- recognition of outstanding conservation
efforts (since 1965)
- celebration of National Wildlife Week and
distribution of free materials to schools (since 1965)
- passage of the federal Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (1979)
- pass of Massachusetts' bottle bill which has
encouraged the recycling of reusable resources (1992)
- support of the state's Wildlands Protection
Act which secured more than 40,000 acres of wild lands in its first five years (1990)
- establishment of Stellwagen Banks as a marine
sanctuary (1992)
- support of educational programs including
Project WILD, Mass. Junior Duck Stamp Program, the Envirothon, and Becoming an
Outdoors-Woman.
- support for the Massachusetts Rivers
Protection Act.
- support for the passage of the federal Fish
and Wildlife Conservation Enhancement Act.
- increasing public awareness of issues
involved in managing wildlife in urban and suburban areas.
- monitoring proposed legislation which has
implications for wildlife management and for environmental quality.
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