Speak up for the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act!

Great news: the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) was reintroduced in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate!

Now we need your help to make this visionary wilderness bill a reality, so please write your rep and senators, urging them to co-sponsor and pass NREPA.

NREPA is a science-based bill that would designate 23 million acres of some of the wildest and most ecologically important public lands in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, and Washington as Wilderness.

Our remaining wild public lands in the Northern Rockies contain one of the last great expanses of biodiversity in the world, and are home to native wildlife like grizzly bears, gray wolves, bull trout, wolverines, Canada lynx, greater sage-grouse, and American bison.

NREPA is also wilderness legislation as it should be—with no special provisions that chip away at the Wilderness Act or weaken the protections Wilderness and wildlife need.

In addition to designating 23 million acres of Wilderness, NREPA specifically:

• Designates 1,800 miles of rivers and streams as Wild and Scenic;

• Saves taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by eliminating subsidized logging and road-building in areas that would be designated as Wilderness;

• Establishes a number of wildland "recovery areas" that will provide restoration jobs undoing damage caused by past destructive activities like logging and roadbuilding;

• Expands and provides greater protection for many existing Wilderness areas in the Northern Rockies by protecting surrounding wildlands and wild rivers; and

• Designates biological connecting corridors, ensuring the continued existence of native plants and animals and mitigating the effects of climate change.

Please write your rep and senators today and ask them to co-sponsor and pass the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.