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Contact: Richard
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For Imediate Release: April 29, 2003 |
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Secretary
Norton and National Zoo Director Spelman Join Volunteers
Planting Trees and Shrubs at New "Bald Eagle Refuge" Exhibit
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MEDIA ADVISORY (WASHINGTON) -- Secretary
of Interior Gale Norton and National Zoo Director Lucy Spelman will join
more than a dozen volunteers to plant trees and shrubs as part of creating
the "Bald Eagle Refuge," a new home for eagles at the National
Zoo.
What: Secretary Gale
Norton and volunteers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National
Wildlife Refuge System, the Friends of the National Zoo and the American
Zoo and Aquarium Association will plant native trees and shrubs to enhance
a wooded area at the future site of the Zoo's new "Bald Eagle Refuge"
exhibit. This exhibit is scheduled to open in July as part of the celebration
of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the refuge system. Where: National Zoological
Park
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