{"id":35604,"date":"2022-01-24T13:29:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=35604"},"modified":"2022-01-24T14:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:04:34","slug":"wildlife-professionals-estate-bequeaths-1-7m-to-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/01\/24\/wildlife-professionals-estate-bequeaths-1-7m-to-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Professional\u2019s Estate Bequeaths $1.7M to Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gift to Support Wildlife Education and Upland Habitat Projects<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51840561384_237e644b10.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Marilyn Mause\" width=\"350\" height=\"410\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marilyn Mause in 2017. photo courtesy Gregory Bartles.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> (DNR) <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/a> recently received a $1.7 million gift from the estate of longtime employee Marilyn Mause specifically for <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Wildlife\/Pages\/Education\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildlife education<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/habitat\/recommendations.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> upland habitat<\/a> projects. Mause, who worked 34 years for the department&#8217;s wildlife unit primarily within the state\u2019s central region, passed away in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMarilyn\u2019s gift clearly demonstrates her passion for wildlife management within the State,\u201d Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cWe plan to use this gift to further the great work she took pride in doing while she was part of our team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While she had many roles during her career, Mause had a special interest in upland habitat management and education. She took pride in educating the public about Maryland\u2019s wildlife and enjoyed her time working as a biologist where she got to interact directly with landowners on habitat projects.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gift to Support Wildlife Education and Upland Habitat Projects The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Wildlife and Heritage Service recently received a $1.7 million gift from the estate of longtime employee Marilyn Mause specifically for wildlife education and upland habitat projects. Mause, who worked 34 years for the department&#8217;s wildlife unit primarily within the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/01\/24\/wildlife-professionals-estate-bequeaths-1-7m-to-department\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,13],"tags":[4312,3404,3924,5265,5045],"class_list":["post-35604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-wildlife","tag-conservation","tag-environmental-education","tag-habitat","tag-upland","tag-wildlife-and-heritage-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35607,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35604\/revisions\/35607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}