Jar Norwood "Ding" Darling Conservation Heritage Trail - Laurel, MD
Posted by: bluesnote
N 39° 01.672 W 076° 47.859
18S E 344393 N 4321407
A citizen memorial within the Patuxent Research Refuge.
Waymark Code: WMXG6C
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 01/08/2018
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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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