Feds, Partners Put $23 Million Into Migratory Bird Conservation

WASHINGTON, DC, May 19, 2009 (ENS) - The National Audubon Society Chicago Region has been awarded $88,310 by the federal government and partners will match with $265,170 to return publicly owned hayfields and degraded grasslands surrounding the city of Chicago to a diverse prairie habitat, greatly increasing numbers of neotropical migrant grassland birds.