Dear Affiliate,

We need your help galvanizing your members to contact Congress on December 7th during a national call-in day to thwart devastating cuts to wildlife conservation funding.

Congress is aiming the budget axe straight toward our most vulnerable wildlife. For example, the US Fish and Wildlife Service  is facing an unprecedented 20% cut and includes such important programs as the as State & Tribal Wildlife Grants Program (60% cut), National Wildlife Refuge System, Migratory Bird and Endangered Species programs.  As Congress finalizes the spending bill in the next week, the public must make it clear that our leaders should uphold America’s commitment to protecting our wildlife and natural resources, not dismantle it.

Your voice and those of your members is crucial. We must seize this opportunity to reach out to members of Congress to increase the visibility of these programs, address the impacts of cutting wildlife programs and drive home the message to save wildlife by keeping wildlife funding robust.

As such, we need YOUR help to share the attached Funding for Wildlife Conservation document (Click Here) (talking points included) with your membership for a National Call-In—Wednesday, December 7th, 2011—where your members can contact their members of Congress to let them know why they must work to protect funding for these programs and oppose any anti-wildlife provisions. There is no better time than NOW to highlight to Congress and the Administration why wildlife conservation programs remain vital and should not suffer severe cuts. These proposed cuts will be nothing short of devastating to the conservation of our wildlife, and natural resources.

If you have any questions, please contact Naomi Edelson, Director – State and Federal Wildlife Partnerships, at 202.797.6889 or at edelsonn@nwf.org.

Lew Carpenter

National Wildlife Federation

Regional Representative (WY, NE, NV

Carpenterl@nwf.org

303.834.0998

www.ourpubliclands.org

www.vanishingparadise.org

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