Wildlands Under Attack -- You Can Help

As you read this, Congress is on a one-month recess. But for rich fat-cat polluters and their K Street lobbyists, these are busy days.

While many critical conservation programs have already suffered deep cuts, developers, miners, drillers, industrial ranchers and other private interests are gathering like lions at a kill as our country braces for even more devastating cuts in conservation funding.

We need to stop this perverse pillaging of the wild.

Please make an urgent donation today. For a limited time, with any donation of $12 or more you’ll receive our stunning 2012 Wilderness calendar so that you can see what we need to protect every day of the year.

We are seeing a dangerously unbalanced approach to our debt crisis. Conservation programs key to ensuring our long-term public and environmental health are being cut to the bone, while corporate polluters like oil companies receive billions in taxpayer dollars each year.

It seems like almost nothing is off limits as these corporate interests seek to raid our most beloved wild places.

The Wilderness Society is the only organization whose sole mission is to protect America’s wild places — not as a relic of our nation’s past, but as a thriving, central part of America’s future and as part of our lives. You may have received this calendar in the mail from TWS recently and may have already sent in a gift. If so, we thank you for your generosity. If you have not yet given, please give now to help us fight for all the cherished wild places.

Your support will help The Wilderness Society continue to fend off assaults by private interests and extremists. We work on the ground every day with local communities - to protect the places we all love. Places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Alaskan Rainforest, and the Grand Canyon.

Summer is a time when many of us take the opportunity to experience the wild for ourselves. If you are like me, a hike in the woods feeds something deep inside — it restores and inspires us. One of our greatest challenges is to guarantee that our children inherit a world filled with natural beauty and pristine landscapes.

When Congress returns, there will undoubtedly be a battle to save wild lands from becoming corporate dumping grounds. We will need to fight for clean drinking water, breathable air, and against the irreversible damages to the habitat that America’s wildlife need to survive. It’s a fight we must not lose.

If you feel the same way, please join me today in supporting our urgent work on behalf of the wild.

Please make a generous donation today.

Sincerely,

Melanie Beller
Vice President of Policy, The Wilderness Society

P.S. We’re especially proud of our 2012 Wilderness calendar. It features breathtaking images shot by Wilderness Society members and selected as the very best photos by our online community. I know it will inspire you every day!