Duck Stamps

A pair of trumpeter swans painted by 12-year-old Isaac Schreiber will grace the 2017-2018 Junior Duck Stamp, which raises funds to educate and engage our nation's youth in wildlife and wetlands conservation, and outdoor recreation.

Nature enthusiasts can now purchase Federal Duck Stamps at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center gift shop, managed by Fort Hays State University's Sternberg Museum of Natural History.

The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission on April 28 approved approved expenditures of $8.8 million from the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund to conserve 16,044 acres for nine national wildlife refuges, through fee-title land acquisitions and lease renewals, with funds raised largely through the sale of Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps (Duck Stamps).

The proposed bill (H.R. 5069) would amend the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act of 1934 to increase the price of the stamps from $15 to $25 and also require that the extra $10 go to conservation easement purchases.

The proposed bill (H.R. 5069) would amend the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act of 1934 to increase the price of the stamps from $15 to $25 and also require that the extra $10 go to conservation easement purchases.

The Friends of the Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp remind us that with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's signing of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act in March 1934, funds from stamp sales would be deposited in a special treasury account, the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund. In the first year, 635,000 stamps were sold at $1 apiece.

The National Wildlife Refuge Association reminds us that although it is produced by the U.S. Postal Service, the Duck Stamp isn't actually a stamp at all, it's a federal license required for hunting migratory waterfowl that also provides free entrance into any national wildlife refuge.

The 81st Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, as it is formally known, debuted at a special event hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bass Pro Shops at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. last week.

The acrylic rendition of a king eider by 16-year-old Si Youn Kim, of Tenafly, N.J., was chosen by a panel of judges at the national Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest, held at the Service's National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, W. Va.

The Friends of the Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp provide a feature on the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, located in Stafford County, Kansas, about midway between Hutchinson and Great Bend.

With the June 28 release of the 2013-2014 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, here are some factoids about the federal program from the Friends of the Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp.

Goldeneyes took center stage as the 80th Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp officially went on sale June 28 at a special event hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World retail outlet in Ashland, Va.