The Great Lakes are getting a stamp of
approval from the Postal Service. Heidi Chang
reports there’s a new sheet of postal stamps
that celebrate the region:
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The Great Lakes are getting a stamp of
approval from the Postal Service. Heidi Chang
reports there’s a new sheet of postal stamps
that celebrate the region:
The new sheet of stamps is the latest in the Postal Service’s “Nature
in America” series.
John Dawson created the painting depicted on the sheet of stamps. It
features 27 different kinds of plants and animals found in the Great
Lakes Dunes.
Dawson says he hopes the stamps will make people more aware of the
beauty of the dunes, and the need to save the whole environment.
“The animals, the plants, the flowers, the bugs, it’s all inter-related.
That’s what’s important about showing this stuff – that it’s important to
keep the environment intact, because there’s so many things that
depend on each other.”
Dawson has designed all ten of the Nature of America series. But this
one is special to him because he started his career living in the Great
Lakes region.
For The Environment Report, this is Heidi Chang.