Lesser prairie chicken
“The lesser prairie-chicken serves as an indicator for healthy grasslands and prairies, making the species an important measure of the overall health of America’s grasslands,” Biden said. Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Stuff you need to know, 9.28.23

“Biden vetoes GOP-pushed resolution that would have stripped protections from endangered bird”
by Hannah Grover, NM Political Report
September 28, 2023

Defenders of Wildlife stated that the resolutions Biden vetoed are among more than three dozen attempts that this Congress has made to “undermine the Endangered Species Act.” President Biden agreed, arguing that to remove the protections from the bird would overturn science-based rulemaking.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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