[mou] Re: [mnbird] where to buy duck stamps

[Andrew]

Better yet, donate some money to the nongame wildlife fund on your Minnesota
income tax form!!!! Like I always do I split my refund with the fund, I
believe they got about $265 from me this year..

Andrew
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From: mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu [mailto:mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu]On
Behalf Of Laura Erickson
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:09 AM
To: MOU-net; MnBird
Subject: [mou] Re: [mnbird] where to buy duck stamps


And don't just buy the Duck Stamp--DISPLAY it.  Get a plastic cover and let
it dangle from your spotting scope or on your jacket.  Let people know that
birders are willing to support habitat acquisition.

I've just started reading "The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl
Obsession," and was dismayed to read that Sandy Komito got his first rare
bird on his record-setting year at Patagonia Lake State Park in Arizona,
and tried (the author doesn't say whether he was successful) to duck out of
the $5.00 park entrance fee.  Who the heck does he think PAYS for
protecting that land and the habitat so that a Nutting's Flycatcher can
have some place to show up when it wanders north of its range?  This man
who was willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to jet around the
continent seeing the most birds anyone had ever seen in a year was
unwilling to pay a lousy $5 to ensure the enduring existence of the park
where he saw his first rare bird of the year?  How badly that speaks of the
sport of birding.

Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN

Producer, "For the Birds" radio program
<http://www.lauraerickson.com/>

There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of
birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the
winter.

                                 --Rachel Carson



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