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The following spells out how you can help get conservation and other funding 
out of congress.

Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT/TLBA
Bartlett, TN



In a message dated 5/8/03 8:58:34 AM Central Daylight Time, pbaicich@xxxxxxx 
writes:

> Subj: TWW/Bird-funding: May event scheduled for DC. You can help. 
>  Date: 5/8/03 8:58:34 AM Central Daylight Time
>  From: <A HREF="mailto:pbaicich@xxxxxxx";>pbaicich@xxxxxxx</A>
>  To: <A HREF="mailto:pbaicich@xxxxxxx";>pbaicich@xxxxxxx</A>
>  Sent from the Internet 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Birding and Wildlife-watching Friends,
> 
> The Teaming With Wildlife (TWW) Coalition needs you to become a part of an
> important event - showing your strong support for adequate funding for our
> state wildlife agencies. As many of you are probably aware, planning has
> been completed for a fund-support event, a kind of rally, at the Capital
> for later this month. This will take place in two weeks, on 21-22 May 2003,
> in Washington, DC to educate Congress of the importance of wildife funding
> and to share success stories with like-minded people doing important
> state-based work on birds and wildlife.
> 
> The goal of this event is to generate bipartisan support for funding the
> State Wildlife Grant Program at $125 million for FY '04.
> 
> Our birds and other wildlife need reliable state-based wildlife funding.
> Already the SWG funds have been very important for practical wildlife
> conservation across the country. Short of a CARA-like piece of legislation
> that would secure long-term, reliable funding for wildlife and other
> conservation programs, an appropriation of $125 million for State Wildlife
> Grants should maintain bird-and-wildlife projects already started to
> address much-needed conservation needs and keep our common wildlife species
> common
> 
> For more information on this important DC activity, see
> <http://www.teaming.com/site/index.cfm> and click on "Information on the
> Teaming with Wildlife Days at the US Capitol - May 21-22, 2003."
> 
> You say you can't attend the DC event?
> 
> There is still something very important you can do to support the effort.
> Those who can't attend can still prepare members of Congress for our
> message of 21-22 May.
> 
> We will probably initiate a specific FAX-in or call-in day to Congress in
> the next week.
> 
> This way, when our TWW friends knock on those doors on 21-22 May, the
> Congressional offices will have ALREADY received message from a concerned
> bird-and-wildlife constituency back home.
> 
> Stand by for news on that in the next week or so...
> 
>         Good spring birding!
> 
>         Paul
> 
> 
> =====================================================
> Paul J. Baicich
> Director of Conservation and Public Policy
> American Birding Association
> P.O. Box 404
> Oxon Hill, MD 20750
> 
>    301-839-9736 (839-wren)
>    301-839-2763  [fax]
> 
> ABA: A lot more than listing!
> Check out the ABA web site:  <http://www.americanbirding.org/>
> And for our online birding store: <http://www.americanbirding.org/abasales/>
> 
> 
> 
> "To the philosopher, as well as the naturalist, and to every man of
> feeling, the manners, migration, and immense multitudes of birds in this
> country, are subjects of interesting and instructive curiosity." 
>   - Alexander Wilson, Philadelphia, 1811




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Dear Birding and Wildlife-watching Friends,

The Teaming With Wildlife (TWW) Coalition needs you to become a part of an
important event - showing your strong support for adequate funding for our
state wildlife agencies. As many of you are probably aware, planning has
been completed for a fund-support event, a kind of rally, at the Capital
for later this month. This will take place in two weeks, on 21-22 May 2003,
in Washington, DC to educate Congress of the importance of wildife funding
and to share success stories with like-minded people doing important
state-based work on birds and wildlife.

The goal of this event is to generate bipartisan support for funding the
State Wildlife Grant Program at $125 million for FY '04.

Our birds and other wildlife need reliable state-based wildlife funding.
Already the SWG funds have been very important for practical wildlife
conservation across the country. Short of a CARA-like piece of legislation
that would secure long-term, reliable funding for wildlife and other
conservation programs, an appropriation of $125 million for State Wildlife
Grants should maintain bird-and-wildlife projects already started to
address much-needed conservation needs and keep our common wildlife species
common

For more information on this important DC activity, see
<http://www.teaming.com/site/index.cfm> and click on "Information on the
Teaming with Wildlife Days at the US Capitol - May 21-22, 2003."

You say you can't attend the DC event?

There is still something very important you can do to support the effort.
Those who can't attend can still prepare members of Congress for our
message of 21-22 May.

We will probably initiate a specific FAX-in or call-in day to Congress in
the next week.

This way, when our TWW friends knock on those doors on 21-22 May, the
Congressional offices will have ALREADY received message from a concerned
bird-and-wildlife constituency back home.

Stand by for news on that in the next week or so...

                Good spring birding!

                Paul


=====================================================
 Paul J. Baicich
 Director of Conservation and Public Policy
 American Birding Association
 P.O. Box 404
 Oxon Hill, MD 20750

     301-839-9736 (839-wren)
     301-839-2763  [fax]

ABA: A lot more than listing!
Check out the ABA web site:  <http://www.americanbirding.org/>
And for our online birding store: <http://www.americanbirding.org/abasales/>


"To the philosopher, as well as the naturalist, and to every man of
feeling, the manners, migration, and immense multitudes of birds in this
country, are subjects of interesting and instructive curiosity." 
    - Alexander Wilson, Philadelphia, 1811

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