Protect the Vieques National Wildlife Refuge from Congress
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Marcos
10 years ago
This is terrible, you shouldn't do this
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Lori Landry
10 years ago
We need to start caring about ALL species on this Earth, not just ourselves.
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Rosie Dempsey
10 years ago
Developers will get their hands on the land and then the benefits of federal stewardship will be clearer to more people.
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Martha Kent-Holmes
10 years ago
Please protect the natural wonders of this magic island. This land and its ecosystems are irreplaceable.
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Anne Boyer
10 years ago
Please save nature!
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Gordon M Heisler
10 years ago
We live near Syracuse, NY, but we know the Wildlife Refuge well because we go to Vieques often to enjoy the wonders of the refuge. We hope those wonders will not be spoiled, which would happen with commercial development .
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David Maldonado Abreu
10 years ago
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I am displeased with the way our U.S Government can even consider taking land BACK that has been designated for conservation, this is a smack in the face if the local community whom live in poverty and you want to give it to private investors so they may become richer and Puerto Rico can shorten the deficit and Viequesens are still left behind...
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Sione LaPointe
10 years ago
Please come for a visit, see for yourself why this land should belong to everyone...please don't make the same mistake U.S. government has made over and over...taking land from its people!
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Betty Gilreath
10 years ago
This National Wildlife Refuge is just that, to sell it or any of the land around it would be ethically and morally wrong!
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Beatriz Salvesen
10 years ago
No!
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Cynthia Nicholson
10 years ago
Please do NOT allow this bill to pass....we need to protect the wild places taht we have left on this earth. PLEASE help.
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Helen Davis
10 years ago
Private ownership of our wildlife refuge would be a disaster.
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John Stoklosa
10 years ago
The land conveyance provision must be removed from HR4900
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Wade Tobias
10 years ago
Stupidest idea ever. Protect the land. If it does privatize whomever is in charge needs to donate a large amount into the school system in Vieques and build a library
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Anonymous
10 years ago
If you have never been there, go! And then you will understand.
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Edward Gomez
10 years ago
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i have lived and worked on Vieques 6 years. i am a PADI divemaster and know these efforts to develop this refuge will be detrimental to the varied fragile ecosystems that have survived the US navy exercises and military abuses. i oppose any efforts to deny the people of Vieques the land that belongs to them and their children.
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Donald Davidson
10 years ago
Vieques refuge land that is sold will go straight to developers. The common man and his family will get nothing!
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Stephen Peters
10 years ago
Hands off!!
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Theodore Green
10 years ago
Don't give the fox the chicken coop
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Johanna Godinez
10 years ago
Puerto Rico has very little protected area because of how over populated it is. It is wuper important to keep and preserve any areas that we do have!!
This is terrible, you shouldn't do this
We need to start caring about ALL species on this Earth, not just ourselves.
Developers will get their hands on the land and then the benefits of federal stewardship will be clearer to more people.
Please protect the natural wonders of this magic island. This land and its ecosystems are irreplaceable.
Please save nature!
We live near Syracuse, NY, but we know the Wildlife Refuge well because we go to Vieques often to enjoy the wonders of the refuge. We hope those wonders will not be spoiled, which would happen with commercial development .
I am displeased with the way our U.S Government can even consider taking land BACK that has been designated for conservation, this is a smack in the face if the local community whom live in poverty and you want to give it to private investors so they may become richer and Puerto Rico can shorten the deficit and Viequesens are still left behind...
Please come for a visit, see for yourself why this land should belong to everyone...please don't make the same mistake U.S. government has made over and over...taking land from its people!
This National Wildlife Refuge is just that, to sell it or any of the land around it would be ethically and morally wrong!
No!
Please do NOT allow this bill to pass....we need to protect the wild places taht we have left on this earth. PLEASE help.
Private ownership of our wildlife refuge would be a disaster.
The land conveyance provision must be removed from HR4900
Stupidest idea ever. Protect the land. If it does privatize whomever is in charge needs to donate a large amount into the school system in Vieques and build a library
If you have never been there, go! And then you will understand.
i have lived and worked on Vieques 6 years. i am a PADI divemaster and know these efforts to develop this refuge will be detrimental to the varied fragile ecosystems that have survived the US navy exercises and military abuses. i oppose any efforts to deny the people of Vieques the land that belongs to them and their children.
Vieques refuge land that is sold will go straight to developers. The common man and his family will get nothing!
Hands off!!
Don't give the fox the chicken coop
Puerto Rico has very little protected area because of how over populated it is. It is wuper important to keep and preserve any areas that we do have!!