“Where the wild things are” vs. corporate destruction! Keep the Roadless Rule!

America’s roadless forests are sanctuaries for grizzly bears, gray wolves, salmon, spotted owls, and hundreds of other species. These lands — nearly 60 million acres of national forests — are some of the most intact, connected wildlife habitats left in the United States.

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule has protected roadless forests since 2001, keeping them free from logging, road-building, and other industrial development.

Road-building and logging in roadless forests will fragment habitats; disrupt wildlife migration routes; introduce invasive species; and bring noise, dust, pollution, and human pressure deep into the quiet backcountry, threatening already vulnerable and endangered plants and animals. Once these areas are gone, they’re gone forever. Roadless forests are the beating heart of biodiversity, where the wild can still be wild. The United States wisely protected these places decades ago.

Note: The US Forest Service comment period will open on Friday, August 29. To help show broad support for the Roadless Rule, make a comment –You can find all sorts of talking points down below under “Deeper Dive.”

How to Say “NO!” to this tragedy in a comment!

Make a comment here: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2025-0001-0001

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America’s “Crown Jewels” aren’t locked in a tower (Part 2)

Part 2 – The party of Grifters, Oligarchs and Polluters would very much like to neuter the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which is the regulation enacted by Nixon in 1970 that keeps them from poisoning us without consequences. (Comment Period Ends: Mar 27, 8:59 pm PDT)

(Part 1 here)

Or setting our rivers on fire…

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America’s “Crown Jewels” aren’t locked in a tower (Part 1)

They are our national parks, national monuments, national forests and national wildlife refuges and the GOP is planning to loot them all for their donors.

UPDATE: As of 3/18/2025, our park rangers have NOT been offered their jobs back!

Part 1 – Support their existence and protection, and the rangers who take care of them.

(Part 2 here)

Watch the video from the fired employees of the Channel Islands National Park here!

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Tues – 1/29: How has climate change affected you?

(Photo – Thomas Fire burns near Meiners Oaks in the Ojai Valley.)

This is our chance to let Congress know how climate change is affecting our lives.

(From Jim Hines, Los Padres Sierra Club)

Greetings Climate Activists:

Our good friend congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources will be holding a month long series of hearings on the climate change crisis.

And he wants to hear from YOU. How has climate change impacted YOU.

Please share your thoughts with Chair Grijalva here.

Chair Grijalva will be using your comments and testimony from the hearings to develop far reaching climate change legislation this year

Jim

This is a nation-wide appeal. Share are far as you can.

Fri – 1/25: Part 2 – Update! “RESEARCH” means “whale hunt” in Japanese & it’s coming to an ocean near you. Deadline 1/30 – email against Japanese whaling.

Update from Jim Hines of the Los Padres Sierra Club!

“My campaign to stop Japan from whaling off the Ventura and Santa Barbara county (California) coast (in international waters) is gaining momentum.

I will be meeting with Japanese government officials (in Los Angeles) next week and the week after with California Fish and Wildlife officials in Sacramento on this matter. The ocean waters surrounding Channel Islands National Park are one of the world’s richest bioregions and is plentiful in plankton which is the main food source of all whale species.

Whale watching is a major economy in the coastal areas of Ventura and Santa Barbara with thousands of people from around the U.S. coming here to see and learn about whales and the ocean environment in general. I detest the fact that Japan thinks that whaling is needed with so many our world’s whale species at risk and I will do everything in my power to stop Japan from whaling.”

Have you guys done this yet? Whales don’t have email accounts and depend on us.

Action – Write an email against Japanese whaling.

(A message from Jim Hines of the Los Padres Sierra Club)

Greetings Marine Activists:

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Fri – 1/18: “RESEARCH” means “whale hunt” in Japanese & it’s coming to an ocean near you. Deadline 1/30 – email against Japanese whaling.

Write it as big as you want, guys. It won’t make it true.

Action – Write an email against Japanese whaling.

Greetings Marine Activists:

Whales, majestic creatures of great beauty but the strength of their beauty cannot prevent a massive torpedo from ripping apart their huge bodies.

And the killing of whales will start soon as Japan has officially withdrawn from the International Whaling Commission and will start to kill whales in a few months. Several other nations (Russia, Norway, Australia) have also announced that they intend to begin whaling.

Worldwide public pressure is important if we are to stop the slaughter by Japanese whalers.

The state of California will consider drafting a letter at a meeting of the CA Fish and Game Commission on February 6 2019. We would like this letter to be sent to the Japanese Prime Minster and other Japanese government leaders.

We would like the letter to strongly voice California’s objection to Japanese whaling.

Please send a email to the commission before January 30, 2019 asking the commission to send a strong letter of opposition to whaling by the Government of Japan.

Emails go to the commission at this address: fgc@fgc.ca.gov

Please reference commission agenda item # 29.

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Thurs 7/19: Update – Date extended – Casual cruelty towards the young and defenseless is now a hallmark of the GOP. Stop this! Comments due Sept. 6th.

We originally published this on 5/31. Deadline was extended to Sept. 6th.

This is not hunting. This is the lazy and inhumane slaughter of key predator animals necessary to keep natural ecosystems in balance in areas where they should be safe.

The Interior Department is planning on easing regulations on “sport” hunting in Alaska national reserves. The new rule would allow bear cubs to be killed along with their mothers, caribou to be killed while swimming, and wolves and their pups to be killed in their dens. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, speaking next to a dead animal head, argues that this is merely a move to align federal regulations with Alaska state law, while others say that the rollback would allow for cruel and inhumane hunting practices. The proposed rule has a 60-day open comment period which IS COMING TO AN END THIS Friday, September 6th.
Rule being discussed is here. There are fewer than 75,000 comments! Please add more! Let’s make this a 6-figure response!

Comment here.
Check out other comments here for inspiration.

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