SIGNATURES NEEDED TO SHOW OUR SUPPORT FOR WILDERNESS
PROTECTION!
Your help is needed to pass the California Wild Heritage Wilderness Act
of 2002, introduced by Senator Boxer in May. Senator Feinstein still needs
to
sign on to the bill, and so the California Wild Heritage Campaign has begun
a statewide petition effort to let the senator know that Californians care
about wilderness and want more of it protected.
To sign the petition on-line, simply direct your browser to:
www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Wild-Places/
Also please refer you friend to the SDSU web site.
Our URL is : http://www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~seac
Please also copy the address of the petition and send it to your friend.
You can also sign up to be on a signature-gathering team.
For more info, call:
Larry Hogue at 858-452-6654
or Camille Armstrong at 858-566-5676
BACKGROUND
The California Wild Heritage Act, if passed, will designate 2.4 million
additional acres of wilderness on Bureau of Land Management and Forest
Service land in California and will also designate sections of 22 rivers
as "Wild and Scenic." The areas are
distributed across the state, and represent a wide range of elevations
and
habitat types. In San Diego, we have 44,000 acres of
proposed wilderness, including important un-road chaparral and oak
forest at the head of the San Diego River watershed (Eagle Peak Complex),
riparian habitat along Hauser Creek and chaparral habitat on Hauser Mountain,
and two additions to existing desert wilderness areas, the Carrizo Gorge
Wilderness and Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness. We also have proposed
Wild and Scenic river segments on the San Diego River, Cedar Creek, and
Pine
Valley Creek.
For more information on the bill, please visit: http://www.californiawild.org
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