FRONTIER AIRLINES PARTNERS WITH THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY

[Chaos]

All,

Please take a minute to drop an email to Frontier Airlines letting them know this is not a good business decision... Contact information is listed at the end of the news article.

Chaos


http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...Frontier-Airlines-Partners-Wilderness-Society

April 12, 2011 12:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Frontier Airlines Partners With The Wilderness Society

Commits to protect wilderness and connect people with wild places

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In further support of the communities in which it flies, Frontier Airlines is pleased to announce a partnership with The Wilderness Society, a leading public-lands conservation organization working to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places. Frontier Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: RJET), will serve as the official airline of The Wilderness Society and support its ongoing efforts to protect America’s great places.

“Frontier is more than an airline with animals on its tails, we are a Company with an intense passion for the communities we serve and a real responsibility to help protect the incredible wilderness habitats our guests travel to each and every day and in which our ‘spokesanimals’ call home”

Frontier’s partnership with The Wilderness Society will support wilderness and wildlife protection in communities across the United States, including areas within the White River National Forest region of Colorado, the San Gabriel Mountains in California, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, among others.

“Frontier is more than an airline with animals on its tails, we are a Company with an intense passion for the communities we serve and a real responsibility to help protect the incredible wilderness habitats our guests travel to each and every day and in which our ‘spokesanimals’ call home,” said Bryan Bedford, chairman, president and CEO of Frontier Airlines. “We are so pleased to work together with The Wilderness Society in their effort to protect the nation’s wilderness and inspire people to connect with these great places.”

“The partnership between Frontier Airlines and The Wilderness Society enables people to experience first-hand nature’s treasures,” said William H. Meadows, president of The Wilderness Society. “Together we can protect the places we love by connecting people to iconic American landscapes that sustain Frontier’s ‘spokesanimals’.”

Frontier Airlines and The Wilderness Society will be celebrating America’s wilderness through the my wilderness campaign. An interactive campaign launching on April 18, my wilderness asks individuals to share their favorite stories of experiences in their own wilderness – from hiking in a national park, fishing on a favorite river, camping with friends or simply throwing a ball with their daughter in a neighborhood park. With my wilderness, people can participate in contests to visit wild locales, watch videos featuring wild places of the month, get outdoors tips and learn more about the places they love.

Frontier will support The Wilderness Society through financial contributions, creative fundraising efforts and employee volunteerism. For more information, please visit FrontierAirlines.com and wilderness.org.

About Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: RJET), an airline holding company that also owns Chautauqua Airlines, Lynx Aviation, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America. Currently in its 17th year of operations, Frontier employs more than 5,500 aviation professionals and operates more than 550 daily flights from its hubs at Denver International Airport and Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport. Frontier offers routes to more than 80 destinations in the United States, Mexico and Costa Rica.

For more in-depth information on Frontier Airlines and to book tickets, please visit its website at FrontierAirlines.com.

About The Wilderness Society

The Wilderness Society is the leading public-lands conservation organization working to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places. Founded in 1935, and now with more than 500,000 members and supporters, TWS has led the effort to permanently protect 110 million acres of wilderness and to ensure sound management of our shared national lands. To learn more, please visit wilderness.org.

Contacts

Frontier Contact:
Lindsey Purves, 720-374-4560
media@flyfrontier.com
or
The Wilderness Society:
Jennifer Stephens, 206-605-2411
JStephens@TWSNW.ORG

 

[AndrettiDog]

Sent my email and posted on their FaceBook page.

HERE is the link to the thread in the Land Use forum.

 

[milehighassassin]

Getting my letter ready and already posted on their facebook page. We should start a facebook page that is a "Dislike Frontier Airline for Supporting Wilderness".

 

[paulharris]

a lot of discussion on frontiers facebook page today. For some reason i cant comment on their site!!! (i have FB acct) its pissing me off because i want to comment!! some of these idiots dont even know what wilderness truly is. All these liberals have bicycles they need to know they are not allowed in wilderness!! can some of you others get on there and put up some comments??

http://www.facebook.com/frontierairlines/posts/185263688187239

 

[milehighassassin]

Paul, you have to "like" their page before you can comment. Click the little thumbs up with "like" next to it.


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[Chaos]

From my perspective, we are loosing this discussion on their facebook page, if you simply go by a comparison of "for" and "against" the recent partnership. I would highly suggest that all of you with FB access go to the link that "paulharris" provided above. A lot of "green" types have joined efforts on the link to support Frontier.

"Take no prisoners".....

Chaos

 

[paulharris]

Paul, you have to "like" their page before you can comment. Click the little thumbs up with "like" next to it.


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Thanks! It worked!

 

[Doctor D]

Face book post check, pissed off check, looking for tree huggers this weekend check, fawkin pissed now!!!!

 

[MT rydn]

sent letter.
Hi Mountain Rec / Beartooth Harley in Billings sent letter (very supportive dealer in trying to keep motorized access)

 

[milehighassassin]

From my perspective, we are loosing this discussion on their facebook page, if you simply go by a comparison of "for" and "against" the recent partnership. I would highly suggest that all of you with FB access go to the link that "paulharris" provided above. A lot of "green" types have joined efforts on the link to support Frontier.

"Take no prisoners".....

Chaos

Agreed! We really need more support. Post on face book, email letter and send hard copies


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[boarderking01]

They definitely deleted my post on there wall. why wouldnt frontier just donate to the nation forest?

 

[milehighassassin]

More people need to bombard their wall.

I have been posting my thoughts others people's posts as a reply. Make them delete the supporters posts by replying.


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[Chaos]

It is obvious we do not have enough folks that give a sh*t to take five minutes to defend their passion for riding... Out of sight, out of mind I guess. Good, bad, right, or wrong, so much for the passion of the folks in the Colorado Snowest post. If Frontier skates, it is the beginning of a bad precedence.

Safe riding...

Chaos

 

[AndrettiDog]

I've been posting over and over. The greenies are coming to save Frontier. F'n hypocrites! If they were so godamn rightous, they would be protesting airline companies for all the fuel that they use. Don't stop, keep bombarding Frontier. The already feel the pressure.

 

[FriscoProx]

We need to coordinate times and call their reservations lines to voice our displeasure. Anybody have an idea what the busiest times of week to make airline reservations are?

 

[PJ-Hunter]

I sent emails, I will facebook their lame azzes tonight.

 

[PJ-Hunter]

Done and done!!

 

[PJ-Hunter]

And no comment since I left mine. Did the green-tards lose their one-sided and uneducated words?

 

[Chaos]

PJ,

Thanks again for your time and efforts, as well as the others. No telling what the reason is for actions to cool down. One can only guess.

Have a great week.

Chaos

 

[CleElum Sledhead]

Conservation groups back Polis wilderness plan for Eagle, Summit counties CO

For those in denial, this article confirms our SAWS News email dated 4/12/11 stating our concern regarding “Frontier Airlines Partners With The Wilderness Society”.

Have the "barf bag" close by as you read the article...

http://coloradoindependent.com/85480/conservation-groups-back-polis-wilderness-plan-for-eagle-summit-counties

Conservation groups back Polis wilderness plan for Eagle, Summit countiesBy David O. Williams | 04.23.11 | 9:46 am

Environmental groups Friday praised the renewed efforts of U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, to protect more than 160,000 acres of public lands in Eagle and Summit counties as either wilderness or special management areas.

The Wilderness Society, Colorado Environmental Coalition, Wilderness Workshop and Colorado Mountain Club – backers of the original Hidden Gems wilderness proposal – issued a statement of support after Polis on Friday announced plans to reintroduce his Eagle and Summit County Wilderness Preservation Act.

Polis first introduced the bill late last session only to see it fizzle in the lead-up to midterm elections. Still, his goal was to get the language on the record and start building political support for compromise legislation derived from months of negotiations with various user groups. The bill includes a significantly scaled-back portion of Hidden Gems, which proposed more than 300,000 acres of new wilderness in Eagle, Summit, Gunnison and Pitkin counties.

“Congressman Polis has worked hard to gather citizen input and craft a wilderness proposal that reflects the desires and needs of his district,” Steve Smith, assistant director of The Wilderness Society in Colorado, said in a release. “He has created a proposal that deserves to be moved through Congress with bipartisan support.”

Polis, who announced the reintroduction on Earth Day at the state capitol in Denver, did not include Hidden Gems lands in Gunnison and Pitkin counties because they’re outside of his 2nd Congressional District. Conservationists remain hopeful they can see those lands included in a bill by 3rd Congressional District Congressman Scott Tipton, R-Cortez. Both Gunnison and Pitkin counties have voted in favor of increasing wilderness locally.

Polis is optimistic that even with Republican control of the U.S. House his bill can be included in some larger wilderness proposal or as part of an omnibus lands bill. He said it should be viewed as legislation that supports the state’s $10 billion outdoor recreation industry and therefore enjoys wide-ranging bipartisan support.

“Preserving our natural resources strengthens the economic resources that support Colorado jobs,” Polis said. “We also ensure that generations of Coloradans can enjoy these special places for fun, adventure or just enjoying the peace of the outdoors. That’s why this bill, which is the product of months of consensus building, enjoys such broad support.”

Outdoor photographer John Fielder and adventurer Aron Ralston, along with conservation groups and state and local politicians, joined Polis for Friday’s announcement.

“Only 5 percent of Colorado’s 66 million acres is legally designated wilderness,” said Fielder. “It’s simply not enough for a state whose economy is so dependent upon the integrity of its ecology. Wilderness protection makes people healthy, wealthy, and happy from an economy that is sustained by clean air and water, parks and trails, cobalt blue skies, and wilderness.”

Polis cut more than 80,000 acres from the nearly 245,000 acres of public lands in Eagle and Summit counties first proposed for wilderness protection under Hidden Gems, which generated heated controversy over the last several years, particularly from off-road motorized vehicles advocates. Eliminating some of the more contentious areas of the plan considerably cooled the rhetoric, but now Polis faces a steeper uphill climb in the GOP-controlled House.

Tipton and other Republican members of Colorado’s congressional delegations have been questioning U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans to begin protecting appropriate BLM lands under the Interior Department’s “Wild Lands” policy. They decry limitations on motorized vehicle travel and road building that would curtail mining and oil and gas drilling.

However, the Polis bill has considerable local support, including from both the Eagle and Summit County boards of commissioners. Vail Town Council member Kerry Donovan spoke Friday at the capitol.

“My family has a strong history with wilderness,” Donovan said. “From my grandfather shaping and defining wilderness boundaries because of his beliefs in the power of meeting nature on its own terms, to my parents introducing sustainability and recycling – it is this legacy that inspires me to be a part of this legislation. To add these proposed parcels to the existing wilderness completes a project started a lifetime ago.”

The bill would expand the Holy Cross and Eagles Nest wilderness areas, which surround Vail.

“We’re in the tourism business and people come to the mountains to experience the natural beauty of Colorado, so it only makes sense that we preserve the scenic, wild areas near Vail for posterity,” Vail Town Council member and former Vail Resorts president Andy Daly said. “Polis’ bill captures what we hope to achieve to protect our community’s best interest.”

Conservation groups and Hidden Gems backers cited the protection of areas like Castle Peak north of Eagle, Red Table Mountain between Gypsum and the Fryingpan River and Spraddle Creek just outside Vail.