No Drilling in Baca National Wildlife Refuge!

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Two giant energy companies are pushing to drill exploratory oil
and gas wells up to 14,000 feet beneath Colorado's spectacular
Baca National Wildlife Refuge.

We need your immediate action to block this destructive drilling
scheme, which could pave the way for massive industrialization
of this natural treasure.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction
and urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to halt the Baca oil
and gas project until a thorough study of its potentially
devastating environmental impacts is carried out.

The Baca refuge is an important calving ground for deer and elk
and provides a natural sanctuary to threatened or endangered
wildlife, including the bald eagle, greater sandhill crane and
mountain plover. World-class archeological sites dating back
some 11,500 years have been found nearby.

The proposed drilling project threatens to transform this
irreplaceable wildland into an industrial zone of drill pads and
roads -- contaminating air, land and waterways and unleashing a
barrage of drilling-related traffic and noise. Even the adjacent
Great Sand Dunes National Park could be at risk.

Energy companies currently own the rights to any oil and gas
reserves beneath the refuge. But the Bush administration has the
authority to block reckless and destructive industrialization on
these lands.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction
and demand that the Fish and Wildlife Service protect the Baca
National Wildlife Refuge from the far-reaching impacts of oil
and gas drilling.

Thank you for helping to protect our last remaining Rocky
Mountain wildlife habitats.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

. . .
Another Wildlife Refuge, another drilling rig, and Bush appointees still calling the shots.

Time to say "NO!!"