Dear Guardian,

Imperiled grizzly bears, Canada lynx and wolverine all call northern Montana’s Helena-Lewis and Clark 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 Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest is revising its forest plan, a document that will guide where and how much of the forest will be safe for wildlife over the next fifteen years. Please sign our citizens’ comment letter to ensure necessary safeguards are in place to protect the region’s magnificent wildlife.

The Northern Rockies are a crown jewel of our nation’s most idyllic intact, interconnected, big, wild places. And the Helena-Lewis and Clark––as a critical link between the Kootenai, Flathead, Lolo, and Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forests, as well as Glacier National Park––is central to fostering necessary habitat connectivity across the Crown of the Continent ecosystem.

The Helena-Lewis and Clark plays a vital role in recovering grizzly bears across their native landscape, serving as an essential corridor connecting grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem near Glacier to their southern brethren in the Greater Yellowstone area. 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.

Call on the Forest Service to rewild and remove thousands of miles of unnecessary roads currently fragmenting important wildlife habitat, keep filthy fossil fuels in the ground, and prohibit disturbance from snowmobiles and off-road vehicles raging across this quiet, wild landscape. Join us in 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 Helena-Lewis and Clark for our and future generations. Act today: be a voice for wildlife and wild places.

Thank you in advance for your activism,

 

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

photo credit: Sam Parks