* Protect 24 million acres of Northern Rockies Wildlands *

[tabatha]

"The U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee's Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands is now considering the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), H.R. 980, sponsored by Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Representative Raul Grijavala (D-AZ) and more than 100 other congressional representatives from both parties."

...

"America's public wildlands Legacy is under severe jeopardy. As witnessed by S. 1470, the Tester Wildlands Logging Bill, the resource extraction industries' lobbyists are pushing incessantly for taxpayer-subsidized roading, logging, and other industrial development of these unprotected National Forest roadless areas.

These are OUR public wildlife species inhabiting OUR public National Forest wildlands, belonging to ALL Americans. They should NEVER be "privatized" and handed over to timber, oil, and mining corporations, as proposed by the Tester Wildlands Logging Bill, currently before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resource's Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests.

NREPA designates ALL of the inventoried National Forest roadless areas in the Northern Rockies as Wilderness; protecting some of America's most beautiful and ecologically important lands, while saving taxpayers' money and creating jobs."

** SUPPORT NREPA **

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Support-NREPA/

[zeaper]

1. Please don’t sign this petition and help lock us off our lands.

Roads not only are used by loggers but by recreationists.

[tabatha]

2. Roads mess up ecosystems.

There are enough roads right now.

[zeaper]

4. Fine, then let’s maintain the roads we have

Have you ever been out west? Access has been disappearing. All out bans hurt everyone.

There is plenty of designated road less wilderness now, we do not need any more.

[joshcryer]

3. Recreationists pay for the roads.

If there are no roads then you don't need recreationists to pay for them.

Basic common sense.

Support this petition, four wheelers and off roaders can get over themselves. BLM desert land is already fucked up due to off roaders making their own "roads."