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- Work on the approach road and parking lot for the Visitor Center will begin in August with a
footprint for the Visitor Center foundation to be ready when actual construction begins in
the spring of 2009 with completion of the center by fall of 2010.
Click here for a conceptual diagram of the site plan for the new Visitor Center:
- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
approved $469 million for the National Wildlife Refuge System's fiscal year 2009 budget, $35
million more than the White House's proposal of $434 million for refuge operations and
maintenance.
- Be sure to write to or email Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI), a founding co-chair of the
Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus, to thank him for all his efforts on behalf of our
National Wildlife Refuge System and for the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge. Thanks to
Congressman Kind, along with Congressman David Obey, Senator Russ Feingold and
Senator Herb Kohl for ear-marking $3.5 in the 2007 budget for the refuge's new visitor center!
Click here to read the details: Visitor Center
- Support Legislation to properly fund our country's refuge system: Your elected
representatives need to hear how you feel about the refuge system. They need to continue to hear
from their constituents just how important the refuge system is to protecting wildlife habitat, to
educating our children, and to providing a legacy to our grandchildren. The future of the refuge
system is in your hands. Please contact your representatives to make your voice heard.
Find your representatives' contact information below.
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