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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Last week we sent out a
request
asking people to contact their senator in support of a letter by
Senator Boxer
requesting that the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee allocate
$20
million for pollinator research.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">With your help, Senator
Boxer’s
letter supporting pollinator research funding was ultimately signed by
20
senators including Barbara Boxer, (D-CA), Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Max
Baucus
(D-MT), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Maria Cantwell, (D-WA), Kent Conrad
(D-ND), Mike
Crapo (R-ID), Russell Feingold (D-WI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kristen
Gillibrand (D-NY), Orrin Hatch (R-WY), Tim Johnson (D - SD), Patrick
Leahy
((D-VT), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Jack Reed (D-RI), James Risch (R-ID),
Bernard
Sanders (I-VT), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Ron
Wyden
(D-OR).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank for all your help!<span style="">
</span>We could not have done this without you. To see a copy of the
signed
letter go to: <a
href="http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/boxer_pollinator_research_funding_letter.pdf">http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/boxer_pollinator_research_funding_letter.pdf</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information about Pollinators in the 2008
Farm
Bill, go to: <a
href="http://www.xerces.org/pollinators-in-the-farm-bill/">http://www.xerces.org/pollinators-in-the-farm-bill/</a></p>
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<b>The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation</b>
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organization that protects wildlife through the
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conservation of invertebrates and their habitat.
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To join the Society, make a contribution, or read
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Sarina Jepsen
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Endangered Species Coordinator
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4828 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR 97215
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tel: 503-232-6639 fax: 503-233-6794
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