Posted by Dawg on Thursday, April 05, 2007 @ 08:52:53 EDT (686 reads)
NC Wildlife Refuge In Danger
New Public Hearing to be held in Charlotte
The U.S. Navy has proposed once again to put a jet landing field right next to the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern North Carolina, winter home to 100,000 swans and geese. It is also home to numerous black bears, and the country’s only population of endangered red wolves, as well as Bald Eagles and millions of other birds. The conflict between jets and birds is inevitable at this site. The recent court-ordered supplemental report reveals just how far the Navy may have to go to try to make the site work: stripping forage crops from 20,000 acres and harassing, even poisoning, birds that might interfere with the jets.
Please act now before it is too late by either:
1) Submit your written comment online now to the U.S. Navy and NC's Congressional Delegation, click here.
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2) Attending one of the following public hearings to give your written and/or verbal comments to the U.S. Navy. Click on a city below for more details:
TONIGHT Tuesday, April 3rd-Beaufort Community College Washington, NC
Wednesday, April 4th-Vernon G. James Research and Extension Center NCSU Plymouth, NC
NEW Tuesday, April 17th-Charlotte Convention Center Ballroom A Charlotte, NC
