Visit our Get Active website to send letters electronically and to stay up to date on the latest efforts to protect wilderness in New Mexico. See our contact information for elected officials and newspaper editors if you need names or addresses.

When it comes to the success of grassroots organizations there are many tools used to get our issue before the general public and our elected Representatives. But the most successful tool for creating real and permanent change is the pen or in the modern world, the mouse. The power of writing letters is a power that ultimately creates a Wilderness Area or stops a logging operation in a roadless area, takes snowmobiles out of our National Parks or shuts down an unwanted mine.

These letters may go out to a Representative or go into a local newspaper, perhaps you write an editorial and then convince an NPR station to let you read it on air. In the end, such letters or voice-overs carry great weigh and create momentum. It is this momentum, or energy that infects the general public and finally percolates into the halls of Congress where that first letter evolves into a bill. That bill perhaps protects a Wilderness area such as the Pecos. It began with a desire to see some special piece of public land protected and a few personal minutes were focused on making a difference. In the end, this power -- your letter, and your neighbors and thousands like them worked to preserve a critical part of our natural heritage.

Take some time to write a letter and help protect some of the wildlands and wildlife that make our state great.