ACTIONREPORT: HOW NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE

摘要

Working with other members of the Corps Reform Network, NWF recently convinced federal lawmakers to remove two riders from the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Bill that would have supported the St. Johns-New Madrid Floodway project on the Mississippi River, threatening wildlife habitat and nearby towns. Designed to benefit a handful of soybean farmers by allowing them to increase the acreage they farm, the project would have put a number of communities, such as Cairo, Illinois, at greater flood risk. It also would have eliminated as many as 75,000 acres of habitat for fish and migratory birds such as wood ducks (above).