Dear National Park Advocate,

When the State of Montana wanted to expand a major highway near
Glacier National Park, tribal leaders and park advocates knew it could
spell trouble. Together with other community leaders, the Confederated
Salish and Kootenai Tribal Government spoke out and pushed Montana to
evaluate how the project could damage the cultural resources,
landscape and wildlife.

And they won.

That's the power of environmental review and community input. It's a
power the administration is trying to take away from communities like
yours.

Take action now! Tell the administration that you want strong
environmental reviews -- with community input -- to protect parks from
destructive development.

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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires the government
to evaluate environmental impacts of major projects on public lands
and to accept input from the public in that review.

It's the reason the government has to assess the potential damage of
an oil rig near a park, or how a road might sever an important
migration route. It keeps the government and industries from shutting
out the public and cutting corners when it comes to protecting parks.

NEPA is the reason US Highway 93 now has wildlife crossings and loops
around the Ninepipes wetlands south of Glacier.

But a new proposal from the administration would undercut NEPA by
limiting public input and allowing companies to essentially conduct
environmental reviews themselves. Worse still, the changes would
redefine which projects need environmental reviews in the first place
and ignore indirect or cumulative impacts of a project -- like
downstream pollution and climate change.

Send your message now to the White House's Council on Environmental
Quality. Tell them: Keep parks protected and don't dismantle NEPA!

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Bedrock environmental laws like NEPA play a huge role in safeguarding
every one of America's national parks.

Thank you for standing up for the laws that protect our parks.

Tucker Johnson
Natural Resources Analyst


NPCA | 777 6th Street, NW | Suite 700 |
Washington, DC 20001 | 800.NAT.PARK | [email protected]

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