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Help convince President Clinton to designate public lands in the Soda Mountain area of southern Oregon as a national monument and protect its globally outstanding rare and diverse plants and wildlife. Soda Mountain's wild and scenic landscape of high ridges and steep canyons shelters one of the great treasure-troves of life in the West. The region encompasses trout streams, ancient stands of fir and pine, flower-strewn meadows, towering volcanic cliffs, and rich grasslands dotted with magnificent oaks. Here the plants and animals of several ecoregions merge into an amazing array of natural variety.

For the past six months, the Soda Mountain area has been under study by Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt as a candidate for national monument designation. World Wildlife Fund, the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council, and numerous other local, regional, and national groups support national monument designation for the Soda Mountain area.

Unfortunately, this ecologically priceless landscape is now threatened by commercial livestock grazing, logging, off-road vehicle abuse, and piecemeal management. President Clinton needs to hear about the vital importance of this region for the biodiversity of the West, and about the critical need to protect it as a national monument for future generations.

Please show President Clinton that there is tremendous support for protecting this phenomenal landscape. Go to http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/ to send him a free message today.

Do you know or work with children who are excited about wildlife? If so, please tell them about the World Wildlife Fund's "Pennies for the Planet" 2000 program. This program kicked off along with Earthday 2000 and continues through December 31, 2000.

"Pennies for the Planet" is a worldwild environmental education program for kids, started in 1994, that helps kids get excited about conservation, encourages them to learn more about the importance of biodiversity, and shows them that they can make a difference, both locally and globally. Since it's inception, thousands of children from kindergarten through high school have participated in a variety of environmentally-inspired community activities and have raised more than 35 million pennies - a whopping $350,000 to benefit wildlife and wild spaces.

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