> Hi All, > WNS Liaison Peter Youngbaer wrote: > > Below is the notice I sent out for signing on to the WNS funding petition. > Please feel free to forward to your networks, list serves, Facebook posts, > etc. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Action Alert: Please sign an on-line "We The People" petition to help get > research funding for White Nose Syndrome in the federal budget. > > The NSS is joining Bat Conservation International and others in requesting > President Obama to include funding for WNS in the Administration's 2013 > budget. > > The mechanism for doing this is a "We The People" petition, operated by the > White House (http://wh.gov/TNK). We need 25,000 names by November 25 for the > staff to recognize the issue and evaluate it for the President. The petition > language is fairly general; specifics can be dealt with once the threshold is > reached and staff begins to focus on the details. > > The petition can be found here: > > https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/fund-fight-against-white-nose-syndrome-president%E2%80%99s-fiscal-year-2013-budget/jH8Z4Fsl > > If you are already have a whitehouse.gov account click "Sign In" enter your > information and then click "Sign this Petition." If you are new to the > whitehouse.gov webpage click "Create an Account." You will be sent an > automated email to verify your new account and then you can return and click > "Sign this Petition." > > WNS is likely to be with us for some time, and this is the best way to help > ensure ongoing long-term funding. In the short-term, please donate to the > NSS' WNS Rapid Response Fund. We continue to have research funding requests > for more immediate projects and need to replenish the fund: > http://www.caves.org/WNS/Rapid_Response.shtml Thank you. > > Peter Youngbaer > NSS 16161 CM FE > NSS White Nose Syndrome Liaison > > __,_._,___
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