Number: 1981-07
WHEREAS, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service has conservation and management responsibilities for migratory wildlife and wetlands resources; and
WHEREAS, recent land-use trends in the Nebraska Sandhills are causing concern for that region’s wetlands and associated wet meadows; and
WHEREAS, the Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a wetlands preservation program for the Sandhills similar to measures begun in the Prairie Pothole region in the early 1960’s; and
WHEREAS, such a program would be based upon long-term easements and fee title acquisitions, obtained only from willing sellers, which would afford protection for the wetlands and their characteristic plant and animal resources;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual meeting assembled March 26-29, 1981, in Norfolk, Virginia, hereby urges that a voluntary program of wetlands preservation, administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, be made available in the Sandhills region.