Another Bush Rollback

Dear WWF Conservation Action Network Activist:

We need your help to fend off yet another rollback by President Bush
of environmental protection programs.  This time he is targeting new
hard rock mining rules that went into effect after almost five years of
exhaustive public comments and hearings. He is proposing to revert to
the inadequate previous rules and is allowing the public only 45 days
to comment on his proposal. The old rules did not protect ground and
surface water, did not require the mining industry to clean up its own
messes, and provided regulators little ground for denying permits.

Please go to http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/ to send a free message
urging the director of the Bureau of Land Management not to roll back
the rules.  Please act now; the comment period ends on May 7.

The hunt for gold and other precious metals undermines biodiversity in
countless ways--fragmenting habitat; drawing down streams and
springs; and contaminating, and sometimes killing, wildlife from
exposure to toxic mining waste.

Hard rock mining is a particular threat in the Klamath-Siskiyou
ecoregion of southern Oregon and northern California where miners
hold hundreds of claims on lands covered by the new rules.   Identified
by WWF as globally outstanding, this ecoregion provides habitat for
many rare and endemic plants and threatened wild salmon populations
and needs the protections provided by the new rules.

We need an enormous outpouring of comments to stop the rollback.
Please forward this alert to your friends and urge them to take the
action by visiting the Conservation Action Network at
http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/

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