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Article: Wetlands help? Stamp it `under review'; The Wetlands Loan Act is based on a "buy now and save" notion, but buying now requires selling more and more costly duck stamps.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 26, 2006
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Byline: Doug Smith; Staff Writer
The nation's wetland habitat continues to disappear while the cost of protecting it climbs along with land values.
Thus the idea: Borrow $400 million from federal duck stamp sales and use the cash to protect vital wetland habitat now, at today's prices.
Combined with existing stamp money, the plan would pump $800 million into wildlife habitat over the next 10 years. Some of that money undoubtedly would be spent in Minnesota.
"This would provide for the acquisition or easements of lots of habitat for ducks and other wildlife for generations to come," said Joe Duggan of Pheasants Forever, one of a long ...