"Be a Sponsor - Save an Acre"
About 10% of Missouri’s Ducks Unlimited members answer the call to become a sponsor. While the contribution of every Ducks Unlimited member is important, some are crucial. It costs DU about $250 to restore one acre of wetland habitat. By becoming a DU sponsor, your annual contribution has helped DU and its’ partners to conserve an acre. What a great gift for future generations to enjoy!
Since Ducks Unlimited’s 1937 fledgling year, you have helped DU and its’ partners to conserve over 11 million acres throughout North America, an astonishing accomplishment! The Missouri DU conservation record is also extraordinary. Since 1985, around 100,000 acres of habitat have been conserved with DU expenditures, on Missouri projects, totaling nearly $8 million dollars!
Support Missouri’s DU conservation efforts by becoming or continuing to be a Sponsor. Remember, "Be A Sponsor – Save An Acre"
2005 Missouri Ducks Unlimited Sponsor Print and Stamp
“Pintails at Fountain Grove”, by Kathy Dickson represents the third in a series of 4 habitat prints with matching stamps. Each print will represent the habitat types that Ducks Unlimited strives to restore in Missouri. This year’s print represents marsh type wetlands and depicts a pair of Pintails in flight over a seasonally managed wetland.
Missouri has lost 90% of its original marsh type habitat. Projects at Missouri Department of Conservation Areas such as B.K. Leach near Elsberry, Four Rivers near Rich Hill, and the proposed project at Fountain Grove near Meadville will help to provide this habitat type to offset some of what has been lost.
The DU/MDC conservation partnership is made, in part, possible by your contribution! We hope that you will enjoy this collector’s piece and display it as our way of saying, “Thanks for all you do”!