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State of the Birds
"Bird Bill" of 2004
The 2004 Legislature unanimously passed
Important Bird Areas legislation the first year it was introduced
– a process that usually takes about three years. Once
again, Audubon Washington’s staff and citizen advocates
demonstrated, through this and other legislation, how birds,
habitat, and environmental issues are common interests that
eclipse political boundaries.
ESHB
2650, “Recognizing Important Bird Areas (IBAs)”,
provides a statewide, science-based means to recognize Important
Bird Areas and locally manage these areas to restore bird
habitat and populations. Click here
for specific details of the bill.
Senator Bob Oke (Dist. 26- Kitsap County)
and Representative Kelli Linville (Dist. 42-Whatcom County)
who championed this effort and to other key legislators who
assisted in moving the bill along including Senator Jacobsen
(Dist. 46- Seattle) and Representatives Phil Rockefeller (Dist.
23-Kitsap County), Bob Sump (Dist. 7-Ferry and Stevens Counties),
Mark Schoesler (Dist. 9-Adams and Whitman Counties.)
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