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Sights Are Set on Plum Island Preservation
Help keep the wind in our sails!
President Biden has declared two national monuments this year, and Plum Island has been mentioned publicly among several other properties believed to be on his short list. The President’s America the Beautiful initiative aims to conserve 30% of the nation’s land and waters by 2030; declaring more national monuments is one way to meet that goal.
Plum Island has garnered support from Senators Schumer, Murphy, Blumenthal, and Gillibrand—a New York and Connecticut power team—and Representative Nick LaLota (R-NY) recently introduced the Plum Island National Monument Act. In the last year, more than 2,000 citizens representing every state in the union have written to President Biden, imploring him to declare Plum Island a national monument. Meanwhile, local, state, and federal elected officials and regional and national nonprofits have urged the same in letters of their own, and key players in the drive for preservation are meeting with the Plum Island Animal Disease Center’s leadership to tour the island. The wind is in our sails as we point the prow toward preservation!
