Key Points Addressed by NREPA

• Uses sound science to protect and restore endangered wildlife,


• Uses sound economics to promote sustainable economic development in the Northern Rockies region,


• Creates thousands of good paying jobs restoring damaged habitats,


• Pays for job creation by ending taxpayer-supported corporate timber subsidies,


• Does not close access to public lands,


• Allows for historic uses such as hunting, fishing and firewood gathering,


• Affects only Federal public lands—private landowners are not impacted,


• Respects and honors Native American religions and treaty rights,


• Protects watershed health—water supply and quality are issues of central importance in the semiarid interior mountains, the Great Plains, and the densely populated Northwest,


• Protects lands virtually unchanged since Lewis and Clark saw them.

On to Economic Impacts

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