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ACTION NEEDED: HELP PROTECT OUR LARGEST WILDERNESS AND NATIONAL PARK FROM SNOWMOBILES AND ATVs!
Your comments are needed by August 30, 2016 to help preserve the wilderness character of Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve!
At just over 13 million acres, Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska is our nation's largest national park and its designated Wilderness of 9,078,000 acres makes it the largest Wilderness area in our entire National Wilderness Preservation System!
Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve is renowned for its mountain scenery, including nine of the 16 highest peaks on the continent, and the nation’s largest active glacier complex. The Park includes coastal areas as well, and supports a wide diversity of wildlife, including sea lions, harbor seals, sea otters, porpoises, whales, one of the largest concentrations of Dall sheep in North America, grizzly and black bears, mountain goats, caribou, moose, trumpeter swans, golden and bald eagles, and red, silver, and king salmon.
Unfortunately, Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve has been damaged by all-terrain vehicle and snowmobiles use, recreation abuse, and inappropriate commercial and scientific activities since the park was established in 1980.
Even more troubling, the measures proposed by the National Parks Service (NPS) in their Backcountry and Wilderness Stewardship Plan for Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve do not adequately address these problems or several others! If any place should be free of these impacts of modern civilization it should be Wrangell-St. Elias.
That's why it's so important for you to TAKE ACTION and submit your comments by the August 30, 2016 deadline!
Please urge the National Parks Service to fulfill its legal responsibility to preserve the wilderness character of this great landscape!
Thank you for taking action urging the National Parks Service to protect Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve – our nation's largest Wilderness and national park – from snowmobiles and ATVs!
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