The following is a short review of the brand new website from the National Wildlife Refuge System. It is called Conserving the Future: Wildlife Refuges and the Next Generation. They need and want your input now on the future of OUR National Wildlife Refuge System.
Conserving the Future provides a platform for people like you and us to voice our collective opinions about the direction of the NWRs. The National Wildlife Refuge System protects 150 million acres of habitat in 553 refuges (at least one in every U.S. state and territory!). We all have a stake in these wonderful refuges and we have a chance to be heard.
From the Conserving the Future website:
This website will play a key role in the development of a new vision document for the Refuge System. A vision document – to be adopted in July 2011 at a conference in Madison, Wisconsin – will guide this premier system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond.
Join the conversation by signing up now! (It takes only a couple minutes.)
Then check out the “bold ideas” section and read/vote on user-submitted ideas. You can also search for an idea and then add your own if it has not already been submitted. You get 20 votes and for each idea you can add 1, 2, or 3 votes.
We also suggest you subscribe to the Conserving the Future Blog feed.
We hope you will join in on the discussion or at least read what others are saying and vote!
We support the bold ideas of: Create a migratory bird conservation stamp (i.e. Duck Stamp) for wildlife observers and Grasslands need renewed emphasis in the Refuge System among others. Please vote for our idea as well: Increase and Improve Marketing Efforts of the NWRS
