Tim's Salamander and Your Action Today
Meet Tim Koopman. This California rancher might have a very different relationship with the endangered wildlife that lives on his land if he hadn’t enlisted in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) about eight years ago.
Now the California tiger salamanders, western pond turtles, western bluebirds and other wildlife on his land have become a regular part of Tim's land -- and important part of his operations.
Help support wildlife-friendly ranchers and farmers like Tim. Urge your Senators and Representative to support wildlife-friendly agriculture and adequately fund conservation programs in the federal Farm Bill.
Will farmers like Tim lose access to the incentives that help enable them to protect wildlife on their lands? And will Congress strip the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) of its power to restrict toxic pesticides in the Farm Bill’s conservation programs?
It’s up to your elected officials -- and you.
Please take action now to protect conservation funding in the farm bill and stop a provision that would bar incentives to reduce the use of pesticides that can harm wildlife, pollute our water and sicken our families.
More than half of all agricultural streams have pesticide contamination that threatens aquatic life, according to the federal National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. About 10 percent of these streams do not meet human health standards.
Such contamination harms our wildlife and our families, but that hasn’t stopped Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte from pushing his outrageous eleventh-hour amendment to the House version of the Farm Bill that strips USDA of its power to restrict toxic pesticides in its conservation programs.
Help us stop the Goodlatte Amendment and ensure that wildlife, water quality and farmers like Tim all get a fair shake in the Farm Bill.
Congress is expected to vote on the Farm Bill in the next few weeks, so it’s extremely important that we make our voices heard now. Please take action today and let your Senators know that you…
SUPPORT increased conservation funding in the Federal Farm Bill to help private landowners protect threatened and endangered species.
OPPOSE the Goodlatte Pesticides Amendment
Defenders of Wildlife is doing all we can to ensure that Congress passes a wildlife-friendly Farm Bill. I hope you’ll help.
Sincerely,
Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife
Now the California tiger salamanders, western pond turtles, western bluebirds and other wildlife on his land have become a regular part of Tim's land -- and important part of his operations.
Help support wildlife-friendly ranchers and farmers like Tim. Urge your Senators and Representative to support wildlife-friendly agriculture and adequately fund conservation programs in the federal Farm Bill.
Will farmers like Tim lose access to the incentives that help enable them to protect wildlife on their lands? And will Congress strip the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) of its power to restrict toxic pesticides in the Farm Bill’s conservation programs?
It’s up to your elected officials -- and you.
Please take action now to protect conservation funding in the farm bill and stop a provision that would bar incentives to reduce the use of pesticides that can harm wildlife, pollute our water and sicken our families.
More than half of all agricultural streams have pesticide contamination that threatens aquatic life, according to the federal National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. About 10 percent of these streams do not meet human health standards.
Such contamination harms our wildlife and our families, but that hasn’t stopped Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte from pushing his outrageous eleventh-hour amendment to the House version of the Farm Bill that strips USDA of its power to restrict toxic pesticides in its conservation programs.
Help us stop the Goodlatte Amendment and ensure that wildlife, water quality and farmers like Tim all get a fair shake in the Farm Bill.
Congress is expected to vote on the Farm Bill in the next few weeks, so it’s extremely important that we make our voices heard now. Please take action today and let your Senators know that you…
SUPPORT increased conservation funding in the Federal Farm Bill to help private landowners protect threatened and endangered species.
OPPOSE the Goodlatte Pesticides Amendment
Defenders of Wildlife is doing all we can to ensure that Congress passes a wildlife-friendly Farm Bill. I hope you’ll help.
Sincerely,
Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife
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