This may be our last, best chance to protect the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge Coastal Plain.  Iowa Sierra Club is a partner to Alaska Wilderness
League in an effort to protect  wilderness in Alaska.  Many Sierra Club
members are also AWL members.  Lois Norrgard is Upper Midwest Region
Field Staff and has provided Karen Tigges, Jane Clark and me with
materials and information for every event we planned.
Lois included this language on the CCP and a thin link to a petition on
Alaska Wilderness Web Page or an email address to contact him directly
with your remarks.  Many of you sent your remarks why to protect the
Coastal Plain on the CCP to US Fish and Wildlife and the results are
coming soon.  Those of you who are Chairs of Groups, please post this
information to your groups so all of Iowa can be represented in a final
push to protect the Refuge.  Thanks Phyllis

Here is what Lois has for language on the CCP – this  alert  links to a
petition on the Alaska Wilderness League webpage. 
http://act.alaskawild.org/sign/Refuge_CCP-final/
 
Otherwise email  the Secretary (Department of the Interior) 
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Secretary Salazar: Protect the Arctic Refuge before you leave!
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Over the course of the last two years, nearly one million people have
weighed in with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about protecting the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  Through the department’s planning
process, for the first time, the administration could recommend
Wilderness for the Coastal Plain – the Refuge’s biological epicenter that
has been in Big Oil’s sights for decades. However, we need your help to
ensure that this Wilderness recommendation for the Arctic Refuge’s
Coastal Plain makes it across the finish line.
Interior Secretary Salazar has announced that he will be stepping down
and returning to Colorado.  Before returning to the natural beauty of
Colorado, we need him to finalize the Arctic Refuge Comprehensive
Conservation Plan (CCP) before he leaves.  Please send Interior Secretary
Salazar an urgent message that as an American, you have a say in how the
Arctic Refuge is managed and you want a Wilderness recommendation.  Now
is an important time for all of us to speak up! 
There are some places in this country that define what it means to be
American—the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska is
one of those places. For the past fifty years our country has remained
committed to protecting this unparalleled area and the abundant wildlife
that depends on it, including polar bears, musk oxen, caribou and
millions of birds from around the globe. The Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge is quite frankly too extraordinary to drill.
Send a message to Interior Secretary Salazar asking him to finalize the
Arctic Refuge CCP before heading back to the beautiful public lands of
Colorado.

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