<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" 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;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">SPEAK UP FOR MONTANA’S WILDLANDS AND WILDLIFE!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Greetings from the Flathead-Lolo-Bitterroot Citizen's Task Force:*<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">You are invited to join fellow wildlands and wildlife advocates at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Imagine Nation Brewing</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for pizza and beer and the opportunity to speak up for Montana’s wildlands and wildlife.</span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The outreach meeting will be held at Imagine Nation Brewing (1151 W. Broadway) from 6 to 8<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">p.m</span>. on Tuesday, March 14<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">and is open to the public.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We’ll be sharing information and mobilizing in defense of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Monture and Swan Front inventoried roadless areas</b>, two wild gems located in occupied grizzly habitat that are threatened by Senator Tester's proposed legislation, S. 507 (announced last week in an article in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Missoulian</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We’ll also mobilize against the Montana Legislature’s resolutions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">urging Congress to release all of Montana’s congressionally designated<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Wilderness Study Areas</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from protection (HJ No. 9), and to strip Endangered Species Act protections from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>grizzly bears</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(HJ No. 15).</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We’ll have letter-writing materials on hand, but if you can bring your laptop or other electronic devices it will help speed the process along.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The threats to our public lands have rarely been more acute.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>This event is a great way to weigh in with elected officials and let them know that you care about our wildlands and want them protected.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Feel free to invite friends and work cohorts as we need to build our organizing capacity in the face of such significant threats to national forest management and policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">*The Flathead-Lolo-Bitterroot Citizen Task Force is an alliance of local, regional, and national conservation organizations cooperating to protect the wildlands and wildlife of western Montana.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Come and learn more about the Task Force and how you can help.</span></i></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>