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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

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