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Join Museum Director Robert McKernan for a special presentation on "Duck Stamps and Bird Populations," at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands. This lecture is free with general admission.

 

The talk will focus on the relationship of Duck Stamps to wetlands conservation. Duck stamps are not postage stamps--they are revenue stamps sold annually to licensed waterfowl hunters. Proceeds from the sale of duck stamps are the single largest source of revenue for the purchase and conservation of wetlands in the United States. Many of the more than 540 national wildlife refuges have been paid for all or in part by Duck Stamp funds. Since 1934, Federal Duck Stamps have generated more than $700 million used to preserve more than 5.2 million acres of wetlands habitat in the United States.