Thanks Joe.  I'd like to add, four visits to Blackwater, Bombay Hook,
or other refuges and the stamp will have paid for itself.  And it also works
at Assateague National Seashore.  Funds from Duck Stamps went a long
way toward preserving habitat for Arkansas' Ivory-billed Woodpeckers.

Kurt Schwarz
HowCo
goawaybird at comcast dot net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Hanfman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:07 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Buy a Duck Stamp


> Kurt Schwarz's article in the September / October 2005 Howard County
> Birdclub's "The Goldfinch" prompted me to send this email. Kurt describes
> the benefits of a Duck Stamp which is $15 for a year. This year's stamp of
> drake Hooded Mergansers was chosen by a committee with Kenn Kaufman. The
> stamp gives you a year's admission to the National Wildlife Refuges and 
> the
> National Park Service honors them at Assateague National Seashore.
>
> Since the refuge offices are closed many of the times we bird, a tip is to
> pick up your Duck Stamp at a local Post Office. I got mine, this year, at
> the Post Office on Shaker Lane in Columbia, MD.
>
>
>
> Joe Hanfman
>
> Columbia, MD
>
> Auk1844 at Comcast dot net
>
>