Conserving The Nature of America
The Midwest Region is committed to expanding partnerships, offering innovative opportunities to enhance the Region, promoting healthy fish and wildlife trust species populations and habitats to support them and providing the public with quality hunting, fishing, wildlife watching, and other wildlife-dependent recreational opportunities on Service lands.
Regional Programs and Offices:
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54 National Wildlife Refuges
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12 Wetland Management Districts
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More than 300,000 acres in waterfowl production areas
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6 National Fish Hatcheries
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6 Fishery Resources Offices
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2 Sea Lamprey Control Stations
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8 Private Lands Offices
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9 Ecological Services offices
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18 Law Enforcement offices
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Midwest Highlights
Brown bats with white-nose syndrome
Credit: Nancy Heaslip, New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Cave activity discouraged to help protect bats
from deadly white-nose syndrome
Cavers should curtail their activities to avoid the possible spread of white-nose syndrome in bats, according to a Service cave advisory. WNS is likely being carried from cave to cave by human activity. Biologists hope the voluntary moratorium will buy time in the search for the cause and cure of this deadly malady killing hundreds of thousands of bats from Vermont to Virginia.
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Recent News Releases
April 29, 2009 - Salazar, Locke Restore Scientific Consultations Under ESA
April 28, 2009 - Amended Hunting Regulations Proposed for Upper Miss NW&FR
April 27, 2009 - President's Economic Recovery Plan Brings 78 FWS Projects To Midwest
April 24, 2009 - Interior Secretary Awards $900,000 Grant for Imperiled Species in MI, IN
April 24, 2009 - Interior Secretary Awards Nearly $600,000 for Driftless Area
April 24, 2009 - Interior Secretary Awards Over $300,000 For Amphibian, Reptile Conservation
More News Releases
Regional Director Tom Melius releases a pallid sturgeon in a recent visit to Missouri. The fish was released after being taken to Blind Pony State Fish Hatchery (Missouri Department of Conservation) for use in the pallid sturgeon artificial propagation program. After being scoped to determine it's sex and reproductive stage, the fish (not in a reproductive state, since pallid sturgeon don't spawn every year) was released near it's capture location.
Melius visited the Missouri River with staff from the Columbia National Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office, received a demonstration of the push-trawl, pulled trotlines for the Pallid Sturgeon Population Assessment Program, and toured a couple of components of the Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge (Lisbon and Jameson Islands).
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