Last Day To Help Pothole Pheasants, Ducks
Take 5 Seconds to Send an Email
Pheasants Forever is asking hunters to send a quick email to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help conserve pheasant and duck habitat – and today is the last day you can do it.
Brief FWS overview:
The Service is proposing to establish the Dakota Grassland Conservation Area and would work with private landowners to accelerate the conservation of native prairie — both wetland and grassland habitats — within the Prairie Pothole Region in the eastern parts of North Dakota and South Dakota.
The proposed conservation area is an easement program that would be part of a landscape-scale, strategic habitat conservation effort. The focus would be to conserve populations of migratory birds by protecting the unique, highly diverse, and endangered ecosystem known as the Prairie Pothole Region.
Brief PF comments:
Today, you can stand up for this region you love and ensure the upland hunters and waterfowlers of tomorrow will enjoy the Dakotas as they should be: full of pheasants and ducks.
Hunters and conservationists have a unique opportunity to help channel funding toward conserving wildlife habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region of North and South Dakota and eastern Montana. The Dakota Grassland Conservation Area initiative would increase funding for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conservation easements. This would help conserve critical upland and wetland habitat, including:
> 1.7 million grassland acres
> 240,000 wetland acres
We admittedly have not looked deeply into this, but do know that PF has and if they;re backing it, we all should be. Send a brief email to: dgca_comments@fws.gov
PF suggests something like this:
I am a hunter and understand the value of critical wildlife habitat. I am in full support of the Dakota Grasslands Conservation project. – John Q. Sample
I support accelerating conservation in the endangered ecosystem known as the Prairie Pothole Region. – John Q. Sample
If you want to read more about this initiative, click here.
Category: Habitat Conservation, MT, ND, Pheasants, Pheasants Forever, SD
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