NREPA--Letters of Endorsement

Here is but a small sampling from the many letters received in support of NREPA.

"Presently, the best bill for the defense of our remaining unprotected de facto wilderness is the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act."
--David Brower, founder of Earth Island Institute and Friends of the Earth, former executive director of the Sierra Club

April 21, 1999
"Earth Ministry is pleased to join our voice, along with all the other organizations, to endorse the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act. We are ecumenical, Christian, environmental ministry representing over 3,300 constituents."
--Rev. James T. Mulligan, Executive Director Seattle, WA

January 27, 1999
"REP America, the national grassroots organization of Republicans for Environmental Protection, fully supports the NREPA. NREPA offers a scientifically-sound, economically-sensible approach to conserving our heritage of wild places."
--Martha A. Marks, President Deerfield, IL

March 9, 1999
"We endorse NREPA and will work for it in Congress."
--Mike Clark, Executive Director, Greater Yellowstone Coalition Bozeman, MT

March 1, 1999 "Friends of the West is an organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of Idaho's native wildlife, especially predators, and their habitat. We in the Northwest would all benefit with the passage of NREPA."
--Kathy Richmond, Vice President Clayton, ID

August 13, 1998
"On behalf of the Sierra Club's more than half-million members, I want to thank you [Rep. Shays and Maloney] for being a primary cosponsor of the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act. The NREPA is a critical and visionary piece of legislation."
--Carl Pope, Executive Director San Francisco, CA

June 24, 1998
"By promoting the conservation biology approach to managing ecosystems exemplified in NREPA, you are leading the American conservation movement in a necessary direction toward science-based, landscape level habitat reserve systems. We fully support NREPA."
--Michael T. Leahy Forest Campaign Coordinator, National Audubon Society Washington, DC

January 31, 1995
"It is, without question, the foremost piece of legislation brought before Congress since the Wilderness Act of 1964. Ecologically, this is the smartest wilderness bill to date."
--Cabinet Resource Group Trout Creek, MT

June 28, 1994
"NREPA is a fantastic bill, providing wilderness areas that are based upon sound ecological principles."
--Jim Nuess, president, Blue Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited Pendleton, OR

October 3, 1993
"On behalf of the more than 35,000 members of the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club I am writing to thank you [Rep. Maloney] for your courageous action in introducing the NREPA. The remaining roadless federal lands in the Northern Rockies which are included in this proposal are a national treasure of incalculable value to all Americans."
--Don Young, Chair Atlantic Chapter New York, NY

July 16, 1993
"NREPA embodies a serious effort to prevent the losses to taxpayers that result from current management of the region."
--Jill Lancelot, National Taxpayers Union Washington, DC

April 12, 1993
"The Missoula-Bitterroot Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association officially endorsed the NREPA."
--Michael Jarnevic, Chapter President Bonner, MT

August 7, 1992
"I find it commendable, through bills such as NREPA, that the American people have found common cause with the spirit and philosophies of our Native North Americans."
--Chief Floyd Heavy Runner, Blackfeet Crazy Dogs Society Heart Butte, MT

July 9, 1992
"I am proud to announce that Oregon Wildlife Federation's Board of Directors voted unanimously to support and endorse the NREPA. A bioregional approach is certainly the right way to improve and protect our intact ecosystems and is a model for conservation groups worldwide."
--Stu Sugarman, President Portland, OR

November 15, 1991
"Conservation biology clearly indicates the need to adapt a bioregional perspective in attempting to preserve ecosystems and, in particular, plant and animal species that occur only within specialized environs or niches. Wyoming Wildlife Federation Board of Directors voted unanimously to support the NREPA."
--John Zelazny, Assistant Director for issues Cheyenne, WY

September 6, 1991
"Pilchuck Audubon Society passed a resolution supporting NREPA."
--Bonnie Phillips-Howard, Conservation Chair Stanwood, WA

August 5, 1991
"Lighthawk believes that the NREPA is necessary to preserve this unique and priceless ecosystem, and thus calls upon our elected officials to protect our national heritage and work towards passage of NREPA."
--Les Welsh, Regional Director, NW field office Seattle, WA

July 15, 1991
"An exemplary piece of proposed legislation based on the best available scientific thought on what it takes to maintain biological diversity. Without it, I fear the worst for the future of the Northern Rockies."
--Dr. Reed Noss, Ecologist and Conservation Biologist

January 29, 1991
"This legislation offers a comprehensive approach to protecting the best undeveloped lands of the Rockies."
--Ron Mitchell, executive director, Idaho Sportsmen Coalition Boise, ID

"NREPA is a grassroots proposal which should be seen as an aggressive and logical response to the political gaming that has characterized this issue in the past."
--Last Chance Audubon Society Helena, MT

"The strength of NREPA is its ecological foundation which brings the best science to bear within a piece of legislation. It would bring stability to the rural economies of the region by protecting the multi-million dollar outfitting, fishing, and recreation industries while bringing a measure of predictability and stability to the timber industry of the region."
--Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics Eugene, OR

"NREPA heralds a new era in public lands management, based upon securing the integrity of the ecosystem in a biologically and economically sustainable way. NREPA is also cost-effective legislation. It will eliminate the practice of below-cost timber sales that have burdened taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

NREPA has the strong support of the American People, who own these public lands. At a time when only 5% of America's original pristine forests still remain, it is our duty and obligation to protect and restore these national treasures as we have enjoyed them and been sustained by them physically, mentally, and spiritually."
--former President Jimmy Carter GA

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