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you may not be aware of. . . . . . .
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Ric Zarwell
PO Box 299
Lansing, Iowa 52151-0299
Email: [email protected]
Home/Office: 563-538-4991
Mobile: 563-419-4991
GIVE CONSERVATION WINGS
SHOW UP.... SPEAK UP.... ANTE UP....
FOR BIRDS, FOR NATURAL HABITATS, FOR ALL BIODIVERSITY
1. Birding Festivals held at National Wildlife Refuges are shown at
the following link.
2. Scroll further to see what percentages of popular National
Wildlife Refuges of those offering birding festivals were preserved
perpetually by purchase of the annual Bird/Duck Stamps, available at
nearly all Post Offices.
USFWS has put together a great page that catalogs birding festivals
throughout the year, at Refuges across the country, from the
Festival of the Cranes at Wheeler NWR (Alabama) in January to the
Assateague Island Waterfowl Weekend at Chincoteague NWR (Virginia)
in December: http://www.fws.gov/refuges/birding/GreatBirdFests2015.html
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David L. Gorsline
Reston (Fairfax County), Virginia
http://davidgorsline.info/
Here is another list... I did a little searching, to see how many of
the NWRs having birding festivals had been acquired through Stamp/MBCF
dollars, using 35% as my minimum-threshold cutoff. Here's what I came
up with:
Hamden Slough NWR (MN) 100%
Chase Lake NWR (ND) 100%
Tamarac NWR (MN) 99.9 %
Sacramento NWR (CA) 99.6%
Bosque del APache NWR (NM) 99.2%
Pea Island (NC) 99.2%
Quivira NWR (KS) 99.1%
Muscatatuck (IN) 98.9%
Brazoria NWR (TX) 96.0%
Santa Ana (TX) 94.9%
Ridgefield NWR (WA) 89.4%
Laguna Atascosa NWR (TX) 86.1
Anahuac NWR (TX) 87.3%
Ottawa NWR (OH) 86.0%
Humboldt NWR (CA) 81.2%
Chincoteague (VA) 69.9%
Fisherman's Island 43.5%
Aransas NWR (TX) 42.9%
Columbia NWR (WA) 39.6%
Bear River NWR (UT) 36.6%
Eastern Shore (VA) 36.2%
As you might guess, a bunch more NWRs had smaller percentages.
I wonder: How many festival attendees will carry a valid Migratory
Bird Hunting and Conservation [Duck] Stamp? The way I look at it,
it's a debt left unpaid.
Details about the annual Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp, and a new T-shirt
that is available, are here: http://www.friendsofthestamp.org/ .
Happy New Year!
Paul Baicich
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