Petition number 999? So many, so little time...Bush is a tush...

Dear Friend, Many new resources are and perhaps to be discovered closer to home, yet as soon as September 27, one of the most remarkable wetlands on the planet could be in the hands of the oil industry. This fragile habitat is home to millions of waterfowl and tens of thousands of caribou. I just took action to protect this area and the wildlife it hosts, and I hope you too will take action by clicking here: http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/teshekpuk . The place is Teshekpuk Lake Special Area in Alaska, and you have a chance right now to protect this land - public land, our land - from oil and gas interests. I once worked in federal archeology in Skagway, Alaska and watched the Saudi prospectors in Land Rovers start up the unofficially opened highway into British Columbia, the Yukon and other northern areas, where the historic narrow gauge railroad was then hauling preprocessed molybdenum ore for the Japanese steel industry from BC. I helped some of the first excavations around the settler Moore's cabin and Alaska's first railroad station, nearby Alaska's first stone building, a museum, in 1980 when Mt. St. Helens "erupted violently in 1980 after 123 years of inactivity" for the National Parks Service. The Wilderness Society urgently needs your help before it's too late! Click here to write the Interior Secretary and demand that the imminent oil and gas lease sale be stopped: http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/teshekpuk After you take action, forward this message to others - we'll build enough public pressure to stop the imminent oil and gas plan!