The World Wildlife Fund has a remarkably organized activists' web site
that alerts members to issues through email and then enables speedy
action by having a letter already prepared. Once you are signed up a few
clicks are all that's needed to send your letter via email, fax or
postal service (as you choose) to the appropriate recipient. To sign up
click the link below, then click "take action now"; from there the
process is self explanatory. The main issue now is defending the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge.

Defend the Arctic Refuge

Dear WWF Conservation Action Network Activist:

We need your help to urge your members of Congress to join a
bipartisan group cosponsoring legislation designating the coastal plain
of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as wilderness.
Designating the coastal plain as wilderness would protect the area
from mounting pressure to drill for oil.  Please go to
http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/ to send free messages urging your
congressional representatives to cosponsor the legislation.  We expect
the measure to be introduced later this month and want to demonstrate
strong support by garnering a large number of cosponsors before
introduction.  Please act today.

Often called "America's Serengeti" because of its abundant caribou,
polar bear, grizzly bear, wolf, and other wildlife populations, the
coastal plain represents the last five percent of America's Arctic not
already open to development.

Despite what the drilling proponents say, sacrificing the Arctic Refuge
to oil development is not the answer to America's energy problems.  It
would not appreciably reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, could
not insulate the United States from short-term volatility in the world
oil market, and has no relation to the causes of California's energy
crisis.  If our growing fleet of sport utility vehicles simply met the
fuel
economy standards now in force for passenger cars, we would save
more oil over the next decade than would be produced by developing
the Arctic Refuge.

Oil drilling would transform this ecological treasure trove into a vast
oil field with roads, pipelines, sewage plants, drilling pads, and
housing for thousands of workers.  Please help us protect this world
class resource by urging that it be designated a wilderness.

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