The letter below will be sent to your representatives. You will have an opportunity to customize it.
As your constituent, I am writing to express my deep concern about steps by the Trump administration to turn our public lands over to private commercial interests and environmental polluters and to weaken existing conservation and wildlife protection efforts on these lands.
Our national parks, monuments, wilderness areas, and recreation areas belong to all Americans. We should be working together to protect and improve these lands, not destroy them.
I also urge you to stop the senseless purge by the Department of the Interior of the dedicated employees who manage our public lands. At a time when visitations are at record levels, parks and other public lands are already facing serious staffing shortages, which is compromising essential services such as maintenance, educational programs, and scientific research.
Our country’s public lands belong to all of us. I am urging you to protect our national forests, parks, wilderness areas, and monuments for current and future generations.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
Our country’s public lands belong to all of us. Protecting our national forests, parks, wilderness areas, and monuments should be a priority for current and future generations.
However, the Trump administration is taking steps to turn our public lands over to private commercial interests and environmental polluters. It has promised to open vast swaths of public lands up to oil and gas, mining, and ranching interests, and it is ending rules to protect wildlife and improve conservation efforts.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has even argued that the United States should leverage public lands to creditors to lower interest rates. This means that companies, including foreign companies, could own a stake in our public lands.
In preparation for this new vision, Secretary Burgum is gutting the workforce of those responsible for maintaining our public lands, resulting in the closure of visitor centers, canceling of park activities, growing maintenance backlogs, and a reduction in law enforcement and firefighting capabilities.
Make your voice heard now before it is too late. Tell your Congressional representatives that you oppose the administration’s efforts to fire the dedicated public employees who help make our public lands the envy of the world and to hand over our public lands to private commercial interests.
