This week, the National Parks Conservation Association was telling us to write to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, asking him to resolve a minor discrepancy in the Petrified Forest National Park Expansion Bill (there was a "June" were a "July" should have been) and jump-start its passage in the House.
The Wilderness Society is now asking us to contact members of congress urging them to stop drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Last April, the Natural Resources Defense Council recommended writing letters to Gov. Schwarzenegger, insisting that he preserve the roadless wilderness areas designated by the Clinton administration.
DeLay has gone on record saying the best reason to drill in ANWR is to "crack the backs" of environmentalists.
Newly re-elected (or just elected, depending on how you look at it) Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has defined increased oil and gas exploration in her state's environmentally sensitive areas as the primary goal of her next term in the Senate.
And now Schwarzenegger has come out in favor of rolling back he roadless rule. Watch for new oil rigs in the Los Padres National Forest.
I understand there's a value to writing our legislators that goes beyond neat cause-and-effect results. But is anyone else sick and tired of writing letters to nutcases like DeLay and Murkowski?
No wonder Grist magazine readers are so pissed off.
Then again: California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is suing the feds over a plan to "manage" 11.5 million acres of the Sierra National Forest. I wrote him a letter to thank him.
And that letter I wrote to DeLay at the NPCA's urging actually worked. Now let's hope Bush signs the bill into law. And why wouldn't he? Creationists think the fossil record is on their side these days.
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