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At Alaska Wilderness League, we love to use costumes in our outreach and education.  This means Halloween is one of our favorite holidays of the year and we want you to join the fun.  We have two downloadable and printable masks of two of our favorite Arctic Ocean species—the walrus and the polar bear.  In addition, we have our oil spill response haz mat suits that we can send to you- email brian [at] alaskawild [dot] org if you would like suits or you can put them together at your local hardware or home store.
As you trick-or-treat with your children, at Halloween parties, as part of Halloween parades, you can represent the Arctic Ocean with these costumes and educate folks about the threat posed by Shell Oil’s evil plans to drill in the Arctic Ocean.

When people ask about your costume, you can give them these leaflets and ask them to call President Obama and ask that he treat America to a protected Arctic Ocean and not to let Shell Oil trick us with their unproven oil spill response plans.

We would love to see any photos you have of your efforts.  Please email them to liz [at] alaskawild [dot] org.

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Subject: The Arctic Refuge needs your voice

Link to: http://act.alaskawild.org/sign/refuge_ccp_comments_akco/
Dear friend,

Right now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking for your input on a plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that, for the first time, could recommend Wilderness protection for the Arctic Refuge’s Coastal Plain – the Refuge’s biological epicenter that has been in Big Oil’s sights for decades.  This plan will guide how the Arctic Refuge will be managed for the next 15 years or more.

A Wilderness recommendation could protect this unparalleled area and the abundant wildlife that depends on it – including polar bears, musk oxen, caribou, and millions of birds from around the globe. But to make sure the final version of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan includes a Wilderness recommendation,  we must demonstrate overwhelming support for protecting the Refuge’s Coastal Plain. If we speak with a loud and united voice, we’ll be sending a strong message that the Fish and Wildlife Service can’t ignore.

Will you speak up for the Arctic Refuge? Please sign our letter to Secretary Salazar and the Fish and Wildlife Service.

There are some places in this country that define what it means to be American—the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska is one of those places. For the past 50 years our country has remained committed to protecting one of our last wild places.  Some places are just too extraordinary to drill, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of them.

This year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will make some big decisions about the future of the Arctic Refuge. If we all speak out, we can make sure that those decisions offer the critical Coastal Plain the strongest possible protections from Big Oil and harmful development.

Please sign our letter to Secretary Salazar and the Fish and Wildlife Service, and speak out for this national treasure.

Thanks for all you do,

Cindy Shogan
Executive Director
Alaska Wilderness League

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