Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:47:45 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Carol Ghebelian Subject: [Fwd: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Threatened] Comments: To: MD-SMAS-GENERAL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All Important msg forwarded from friend. Hope you can take time to call the White House, too. Carol Ghebelian Indian Head, MD Chas Cty gheb@bellatlantic.net -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Threatened Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:08:36 -0500 From: "Wayne McBain" To: "Patricia Stamper" ,"Patricia Stamper" ,"Michael Leventhal" ,"Marion Jacque" ,"Marc Imlay" ,"Linda Denny" ,"James P. Long" ,"Elmer Biles" ,"Carol Ghebelian" ,"Bonnie Bick" ,"Alex Winter" Happy New Year! Received the following this morning via Greenlines: Quote REFUGE TARGETED BY NEW ADMINISTRATION: The nomination of Gale Norton, a former James Watt protege, for Secretary of the Interior presages an early and "bitter" fight to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling says the N.Y. Times 12/29. With the court-appointed President elect "vowing to allow oil companies access to the wildlife refuge," environmentalists see the upcoming battle as "the defining controversy" on public lands policy and in preparation are pushing a national call in today to urge President Clinton to increase protection for the refuge by declaring it a national monument -- 1-888-750-4897. Unquote I, for one, am going to try to get through!!! Wayne ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================