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The great bulk of the work that DU has done with the 

 Foundation involves the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. 

 The Foundation along with DU and the state governments initiated 

 a program that encouraged all of us to share the burden of 

 restoring wetlands habitat in the three countries of North 

 America in order to ensure a continued population of migratory 

 birds and other wetlands wildlife. Coincidentally, the work DU 

 does with the Foundation also helps accomplish goals on some of 

 their other major project area initiatives, as well. An example 

 of this would be the tremendous neotropical and shorebird 

 benefits being realized on projects devised to implement the 

 North American Waterfowl Plan. 



We have done some very large scale projects in partnership 

 with the Foundation. Among them is the A.C.E. Basin of South 

 Carolina. For those who don't know the area, this 2 5 mile long 

 watershed is the largest undeveloped piece of coastline on the 

 Atlantic seaboard. Private landowners in the area have joined 

 with the Foundation, the state, the Fish and wildlife Service, 

 Ducks Unlimited, the Nature Conservancy, the DOW Corporation and 

 several others to set aside 90,000 acres south of Charleston. 

 Among the threatened and endangered species in the project area 

 are shortnose sturgeon and the most successful breeding colony of 

 wood storks in the country. 



Another of the large projects done with the Foundation is 

 the Cosumnes River Preserve in California's Central Valley. This 

 is a project, that like the A.C.E. Basin, has many partners. The 

 Foundation has played a key role with its partnership because of 

 its ability to act rapidly when a short lived opportunity arises. 

 One of the most recent actions of the Foundation at Cosumnes was 

 their partnership to acquire the area known as "Crane Ranch" that 

 comprises the last piece of the key "core" area. Cosumnes 

 attracted hundreds of bird watching visitors last winter when a 

 few Asian varieties of waterbirds made what in the past has been 



