Hi John,

America's largest population of endangered wolves depends on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota.

With them, in Superior National Forest, live endangered Canada lynx and northern long-eared bats.

But Congress just took a major step to remove protections from this landscape, opening it up to reckless mining.

Please help the Center for Biological Diversity stop this attack with a gift to the Future for the Wild Fund. Thanks to a generous group of wildlife champions, all donations made today will be matched.

With more than 1 million acres of boreal forest, rocky outcrops, and nearly 2,000 clear glacial lakes, the Boundary Waters — the most visited wilderness area in the United States — forms part of a 2-million-acre binational network of protected public lands.

This precious watershed has also been a target for copper mining. The forces that want to liquidate public lands for corporate profit are anxious to pounce on it.

A mineral exploration and extraction boom around the Boundary Waters would threaten acid drainage in now pristine waterways; create massive levels of air, light, and noise pollution; and force out the wildlife who have roamed this area for countless generations.

Wolves, lynx, and bats — along with moose, bears, and other species — could see their habitat destroyed.

When it proposed stripping protections from the Boundary Waters, Congress also pushed for more oil leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

These are the kinds of attacks on public lands that we saw coming — and prepared to fight.

No one wants to see the wild torn up, plundered, bulldozed, mined, and drilled.

The Center will safeguard public lands and the species who live there. It's our core mission and our promise to you: We will never give up.

Please help now with a matched gift to the Future for the Wild Fund.

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For the wild,

Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

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