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• • <br />Office of the Mayor <br /> <br /> <br />YD1I <br />hPrPttg ; Ducks Unlimited is a nonprofit organization established <br />_` in 1937; and <br />WHEREAS, Ducks Unlimited has constructed more than 5,000 wetland <br />conservation projects throughout Canadq the United States and Mexico; and <br />WHEREAS, Ducks Unlimited has devoted dollars and corutruction muscle to <br />enhance and restore North America's dwindling -aetlaruls resoun;e, which continues to disappear <br />at a rate of some 400,000 wetland acres per year in the United States alone; and <br />WHEREAS, these projects now provide 5.3 million acres of habitat for some <br />600 wildlife species, including waterfowl and endangered species like the whooping crane and <br />bald eagle; and <br />WHEREAS, national fiau3-raising totals must increase this year if the North <br />American xnterfowl habitat race u to be x+on. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, I, NORMAN L. MALONE, MAYOR of the City <br />of La Pone, do hereby proclaim the week of October 16-2 1994, as <br />DUCKS UNLIlVIITED WEEK <br />in the City of La Porte, and urge all cit¢ens to join in the fund-raising efforts of Duds <br />Unlimited <br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I.have hereunto set my hand and caused the <br />Seal of the City to be affixed hereto, this the 10th day of October, 1994. <br />CITY OF LA PORTE <br />No~ian L. Malone, Mayor <br />