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The recovered tufted puffin prepares to take flight after being released at Haystack Rock, a popular puffin nesting site at Canon Beach, Oregon.
Photo by Gary Hayes
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Rescued Tufted Puffin Returns to the Wild
After eight weeks of rehabilitation, a young tufted puffin was returned to the wild recently off the Oregon Coast in time for the annual migration to sea. The injured puffin was found by a young girl vacationing on the Oregon Coast and taken to the Wildlife Center of the North Coast near Astoria, where it was nurtured back to health. Read about his return to the wild at the link below.
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Goats, not pesticides, are used to control invasive weeds at Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery Complex
USFWS photo by Corky Broaddus
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Hatchery of the Year Award Recognizes Environmental Leadership
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has named the Leavenworth National Fish
Hatchery Complex in eastern Washington Hatchery of the Year for its
innovative achievements in environmental leadership. The hatchery complex was recognized for eliminating all hazardous waste streams,
removing invasive plants without the use of pesticides and operating an
on-site alternative high school that teaches natural resource education.
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Boise fifth-grader Jessica Roman was among the students at a writing camp intended to inspire a greater appreciation for nature.
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Grants Help Connect People with Nature
More than 60 Idaho students, grades 4 through 6, attended a writing camp this summer to learn about local ecosystems and stewardship of the Boise Foothills and nurture an inner sense of wonder about their natural world. Professional biologists, botanists, environmental educators and local writers worked with the students, leading them to explore their environment and how to observe, reflect and journal about what they saw and felt. A partnership of the USFWS Pacific Region, the Cabin Literary Center, the Foothills Learning Center and the Idaho Botanical Garden, the project was funded partly by an FWS "Connecting People with Nature" grant from the Pacific Regional Directorate. It was one of 20 projects the regional directorate funded this year. See the video and read the story to learn more about the region's efforts to connect people with nature.
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Last updated: August 24, 2009
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Recovery Act
at Work
Replace Walkways on Lower Raceways
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Where: Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery
What's Happening: Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery received $29,665 in American Recovery Reinvestment Act funding to replace the walkways on the lower spring Chinook salmon raceways. The existing structures pose a safety threat to the employees as they stand on the walkways to feed the fish and clean the raceways. This project is expected to create two jobs in the local area as crews reinforce the walkways with steel bar grating and stair treads.
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