1. United States
2. Md.
3. Letter

I ask that you vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. This resolution abuses the Congressional Review Act to strip Boundary Waters protections that were built on two years of science and 675,000 public comments. You should vote NO because this joint resolution is the most dangerous attack on this unique national treasure in a generation. If approved by the Senate, this resolution would: - Discard the Forest Service's comprehensive two-year study - Ignore more than 675,000 public comments overwhelmingly opposed to mining - Allow Twin Metals to move forward with its project - Potentially prevent any future president from ever protecting this landscape again Science, public process, and the will of the American people, all of this will be tossed aside to enrich Chilean billionaires at the expense of our public lands. As a Maryland voter who grew up in Minnesota, I have a very personal connection to the Boundary Waters wilderness, will be canoeing there this fall, and hope to take my new grandson there when he is old enough. Please do not allow greed and corruption to destroy this special place, because that is what will inevitably happen if copper sulfide mining is allowed in the watershed of the Boundary Waters.