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Protecting our public lands means funding and staffing them!!

America’s national parks are facing one of the biggest threats in their history — and it’s happening behind the scenes. In the past 10 months alone, the National Park Service has lost nearly 25% of the permanent workforce. Fewer rangers and fewer specialists mean less ability to monitor wildlife, maintain trails, repair infrastructure, and prepare for increasingly intense climate impacts. As the park leaders in this new video explain, the lack of sustained funding and staffing is putting the core mission of the National Park Service at risk. It’s simple: we’re urging Congress and the administration to provide consistent, long-term support. Cutting park budgets does not save money — it undermines the future of America’s greatest treasures. Watch and share to stand with rangers and the communities who protect our parks.

PROTECT ROADLESS AREAS! This is the Salt Creek-Fish Canyon Inventoried Roadless Area on the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County. It is the largest remaining block of undisturbed habitat on the Angeles Forest that is not permanently protected. Botanically rich and diverse, the area supports numerous rare plants, the largest black oak groves in southern California, and one of the few stands of native gray pines on the Angeles Forest. Fish Canyon and Castaic Creeks provide important riparian and aquatic habitat for at-risk amphibians and migrating songbirds. This area has some of the highest density and variety of heritage and cultural resources in the region. It is also a crucial biological crossroads connecting the San Gabriel Mountains, Mojave Desert, Tehachapi Mountains, and Transverse Ranges. The area provides fresh water for downstream communities in LA County.

The Salt Creek-Fish Canyon roadless area is protected by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which the Trump Administration is proposing to repeal. Keeping this area roadless lowers the risk of destructive wildfires (far more fires start in roaded areas), supports healthy watersheds that produce clean water, offers outstanding opportunities for outdoor recreation, and provides refuge and habitat for at-risk wildlife species. Our National Forests already have more roads than the Forest Service has resources to maintain. Please act today to oppose President Trump’s proposal to repeal this simple protection for the last remnants of America’s once vast wild heritage. The public comment deadline is Sep. 19.

Click here to learn more about areas throughout the state threatened by the Roadless Rule Repeal: https://www.calwild.org/critical-roadless-areas-across-california/.

To email a comment opposing the repeal, click here: https://www.calwild.org/roadlesscommentshere/.

PROTECT ROADLESS AREAS! This is the Kings River in the Kings River Inventoried Roadless Area on the Sierra National Forest in Fresno County. The roadless area begins at 1,000 feet elevation in the Sierra foothills and climbs eastward to the adjacent Monarch Wilderness and Kings Canyon National Park. This elevation diversity provides for the migration of wildlife and plant species to higher elevation refuges in reaction to global warming. The river is a state designated Wild Trout Water and its lower canyon provides crucial winter range for two major deer herds, as well as habitat for bald and golden eagle, peregrine and prairie falcon, willow flycatcher, and a host of other bird species. Visitors come from all over California to raft and kayak the river’s class III-IV rapids and fish for its wild trout. Several campgrounds provide excellent base camps to explore the river and to hike the Kings River National Recreation Trail.

The Kings River roadless area is protected by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which the Trump Administration is proposing to repeal. Keeping this area roadless lowers the risk of destructive wildfires (far more fires start in roaded areas), supports healthy watersheds that produce clean water, offers outstanding opportunities for outdoor recreation, and provides refuge and habitat for at-risk wildlife species. Our National Forests already have more roads than the Forest Service has resources to maintain. Please act today to oppose President Trump’s proposal to repeal this simple protection for the last remnants of America’s once vast wild heritage. The public comment deadline is Sep. 19.
Click here to learn more about areas throughout the state threatened by the Roadless Rule Repeal: https://www.calwild.org/critical-roadless-areas-across-california/.
To email a comment opposing the repeal, click here: https://www.calwild.org/roadlesscommentshere/.