To: The United States Senate
Open the Department of the Interior
Stop the ongoing shutdown-caused damage to parks, wildlife, and scientific research by voting to pass legislation that would reopen the Department of the Interior and other agencies and allow scientists and park rangers to go back to work.
Why is this important?
The longest government shutdown is taking a toll on wildlife and wild lands they need to survive. The lack of government funding is leaving our national parks open to poaching and destruction of plant and tree life and some scientific research has been halted.
A pack of wolves that was to be relocated to a national park in Michigan to bolster that vanishing population is instead facing possible starvation in its current location due to the shutdown.
The House of Representatives has passed a funding bill that would fund the Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, and Forest Service. This funding legislation passed with bipartisan support and should be taken up immediately in the Senate.
Ask your senators to tell Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to bring this funding legislation to the Senate floor for a vote immediately and to vote YES on the bill.
A pack of wolves that was to be relocated to a national park in Michigan to bolster that vanishing population is instead facing possible starvation in its current location due to the shutdown.
The House of Representatives has passed a funding bill that would fund the Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, and Forest Service. This funding legislation passed with bipartisan support and should be taken up immediately in the Senate.
Ask your senators to tell Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to bring this funding legislation to the Senate floor for a vote immediately and to vote YES on the bill.