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National Wildlife Refuge Trivia:  What is PILT?  

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National Wildlife Refuges protect critical habitat and provide some of the best birding locations in the United States. Although birders and other users of NWRs create local jobs , federal lands can be costly for local governments because, broadly speaking, federal land cannot be taxed by state or local governments.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing that FWS did not properly assess the subspecies issue. United States DOI , 2019 U.S. FWS sought the views of six independent scientists and they all rejected the findings in the Zink study. As a result, FWS denied the petition to delist in August 2016.

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Settlement Forces Animal Research Facilities to Disclose More

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Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department. The settlement will now be submitted to the federal district court for the District of Columbia for final approval.

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Humane Society University to Offer Courses in Fall 2009

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Further advancing its leadership in human-animal studies, Humane Society University, an affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States, announced today that it has received a license as a higher education degree-granting institution by the District of Columbia Education Licensure Commission.

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Enter to Win a Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan Pet Travel Product from AutoAnything!

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This Giveaway is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including District of Columbia) who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. And, find out their latest offerings and updates on AutoAnything’s blog, RidePros. Giveaway Rules: No purchase necessary.

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Do you look like your pet?

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Legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia that have a dog and are a family member that is at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission are eligible for entry. The finalists from these submissions will be given the chance to win the grand prize of $1 million dollars.

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From Today's New York Times

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In United States v. While all 50 states and the District of Columbia have animal cruelty laws, the anonymity of the perpetrators in the videos severely frustrates enforcement efforts, so we need to ban the sale of these videos. 5, 2010 The writers are United States senators.