Dear Guardian,
Climate change is altering the patterns of precipitation and
runoff we’ve come to know.
Drought and hotter temperatures will make life more
difficult for many sensitive plants and animal, including many endangered species
that depend on rivers and streams - our arteries of life.
We have to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions before this
problem spirals further out of control.
But in the meantime WildEarth Guardians believes confronting
the climate crisis also means making ecosystems more healthy and resilient in
the face of the changing climate.
Fortunately, we have a knight in shining armor ready to lend
a hand in helping many endangered plants and animals adapt to a new climate
reality – Super Beaver!
WildEarth Guardians is working to advance beaver restoration
and protection on national forests and other public lands in the American West
as a means to enhance the resilience of streams and rivers. Beaver restoration - with their dams and
ponds, which hold more water in place - can counter the effects of longer, more
intense drought, earlier snowmelts and warmer temperatures.
Please write to the Forest Service today and tell them you
support an aggressive plan to restore beaver to every single mile of suitable
habitats on our national forests.
Unfortunately beavers have been eliminated from literally
thousands of streams on public lands across the West.
Beaver trapping is still widespread on many public and
private lands in the West, and at the same time the Department of Agriculture
has killed more than 100,000 beavers over the last five years. Cattle grazing damages and destroys
streamside vegetation preventing beaver recovery and re-population in their
historic habitat.
WildEarth Guardians needs your help in telling the U.S.
Forest Service to support our diverse approach to beaver restoration.
We are restoring streams, partnering with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture on beaver reestablishment on Forest Service lands, and
collaborating with federal land managers, Native American tribes, state
wildlife agencies and municipalities.
Write to the Chief of the Forest Service today. Tell him we can’t afford to wait any
longer or we’ll lose even more habitats and species. Super Beaver is here to help but this animal can’t do its
job without our support.
For the Wild,
Bryan Bird
Wild Places Program Director
WildEarth Guardians
bbird@wildearthguardians.org
