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Birds Avoid Chopping Block (For Now) as Congress Leaves Out Most Proposed Cuts to Conservation

by Press on May 5, 2017

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The spending package for the rest of the fiscal year includes increases for several programs that thousands of Audubon members urged their members of Congress to fund.