<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><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; line-height: 28px;">Letter writing party to protect grizzly bears in Montana!</span></div><div><font size="4"><font color="#1d2129" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 28px;"><br></span></font><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; line-height: 28px;">Wednesday, September 5 from 6pm to 8 pm at Imagine Nation Brewing (1151 W. Broadway in Missoula)</span><br><font color="#1d2129" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 28px;"><br></span></font><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; line-height: 28px;">Please join us for a letter-writing party concerning the Montana Fish Wildlife and Park’s public comment period on the conservation strategy for grizzly bear management in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE). </span></font><br><font color="#1d2129" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; line-height: 28px;">Have a beer, get information and take action to protect grizzly bears and the habitat they need to survive and thrive!</span><br><font color="#1d2129" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; line-height: 28px;">We will be writing letters to Montana FWP urging them to prevent grizzly bear hunting in Montana. Montana’s State Animal needs increased habitat protection including roadless areas, low road density areas, and habitats that link the NCDE with other grizzly bear populations in the Northern Rockies. </span><br><font color="#1d2129" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; line-height: 28px;">Let Montana FWP know that Habitat protection is inextricably linked to the survival of the grizzly bear and that it’s premature to remove Endangered Species Act protection for grizzly bears living in the NCDE.</span><br><font color="#1d2129" face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px;"><br></span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; line-height: 28px;">The event is co-sponsored by the Flathead-Lolo-Bitterroot Citizens Task Force, which includes Wilderness Watch , WildEarth Guardians, Friends of the Bitterroot, WildWest Institute, Western Watersheds Project, Friends of the Rattlesnake, WildLands Defense, Friends of the Clearwater, Swan View Coalition and Rattlesnake Watershed Group.</span><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font color="#0f61c8"><br></font></div></body></html>