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Back from the West!

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The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some. From Boise we headed still further west, driving through all of eastern Oregon, racing to get to Shady Cove where my in-laws were meeting us. We also did some plain old relaxing, you know, like normal people do on vacations?

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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. There is an operations and maintenance backlog of $3.3

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