John Dingell: “How do you assure us that these voluntary guidelines will not become grafted into the law?”

Only a piddling amount.

Establishment of a refuge does not instantly make the Federal Government a steward of an area of land.

This year is the 80th Anniversary of the issuance of the first Federal Duck Stamp.

The goal Congress set then was unparalleled in all of history. Our country resolved to put an end to the decades--indeed, centuries--of neglect that had resulted in the extinction of the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, and the…