BTNF - What You Can Do

Thanks to thousands of comments received from citizens like you and extensive environmental analysis, the Bridger-Teton National Forest has proposed the "no-lease" alternative in its draft EIS to protect nearly 370,000 acres of the forest. Your support is needed to make this choice stick.

Please write to the BTNF before February 28 and tell our forest officials that you:

• Support the BTNF's choice of the no-lease alternative to prevent oil and gas development on 369,900 acres of key grizzly bear habitat, crucial big-game winter range, prized back-country recreation areas and blue-ribbon trout streams-including the Hoback and Green rivers, eligible for inclusion in the Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
• Thank them for protecting natural corridors between four of Wyoming's most treasured wilderness areas: the Gros Ventre, the Teton, the Bridger and the Fitzpatrick Wilderness.

Contact:

• Kniffy Hamilton, Forest Supervisor

  Bridger-Teton Nat'l Forest
  P.O. Box 1888
  Jackson, WY 83001-1888
  phone: (307) 739-5500
  fax: (307) 739-5010
  Or send your email comments to Ms. Hamilton at mailroom_r4_bridger_teton@fs.fed.us and place the words "Oil & Gas" on the subject line of your message. Please also include your physical address after your electronic signature.

  Please send a copy of your comments to:
• Chief Mike Dombeck

  U.S. Forest Service
  P.O. Box 96090 o Washington, DC 20077-0090
  fax: (202) 205-1765
  mdombeck@fs.fed.us
  

• Rick D. Cables

  Rocky Mountain Regional Forester
  U.S. Forest Service
  P.O. Box 25217 o Lakewood, CO 80225
  fax: (303) 275-5754
  rcables@fs.fed.us
  

• Governor Jim Geringer

  State Capitol o Cheyenne, WY 82002
  fax: (307) 632-3909
  governor@missc.state.wy.us
  

• Kelly Matheson

  Greater Yellowstone Program Coordinator
  Wyoming Outdoor Council
  262 Lincoln St. o Lander, WY 82520
  fax: (307) 332-6899
  kelly@wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org