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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

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Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and freeing the seventeen refuge employees to go back to work. Those holdouts were convinced by Michele Fiore, a Republican Assemblywoman from Nevada, to turn themselves in. This concern of losing our public lands is actually something birders and hunters have in common. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYouXzAez-I.

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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The argument is straightforward: birders (and others, including hunters) buy stamps and the federal government turns around and obtains important bird habitat. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has published a list of NWRs that have been created or expanded with Duck Stamp funds. Desert NWR (Nevada): 0.0%. And the U.S.

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