Dear Guardian,

Imperiled grizzly bears, Canada lynx and wolverine all call northwest Montana’s Flathead National Forest home. Facing threats from climate change, traps and habitat destruction, they need you to speak out to protect one of their last remaining wild refuges.

The Flathead National Forest is revising its forest plan, a document that will guide where and how much of the forest will be safe for wildlife. Please sign our citizens’ comment letter to ensure necessary safeguards are in place to protect the region’s wildlife.

The Flathead provides vital habitat for grizzly bears in the heart of the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. Importantly, decisions made today in the Flathead will have a ripple effect through the entire ecosystem: four other neighboring national forests plan to adopt the Flathead’s grizzly bear habitat protections. That means your voice will impact decisions across 3.42 million acres of our public lands.

The Northern Rockies are a crown jewel of our nation’s most idyllic intact, interconnected, big, wild places. Join us in calling on the U.S. Forest Service to ensure this region will thrive into the future for the benefit of wildlife and people alike.

Join us in calling on the Forest Service to rewild and remove thousands of miles of unnecessary roads currently fragmenting important wildlife habitat, keep fossil fuels in the ground, and prohibit disturbance from snowmobiles and off-road vehicles raging across this quiet, wild landscape. We are also asking the Forest Service to increase habitat protections for rare and imperiled species including grizzly bears, lynx, and wolverines.

You can help make lasting positive change on our public lands in the Flathead and across the Crown of the Continent ecosystem. Join us in being a voice for wildlife and wild places.

For the wild,

 

Bethany Cotton
Wildlife Program Director
WildEarth Guardians
bcotton@wildearthguardians.org

 

 

photo credit: Sam Parks Photography