[mou] where do you buy a duck stamp?

[Jim Williams]

You can buy duck stamps at the US Post Office.
And, you should.
Buy two and give one away.
Jim Williams

Begin forwarded message:

From: "vlpear" <vlpear@tcinternet.net>
Date: May 6, 2005 10:49:17 AM CDT
To: Jim Williams <two-jays@att.net>
Subject: Re: [mou] duck stamps
Reply-To: vlpear@tcinternet.net

Could you please remind us how/where to buy duck stamps?

Thanks-
Virginia Pear
Minneapolis


> A conservation message.
> Jim Williams
> Wayzata, Minnesota
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "Paul J. Baicich"
> <paul.baicich@swarovskibirding.com> Date: May 5, 2005
> 11:58:17 AM CDT To: <paul.baicich@swarovskibirding.com>
> Subject: The Duck-Stamp & Ivory-bill connection
>
>
>
> Dear birding and conservation friends -
>
> Here are some things worthy of consideration - and
> discussion - in  birding
> and related bird-conservation circles. The issues here
> concern the  National
> Wildlife Refuges in east-central Arkansas, the assumed
> "range" of the  newly
> re-discovered Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
>
> The 56,000-acre Cache River National Wildlife Refuge -
> core "home" of  the
> re-discovered Ivory-billed Woodpecker - was founded
> relatively recently  (16
> June 1986). This National Wildlife Refuge has been
> recognized as a  Wetland
> of International Importance by the RAMSAR Convention. Out
> of its current 56,000 acres, fully 43,816 acres, or over
> 77% was acquired through funds that have come through the
> Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation  [Duck]
> Stamp. (That cost was $38,057,436.)
>
> Similarly, the nearby and much larger - at over 160,000
> acres - White  River
> National Wildlife Refuge has had 10,145 acres acquired
> through  $5,254,645
> from the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, of which the
> Stamp is a major contributor.
>
> If you ever needed proof that the Migratory Bird Hunting
> and  Conservation
> Stamp is not "just for ducks," well, this is it!
>
> Now if we could get MORE PEOPLE to buy the stamp in order
> to acquire  MORE
> Ivory-billed habitat (and, parenthetically, Wood Duck
> habitat), THAT  would
> be great!
>
>                     best,
>
>                     Paul
>
>
>
>
>
>
> =====================================================
>   Paul J. Baicich
>   Swarovski Birding and
>   National Wildlife Refuge Association
>   P.O. Box 404
>   Oxon Hill, MD 20750
>
>       410/992-9736 (992-wren)
>
>     "Hope is the thing with feathers
>     That perches in the soul"
>         - Emily Dickinson, Poem 254, c. 1861
>
>                                              -30-
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