Hot News!
- The National Wildlife Refuge Association will hold the 4th annual Wildlife Refuge Digital
Photography Contest this coming spring. Please visit http://www.refugenet.
org/contest/2009ContestFlyer.html to view the 2009 Contest Announcement and to
download a printer-friendly version of the contest flyer.
- Sean Furniss, National Coordinator of the Refuge Roads Program with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, discussed potential funding opportunities related to the upcoming
transportation bill reauthorization on Wednesday, November 19, 2008. Hosted by the
Friends of Necedah National Wildlife Refuge the meeting was attended by area businesses
and organizations.
For further information please see the Invitation.
- As of October 2008 work on the approach road and parking lot for the Visitor Center is
complete. Construction of the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center begins in the
spring of 2009 with doors opening by fall of 2010.
Click on Site Plan to view the conceptual diagram of 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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