Re: UK National Lottery cash for bogland

From: Marj Boyer (Marj_Boyer@mail.agr.state.nc.us)
Date: Fri May 23 1997 - 08:28:13 PDT


Date: Fri, 23 May 97 10:28:13 EST
From: "Marj Boyer" <Marj_Boyer@mail.agr.state.nc.us>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg2042$foo@default>
Subject: Re: UK National Lottery cash for bogland


     What a lovely setup -- using lottery money for crucial conservation!
     
     One respondent to this news wrote: "A hardy WELL DONE for our friends
     across the ocean. Now if only the US would do something this
     favorable."
     
     Well, you'll be glad to know that at this very moment, a combination
     of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service funds and North Carolina cash raised
     through the sale of personalized license plates is being used to buy
     some globally significant bog land (which includes several rare
     species & cp's) in North Carolina. It's funds under the Endangered
     Species Act that are keeping Sarracenia oreophila & S. jonesii alive
     in their native habitat here -- so support that Act, U.S. folks, let
     your legislators know you like it. And North Carolinian cp'ers, get
     your vanity plates now, help save more bogs! The extra fees for the
     personalized plates go to the state Recreation and Heritage Trust
     Fund, and much of that Fund money goes to land acquisition.
     



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