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Calling ALL Wilderness supporters! Please act now to let your members of Congress know you oppose these anti-Wilderness bills!

You don't need us to remind you that there are currently a number of bills introduced in the U.S. Congress that threaten to undermine America’s Wilderness and public lands legacy.

In order to assist with our efforts with Congress, we are calling on Wilderness supporters to urge their senators and representative to oppose the most egregious, anti-Wilderness bills!

Like we mentioned, the list of anti-Wilderness bills in Congress is long, so we’re focusing on the following bills:

• The "Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act,” an NRA/Safari Club International-backed bill that is nothing more than a thinly disguised measure to gut the 1964 Wilderness Act and the protections afforded to every unit of America’s 110 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System.

• The “Wheels in Wilderness Bill” (H.R. 1349 and S. 2877), which would amend and weaken the Wilderness Act to allow mountain bikes, strollers, wheelbarrows, game carts, survey wheels and measuring wheels in Wilderness.

• A couple of terrible “Border Bills” that purportedly deal with border security, but would actually threaten all of America's Wilderness areas within 100 miles of the southern border with Mexico and within 100 miles of the northern border with Canada, including the border between Alaska and Canada.

• The so-called “Protect Public use of Public Lands Act (S. 2206),” which would release 450,000 acres of America’s Wilderness Study Areas in Montana and potentially open up these wildlands to logging, mining, motorized recreation and road building.

• Any Senate companion bills to H.R. 3905 and H.R. 3115, two bills that promote new mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota.

• The "Emery County Public Land Management Act of 2018" (S. 2809 and H.R. 5727), which would significantly compromise America's public lands and Wilderness legacy in southeastern Utah.

• H.R. 6784, which would remove federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes, which would be a crippling blow against the continued recovery of gray wolves.

Thank you for taking action by contacting your members of Congress and providing important back-up to Wilderness Watch's on-going efforts to keep America’s National Wilderness Preservation System wild!

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Please urge members of Congress to oppose a host of bills that threaten to undermine America’s Wilderness and public lands legacy.

U.S. Senate and U.S. House

Subject: Please Oppose These Anti-Wilderness Bills

Message:

I'm asking you to oppose the following bills, which represent a threat to America's National Wilderness Preservation System and our wildest public lands.

1) Oppose all the anti-Wilderness provisions in the "Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act of 2017." The SHARE Act (H.R. 3668) is nothing more than a thinly-disguised measure to gut the 1964 Wilderness Act and the protections afforded to every unit of America's 110 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System. The SHARE Act would give hunting, fishing, recreational shooting, and state fish and wildlife agency goals top priority in Wilderness, rather than protecting the areas' wilderness character, as has been the case for over 50 years.

2) Mountain bikes have their place, but that place is not inside designated Wilderness areas. Please oppose H.R. 1349, S. 2877 and all other attempts to amend and weaken the Wilderness Act to allow mountain bikes, strollers, wheelbarrows, game carts, survey wheels and measuring wheels in Wilderness. Since 1964, the Wilderness Act has protected Wilderness areas designated by Congress from mechanization and mechanical transport, and this has served America's Wilderness legacy well.

3) Please oppose H.R. 3548 (the "Border Security for America Act") and H.R. 3593 (the "Secure Our Borders and Wilderness Act"). These two bills purportedly dealing with border security threaten all of America's Wilderness areas within 100 miles of the southern border with Mexico and within 100 miles of the northern border with Canada, including the border between Alaska and Canada.It's simply not necessary to destroy America's Wilderness legacy to keep our country safe.

4) Oppose the so-called "Protect Public use of Public Lands Act (S. 2206), which would release 450,000 acres of America's Wilderness Study Areas in Montana and potentially open up these wildlands to logging, mining, motorized recreation and road building.Instead, support and co-sponsor the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (S.936 and H.R.2135), a bill that would protect all the remaining roadless areas in the Northern Rockies as Wilderness, while investing in bona-fide restoration work.

5) Oppose any Senate companion bills to H.R. 3905 and H.R. 3115, two bills that threaten the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota.

6) Oppose the "Emery County Public Land Management Act of 2018" (S. 2809 and H.R. 5727) that would significantly compromise America's public lands and Wilderness legacy in southeastern Utah.

7) Oppose H.R. 6784, which would remove federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes, which would be a crippling blow against the continued recovery of gray wolves.

Thank you for protecting America's Wilderness legacy.

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