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ĢAv Wishes Senator Thad Cochran Well In Retirement
As a leader of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Cochran often rose above partisan politics to support conservation.
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (March 6, 2018) — “They just don’t make Senators like Thad Cochran anymore. Often a calm voice of reason during the legislative process, Senator Cochran regularly voted to build on America’s long, bipartisan history of conservation in his time on the appropriations committee,” said Jill Mastrototaro, ĢAv Mississippi’s policy director.
“ĢAv wishes Senator Cochran well in his retirement, during which he’ll always be welcome at our Pascagoula River and Strawberry Plains ĢAv Centers. We look forward to an equally productive working relationship with his successor to help us protect the birds and wildlife of Mississippi and the Gulf Coast,” said Sheryl Bowen, ĢAv Mississippi’s board chair.
About ĢAv
Established in 1998, ĢAv Mississippi is a pioneering non-profit that uses conservation, education, advocacy, and science to benefit birds, wildlife, and their habitats. ĢAv Mississippi is a state office of the ĢAv.
The ĢAv protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education and on-the-ground conservation. ĢAv’s state programs, nature centers, chapters and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, ĢAv’s vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive. ĢAv is a nonprofit conservation organization. Learn more at www.audubon.org and @audubonsociety.
Contact: Nicolas Gonzalez, ngonzalez@audubon.org, (212) 979-3100.
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