2008 Federal Duck Stamp Contest Phone: 320-273-2191 |
Critical Elements of Success
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Involve landowners and local communities
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Obtain support from elected officials and private conservation organizations
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Build effective partnerships
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Apply land management practices such as wetland and prairie restoration, prescribed fire and rest-rotation grazing
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Protect prairie through private landowner agreements and easements as well as title fee acquisition
- Inform stakeholders through environmental education, workshops, programs, and printed outreach materials
There must be some force behind conservation more universal than profit, less awkward than government ... something that reaches onto all time and place where men live on the lands ... A voluntary decency in land use exercised by every citizen and landowner out of a sense of love and obligation to that great biota we call America. This is the meaning of conservation ..."
Quote by Aldo Leopold
