If you haven't contacted your members of Congress, please do
so TODAY!
Speak Up!
The North American Wetlands
Conservation Act (NAWCA) conserves North America's waterfowl, fish and wildlife
resources while producing a variety of environmental and economic benefits. Its
success is driven by partnerships involving federal, state and local
governments; nonprofit organizations like DU and community groups. Every
federal dollar provided by NAWCA must be matched by at least one dollar from
non-federal sources. Because the program is so effective, NAWCA funds are
usually doubled or tripled at the local level. More than $1 billion in federal
grants has been allocated for NAWCA projects – a figure that has leveraged more than $4 billion in
contributions from partners.
Currently, Congressional
"dear colleague" letters are being circulated in both the House of
Representatives and the Senate. We ask that you contact your
Representative and Senators and urge them to support
NAWCA funding by signing on to these letters and including NAWCA in their
appropriations requests for FY2019.
NAWCA is a highly competitive,
grant-based conservation program and has conserved more than 33.4 million acres
since 1989. In FY2017, the program was appropriated at $38.145 million by
Congress. Funding for this program is important and that’s why we
ask that you contact your elected officials to ask for their
continued support of NAWCA funding, so that we can continue to cultivate
success for wetlands conservation on the ground.
For more information on the NAWCA
program visit the DU website to access state and national fact sheets.
Again, we thank you
for your continued support of Ducks Unlimited!
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