NCCFFF asks fishing and enviro groups to sign on to support rollback of Section 7 ESA Regulations
April 1, 2009 -- Late last fall many of you were kind enough to sign onto a letter (pdf attached) encouraging the administration to reverse the Bush administration section 7 ESA regulations (consultations and Biological opinions). Well, your support for this was very helpful in getting President Obama to put on hold these regulations. However, we are now working to get the Secretaries of Interior and Commerce to finish the deal, and roll back the regulations. It is now up to them to act.
We had approx. 130 groups nationally sign our last letter, and many of you took that action. We are now asking you to sign onto this new letter to the Secretaries. They need to hear from us, and that rolling back the regulations is what the American public wants. Below is a list of groups that signed onto the first letter, but not the current one (list is in alpabetical order for easy reference). Please take a look to see if you are on the list, and if so, please consider signing on again. We encourage everyone to sign on, even if this is the first time. Both the 2008 letter and the current one are attached.
Please advise Jon Hunter, policy director, if you can sign on. jhunter@stopextinction.org. Please provide name, title, organization name, city and state. We need to know by COB April 15th.
Please circulate to anyone you feel would be interested. Thank you!
Mark Rockwell
Endangered Species Coalition
Nor. Cal. Council, Federation of Fly Fishers
530 432-0100
Berkeley Partners for Parks
California Save Our Streams Council.
California Trout
Center for the Future of the Oceans Monterey Bay Aquarium
Diablo Valley Fly Fishers
Federation of Fly Fishers
Fish Sniffer Magazine
Fly Fishers for Conservation
Friends of Butte Creek.
Friends of Coyote Hills
Friends of the River
Friends of the Trinity River
Granite Bay Fly Casters
Institute for Fisheries Resources
Jumping Frog Research Institute
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center
Mission Peak Fly Angler
Northcoast Environmental Center
Ohlone Audubon Society
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations
Peninsula Fly Fishers
Public Trust Alliance n Francisco, CA
Sacramento Urban Creeks Council
San Diego Audubon Society
San Joaquin Et Al
San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center
San Joaquin Valley Conservancy
Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
Save the American River Association, Inc.
Shasta Trinity Fly Fishers
Siskiyou Project
The Bay Institute
The California Water Impact Network (C-WIN)
Tri Valley Fly Fishers
VernalPools.org
Currently proposed letter
Letter previously sent