# Duck Stamp *Funding source named in the land record of the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge.* Duck Stamp funds paid for more than 95% of the land assembled into the [[Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge]] in Sherburne County, Minnesota, according to the county's at-issue record.[^1] That record gives the refuge as 30,700 acres, established on May 18, 1965, and built from more than 300 individual land holdings.[^1] The same record states that this funding makes the refuge, by law, an inviolate sanctuary. It does not cite the statute behind that statement.[^1] The record does not establish the fund's history, its enabling statute, its total receipts, or the dollar amount spent on the Sherburne purchases. None of those figures is stated here.[^1] ## How much The at-issue record puts the refuge at 30,700 acres. It states that more than 95% of that land was purchased with Duck Stamp funds.[^1] The record carries no dollar figure for those purchases.[^1] ## How many The record states that the refuge was assembled from more than 300 individual land holdings.[^1] ## When The record gives May 18, 1965, as the date the refuge was established.[^1] ## In the at-issue record - **Sherburne County package (AI-Sherburne-080).** The item states that the largest public land holding in Sherburne County is federal: the refuge's 30,700 acres.[^1] It adds that the county's largest landowner, its largest jail customer, and the regulator of its largest historical employer are all the federal government.[^1] The item pairs these facts with a March 2025 White House presidential action as its federal anchor.[^2] The item's own flags record "GAP: eminent domain / landowner disputes NOT VERIFIED".[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Sherburne County at-issue record, *Sherburne Energy Brief* (AI-Sherburne-080) — the 30,700-acre area, the more than 300 holdings, the more-than-95% Duck Stamp purchase share, the May 18, 1965 establishment date, the inviolate-sanctuary statement, and the federal-landholder observations. The record lists its sources as two agency sources on fws.gov, and it flags "GAP: eminent domain / landowner disputes NOT VERIFIED". No fws.gov URL is carried in the record. [^2]: The White House, *Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse* (presidential action, March 2025) — the federal anchor the at-issue item pairs with its federal-footprint observation. It does not support the refuge figures. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/protecting-americas-bank-account-against-fraud-waste-and-abuse/