In its 2019-08-29 meeting, the Audubon Core Maintenance Group approved moving forward on a proposal to remove the "layers" property from all terms in Audubon Core. This email is to announce the beginning of a 30 day public comment period on that proposal. To read the proposal, see https://github.com/tdwg/ac/blob/master/historical/remove-layers-proposal-201... To comment on the proposal, make comments on this issue: https://github.com/tdwg/ac/issues/143 Steve Baskauf Audubon Core Maintenance Group convener on behalf of the group -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D. Data Science and Data Curation Specialist Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235, USA Office: Eskind Biomedical Library, EMB 111 Phone: (615) 343-4582 https://my.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/