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Missouri has plenty to see -- warblers and ducks in flight, bald eagles, bobcats and buntings, wake robin trilliums, purple orchids and dogwood, savannas, wetlands, parks, forests and greenways, and 57,000 miles of waterways, including the famed Missouri River, once a highway for Lewis and Clark.

Missouri is a beautiful state, filled with wonderful people and natural treasures of all sorts. Federal and state laws passed since the 1970s have done a lot to clean up our waterways and keep them clean. Missouri's lakes, rivers and streams offer outdoor recreation to fishermen, canoists and swimmers, not to mention the herons, egrets and kingfishers that we happily share them with.

Our air is cleaner, too, and our quality of life is good. We enjoy a tremendous variety of parks and wildlife refuges, which Missouri REP members hope to see increased with the expansion to 60,000 acres of the Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.

Yet, like most of America, Missouri is also a state with serious environmental problems. Prime farmland, native landscapes and wildlife habitat are threatened with sprawling development around the state's urban centers.

The Missouri members of Republicans for Environmental Protection are dedicated to preserving our natural heritage and our party's proud conservationist tradition. If you're a like-minded Republican and would like to help us "green up" the GOP, we hope you'll sign up with REP today.

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