[mou] paying to use state wildlife land

[Rick]

Sharon Stiteler wrote:
>> Audubon, Nature Conservancy, National resources Defense Council, 
>> Wilderness Society, American Rivers,etc., etc.
>
>
> I appreciate some of those organizations and even belong to at least 
> one, but I wonder if any of those organizations are as efficient with 
> their money as the duck stamp program.  Less than 2% of the money from 
> duck stamps goes to administrative costs, the rest goes to buying up 
> habitat--that's over 98%.
>
> I really am surprised at the notion that because birders aren't 
> "harvesting" ducks they shouldn't have to help buy up habitat so they 
> can have the right to watch birds for free.  You can watch birds 
> anywhere, great birds are in backyards, but we need those breeding 
> grounds in place to keep seeing them.  Duck stamps help support other 
> birds like warblers, rails, herons, egrets, raptors, owls, etc.  Right 
> now, duck hunters have to buy a stamp, but their numbers are going 
> down.  If those numbers continue to decline, so will money for buying 
> up habitat and all the birders who feel that they can use the resource 
> for free won't have much resource left to look at, let alone the birds 
> that benefit from that habitat.
>
> Sharon Stiteler
> Minneapolis, MN
> www.birdchick.com
> Bird/Wildlife Observation Specialist for www.eagleoptics.com
>
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Me too.  I think that too many people have grown up in urban evirons and 
do not appreciate the protection of our dwindling wild areas and do not 
seen the value in acquiring land to be protected.

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Rick 
Fargo, ND
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