Oppose the Senate reconciliation bill

Tell the Senate: Don't sell public lands or cut park funding

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We could see one of the largest fire sales of public lands in our nation’s history – with roughly 3 million acres going to the highest bidder – thanks to the Senate’s new budget reconciliation bill. And more than 120 national parks could feel the impacts.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, this same bill slashes funding for park staffing, prioritizes oil and gas drilling -- even on park borders -- and forces construction of the twice-rejected Ambler Mining Road through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.

It’s an unpopular and controversial bill, but the Senate could vote as soon as next week.

Take action right now to tell your senators that you want to see all America’s parks and public lands protected.

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As your constituent and as a supporter of our national parks, I urge you to oppose the reconciliation bill language released by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. This is an anti-national parks bill.

The National Park Service has been understaffed for over a decade. But this bill cuts funding for national park staffing and programs. The oil and gas industry should be paying their fair share when drilling on public lands and waters. But this bill promotes more drilling while lowering the rates that oil and gas companies pay to drill. And the bill greenlights the destructive Ambler industrial mining road through Gates of the Arctic National Preserve in Northwest Alaska.

And worst of all, the bill requires the sell-off of millions of acres of public lands across the West without any community input or guardrails on what could be developed. Many at-risk lands border national parks and are critical to the ongoing protection of wildlife habitat, clean water sources and public access points to nature.

This bill is the opposite of what is needed and could do irreparable harm to our parks. It is an effort to dismantle the National Park Service. I urge you to oppose these dangerous provisions as the Senate moves forward with reconciliation.

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