Each of you know what to do with this & How to respond

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----- Original Message -----
From: Defenders of Widllife <denlines@den.defenders.org>
To: DEN Activist <denlines@defenders.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: DEN Alert: Help Save Public Lands from Off-Road Vehicle Assaults


DEN Alert:
Help Save Public Lands from Off-Road Vehicle Assaults

Off-road vehicles are ravaging our national parks and preserves, causing pollution and noise and threatening wildlife. Swamp buggies are destroying the habitat of critically endangered panthers in
Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve, and bison and elk are not safe from the legions of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone Ranger Bob Seibert says snowmobiles make working in Yellowstone like "being in a bar -- you're dizzy, nauseous, your throat is burning and your eyes are burning." Jet skis are polluting our national lakes and seashores and harming birds. While recognizing that people should have places to ride all these
vehicles, the National Park Service has proposed common-sense policies to limit where they can go. But Interior Secretary Gale Norton is working behind closed doors with special interests to roll back these protections.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Send a free e-mail urging President Bush and your Senators to protect our precious national parks and other public lands from off-road vehicles. We encourage you to put the sample letter below into your own words. The Interior Department's decision may come as early as NEXT MONTH, so please send your message TODAY. Thanks for doing your part to protect our wildlife.


INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB:

If you have access to the web, simply click on the link below which will take you to the DEN Action Center web site: http://www.denaction.org

If you don't have access to the Internet, please mail your letter to:
President George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20500
or via e-mail at: president@whitehouse.gov

Sample letter:

Dear President Bush:
cc: Your Senators

I am writing to urge you to protect our national parks and other public lands from the damage caused by snowmobiles, jet skis, and other off-road vehicles.
Our public lands, especially national parks, represent the last places where Americans can go and enjoy the natural quiet and experience wild places. But they are threatened by off-road vehicles.
These machines pollute the air and water, degrade vegetation, soil and other natural resources, and jeopardize public health and safety.
The National Park Service has taken reasonable and balanced steps to address these problems.

I urge you to protect our public lands from off-road vehicle damage.

With your help, we can protect some of America's special places for future generations.

Sincerely,

<font color="yellow">DONE!... I even used their own letter, just made a few changes and presto! I even kept a few f their sentences in tact and used them in a different context than they were originally written in, you know like they do to us!

As always, feel free to Copy, cut paste, plagerize, etc., ... Just do something <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"></font c>


Dear President Bush:
cc: Your Senators

I am writing to urge you to protect access to our National Parks and other public lands including the use of snowmobiles, jet skis, and other off-highway vehicles.
Our public lands, especially national parks, represent the some of the last places where Americans can go and enjoy the natural experience of our Great Nation. Access is being threatened by the so called "environmentalists."
These groups, want no access to lands in NPs by use of motorized/mechanized vehicles. This jeopardizes public health and safety. Without some sort of motorization/mechanization many Americans, a lot of them Veterans, would not be able to see and explore our great Country. Our NPs belong to every American Citizen, not just the elite few that can hike for days to explore what the Parks have to offer. The National Park Service has taken reasonable and balanced steps to address these problems. There are current policies that need to be enforced. A total BAN is not the answer!

I urge you to protect our public lands from the abusive ways of the GAGs, and to maintain access for all, otherwise permanent damage to our society will result.

With your help, we can protect some America's special places for future generations while maintaining access for current generations. NPs are a place where families go to bond, enjoy the outdoors, and have fun. For many, this requires motorization/mechanization. Please help maintain America's family bonds, heritage, and lifestyles. Do not exclude motorized/mechanized access in America's National Parks!

Sincerely,
A Very Concerned Citizen,

Peter S. Di Primo
xxxx xxxxxxxxx st
Simi Valley Ca xxxxx-xxxx


<font color="yellow">and as always
<IMG SRC="smilies/flipoff.gif" border="0"> eco-nazis</font c>

DONE! And let me just say that web site is SCARY!! <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> Damn eco terrorists!! <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0">

CAREFUL!

Guys this is a great idea, BUT.....

Remember that they will be receiving a gazillion emails and correspondence from the greenies with that exact or similar wording and if you send one that similar to theirs it would be VERY easy for the recipient to quickly glance at it and assume it is another one from the greenies and file it as more support for their stance!

I'd make sure that whatever you send is different enough in the first couple of lines to make absolutely sure it is not mistaken for another greenie email. Use caps on key words or something and make the first couple of sentences very different to make yours stand out as NOT coming from a greenie.

[ 06-26-2001: Message edited by: GJarrett ]

Originally posted by JeepinIan:
<STRONG>Each of you know what to do with this & How to respond</STRONG>
You bet I do!
from the letter:
Dear President Bush:
cc: Your Senators

I am writing to urge you to protect our national parks and other public lands from the damage caused by snowmobiles, jet skis, and other off-road vehicles.And horses and hikers and bikers and strollers and the elderly and the minorities and the religious and the sinners.
Our public lands, especially national parks, represent the last places where Americans can go and enjoy the natural quiet and experience wild places.[/guote]What is natural quite? Is that different from non natural quite? Experiance wild places? You mean like the Wild Animal Park? If it's wild, how did you get there? Even footsteps leave footprints.
[quote]But they are threatened by off-road vehicles.And over regulation, over managed. Smog from the cities kills trees, asphalt takes forever to biodigrade. Dumpsters attract animals that should be wild and not tamed by hand feeding by hikers and become nuisance dumpster raiders.
These machines pollute the air and water, degrade vegetation, soil and other natural resources, and jeopardize public health and safety.As does the vehicle you got there in, the asphalt you drove on that creates dust, and water diversions that rob water from the natural pathways. The tourists that show up, bring trash that they leave behind. People that come are stealing oxygen that should be for the animals and trees only.
The National Park Service has taken reasonable and balanced steps to address these problems.I don't know what to say to this one.
I urge you to protect our public lands from off-road vehicle damage.And the best way to do that is by not closing down millions of acres so that those who enjoy the OHV activity aren't compressed into small tracts of land that will by default become overused. Designate new trails for the use of OHV enthusiasts so that all people can enjoy what the US has to offer.
With your help, we can protect some of America's special places for future generations.Along with allowing today's generation to still enjoy America's special places.

If we allow ppl to prohibit OHV's what will be nexct, bikers and horsemen? Then what. This burns me. Yes I'm sending a letter.