<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Begin forwarded message:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"Swan View Coalition" <<a href="mailto:keith@swanview.org">keith@swanview.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Forest Plan Comments Needed NOW!</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">September 20, 2016 at 11:54:51 AM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><b>Reply-To: </b>"<a href="mailto:keith@swanview.org">keith@swanview.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:keith@swanview.org">keith@swanview.org</a>></div><br><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td><p><img src="http://www.swanview.org/graphics/email-template-header2.jpg" style="height: 212px; width: 600px;"><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 26px;"><strong>Your Forest Plan Comments Needed NOW!</strong></span></span></p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.swanview.org/FireMail/Sprunger-griz-core-600w.jpg" style="height: 449px; width: 600px;"></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Your short emails and letters are needed NOW to protect wildlands and wildlife habitat in the revised Flathead Forest Plan!</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Anti-wilderness letters are flooding in and, BEWARE, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2439" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">Whitefish Range Partnership Agreement</a> you may be asked to support asks for little Wilderness and increased logging in grizzly bear habitat via de-listing from the Endangered Species Act. It would also "challenge existing lynx management strategies" to increase logging in threatened lynx habitat! (WRPA pdf page 28)</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You can counter these bad ideas with one simple sentence:</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"I support Alternative C's recommendation of all roadless areas as Wilderness and ask that the current Forest Plan's Amendment 19 be included to finish securing the grizzly bear habitat it promised."</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2440" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">Simply enter your comment here.</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you have any trouble with that web page form, simply email your comment to Planning Officer Joe Krueger at <a href="mailto:jkrueger@fs.fed.us" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">jkrueger@fs.fed.us</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You can also submit our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2441" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">form letter</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>if you wish, or chose the parts of it you like best. A mailing address is included in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2442" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">form letter</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>if you wish to mail in a hard copy.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2443" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">Click here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for more information and links to the Forest Plan documents.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Comments are due by October 3, but do it NOW!</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Please also<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2444" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">Donate Now</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to support our work and Cinnabar Foundation will double the first $2,000 in donations with a matching grant!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Your support is greatly appreciated and we think the bears and lynx will appreciate it too!</span></span></p><p><img src="http://www.swanview.org/graphics/Keith-and-Signature.png" style="height: 86px; width: 260px;"></p><p>---------------------</p><p><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2445" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;"><img alt="" src="http://www.swanrange.org/graphics/donate-now.png" style="height: 73px; width: 260px;"></a></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">~ Problems?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2446" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">Click here to view this message on our web site.</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>~</span></span></p><p>*You have either asked to receive our newsletters and alerts electronically or are subscribed to the Swan Ranger email list, where you'll receive weekly notes on the Saturday Swan Ranger outings, occasional articles about the cultural and natural history of the Swan Range, occasional postings about other Swan Range Community functions, our quarterly newsletter, and an occasional call to action to help secure quiet habitat for fish, wildlife and people.</p><p>To adjust your subscription, simply reply to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:keith@swanview.org" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">keith@swanview.org<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>with either "whole enchilada", "newsletter and alerts only", or "unsubscribe entirely" in the subject line.<br>--</p><p>Keith Hammer - Chair<br>Swan View Coalition<br>3165 Foothill Road<br>Kalispell, MT 59901<br>406-755-1379 (ph/fax)<br><a href="mailto:keith@swanview.org" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">keith@swanview.org<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a><br><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2447" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">http://www.swanview.org</a><br><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468&link_id=2448" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(123, 72, 12) !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-variant: normal !important;">http://www.swanrange.org</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://www.mailscanner.tv/1x1spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=26&spoor=98d2dc7e0f736bbc1b5778a6ca260468"></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>