[mou] RE: [mnbird] where do you buy a duck stamp?

[bluebill@surfbest.net]

>Another point about the benefits of duck stamps: On the praries of
western and southern Minnesota, and other states, most of the wild
spots that remain are wetlands purchased by federal AND STATE
waterfowl stamp funds=2E
 These are truly wild places, where some forms of nature can still
survive and even thrive -- frogs, birds of all kinds, snails,
turtles, predators, rodents=2E Maybe not Ivory Billed Woodpeckers, but
were it not for waterfowl stamps paid for mostly by hunters,
Minnesota's prairies in many counties would be plowed and cultivated,
road to road, with nary one wild spot to be seen=2E
Every federal and state waterfowl stamp purchased helps some part of
the country's wetland tradition be saved for future generations=2E
>Donald Grussing
Minnetonka, MN
>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: two-jays@att=2Enet
>To: mou-net@cbs=2Eumn=2Eedu
>Subject: RE: [mnbird] where do you buy a duck stamp=3F
>Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 21:20:16 -0500
>
>>You can buy duck stamps at the US Post Office=2E
>>And, you should=2E
>>Buy two and give one away=2E
>>Jim Williams
>>
>>Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>From: "vlpear" <vlpear@tcinternet=2Enet>
>>Date: May 6, 2005 10:49:17 AM CDT
>>To: Jim Williams <two-jays@att=2Enet>
>>Subject: Re: [mou] duck stamps
>>Reply-To: vlpear@tcinternet=2Enet
>>
>>Could you please remind us how/where to buy duck stamps=3F
>>
>>Thanks-
>>Virginia Pear
>>Minneapolis
>>
>>
>>> A conservation message=2E
>>> Jim Williams
>>> Wayzata, Minnesota
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>> From: "Paul J=2E Baicich"
>>> <paul=2Ebaicich@swarovskibirding=2Ecom> Date: May 5, 2005
>>> 11:58:17 AM CDT To: <paul=2Ebaicich@swarovskibirding=2Ecom>
>>> 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=2E The issues here
>>> concern the  National
>>> Wildlife Refuges in east-central Arkansas, the assumed
>>> "range" of the  newly
>>> re-discovered Ivory-billed Woodpecker=2E
>>>
>>> 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)=2E This National Wildlife Refuge has been
>>> recognized as a  Wetland
>>> of International Importance by the RAMSAR Convention=2E 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=2E (That cost was $38,057,436=2E)
>>>
>>> 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=2E
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>   Paul J=2E Baicich
>>>   Swarovski Birding and
>>>   National Wildlife Refuge Association
>>>   P=2EO=2E 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=2E 1861
>>>
>>>                                              -30-
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