Friend,

The Trump Administration is gutting the Endangered Species Act without ever passing a law.

On September 14th, the director of the Fish and Wildlife Service quietly distributed a memo to federal field offices that fundamentally upends half a century of wildlife protection.

Under their new interpretation, killing an endangered species is no longer illegal as long as it is an "accident" during the course of economic activity. If a massive commercial shipping vessel runs over an endangered whale, or a logging company clear-cuts a forest and crushes the roosting bats inside it, the federal government says it doesn't count as a crime because the developers didn't mean to do it.

They are quite literally giving the extraction lobby a "Get Out of Jail Free" card to bulldoze over America's most imperiled wildlife.

This is a five-alarm fire for our public lands and the wildlife that depends on them. Will you pitch in $25 today to our rapid-response war chest to help us drag this corrupt memo into the light?

For decades, industries knew that if their commercial activities foreseeably killed endangered wildlife, they would be held accountable. That accountability forced them to operate carefully. It forced them to protect habitats.

Now, the administration is using a decades-old dissenting opinion from Antonin Scalia to unilaterally strip that accountability away. They want to absolve their billionaire corporate donors of any responsibility when their bulldozers, drills, and ships wipe out endangered species to pad their bottom lines.

They did this through a quiet internal memo because they know it is politically radioactive. They are banking on the American public being too distracted to notice before the upcoming elections.

We are going to prove them wrong by making sure every single voter knows exactly which politicians allowed federal bureaucrats to legalize the slaughter of our national wildlife.

Will you chip in $25, $50, or even $100 today to help us fund the backlash and hold them accountable at the ballot box?

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They think they can quietly sell out America's wildlife to the highest bidder. Let's make sure it costs them their jobs.

You take our land—we take your seat.

For the wild,
Public Land Warriors