To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Save the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act
Oppose legislation authored by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN6) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) to exempt from the National Wild & Scenic Rivers Act a proposed $680-million, four-lane freeway bridge over the protected St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. The bridge is a financial and environmental boondoggle that would set a dangerous precedent for future degradation of other rivers protected under the Act.
Why is this important?
Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sen. Amy Klobuchar have authored legislation to exempt from the National Wild & Scenic Rivers Act a proposed four-lane freeway bridge over the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. The legislation would create the first such exemption for an intrusion of this magnitude on a river protected under the Act, and create a dangerous precedent for future degradation of other rivers. The proposed $680 million bridge connects a town of 18,000 in Minnesota and an unincorporated township in Wisconsin. It's only six miles from an existing eight-lane interstate freeway bridge crossing the St. Croix River.