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Shortchanging America's Wildlife

As the nation's wildlife refuge system prepares to celebrate its 100th birthday, a national advocacy group says the system is in trouble--facing budget shortfalls that could threaten staffing, services and management of protected lands. Evan Hirsche is president of the National Wildlife Refuge Association--one of the members of a group called CARE--the Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement...

Funding in a Florida Refuge

A Florida Wildlife Refuge is featured in a recent report from an advocacy group seeking better funding for wildlife refuges nationwide. The group is called CARE, or Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement. One member of the alliance is the National Wildlife Refuge Association; its president, Evan Hirsche tells why the group's report singled out the J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel...

Florida as a wildlife refuge host

Advocacy groups are saying the nation's wildlife refuge system is in trouble--facing funding shortfalls that could impede staffing and wildlife protection at the more than 500 refuges in the system. Evan Hirsche, president of the National Wildlife Refuge Association, says any reductions in service would be felt especially hard in Florida...

Threats to wildlife protection

As the National Wildlife Refuge System approaches the end of its first hundred years, advocates say it faces tremendous challenges, both now and in the future. Evan Hirsche is president of the National Wildlife Refuge Association...

Using a National Wildlife Refuge

Advocates say there needs to be more funding for the National Wildlife Refuge System, and that challenges the system will face in the future are dramatically different from challenges of today. One of the changes is public use, according to the president of the National Wildlife Refuge Association, Evan Hirsche...