Year-long study assesses feasibility of new national wildlife refuge in Pennsylvania

The Service has evaluated the potential for establishing a new national wildlife refuge in eastern Pennsylvania, an area rich in fish and wildlife resources. The Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge Draft Feasibility Study and Environmental Assessment is now available for public review and comment. More...

Service biologists contribute to fungus article: A possible piece of the white-nose syndrome puzzle

Robyn Niver and Jeremy T.H. Coleman, Ph.D., of the New York Field Office contributed to an article in the journal Science about a previously unidentified cold-loving fungus. The fungus may lead to answers about the mysterious cause of white-nose syndrome, credited with the deaths of thousands of bats in the northeast. More...

New York City signs urban bird treaty

New York City has signed an Urban Conservation Treaty for Migratory Birds, committing to restore, conserve and protect valuable bird habitat and to provide education and training about birds. City parks provide an essential urban sanctuary – resting and breeding grounds for thousands of migrating birds.

Celebrate National Wildlife Refuge Week, October 12 to 18

National wildlife refuges are for people, too. They are places where we can watch wildlife, hunt and fish, and where our outdoor traditions can endure. We offer environmental education and interpretive programs at many national wildlife refuges in the region, including at our new facility dedicated this week at Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge in West Virginia.

  Find out more about Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Duck stamp dollars buy 91 acres for eastern Massachusetts refuge

The Service has purchased 13 separate riverfront parcels from the Sudbury Valley Trustees and will manage them as part of the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts.

  See images and maps of the land purchased for the Assabet National Wildlife Refuge

Expanded Atlantic salmon protection proposed

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA-Fisheries are proposing to expand Endangered Species Act protection for wild Atlantic salmon in Maine as far as the Androscoggin River, including the entire Kennebec and Penobscot rivers. This year, from the Androscoggin north to the Dennys River, the area proposed for protection, only 2,000 salmon have returned to spawn.

  More on Gulf of Maine Atlantic salmon protection

Nearly $4.5 million to improve habitat for brook trout in seven Northeast Region states

The Service will provide $450,000 in aid, an amount matched nearly ten times over by contributions from conservation partners, to improve conditions for brook trout in the waters of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and West Virginia. The funding will support ten projects restoring stream banks, re-opening miles of fish passage and addressing water quality issues.

  Complete project list
  More on the eastern brook trout