[TN-Butterflies] Re: Budget cut axes BAMONA???
- From: Rita Venable <ritavenable@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: kjchilds@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:41:51 -0500
I am surprised; hopefully, another organization will pick it up. Um, I
wonder if I can still get the county maps for the book?
Rita
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:50 PM, kjchilds <kjchilds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unfortunately it's true.
>
> "In the President’s budget for Fiscal Year 2012, the National Biological
> Information Infrastructure (NBII) was slated for termination. The
> year-long continuing resolution for Fiscal Year 2011 just recently enacted
> by Congress accelerates the reductions in the President’s Fiscal Year 2012
> budget by including a $3.8 million decrease for the NBII. As a result, USGS
> has already begun the termination of the NBII in Fiscal Year 2011 and will
> not provide any further funding to existing partnerships, including BAMONA.
>
>
> Regardless of the USGS support, my partner and I remain personally and
> passionately committed to the continuation of the BAMONA project through
> other avenues."
>
>
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> *From:* Bart Jones <bjones7777@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Friday, June 10, 2011 3:59 PM
> *Subject:* [TN-Butterflies] Budget cut axes BAMONA???
>
> While perusing the TX-Butterflies listserve, I came across a post saying
> that the President's new budget proposal had eliminated NBII, and therefore
> BAMONA, funding. Maybe some of you with better connections to BAMONA could
> check on that.
>
> Bart Jones
> Memphis, Shelby County
>
>
>
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