Mike Baldwin serves as an officer of the board at the National Wildlife Refuge Association. He is vice president and advocacy chairman of the “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society and co-chair of the Everglades Coalition, an alliance of local, state and national conservation and environmental organizations dedicated to full restoration of the greater Everglades ecosystem.
There is no greater land conservation system in the world than the U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System. And that system, always under-resourced, is now further imperiled by the ongoing government shutdown. Managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and spanning 850 million acres of land and water, the refuge system is the world’s largest […]