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We need your help today to put a stop to this wasteful and destructive project. Please urge the Environmental Protection Agency to veto the Yazoo Pumps. Personalized messages are the most effective. Edit the letter below to express how the Mississippi River, and the birds and other wildlife that depend on it, are important to you.
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The Army Corps of Engineers wants to spend $220 million of your tax dollars on a project that could drain and damage up to 200,000 acres of wetlands in the heart of the Mississippi River flyway—an area that contains some of the richest natural resources in the nation. This project is not about protecting people from flooding, but about planting a few more acres of row crops, at great expense to birds, bears, and other wildlife habitat. Even a 2003 internal Corps of Engineers' memo labeled this one of the worst examples of watershed management in the nation.Contact us: Audubon (audubonaction@audubon.org) |
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