Hi John,

Canada lynx depend on mature and old-growth forests to den and raise their young. Since they avoid large, open areas, the Roadless Rule — protecting tens of millions of acres of national forest from roadbuilding and logging — is critical to their survival.

They're among at least 500 species put at risk by Trump's pending elimination of this crucial safeguard.

Please help us fight back with a gift today to the Wildlife and Wild Places Defense Fund.

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The Roadless Rule has been in place for over two decades. It was created to keep the last wild, unfragmented areas of national forests — and their rich, biodiverse ecosystems — intact.

It protects lynx, grizzlies, mountain lions, migratory birds and many other species from the scourge of habitat loss and fragmentation.

But now Trump, aiming to turn national forests into timber factories, is moving to throw out the rule. That would be a disastrous decision. Up to 45 million acres of our remnant wild places could be opened up to roads and logging.

Habitat destruction is one of the key drivers of the extinction crisis. And when wild places are developed and paved over, fatal interactions between wildlife and humans increase.

National forest roadless areas ensure that large, landscape-scale wildlife habitat and migration corridors stay intact. Wildlife depend on these unfragmented forests for food, mating and seasonal migration — from tiny fish to majestic predators.

Our forests are already crisscrossed by more than 370,000 miles of roads, polluting rivers and streams with sediment and hurting drinking-water supplies.

The Roadless Rule saves species' lives, along with the health of our forests. Getting rid of it makes no sense.

No one wants our forests paved over. And no one wants lynx and other species to be pushed to extinction.

Please help by giving to the Wildlife and Wild Places Defense Fund.

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For the wild,

Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

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