VOTE!

In 8 days, one of the most significant elections in our lifetime will take place.  What is at stake? So much, I can't begin to address all the issues, except to say, that in some ways, our very survival, as a nation, a democracy, and even as a species is at stake.  So, please vote on November 3rd.
Vote for clean, green and sustainable energy.
Vote for wild places, special places without roads, development, logging, and mining.
Vote to protect, and expand public lands, a special legacy that we will hopefully leave for the next generation.
Vote for national parks, national forest, national monuments, and more.
Vote for the protection of Tongass National Forest in Alaska, roadless and wild, true wilderness.
Vote for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, over 2000 lakes, a truly special place.
Vote for the preservation of the Bristol Bay region, and the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, both in Alaska, and both threatened with development.
Vote for clean air, clean water, and especially for the protection of small streams.
Vote for birds and bears, snakes and turtles, wildflowers and trees, tall, majestic and often old.
Vote for mountain bike and hiking trails which wind through natural landscapes, filled with the wonders which only nature can offer.
Vote for mayfly emergence and the wild trout and salmon rising for a meal, or a dry fly on the end of a tippet. 
Vote for the the protection of biodiversity, of all living things, invertebrates, plants, fungi, animals, and even us, Homo sapiens.

We cannot screw this up. Please vote, and do so to protect all that is so wonderful, so special about the natural world.  If we don't act now, it might be too late.

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