Wilderness, roadless areas, and wolves go hand-in-hand. Our wolves need quality habitat to roam safely away from humans and our invasive roads. The Apache Forest is the primary range for the Mexican wolves. The Apache-Sitgreaves Forest is currently developing their forest plan that will guide how the forest is managed for years to come.
Please speak out now and tell the Forest Service that our endangered Mexican wolves need more wilderness and roadless areas.
Recently, the Forest Service released three alternative plans ( B, C & D) – none of these plans protect the Apache-Sitgreaves adequately and none of them will provide critical habitat for endangered Mexican wolves.
The current range of alternatives is simply not acceptable.
The Forest Service has asked for public comment on these plans. They need to hear from all of us who support habitat protections for Mexican wolves.
Please contact them.
Website: www.fs.fed.us/r3/asnf/plan-revision/contact/
E-mail: asnf.planning@fs.fed.us
Phone: (928) 333-4301 TTY: (928) 333-6292
Tell them:
1. The range of alternatives is not acceptable. The alternatives are skewed toward the maximum mechanical treatment/resource extraction/ motorized alternative that includes illegal declassifying of Inventoried Roadless Areas. This skewing imperils our Mexican gray wolves and is NOT acceptable.
2. Tell them that our climate crisis requires extraordinary measures to protect ecosystems—including as many wilderness areas as possible. They should include in the conservation alternative (Alternative D) all of the 36 potential wilderness areas they have identified and the White Mountain Conservation League Citizen’s proposal to expand the Escudilla Wilderness.Local citizens spent hundreds of hours in the field inventorying old roads and on-the-ground conditions to develop this proposal.
For our lobos, just say NO. The range of alternatives is NOT acceptable!
