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Your Help Is Needed to Keep the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge a True Refuge for Wildlife!!

The Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in western Washington at the
southern end of Puget Sound is accepting public comments on its management plans for the next 15 years. Unfortunately, several of the alternatives include opening the refuge lands to waterfowl hunting.

The Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge is one of well over 500 parcels of federal land around the country that are designated as National Wildlife Refuges. While the "refuge" means "A place providing protection or shelter; a haven," recreational hunting and trapping are allowed -- even encouraged -- on more than half of the nation's refuges. This government-sponsored, taxpayer-supported killing and torturing of wildlife on land which is supposed to be a refuge is the height of hypocrisy.

Two public meetings are scheduled to provide information and take comments on the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan. The public meeting format will be informal with refuge staff available to answer questions and take comments. No formal presentations will be made by the public or by refuge staff so you can come at any time during the hours indicated. The meetings are scheduled for:

January 15, 2003, 3:00pm to 8:30pm at Nisqually NWR, 100 Brown Farm Road, Olympia, WA

January 16, 2003, 3:00pm to 8:00pm at the Tacoma Public Library, 1102
Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma, WA

Please consider attending one of these public meetings and voicing your opposition to hunting on the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge! You can get background information on this issue and can also send written comments by visiting The Fund for Animals' Action Center:

http://action.fund.org/action/index....ep=2&item=1435

Thanks for helping to protect Washington's wildlife!

For more information contact:

Jeff Leitner
The Fund for Animals
[email protected]