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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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Hunters and groups like the NRA consistently leverage the power of Duck Stamp funding to promote hunter-friendly agendas (such as expansion of hunting rights on refuges) sometimes overriding the voices of non-hunters whose wildlife considerations are often different yet equally valid. The Wild Duck Chase.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Those opposed have anti-hunting agendas and can not be allowed to dictate what game species are hunted. SmashDN Mar 18th, 2011 at 8:28 am Susan, Please enlighten us. I have provided plenty of facts.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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Even though “inland” is stretching things a bit when you consider that the Baltic sea is just 60 km to the North, my observation constitutes only the third Arctic Tern in NE Germany away from the immediate Baltic coast since 2012. That’s not bad. Shore Lark , Sylt, Germany.

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