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100 years ago: Audubon asks birders to protest planned drainage of Malheur Lake
The secretary of the National Audubon Society addressed the Spokane Bird Club and asked the club to protest the drainage of Malheur Lake in Oregon, The Spokesman-Review reported on Oct. 4, 1916.Malheur was a bird sanctuary established by Theodore Roosevelt, but an Oregon land company was seeking to permit the lake to be drained for agricultural purposes.
The national society urged the local club to “take action at once” and “make a vigorous protest” to the Interior Secretary ...
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/oct/04/100-years-ago-in-spokane-audubon-society-asks-bird/
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