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Parks and Public Lands Win at the Polls

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American Oystercatcher. Photo by © Michael Todd. Renewable Energy Standards Initiative. Election Results = PASSED with 59%+ voter support. Northern Harrier. Photo by © Robin Edwards. Connecticut. Legislative Requirements to Transfer State Properties Amendment.

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Best Bird of the Year 2013

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I was attending the 3rd Global Bird-watching Conference in Gujarat and suddenly surrounded not just be species that were completely new, but entire families of birds. My fiance and I drove nearly two hours to the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in rural Indiana to watch them come in for the evening.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

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Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and freeing the seventeen refuge employees to go back to work. Those holdouts were convinced by Michele Fiore, a Republican Assemblywoman from Nevada, to turn themselves in. So far the cost of the Malheur NWR occupation is estimated at over $3.3

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