On the recordApril 29, 2003
As the National Wildlife Refuge System celebrates its 100th anniversary, recognition for water fowl hunters and the contribution they have collectively and individually made on behalf of the refuge system is in order. Acquisition of lands for the National Wildlife Refuge System is funded in part by sales of the migratory bird hunting and conservation stamp, known wide and far as the duck stamp. Water fowl hunters are required to purchase a duck stamp as part of their hunting license to hunt water fowl on or off any refuge. Since 1934, the hunting community virtually alone has been funding the duck stamp program, raising more than a half a billion dollars for the refuge system. In fact, 98 percent of the revenue generated from sales of the duck stamp goes directly to acquisition of our national wildlife refuges, some 5 million acres so far, an extraordinary contribution, I think, by any measure.
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