Since the 1910s, when Tabasco heir E.A. Mcilhenny purchased the land and sold it to the Rockefeller Foundation, the refuge ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — Ding Darling didn’t worry about being heard when the topic was waterfowl management. To stress the importance ...

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The first retrieve Crown checked off the list was a drake mottled duck in 2016. His last was a cinnamon teal in 2025. Between those two birds, there were nine years and 40 other species brought to ...