e-mail the Governor at [log in to unmask] and ask him to sign-on to the sodbuster provision of the federal Ag bill to prevent farmers from receiving federal payments if they plow pasture or native prairie.

Charlie Winterwood

From: Cindy Hildebrand <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:35:47 PM
Subject: Iowa's governor listed as not protecting native prairies

"Native Prairie Finds No Protectors Among Governors"

from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=native-prairie-finds-no-p

Note that Governor Culver could still sign on if he so chose. It might help if he heard from more Iowans who would like him to do so.

Cindy Hildebrand
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57439 250th St.
Ames, IA 50010

"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach." (Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

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