Adobe Whitewater folks

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Please go - NEXT TUESDAY to the ISC meeting in ABQ on the GILA - for at least some of the day if possible

ACTION Dates, Info, resources – in the email below

THANK YOU ALL so much for your support in this matter both in Santa Fe

Know that many of you have jobs and commitments that may keep you from attending all day .

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There will be other ways to support this effort with letters and Tweets !

Begin forwarded message: Thanks to NM Wilderness Alliance and The Gila Conservation Coalition

From: Mark Allison New Mexico Wilderness Alliance <news@nmwild.org>

Subject: Help save the Gila on Tuesday the 26th

Date: August 21, 2014 10:10:57 AM MDT

To: Christianne Hinks and Chuck Houston <sandhill@swcp.com>

Dear Christianne and Chuck,

As you know, New Mexico is less than 20 weeks away from the deadline to notify the Secretary of the Interior whether it will move forward with a Gila River diversion project under the Arizona Water Settlements Act, a plan that would provide less water but would be far more expensive than conservation alternatives.

The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission (ISC) will begin the decision-making process on August 26 in Albuquerque and is scheduled to make a final decision on the Gila River's fate in November.

Please join us for the ISC's August 26 meeting in Albuquerque to show support for non-diversion alternatives and a wild Gila River. Agenda

The meeting is at 8:30 a.m. on August 26 at Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Let's show the commission where New Mexicans stand on preserving the Gila River. If you can't make the entire meeting, come whenever you can make it, except for the lunch hour, 11:25 a.m.-12:25 p.m.

Please also join Gila Conservation Coalition, Rio Grande Chapter and conservation partners for a 7-8 a.m. pre-meeting briefing in the Pueblo Room of the Holiday Inn Express Old Town at 2300 12th St. NW (across the street from the cultural center). Coffee and bagels will be provided.

The Gila Conservation Coalition will be coordinating transportation from Silver City. Please call GCC at 575-538-8078 for more information.

Thank you for your efforts to protect the Gila River!

Mark Allison

Executive Director, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
mark@nmwild.org

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Address postal inquiries to:

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

PO Box 25464

Albuquerque, NM 87125-0464