Jar Norwood "Ding" Darling Conservation Heritage Trail - Laurel, MD - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

The sign reads, "J.N. "Ding" Darling was a Pulitzer Prize=winning editorial cartoonist who advocated for the conservation of out Nation's natural resources. He inaugurated the Federal Duck Stamp Program and drew the first stamp. He was founder of the National Wildlife Federation and architect of the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Program. Darling also laid the groundwork for Today's National Wildlife Refuge System. In 1934, as Child of the Bureau of Biological Survey, predecessor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, he proposed a plan to establish the Nation's first wildlife research center. In 1936, by Executive Order No. 7514, that vision became a reality with the creation of Patuxent Research Refuge."

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