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A Birder’s Guide to U.S. Federal Public Lands

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In fact, the overwhelming majority of federal land is in just 11 western states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). BLM land is particularly important for conservation of the Greater Sage-Grouse and other sageland species.

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Tell Congress To Fully Fund The Land And Water Conservation Fund

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The money is intended to create and protect national parks, areas around rivers and lakes, national forests, and national wildlife refuges from development, and to provide matching grants for state and local parks and recreation projects. Future generations deserve nothing less.”

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011?

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My mother, mother-in-law, and godmother are all visiting right now. Turkeys, 3 or 4 species of woodpeckers, all kinds of song birds grace our view constantly. Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Utah Birders has a copy of Hawks at a Distance to give away. On my side of the Equator, the future is growing a whole lot brighter.

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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The members of the MBCC are set by law: the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the EPA, two U.S. as to number of species). Aransas NWR (368 species and 42.7% Bear River MBR (Utah): 36.9%. Senators, and two U.S. Representatives. They include: Hotspot No. 64 Edwin B.

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