Subject: From Anne Earhart
From: anne earhart <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Anne Earhart <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:36:36 -0800

Dear John,

I asked Herb Sandler for your email because I wanted to contact you regarding the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. I saw your tweet the other day that it was one of your proudest accomplishments and I wanted to say thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all that you have done, not only for the PRIMNM, but for all the wildlands that you have helped conserve. We have no greater resource and legacy to leave our children than these special, fragile and very important places. I truly appreciate all the work you have done at the WH with climate change and so many other things. You have really helped move the needle on so many issues of importance to me, and to all of us.

I know you will be busy with your new job but just in case you have a free moment, I wanted to invite you and your wife to Palmyra Atoll, part of the PRIMNM, about 500 miles south of the Big Island. Nature Conservancy manages a research station out there for most of the year, but in the fall there are a few groups that visit there. I have been four times now and can't tell you what an amazing "life soup" it is out there and I would hope that you and your wife could come visit it yourselves to see. The birds, the fish, sharks and mantas are really spectacular in their abundance. And I am not sure if you are a fisherman but the bone fishing is fantastic too. We would love to have you visit this special place that you have helped protect. The trip dates would be Oct 22-27, leaving out of Honolulu. I know this is a long shot, but when I saw your tweet, I thought I really must at least reach out to you and extend an invitation. Given the nature of your new job, a few days off the grid might be just what you need before the run up to the election.

All my very best to you. Please let me know if it is possible and we will make it happen. Or perhaps after the election?
Anne