[mou] Duck Stamps
Julian Sellers
JulianSellers@msn.com
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:02:29 -0600
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>From the Web site of the National Wildlife Refuge System =
(http://www.fws.gov/refuges/):
Since 1934, sales of Federal Duck Stamps to hunters, stamp collectors =
and other conservationists have raised more than $700 million that has =
been used to acquire more than 5.2 million acres of habitat for the =
National Wildlife Refuge System.
>From the Web site of The Nature Conservancy =
(http://www.nature.org/aboutus/):
The Nature Conservancy has protected more than 117 million acres of =
land and 5,000 miles of river around the world.
That's a ratio of greater than 22:1 in favor of The Nature Conservancy =
(founded in 1951), and those 117 million acres were selected because =
they contain rare and endangered species and ecosystems, not because =
they provide hunting opportunities.
I'm not anti-hunting, but I think we should be getting this message out =
(and increasing our contributions to TNC, Audubon, etc.) instead of =
engaging in all of this hand-wringing and giving hunters all of the =
credit.
Julian
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<DIV>From the Web site of the National Wildlife Refuge System (<A=20
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