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Hi John,
Grizzly bears can travel from 20 to 40 miles a day, especially during mating season or when they're looking for food.
But now grizzlies in western Montana may go hungry and find their habitat left in ruins. The Bureau of Land Management has greenlit a massive logging operation where grizzlies have finally returned — and it just started yesterday.
Of course the Center for Biological Diversity is already in court: Last week we sued to stop the destruction. And we're about to pile on another lawsuit in defense of grizzlies against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Please strengthen our fight for grizzlies and other species with a gift to the Future for the Wild Fund. All gifts made before Dec. 31 will be matched.
The Clark Fork Face Project, 30 minutes east of Missoula, would allow logging across nearly 17,000 acres of BLM-managed lands.
Canada lynx, wolverines, elk, and bull trout are also threatened by the project.
This logging would sever vital corridors for wildlife navigating between the Northern Continental Divide, Greater Yellowstone and Bitterroot ecosystems. This area was also ruthlessly logged in the 1980s.
Threatened grizzlies and wolverines are just beginning to use the Garnet Mountains in Montana. To destroy these forested areas would be a disaster for them — and for the whole ecosystem.
By refusing to consider logging projects' cumulative threats, and the best-available science, government agencies are leaving threatened and endangered species at greater risk of extinction.
Our public lands shouldn't be handed over to industry, which will continue to plunder forests and other ecosystems until wildlife has no place to go. It's both wrong and illegal for the federal government to allow the destruction of habitat of species fighting for survival.
That's why we went to court and will do so again. Grizzlies, lynx, wolverines and other animals can't stop their forest home from being destroyed, but we can.
The Center was founded to safeguard wildlife on the edge and speak up for those who can't.
We won't stop doing what's right for the species we love.
Start a monthly donation today so you can have the most powerful impact on our uncompromising defense of the natural world — and be with us every day as we secure a future for the wild.
For the wild,
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