My apologies, I once again provided an unworkable link.  This should work:

http://tinyurl.com/6omofdu


Kurt R. Schwarz
Conservation Chair
Maryland Ornithological Society




On 5/9/12 4:56 PM, "Kurt Schwarz" <> wrote:

>Dear Maryland Birder:
>
>
>
>Please read the alert below from the National Audubon Society, and join me
>in taking action by sending an email to President Obama.
>
>AUDUBON ACTION ALERT
>
>As you read this, Shell Oil's rigs are making their way to the Arctic
>Ocean to start drilling, as soon as July. The ships are headed to Arctic
>waters where, twenty years after the Exxon Valdez, fish and wildlife
>species are still impacted by exposure to lingering oil.[1]
>
>The memory of the BP oil spill and its environmental devastation is still
>fresh in our minds, but despite these disasters, the oil industry now has
>its sights on the fragile Arctic Ocean.
>
>***Take Action***
>Please tell President Obama to protect the America's Arctic Ocean!
>http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserActi
>o
>n&id=1279
>
>The waters along Alaska's northern coast provide vital habitat for polar
>bears, walruses, ice-dependent seals, endangered bowhead whales, and
>millions of migratory birds. The Arctic Ocean also is a phenomenally harsh
>environment. Broken ice covers the Arctic Ocean for much of the year.
>Storms with hurricane-force winds can whip up 20-foot seas. Temperatures
>drop to 40 below zero. It is dark half the year. The oil industry is not
>prepared to drill safely in the Arctic Ocean.
>
>Retired Vice Admiral Roder Ruff, who helped prepare the Coast Guard's
>review of the BP oil disaster, has described the U.S. ability to address a
>spill in icy conditions as "pretty abysmal."[2] The United States
>Geological Survey, the scientific branch of the Department of the
>Interior, concluded that because of major scientific gaps about the
>ecology of the Arctic Ocean "it is difficult, if not impossible" to make
>informed science-based decisions about oil and gas development in
>America's Arctic Ocean. More than 500 scientists recently joined in
>sending a letter to President Obama asking him to not allow oil drilling
>to proceed this summer.[3]
>Drilling in the Arctic Ocean is unsafe, not supported by the science, and
>threatens millions of migratory birds.
>
>***Take Action***
>Join over one million people who have already asked the President to
>protect America's Arctic Ocean. Please send your email today:
>http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserActi
>o
>n&id=1279
>
>Sincerely,
>
>David Yarnold
>President & CEO
>
>[1] http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/recovery/status.cfm
>
>[2] 
>http://www.adn.com/2012/03/04/2351722/shell-oil-drilling-rig-set-for.html#
>s
>torylink=cpy
>
>[3] 
>http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/other-resources/scientists-call-on
>-
>obama-administration-to-use-science-as-guide-for-arctic-drilling-858993695
>1
>2
>
>To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
>http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Advocacy?s_oo=IFyt0QXhHAlobcPC53zpcg&amp
>;
>id=1279
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