European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                America s concern for wildlife Bys Bulpett associated press d sucks Don t vote eagles Don t return Appolit whales can t bring Short term capita gains manatees never have to meet payroll hairy nosed wombats Are underachiever Kirtland s warblers Are Inlet Clive against High merest rates and no Pearly eyed thrasher of record Ever licked a communist. By All la More than three weeks before it was led and lured ban to the safely of Salt water. It was shepherded by a Lloil Lla of military and civilians boats and seduced by huge catered hours d oeuvres squid and shrimp by recorded flute like sounds of whales under water by people banging on pipes and playing born to the wild. And finally. In a delicious moment in the family of living creatures it passed Undi the Golden Gate Bridge into the Pacific while Hundred of people applauded and shouted and waved goodbye the fact it that while social and military needs clash in the tight for the Federal Dollar while "progress1 demands and developers Pant and Road builders push Uncle Sam still manages to do More or wildlife than a the rest of the world combined. Nobody Alse comes close in Money Short of scope. I other countries including the soviet Union Send f 1 heir wildlife specialists to America for training and american techniques Are widely imitated abroad. Even in the Distant Himalayas the tigers and the greater ont horned rhinos in the Royal chit an Park of Nepal ate cared Lor by people who Learned in the United states. The science of wildlife conservation is a remarkable american contribution to world culture says Russell. Train chairman of the world wild Lite fund. It leads to the most positive kind of International cooperation and it costs relatively  the i s. Fish and wildlife service fwd spends $600 Mitton a year and employs 6.000 people. Ii guards the lives of 828 species of plants and animals though to be in danger of disappearing forever from the Earth and Man s Ken. Extinct they would Tell us nothing. Extant. They might Tell us much More about it life process theirs and ours. The service manages the world s largest collection t lands set aside for wild animals nearly 90 million acre from Frozen Tundra to subtropical Marsh from Island j peaks to verdant valleys from Maine to Samoa. I protects them where they live end multiply and whew they rest on their awesome travels. A it tracks Polar bears and eagles and Caribou Over thousands of Remote Miles by satellite 530 mlle the Earth. Flying Low Over treetops its biologists