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The Service is funded primarily from the U.S. Treasury to the extent 

 of around $90 million a year. It receives more than $10 million annually 

 from Duck Stamp revenues that are applied primarily to the expansion 

 and development of the national wildlife refuge system. Each waterfowl 

 hunter, 16 years of age and over, must purchase a federal hunting stamp 

 each year. 



The U.S. Forest Service which controls 187 million acres of national 

 forests, and the Bureau of Land Management which administers 465 

 million acres of public lands, and the Soil Conservation Service also 

 employ staffs of wildlife specialists whose salaries are paid by congres- 

 sional appropriations. Considering the vast acreages of wildlife habitat 

 involved, the manpower and funds available have been inadequate to 

 cope with the magnitude of the task. 



Each of the 50 states has an agency responsible for managing and 

 protecting wildlife. These agencies are financed almost exclusively by 

 sales of licenses to hunters and anglers and by receipts from federal 

 taxes on sporting arms and ammunition and fishing tackle allocated to 

 them for approved fish and wildlife conservation projects. The combined 

 annual budgets of the state agencies, from these sources and others, 

 exceed a third of a billion dollars. Approximately, $250 million of this is 

 derived from sportsmen. 



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