Tell Dan Ashe, Director of the USFWS you want to see some of YOUR  duck stamp funds  spent here in  Arkansas  to  grow habitat and public hunting opportunities in your  home state.  It will also help keep Arkansas forests US owned!  Show your support for the White River Refuge Expansion Plan, sign the petition today.

 Arkansas’s Delta region originally contained 8 million acres of forested wetlands. Today ONLY about 875,000 acres remain in a collection of fragmented forest blocks, one of which is our very own White River National Wildlife Refuge.*  

 Do your part to slow  this loss of wildlife habitat by supporting the new Expansion Plan proposed by the leaders at  White River National Wildlife Refuge.  Expanding the refuge will mean increased opportunities for current and future generations of hunters, fisherman, birders and wildlife enthusiasts alike.

 We must act now because a  foreign buying spree of our forest lands is underway, as  foreign ownership of U.S. timberlands doubled from approximately 7 million acres in 2005 to 14 million acres in 2011.**   Arkansas alone has 780,544 acres of land under foreign ownership.*** 

The Expansion plan allows the refuge to buy land from WILLING sellers, using money from the Land and Water Conservation funds and hunter generated funds from Duck Stamps.

Show your support for the refuges' proposed  expansion  by signing this online PETITION.

Your letter will be sent to Dan Ashe, Director of the USFWS as well as to your Arkansas congressman.

Do your part  for conservation.  Sign it NOW.    

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