April 6, 2004

Hon. Gail Norton
Secretary of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20240

Dear Secretary Norton:

I am writing to ask you to please do your job and protect our wild lands. I am specifically writing to ask you not to open Utah's Redrock Wilderness to energy development and off-road vehicles. If you implement land use plans for the Bureau of Land Management that favor drilling for oil and mining for the elements, it will adversely affect the fate of 10 million acres of public lands -- our lands -- in the eastern half of Utah, for at least 15 to 20 years, if not forever.

I have spent many wonderful hours exploring the canyons, rivers and forests of this region and can attest that they include some of Utah's -- and the nation's -- most magnificent and imperiled public lands. These wild lands are threatened especially by oil and gas leasing and development and off-road vehicles. I urge you to instruct the BLM, as it develops the management plans for these special places, to protect them for future generations to enjoy, rather than sacrifice them to the energy industry and other private exploitative industries.

Sincerely,

Michelle Brodie