Oppose land desecration  

Contact the BLM by Nov. 10 to oppose Trump rescinding the Public Lands Rule, which includes conservation of more than 200 endangered species and wildlife. 

Also oppose Trump opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. ANWR is pristine and fragile, where the Porcupine caribou migrate to calve; where millions of birds migrate to breed; and home to endangered polar bears and arctic foxes. Global warming is greatest at the poles, melting permafrost. Building roads and mining here will release even more CO2, further increasing global warming. In addition, it will be disastrous for the caribou and Gwichen tribe, which totally depends on caribou, as well as for all wildlife. This desecration is totally unnecessary; it’s estimated the amount of gas retrieved would be equal to that saved if Americans filled their tires to correct pressure.

Contact Dept. of Interior Head Doug Burgum to oppose and donate to Earthjustice and Natural Resources Defense Council, which are suing the Trump Administration. A film producer and I traveled to ANWR decades ago to document its importance as a wildlife refuge. Keep it so.

– Margaret Mayer, conservation lead SW Sierra Club