New Jersey Field Office

Fact sheet on ways to help migratory birds

Web Links:
Your New Jersey community can help migratory birds - web page with actions you can take

Hunting Fact Sheet in Atlantic County, New jersey and state of New Jersey, 172KB PDF download

Information on
Hunting License,
License Agents, &
Duck Hunting In
Atlantic County, NJ
172KB PDF

Hunting and Fishing Licenses in New Jersey

Encountering Wildlife?
Questions on what to do with injured, sick or dead?

Sightings of Wildlife
Injured Wildlife
Sick Wildlife
Dead Wildlife

Hackensack Lite document link to the 16 page 3 MB PDF. (Cover) Bellmans Creek Marsh in the northern Meadowlands District, ©Mike Light / www.michaellight.net.

The Hackensack Meadowlands Initiative
Preliminary Conservation Planning
An Overview of the Comprehensive Document

The Hackensack Meadowlands Initiative: Preliminary Conservation Planning (Plan) of March 2007, prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, details human recreational, agricultural, industrial, and scientific activities in the Hackensack Meadowlands and their effect on the Meadowlands ecosystem in some 450 pages. That comprehensive document remains an indispensable resource for understanding ecological issues in the Meadowlands.

This overview summarizes ideas and issues discussed in the original document. It may also serve as a guide to direct the reader to specific areas of interest in the Plan. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hopes that Meadowlands stakeholders as well as the public at large will find this overview useful as an introduction and connection to the issues elaborated in the comprehensive Plan.

Link to Overview of the Comprehensive Document 3MB PDF

Ducks Unlimited in
New Jersey
Names Eric Schrading Conservationist
of the Year for 2007

Ducks Unlimited in New Jersey named Eric Schrading the 2007 New Jersey Conservationist of the Year. article...324KB PDF..

Help Make a Home for New Jersey's Fish and Wildlfe

An Article by Brian Marsh

Link to the page witht table of contents to downlad individual print qualty pages of the Environmental Education print quality, high quality PDfs of individual pages, image of cover, photo Art Webster USFWS

... download the 5MB web version

... Individual print quality PDFs

As an Ecological Service’s Office, the New Jersey Field Office works to influence government and private activities that affect fish and wildlife resources. In carrying out the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s statutory obligations and mandates, the New Jersey Field Office works through a large community of conservation partnerships; we may lead, support, or act as a catalyst.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages the 100-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses 545 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resources offices, 81 ecological services field stations, 14 fish health and technology centers, 133 law enforcement offices, a National Forensics Laboratory and the National Conversation Training Center. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enforces federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign and Native American tribal governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Assistance program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.