What a relief that Joe Biden will start immediately to reverse the damage to our public lands and wildlife done by Trump and his terrible Cabinet appointees. We hope for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante to be restored to their original sizes proposed by President Obama. We hope for wolves to be put back on the Endangered Species List and for Yellowstone bison to be added to that ESL.

We hope for drilling leases in wilderness areas to be cancelled, and all mining and other extractive industries to be banned from public lands, along with cattle. Yes, that is probably too much to hope for, but we’ve got to hope, right?

We have to focus now on the two U.S. Senate seats up for runoff elections in Georgia in January. Two of our candidates are still in the running, and they got almost enough votes to win. In Georgia, a U.S. Senate candidate must get over 50% of the votes to be declared the winner.

If you can, donate money to the Democratic candidates. If you can’t donate, then you can participate in other ways: write postcards to voters (Google it, there are several programs organizing this), write letters to the editor of major newspapers in Atlanta, Macon, and other large cities. Ask your friends to help — it’s just a short commitment of a few weeks until the runoff elections. If every one of us did just one or two things, we could make a big difference!

Thank you!