Environmental news tends to be depressing. Climate change, animal and plant extinctions, and disappearing habitat make for depressing reading. So here is something to celebrate. Migratory waterfowl are doing fairly well, and one of the reasons is the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation stamp. Income from the stamps, sold since 1934, have provided funds to help in the preservation of over five million acres of waterfowl habitat. Over five million acres!
I am often amazed at how many wonderful things were started during the New Deal.
I learned about the success of the Duck Stamps in the Summer issue of the Nature Conservancy magazine, p. 52.
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