Wildlife Refuge
Although Darling is mostly known for his political and conservation cartoons, he was also an important figure in the conservation movement. He conceived the idea for the Federal Duck Stamp program and drew the first stamp design. Despite his inexperience, he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as head of the U.S. Biological Survey, the forerunner of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in Southwest Florida is named for him in addition to the Lake Darling State Park in Iowa that was dedicated on September 17, 1950. More recently, a lodge at the National Conservation Training Center near Shepherdstown, West Virginia was named in his honor.
He also founded the National Wildlife Federation in 1936, when President Franklin Roosevelt convened the first North American Wildlife Conference.
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Famous quotes containing the words wildlife and/or refuge:
“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are layed waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)