Help save Wyoming's wildlife from an invasion of gas rigs

The Bush administration wants to drill more than 7,800 new gaswells in Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley, an irreplaceablewinter range for 100,000 mule deer, pronghorn, moose and elk.NRDC activists sent thousands of messages earlier this yearprotesting a separate proposal to expand gas drilling in thisspectacular region. Now, the Bush administration is pushing along-term management plan for the Upper Green River Valley thatwould almost triple the number of oil and gas wells currently inplace, and we must respond with an even bigger outcry.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeactionand tell the Bureau of Land Management to develop a managementplan for the Upper Green River Valley that safeguards theregion's extraordinary wildlife and other natural values.Nestled between the Wind River, Gros Ventre and Wyoming ranges,the 1.2 million-acre Upper Green River Valley is the largestexpanse of publicly owned winter wildlife habitat in GreaterYellowstone.Each year, pronghorn travel up to 160 miles between Grand TetonNational Park and Wyoming's Red Desert to forage on the region'ssagebrush steppes and valley bottoms laced with willow andcottonwoods.

Expanding drilling in this area would scar the landscape withroads, pipelines and transmission lines, harm crucial wildlifehabitat, and could pollute the fisheries of the Green and NewFork rivers.Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeactionand tell the Bush administration to protect the outstanding wildranges of the Upper Green River Valley from gas drilling.Thank you for speaking out to protect our western wildlifehabitats.