Please read the alert carefully and please visit the web site at the end of the alert for more details. From that web site you may send your reply to the BLM project leaders by e-mail or you send comments to them by postal mail at the addresses given. As expected, the livestock lobby is furiously fighting the proposal. Hence, we must inundate the BLM with our comments resolutely championing the protection of the fragile New Mexico ecosystems. A victory here may begin momentum and embolden the government to advance similar proposals elsewhere.
Public support is essential.
Please distribute this alert extensively. In response to public pressure and lawsuits to protect endangered species, the federal government has developed plans which could remove cattle from 400 miles of streams and wetlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management in New Mexico. But the government is under heavy pressure from the livestock industry to maintain business as usual. If industry gets their way, the BLM will keep permitting overgrazing until no clean water, or sensitive wildlife are left on our public lands. Extended comment period ends February 11, 2000.