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Thanks to thousands of letters

by writers, outraged over the proposed shutdown of the 3000 acre Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution leaned on SI secretary Lawrence Small to drop his proposed year end closure of the CRC.

Chris Wemmer, director of the CRC, the staff of conservation biologists and animal care givers are not yet dancing in the streets. Wemmer,

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