Via the Natural Resources Defense Council:

Speak out to keep a destructive road out of California’s White Mountains

Furnace Creek is a rare desert stream that drains America’s largest desert mountain range, the White Mountains of California’s eastern Sierra. The creek’s surrounding ecosystem of cottonwoods and willows provides habitat to endangered species such as the southwestern willow flycatcher and the western sage grouse.

The Bureau of Land Management has proposed constructing a new (and unnecessary) road through the heart of Furnace Creek that would cut across the White Mountains Wilderness Study Area and invite motorized vehicles into other fragile lands of the White Mountains. The road also would lead to illegal off-road vehicle activity, resulting in habitat damage and conflicts with hikers, equestrians, hunters, anglers and other visitors.

The BLM is accepting comments on its road proposal through December 11th.

Sample letter here.

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