The Hedgehog
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I'd offer an alternative, buy 3 duck stamps each year instead of one, 98% of the money for duck stamps goes directly into wetland conservation.
Buying Federal Duck Stamps is among the simplest ways that anyone can participate in wildlife and habitat conservation. Duck Stamps are a required annual purchase for waterfowl hunters 16 and older, and a current duck stamp grants the bearer free entrance into any national wildlife refuge that charges an entry fee. But whether you are a hunter, birder or other outdoors enthusiast or you simply want to help preserve our natural resources for future generations to enjoy, you can contribute to conservation by buying Duck Stamps.
I let my membership at DU expire the year they let Don Thomas go. Then they started sending the mailers asking me to renew. I bet I still get one a month from them. I actually typed a letter and sent it back to them in one of the envelopes they sent explaining how I felt that one donor shouldn't be able to influence their organization and that I would not renew my membership again until they apologized/addressed the firing of Thomas. I never received a reply, only more mailers.
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The stream access thing had me scratching my head when it popped up a few years back, but the "jihad" on predators (killing a few wolves, and allowing natives to harvest bears in dens, which I think is about 2 a year statewide, maybe) in Alaska and the support for a "highway" (a single lane gravel road connecting two villages) has me back on their bandwagon for support.
The Jihad includes allowing the state Fish and Game to manage the states wildlife, not the USFWS, and the highway opposition is a total joke by the author. How many roads of similar nature are in current wildlife refuges, hundreds or thousands? The author totally lost me when he came to the Alaska section and his cluelessness was apparent... or maybe it was his love of animals? Coming from a fly fishing rag, I'm not surprised by their stance... 100% chance they would call for Jihad on a guy for eating a trout, too. Nothing more satisfying than floating the Madison River and wacking fish heads on the side of the drift boat when sliding past a group of tourists decked out in $$5000 worth of fishing gear.