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Article: NWF Campaigns To Give Wildlife Top Priority on Grasslands.
- Article from:
- National Wildlife
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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The national grasslands provide islands of valuable wildlife habitat in a sea of agriculture.
Cathy Carlson, director, NWF's Rocky Mountain
Natural Resource Center
The National Wildlife Federation has launched a prairie grasslands campaign to ensure that public grasslands are managed primarily for the benefit of wildlife rather than for livestock grazing, oil and gas development and other uses.
NWF and an affiliate, the North Dakota Wildlife Federation, have been urging the U.S. Forest Service to stress wildlife habitat conservation in its new management plan for the Northern Great Plains National Grasslands, which include three ...