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Wildlife Foundation and get good things done. I don't know that 

 that kind of commitment is demonstrated to the National Parks 

 Foundation, by the park users or those kind of folks. I think that is 

 an important element of the success. 



Mr. HocHBRUECKNER. Thank you, Mr. Sutherland. 



Before I get to individual questions, on behalf of Chairman 

 Studds I would like to defer to my colleagues. 



Governor, if you have any questions you are on. 



Mr. Castle. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



I will be brief and ask in two reasons: One, I am more here to 

 learn; and, secondly, I am late for my next scheduled appointment. 

 So I don't want to ask too much. 



I would like to start by saying I am very impressed with the Na- 

 tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation, much more so than most 

 agencies involved with government at all for a variety of reasons. 

 One is the leveraged matched funding which I think is vitally im- 

 portant as a source of energy as well as a source of funds in terms 

 of keeping the organization going. 



Secondly, in Delaware we have stressed land acquisition in Dela- 

 ware and I think on a per-acre basis probably acquired as much 

 land for various uses all the way from park land to migratory bird 

 uses as any State in the country, and a lot of it has been with the 

 help of a lot of your organizations. Bombay Hook and others come 

 to mind. 



As you know, we are very involved both in the fishery questions 

 and also very involved with the migratory birds as the biggest stop- 

 over on the east coast I believe as they go from south to north and 

 north to south. We consider that to be an important function. We 

 have some major contributors to your organizations which would 

 help as well. 



I guess my question really is — I was curious about this. Appar- 

 ently, you want to expand the board from 9 to 15. I think there is a 

 couple vacancies now, too. I am curious how vacancies are filled. If 

 you are so successful, why expand it? Why not leave it as it is? 



Mr. Eno. The real value of expanding the Board of Directors is 

 in helping the operations side of the Foundation. As I stressed in 

 my testimony, none of the Federal grant moneys goes to support 

 the Foundation's day-to-day operations — Federal funding for the 

 Foundation ceased after the first two-and-a-half years of our exist- 

 ence. So we have to raise the $2 million a year that it costs to run 

 and do the day-to-day business of the Foundation from private 

 sources. 



We need a board that contributes to that end, and we do have a 

 couple of vacancies now. Several of our board by law are designat- 

 ed as educated and experienced. These tend to be people involved 

 in the wildlife profession or educational profession who are often 

 without substantial financial means, which effectively means that 

 a significant portion of the board cannot either write large checks 

 or is not particularly adept at fund raising. 



For the last two years the staff has raised about 95 percent of 

 the operating funds of the Foundation. Now, we could continue on 

 that basis, but — speaking from a staff perspective, we feel that if 

 we got more support from our board, an enlarged board, we could 

 put more of our time into working with our partners to raise funds 



