BLUESTEM ACTION ALERT -- JANUARY 26, 1999

Please consider making three phone calls.

For your first phone call, please call President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore at the White House Comment Line and thank the President and the Vice- President for sponsoring the Administration's Lands Legacy Initiative. This environmental initiative will help protect a broad range of natural heritage from the most remote wildlands to the "small and sacred" green areas closer to home and help to curb suburban sprawl.

For your second phone call, please call your U.S. Congressperson and urge him or her to support the President's Lands Legacy Initiative in the upcoming appropriations process. Let your congressperson know that the President's initiative represents the overwhelming support among the American public for protecting our special wild places and curbing suburban sprawl.

For your third phone call, please call one of our two U.S. Senators Peter Fritzgerald or Dick Durbin. Urge him to support the President's Lands Legacy Initiative in the upcoming appropriations process. Let your U.S.Senator know that the President's initiative represents the overwhelming support among the American public for protecting our special wild places and curbing suburban sprawl. If you are able to do so, consider calling both U.S. Senators.

You can call both President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore by leaving both of them a message at the White House Comment Line at 202-456-1111. Be sure to tell the operator that you wish to leave the message for both the President and the Vice-President.

You can call any member of the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C. by calling the Capitol Switchboard number at 202-224-3121 and then asking for your U.S. Representative or U.S. Senator by name.

For more information on how to make a phone call to the President and the Vice- President using the White House Comment Line and how to make local phone calls to your congressperson and U.S. Senators, listen to the recorded message in mailbox 2 of the River Prairie Group Hotline.

This ends the Bluestem Network Action Alert.