Campaign for America’s Wilderness: The Kootenai’s wild places need your help!
August 1st, 2006 12:20 pm by KellyVia Campaign for America’s Wilderness:
The Scotchman Peaks are a rugged, scenic and biologically diverse wild place straddling the border of northern Idaho and Montana. Unfortunately, the Bush Administration’s Forest Service has proposed a plan for the Kootenai National Forest that eliminates recommended wilderness across the entire forest, including portions of the Scotchman Peaks which have been managed since the 1970s as recommended wilderness, a designation which safeguards these areas from logging and development.
This sweeping change goes against the desires of the local community to preserve these forests as they are for future generations to use and enjoy. As stakeholders in the future of this irreplaceable landscape, your voice is important. Please ask the Kootenai National Forest planning team to reinstate the recommended wilderness in their final forest plan.
Tell the Kootenai National Forest planning team to protect our wilderness by clicking here.
