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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:26px"><strong>Only Days Left to Speak Up for Wildlife and Wilderness!</strong></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><img alt="" src="http://www.swanview.org/FireMail/Alt-C-MAs-Map-300w.jpg" style="float:right; height:466px; margin:4px; width:300px">Let the Flathead National Forest know TODAY that you support Alternative C's new wilderness recommendations and prohibiting mechanized vehicles in those 507,000 acres/all roadless lands!</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Flathead finds "this alternative would provide the highest habitat security and connectivity for species that may be sensitive to higher levels of human disturbance." (DEIS Vol. 1, p. 27)</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But be sure to add that you want the reclamation of grizzly bear habitat security in roaded lands, as promised in the current Forest Plan's Amendment 19, carried forward in Alt. C!</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This Flathead NF map shows in light green Alt. C's recommended wilderness providing habitat connectivity the full length of the Swan Range and improvements thoughout the Whitefish Range, among other areas.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In asking the Flathead to adopt and improve Alt. C, know that you will be expanding wildlife habitat security and connectivity greatly, while also conserving quiet, non-mechanized recreation.</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As mentioned in our last alert, BEWARE, the <a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=3767d88626b7580333dfb8b472cd51da&link_id=2457" target="_blank">Whitefish Range Partnership Agreement</a> you may be asked to support. It asks for little wilderness and would increase logging in grizzly bear and lynx habitat through a combination of de-listing and relaxed management standards! (WRPA pdf page 28).</span></span></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=3767d88626b7580333dfb8b472cd51da&link_id=2458" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Simply enter your comment here.</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px"> If you have any trouble with that web page form, simply email your comment to Planning Officer Joe Krueger at </span><a href="mailto:jkrueger@fs.fed.us" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">jkrueger@fs.fed.us</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px"> .</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You can also submit our <a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=3767d88626b7580333dfb8b472cd51da&link_id=2459" target="_blank">form letter</a> if you wish, or chose the parts of it you like best. A mailing address is included in the <a href="http://www.swanview.org/?ACT=27&spoor=3767d88626b7580333dfb8b472cd51da&link_id=2460" target="_blank">form letter</a> 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=3767d88626b7580333dfb8b472cd51da&link_id=2461" target="_blank">Click here</a> 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><img src="http://www.swanview.org/graphics/Keith-and-Signature.png" style="height:86px; width:260px"></p><p>---------------------</p><p>Keith Hammer - Chair<br>
Swan View Coalition<br>
3165 Foothill Road<br>
Kalispell, MT 59901<br>
406-755-1379 (ph/fax)<br>
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