📷 Minnesota Valley Nationwide Wildlife Refuge overlook throughout dawn | Eden Taylor/Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – OCTOBER twenty fifth, 2024 – The board of the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation kicked off their fiftieth Anniversary as we speak in Bloomington on the Minnesota Valley Nationwide Wildlife Refuge. The group was established in Minneapolis in 1975.
“We’re so proud to be again within the Twin Cities to kick off our fiftieth yr ,” stated Main Normal USMC (Ret.) E. Grey Payne, Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation Board Chair . “The Minnesotan appreciation for the conservation of the good open air has been ingrained in our group from the start, and this dedication will carry us ahead for the subsequent 50 years.”
The Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation is the one non-profit solely targeted on defending, selling, and enhancing the 850-million-acre Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System, the world’s largest community of lands and waters put aside for wildlife conservation. “We glance to the previous to acknowledge our roots and to the longer term to strengthen our mission to advertise the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System and the huge array of wildlife and very important habitat it protects,” stated Desirée Sorenson-Groves, President and CEO of the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation. “We should work collectively as a society if we’re to fulfill the challenges of local weather change and lack of biodiversity within the years forward.”
The Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation additionally acknowledged a founding member of the group, Minnesotan Ed Crozier , who spoke to the group about each the inspiration and the urgency behind the formation of the group in 1975. Crozier was additionally a driving power behind the creation of the Minnesota Valley Nationwide Wildlife Refuge in 1976.
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The Nationwide Wildlife Refuge Affiliation is a non-profit solely targeted on defending, selling, and enhancing the 850-million-acre Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System, the world’s largest community of lands and waters put aside for wildlife conservation.
For all media inquiries and questions, please contact Eden Taylor, Director of Communications & Advertising at [email protected].
