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Visit Patuxent Research Refuge with Smithsonian Program
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You are invited to join the Smithsonian Resident Associates for an October 10 behind-the-scenes tour of the captive breeding program for whooping cranes at Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, Maryland. Participants will learn how crane chicks are trained to follow an ultra light plane that leads them on their first fall migration to Florida. Learn More >>
Endangered Butterfly Gets New Start
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About 30 endangered Lange's metalmark butterflies were returned to their native habitat on Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge in California after being raised in a special breeding facility by students and faculty at Moorpark College as part of a concerted effort to save the nearly extinct species. Antioch Dunes Refuge is the nation's only home for the butterfly that is fluttering dangerously close to extinction. Learn More >>
Searching for Ivory-billed Woodpecker
State coordinators and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service representatives will meet in Atlanta this month to review the 2007-2008 search for the ivory-billed woodpecker and discuss where to focus future searches. Organized searches were sparked by the dramatic rediscovery of the highly distinctive bird in February 2004 by a kayaker in eastern Arkansas' Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Before that sighting, the woodpecker had been thought to be extinct in the United States.
Read the full story in Refuge Update >>
Civilian Conservation Corps Celebrates Milestone
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To commemorate the accomplishments of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia honored Mike Eaton, a member of the CCC camp located on what is now refuge property in the Pungo area of Virginia Beach. The event not only marked the 75th anniversary of the CCC, but also the 70th anniversary of the refuge.
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Independent Evaluation Rates Refuge System
After extensive study from October 2006 through September 2007, an independent firm has determined that because the Refuge System experienced an 11 percent decline in real purchasing power between FY 2003 and the FY 2008 requested budget, the System has been unable to meet some of its strategic goals.
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2008-2009 Refuge-Specific Hunting and Sport Fishing Regulations Additions
This final rule published August 29, 2008 in the Federal Register. With this rule we open Hamden Slough in Minnesota to migratory bird and big game hunting and increase hunting opportunities at six other NWRs: Agassiz in Minnesota, Blackwater Maryland, Whittlesey Creek in Wisconsin, and Bayou Cocodrie, Tensas River and Upper Ouachita in Louisiana.
You may view the rule at: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-20022.pdf >>
Celebrating Monarch Butterflies
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Hundreds of national wildlife refuges and a host of programs by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protect and restore monarch butterfly habitat, monitor their transcontinental migration, and teach thousands of school children about their unique migration from Mexico through the United States on to Canadaand then back again.
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Report Shows National Wildlife Refuges Provide
Economic Boost
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Environmental Tour at Eastern Neck
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Recreational use on national wildlife refuges generated almost $1.7 billion
in total economic activity during fiscal year 2006, according to a new
report released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The report, titled
Banking on Nature 2006: The Economic Benefits to Local Communities
of National Wildlife Refuge Visitation was compiled by Service economists.
Summary Report >>
Read the report
in PDF format >> (1.2 MB PDF)
Read the report in MS Word
format >> (6.1 MB MS Word)
There's a New Way to Buy Federal Duck Stamps
the E-Duck Stamp
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