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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]
> 
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> Check out the ABA web site:  <http://www.americanbirding.org/>
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> 
> 
> 
> "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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