Washington, Aug. 28 -- Rep. Mike Thompson issued the following press release:
St. Helena, CA - Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04), Chair of the Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus and a member of the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission (MBCC), applauded the U.S. Department of the Interior's decision to halt proposed changes that could have weakened longstanding protections for wetland easements in the Prairie Pothole Region. The announcement came after Rep. Thompson spoke out against the proposal and more than 200,000 Americans submitted comments on the proposal.
The proposed changes could have allowed increased drainage near protected wetlands, threatening critical waterfowl breeding habitat in the region that produces more than half of North...