Dear Guardian,

It’s becoming all too clear why President Trump has attacked our National Monuments.

This month, Trump and his Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, announced plans to auction off more than 57,000 acres of our public lands for fracking right next to the Bears Ears National Monument in Southern Utah.

This is where your voice matters most. Speak out today to defend our sacred public lands and resist the oil and gas industry’s attempts to despoil the Bears Ears.

The Bears Ears National Monument is our nation’s newest Monument and a cultural treasure. It’s deep canyons, iconic buttes, and Ancestral Puebloan ruins are unmatched and they’re a majestic symbol of American history and our legacy of public lands.

Apparently, though, Trump and Zinke couldn’t care less about reverence for the sacred.

They’ve not only indicated they intend to lift protections for the Bears Ears, now they’re greasing the skids for companies to come in and frack.

Send a letter today in defense of Bears Ears and in support of the American West. Tell Trump and Zinke that we won’t tolerate their schemes to sell our public lands to the oil and gas industry.

Because it’s not just our lands, it’s also our climate and our clean energy future at risk. 

Every acre of public lands auctioned to the oil and gas industry for fracking leads to 10 metric tons of carbon pollution every year. With 26 million acres already sold to the companies like BP and Exxon, we can’t afford one more acre to be given away.

Defend the Bears Ears National Monument and our climate from fracking. Stand up to the oil and gas industry and their cronies, Trump and Zinke.

Thank you.

For the wild,

 

Jeremy Nichols
Climate & Energy Program Director
WildEarth Guardians
jnichols@wildearthguardians.org

P.S.  Zinke’s plans also threaten Recapture Canyon, a spectacular area full of rich cultural history.  While this Canyon is closed to motorized vehicles, it could be opened up to the oil and gas industry, destroying its cultural heritage.

P.P.S.  Unbelievably, the oil and gas industry has described the Bears Ears National Monument as an “obstacle” to development. Only by rising up and pushing back will we have a chance to keep Bears Ears and other sacred lands safe from fracking.

 

photo: WildEarth Guardians