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T40cfr403:
Congress Considers Major Bills this Month Impacting Key Audubon Priorities
https://www.audubon.org/news/congress-considers-major-bills-month-impacting-key-audubon-priorities?ms=policy-adv-email-ea-x-20180714_advisory
We are working to keep a harmful rider that would impact efforts to save Greater Sage-Grouse out of the final defense bill. Photo: Bob Wick/BLM
T40cfr403:
U.S. House Passes Harmful Fisheries Bill
https://www.audubon.org/news/us-house-passes-harmful-fisheries-bill?ms=policy-adv-email-ea-x-20180714_advisory
T40cfr403:
As MBTA Turns 100, Audubon Defends the Law in Court and in Congress
https://www.audubon.org/news/as-mbta-turns-100-audubon-defends-law-court-and-congress?ms=policy-adv-email-ea-x-20180714_advisory
Great Egrets are common now only because grassroots activists urged Congress to pass the Migratory Bird Treaty Act a century ago, saving the regal birds from the plume trade. Photo: Trudy Walden/Audubon Photography Awards
T40cfr403:
--- Quote from: T40cfr403 on July 12, 2018, 07:13:35 PM ---Farm bill amendment would let farmers kill black vultures
https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/farm-bill-amendment-would-let-farmers-kill-black-vultures/417-571422647
AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2, AS REPORTED OFFERED BY MR. HOLLINGSWORTH OF INDIANA - https://hollingsworth.house.gov/uploadedfiles/blckvultr.pdf
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More: Farmers permitted to kill black vultures
https://www.laruecountyherald.com/content/farmers-permitted-kill-black-vultures
T40cfr403:
Clipped Wings: Trump Administration Weakens Law That Protected Birds For A Century
http://wvpublic.org/post/clipped-wings-trump-administration-weakens-law-protected-birds-century#stream/0
Birds are important indicators of an ecosystem's health.
Credit Brittany Patterson / West Virginia Public Broadcasting
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