Our Iowa ExCom member, Steve Swan is one of the activists who participated in DC this week. Let's help Steve out by contacting our Representatives and Senators! Jane Clark ======================================================= Sierra Club SC Action Daily Vol. II, No. 40 March 5, 1999 TAKE ACTION: Write your Members of Congress to help save wilderness in Alaska and Utah Arctic Refuge and Utah Wildnerness bills are gaining momentum and will be introduced soon. Contact your Representative and Senators and urge them to co-sponsor these crucial initiatives! Earlier this week, 150 Wilderness activists blanketed Capitol Hill in a drive to get support for bills that will designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and millions of acres in Utah as wilderness. Everyone agrees: the solution to preserving precious wildlands in Alaska and Utah is official Wilderness designation. In Utah, such a designation will restrict allowable uses, cutting off sensitive and unspoiled areas from new development, new mining claims, logging and roadbuilding, and mechanized transport (e.g. ORVs). In the Arctic Refuge, wilderness designation for the coastal plain, a fragile tundra that is critical denning ground for the Porcupine caribou herd, will remove the persistent threat of oil drilling. "Wilderness Week" activists in Washington this week included 50 from Utah, 50 from Alaska, and 50 from across the rest of the lower 48. Also in attendance were members of the Gwich'in tribe, who have long held the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge sacred, and rely on the Porcupine caribou herd to maintain their way of life. This dedicated and energetic group of activists, many of whom are Sierra Club volunteers, love the wilderness and made the long trip to D.C. on their own time to help make the vision of Arctic and Utah wilderness a reality. ======================================================= You can help these committed activists in their efforts by by writing, calling or faxing your Representative and asking him or her to become original co-sponsors of Rep.Vento's bill to designate the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, and Rep. Hinchey's bill to designate wilderness in Utah. Contact your Senators too, and urge them to co-sponsor Senator Roth's Arctic wilderness bill, and Sen. Durbin's bill to designate wilderness in Utah. ======================================================= For contact information, see the end of this e-mail. Thanks for your help! _______________________________________________________________________ Sierra Club Legislative Hotline - 202-675-2394 Sierra Club National Headquarters - 415-977-5500 Sierra Club World Wide Web -http://www.sierraclub.org White House Comment Line - 202-456-1111 White House Fax Line - 202-456-2461 Clinton's e-mail - [log in to unmask] Gore's e-mail - [log in to unmask] White House Address - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20500 US Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121 To contact your senators - http://www.senate.gov/senator/index.html To contact your representative - http://www.house.gov/writerep/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send email to [log in to unmask] Make the message text (not the subject): SIGNOFF IOWA-TOPICS