{"id":9069,"date":"2017-05-03T11:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=9069"},"modified":"2017-05-03T20:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:50:47","slug":"mass-audubon-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/mass-audubon-goes-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Audubon Goes to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mass Audubon’s President Gary Clayton and Legislative Director Karen Heymann are in Washington DC meeting with our legislators as part of the Land Trust Alliance Advocacy Days.<\/p>\n

While there, the team is advocating for\u00a0land conservation and\u00a0is also delivering all of your Speak Up for Nature<\/a> letters, drawings, and postcards. Check out a few pics from the day here.<\/p>\n

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Gary Clayton in DC<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gary with Senator Warren<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gary with Congressman Capuano<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gary, Karen, and Senator Markey’s Staff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gary with Congresswoman Tsongas’ staff<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mass Audubon’s President Gary Clayton and Legislative Director Karen Heymann are in Washington DC meeting with our legislators as part of the Land Trust Alliance Advocacy Days. While there, the team is advocating for\u00a0land conservation and\u00a0is also delivering all of your Speak Up for Nature letters, drawings, and postcards. Check out a few pics from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy-2","category-get-involved"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-2mh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9151,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/banding-peregrines-2017-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":9069,"position":0},"title":"Banding Peregrines 2017 Edition","author":"Hillary T.","date":"May 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Every May, Norman Smith, Director of Mass Audubon\u2019s Blue Hills Trailside Museum, and Tom French, Director of Mass Wildlife\u2019s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species program, band peregrine falcon chicks in Boston. 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