At 09:47 AM 10/11/97 -0700, you wrote:
> When hunters first set up Ducks Unlimited.,
>it was to preserve their sport (I think Don may have alluded to this some
>time ago in another discussion). Inadvertently they managed to preserve
>habitat by doing so.

I'll have to disagree with the "inadvertent" bit. Hunter/conservationists
recognized early on that habitat preservation, along with strictly regulated
bag limits, were necessary to preserve their sport. Thus the emphasis on
habitat aquisition in the allocation of P-R funds.

Perhaps you meant the inadvertent protection of habitat of use to non-game
species as a side-effect of their very intentional protection of waterfowl
and other game habitat. I'd agree with that, i.e. the "coattail" effect has
not been their goal, but a welcome (an inadvertent) side-effect.



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