Editing Ding Darling (section)

==Wildlife conservation==
[[File:1stDuckStamp.jpg|thumb|right|First duck stamp, designed by Darling]]
Darling penned some conservation cartoons, and he was an important figure in the [[conservation movement]]. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him to a blue-ribbon Committee on Wildlife Restoration in 1934. FDR sought political balance by putting the Hoover Republican on the committee, knowing he was an articulate advocate for wildlife management.<ref name="Brinkley">{{cite book |last1=Brinkley |first1=Douglas |author1-link=Douglas Brinkley |title=Rightful Heritage: The Renewal of America |date=2016 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |location=New York |isbn=9780062089267 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuD1CQAAQBAJ |access-date=April 13, 2023}}</ref>{{rp|268}}

Following the passage of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act in 1934, which required [[waterfowl]] hunters to purchase a [[Federal Duck Stamp]] before hunting, Darling designed the first Federal Duck Stamp that year and was appointed Director of the Bureau of Biological Survey, a forerunner of the [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]].<ref name="duckstamp">{{cite web |title=The Federal Duck Stamp Story |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fws.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdocuments%2FFW-1013-The-Duck-Stamp-Story.pdf |website=United States Fish and Wildlife Service |access-date=April 13, 2023 |page=3 }}</ref>{{r|"Brinkley"|p=280-285}}

[[File:NWRS Logo.png|thumb|right|The National Wildlife Refuge System logo, also designed by Darling]] The [[J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge]] on [[Sanibel Island]] in southwest Florida is named after him, as is the [[Lake Darling State Park]] in [[Iowa]] that was dedicated on September 17, 1950.  Lake Darling, a 9,600-acre lake at the [[Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge]] is also named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fws.gov/refuge/upper_souris/about.html |title=USFWS About Upper Souris NWR  |access-date=2014-04-03 |publisher= [[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]]}}</ref> More recently a lodge at the [[National Park Service training centers|National Conservation Training Center]] near Shepherdstown, West Virginia was named in his honor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://training.fws.gov/courses/catalog/nctc-catalog.pdf|title=National Conservation Training Center|website=U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-date=May 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524193614/https://training.fws.gov/courses/catalog/nctc-catalog.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Darling was elected as a member of the [[Boone and Crockett Club]], a wildlife conservation organization, on December 13, 1934.<ref>{{cite web|title=Boone and Crockett Club Archives|url=http://cdm16013.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16013coll13/id/179/rec/2}}</ref>

He was instrumental in founding the [[National Wildlife Federation]] in 1936, when President Franklin Roosevelt convened the first North American Wildlife Conference (now the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference), administered by the American Wildlife Institute (now Wildlife Management Institute).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nwf.org/Who-We-Are/History-and-Heritage/Creation-of-NWF.aspx|title=Creation of National Wildlife Federation - National Wildlife Federation|access-date=2017-02-15}}</ref>