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Just three miles off of Interstate 80, Castle Peak Potential Wilderness is among the most scenic areas in the Tahoe National Forest. Home to extraordinary old-growth red fir forests and the little Truckee River, Castle Peak provides clean drinking water to residents of Nevada County.

Please urge Senator Feinstein to support the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act!

We need your help in garnering Senator Feinstein's support for a bill that will protect California's precious north coast wild lands and rivers. Please feel free to cut and paste from the sample letter below, and personalize it as you see fit.

Date:

From:

To: The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
c/o Michael Walker
One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, Ca. 94104

Re: Support for the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2003

Dear Senator Feinstein,

Please join Representative Mike Thompson and Senator Barbara Boxer in supporting Congressman Thompson’s Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2003.

I strongly support Wilderness designation for the areas in this bill, and Wild and Scenic River status for the Black Butte River and Cache Creek. Many of these areas are small jewels of public wild lands that have provided hunting and camping recreation for generations of Californians. Other areas are critical plant and wildlife habitat adjacent to and biologically part of existing wilderness areas but still unprotected.

The Black Butte River, a major tributary to the Wild and Scenic Middle Fork Eel River, is home to endangered salmon and steelhead and the potential home of a renewed and thriving fishery if protected. Cache Creek is a favorite white water rafting stream and its canyon hosts California’s second largest wintering population of bald eagles.

Sincerely,

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