--- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:27:26 -0500 (EST)
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Great Smoky Mts. Threatened
>
> Great Smoky Mts. Threatened
>
> Dear WWF Conservation Action Network Activist:
>
> One of the most ecologically valuable ecosystems in
> the world is
> threatened by a road widening project.  This spring,
> instead of bird
> songs in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
> visitors will hear
> the roar and rumble of bulldozers converting a rural
> byway into a five-
> lane highway.  In the process, streams will be
> rerouted and world class
> fish and wildlife habitat affected.
>
> Please go to http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/ to
> send free messages
> urging the governor of Tennessee, the superintendent
> of the Great
> Smoky Mountains National Park, and an official with
> the U.S. Army
> Corps of Engineers to stop the highway and to
> prepare a full
> environmental impact statement for the project.
> Please act before
> February 28, the National Park Service's deadline
> for comments.
>
> The rivers and streams near the proposed highway are
> part of a suite of
> waterways in the Southeastern United States that
> make up one of the
> most species-rich river ecosystems in the world.
> They boast one of the
> highest levels of freshwater species diversity in
> the temperate world,
> and support about 90 percent of the mussel and
> crayfish species and
> almost three-quarters of the aquatic snail species
> in the United States.
> Unfortunately, myriad threats have led to numerous
> species extinctions
> in the region.  The proposed road widening adds
> enormous pressures
> to an already highly stressed ecosystem.  Please act
> today to protect
> this outstanding ecological resource.


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