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WPAs: America’s Duck Factories

10,000 Birds

This is Jason’s fifth contribution to the blog. Birders are familiar with the National Wildlife Refuge System, which consists of more than 550 units distributed through all fifty states. National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), which are managed by the U.S. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

I’m not going to rehash that war here, seeing as how it is a bird blog and not one about foreign policy, but it is perhaps appropriate to note the maelstrom of violence that has been pretty much ongoing since the neocons went in to make everything better. The other tricky area of use it or lose it is how you use it.

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