<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">OMG. This is so far out of hand. We must everything we can to turn the tide on this. Will the newspaper report this??<div>Debra<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 16, 2025, at 11:51\u202fAM, Dawn Hewitt via Green <green@fuusm.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<div dir="ltr">Mark K. let me and other Friends board members know last night. It's OUTRAGEOUS and disgusting. What a mess of half-finished and unstarted projects it leaves you and Refuge staff with. This is government efficiency? <div><br></div><div>Especially since those young, able bodies won't be around to help with tree planting on Buckley Island on Saturday, I'll email fuusmchat and encourage all who can possibly help to show up.</div><div><br></div><div>--dawn</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 11:43\u202fAM Vic Elam via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org">green@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I don't know if all the info channels have been reached, so in the event some of you have not heard. Yesterday afternoon, the Americorps crew working here at Ohio River Islands NWR was notified that they were terminated by DOGE. It was a heartbreaking time. They immediately had to return to their camp and start packing up and hit the road last night. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your support the short time they were here.</div><div><br></div><div>Vic</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">When the Earth, its products, its creatures become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humility and reverence. - William O. Douglas</div></div></div></div>
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