Defenders of Wildlife - Environmental Defense Fund - lzaak Walton League - National Audubon Society - National Parks and Conservation Association - National Wildlife Federation Natural Resources Defense Council - The Wilderness Society September 28.1999 Protect America's Environment Campaign P.O. Box 96007 Washington. DC 20090 WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR FUNDS! WE ONLY ASK FOR YOUR SIGNATURE ... TO SHOW YOUR OPPOSITION TO BACK-DOOR ATTACKS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUPPORT FOR PRESERVING OUR SPECIAL PLACES! As eight of the nation's largest environmental groups, we are making this unprecedented plea for your immediate help to: 1) stop Congress' destructive back-door attacks on our environment; and 2) help protect America's special places from sprawl and development. We need your help in these vital battles by communicating your support to the President. Despite overwhelming popular support for environmental protection, efforts to weaken our landmark environmental laws continue. Anti-environmentalist forces in Congress have launched a succession of destructive back-door attacks by burying damaging provisions - called riders - on must-pass budget bills in the dead of night, usually without public hearings, open debate, or public votes. At this moment, there are more than 40 destructive anti-environment riders that threaten wetlands protection, our National Forests, control of global warming, air pollution, wildlife, and controls on mining and grazing on public lands. As we approach the millennium, it's time to demand that our decision makers in Washington stop these stealth attacks on the environment, and move forward to protect and preserve what remains of the natural grandeur that has helped to define us as a nation.

PETITION TO PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON I am writing to you about two of the greatest environmental challenges facing our country today ... Congress' destructive back-door attacks on our environment, and the need to further protect America's special places from sprawi and development. Congress now makes a regular practice of attaching destructive riders to must-pass budget bills, attacking our environmental protections in the dark of night, usually without public hearings, voting or debate. More than 40 such attacks are now pending in Congress on dozens of vital environmental and conservation issues. It is time for our nation to move forward, rather than backward, on our environment. We are losing millions of precious acres of wildlife habitat, forests, pristine coastal areas, open space, and farmland every year to sprawl and uncontrolled development. Across the country, historic structures are in disrepair, parks are deteriorating, and wildlife is declining. America is losing its wild and special places. You have often fought for the environment and I ask you to do so again on these two priority issues. Please do everything in your power to stop anti-environmental riders. And please make it your highest priority to accelerate long-term efforts to protect and preserve - through land acquisition and other means - our natural heritage. Mr. President, please also say "no" to any weakening of current federal conservation efforts while making protection of our special places a permanent top priority for our nation. M9JPIOOO 9990472141 My E-Mail Address: Name: President@WhiteHouse.gov