AR-News: FORESTS ALERT: Support Creation of Maine North Woods National Park

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FOREST CONSERVATION ACTION ALERT
Support Creation of Maine North Woods National Park
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Forest Networking a Project of Forests.org, Inc. 
February 8, 2004
 
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TAKE ACTION: Support Creation of Maine North Woods National Park
  http://forests.org/emailaction/maine.htm

A message of hope is emerging from Maine's northern forests, as a 
major new U.S. National Park - Maine North Woods National Park - 
is proposed for its expansive forests.  The window of opportunity 
in Maine is short and the need to move for strict long-term 
protection is now.  This is why it is so important for you to 
respond to this alert and urge the National Park Service to begin 
the process of creating this new National Park.  Increased large 
and connected protected areas embedded within a framework of 
productive lands under conservation management are a prerequisite 
for human survival.  Both Muir and Pinchot were correct - we need 
protected AND conserved lands.  However it is clear that 
protection on the scale necessary to ecologically sustain land 
has lagged.  Proposals such as a Maine North Woods National Park 
begin to redress this imbalance.  Please request that the 
National Park Service complete an Environmental Impact Statement 
(EIS) on the possibility of establishing a new 3.2 million acre 
Maine Woods National Park and Preserve surrounding Baxter State 
Park in north-central Maine.  Please respond to the alert at 
http://forests.org/emailaction/maine.htm and ask that your 
friends and associates do so as well. 


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Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."      Margaret Mead
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