LAST CALL - Scientist sign-on letter supporting Cascade-Siskiyou Monument

[Evan Frost]

Dear Colleague,

 

This email is a last-call invitation to add your name to a growing list of over 125 professional scientists in signing a letter to support the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (hereafter  “Monument” or NM), enacted by President Obama on January 12, 2017. In late April President Trump directed Interior Secretary Zinke to review a number of national monuments established by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act and make recommendations about their potential future. The Cascade-Siskiyou NM is one of the monuments that will be scrutinized, and there is increasing concern that the administration will move to reduce or eliminate the recent expansion – and possibly even the original June 2000 Monument, as well – in the next several months. Given this imminent threat, it’s critically important to let federal policy makers know that there is strong and widespread scientific support for protecting this ecologically unique and diverse area.

 

Please review the attached letter from scientists in support of the Cascade-Siskiyou Monument expansion, and let us know if you are willing to become a signatory. All those willing or interested in becoming signatories to the attached letter should send correspondence regarding this invitation to efr...@gmail.com by June 16, 2017.  Please provide name, title, affiliation(s), city and state as they should appear on the letter. We greatly appreciate your attention and support regarding this issue, and hope to hear from you regarding this timely issue.