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The National Wildlife Refuge Association recently hosted training in Puerto Rico where National Association for Interpretation presented certificates to 14 participants who successfully completed Certified Interpretative Guide training!
This training will help local Friends Groups better assist USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System in Puerto Rico, like Cabo Rojo and Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuges, Vieques National Wildlife Refuge, and Culebra National Wildlife Refuge.
Twin Pines Minerals of Birmingham, Alabama has applied to the State of Georgia and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for permits to begin strip mining on thousands of acres adjacent to Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.
At 1.6 million acres, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is the largest national wildlife refuge in the lower 48 states. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established this refuge in 1936 to protect one of the largest blocks of intact desert bighorn sheep habitat in the Southwest. The U.S. Air Force is now proposing to take control of over 1 million acres of these refuge lands.
The National Wildlife Refuge Association continues to counter an assault on Alaska’s 16 national wildlife refuges by the state’s powerful congressional delegation, now empowered by the Trump administration to undo 40 years of protection afforded Alaska’s refuges by the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
As of Wednesday morning, November 7, with many races still undecided, the leadership of the House will flip to the Democrats in the 116th Congress beginning January 3, 2019, but the Senate will remain controlled by the GOP. While the election shows how divided the country still is, the House will now have subpoena power over the Trump Administration and will be able to stop almost any proposed legislation from the President. In a word, near complete gridlock and two years of intense oversight of administrative actions.
