central Idaho ecosystems.<br /><br /> Please go to <a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/6dMpzvd1lPCE/">http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/6dMpzvd1lPCE/</a> and<br /> ask USDA officials to immediately halt its experiment and move<br /> grazing and related activities to a more suitable location.<br /><br /> Thank you for all your efforts to protect grizzly bears and<br /> other imperiled wildlife.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br /> Frances Beinecke<br /> President<br />Natural Resources Defense Council<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_bears_0509">http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_bears_0509</a><br />
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