On Saturday, October 11, 2008, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge conducted its annual National Wildlife Refuge Week celebration with a variety of new wildlife artists, exhibitors, and activities highlighting the 40^th anniversary of the endangered Delmarva fox squirrel. 

Throughout the day, visitors strolled through a stunning wildlife art show (including silk embroidery and painting demonstrations) and participated in family activities such as monarch butterfly headband making, bird feeder building, button making, and more.

Staff from the Virginia Living Museum (Newport News, VA) conducted a live-animal presentation for a packed auditorium and later FWS Wildlife Inspector J.D. Bolden shared exciting tales of 'Wildlife Crime Stopping'.  The celebration also included first time exhibitors, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, and staff from the FWS Office of Law Enforcement (Baltimore and Cambridge, MD).  Staff from the Virginia Department of Forestry also stopped by as Smokey Bear.

In celebration of the Delmarva fox squirrel, visitors enjoyed squirrel related crafts and were given the opportunity to become a "wildlife biologist" through squirrel trapping/tagging activities.  An official anniversary cake-cutting took place in the afternoon and interpretive hayrides were conducted through fox squirrel habitat on the Woodland Trail throughout the day.