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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Enjoy Premier Hunting Experiences at National Wildlife Refuges
August 4, 2009
More than 2 million hunters visit National Wildlife Refuges each year. Hunting, within specified limits, is permitted on more than 300 refuges. A new interactive Web site, Your Guide to Hunting on National Wildlife Refuges, provides hunters with an easy search mechanism to find a refuge by special interest like game species. The instructive Web site offers additional information, such as becoming a more effective waterfowl hunter. In addition, information on state hunting licenses is provided. For those who wish to bring the guide with them; it is available as a downloadable publication.
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| Refuge hunts are carefully managed to give hunters a quality experience. Credit: USFWS
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Senate Confirms Sam Hamilton to be New Fish and Wildlife Service Director
July 31, 2009
The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm Sam D. Hamilton to be the new Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A career Service employee with over 30 years of experience, Hamilton will lead the nation's principal Federal agency dedicated to the conservation of fish and wildlife and their habitats, with nearly 9,000 employees located in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Public Comment Period Ending for Coastal Barrier Resources System Draft Digital Maps
July 31, 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been requesting public comments on the submitted Report to Congress: John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Digital Mapping Pilot Project, which highlights the benefits of updating CBRS maps with more accurate and precise digital maps to better protect the people of coastal areas. The comment period will close on August 5, 2009.
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| Great blue heron on shoreline. Credit: USFWS
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Migratory Birds: Conservation and Management
Liberal Season Proposed for Upcoming Late Waterfowl Season
July 31, 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed continuation of liberal hunting season lengths for the upcoming 2009-2010 late waterfowl seasons. Duck hunting season lengths would be 60 days in both the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways, 74 days in the Central Flyway, and 107 days in the Pacific Flyway.
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Changes in Senior Leadership Team
July 30, 2009
The Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that two members of its senior leadership team will trade positions. Bryan Arroyo, currently assistant director for Endangered Species, will become assistant director for Fisheries and Habitat Conservation, while Gary Frazer, currently assistant director for Fisheries and Habitat Conservation, will assume management of the Endangered Species Program.
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Preventing Global Wildlife Trafficking
Service Inspectors, Agents Catch Fish Smuggler
July 29, 2009
A North Carolina live fish importer has pleaded guilty to smuggling endangered Asian bonytongue fish into the United States from Vietnam. Service wildlife inspectors in Atlanta discovered 10 of the rare fish concealed in hidden compartments in the bottoms of several boxes of an otherwise legally imported tropical fish shipment; agents strengthened the case by obtaining e-mail and photographic evidence to further document the foiled smuggling attempt. The importer, who initially denied knowledge of the smuggling, faces a maxium sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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| Endangered Asian bonytongue fish (also known as Asian arowanas) are highly prized by collectors; some believe that the fish bring good luck. Credit: Charles Quick/USFWS
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
2009 Waterfowl Status Video Report Released
July 27, 2009
In cooperation with the Canadian Wildlife Service and other state, provincial, and private conservation partners, USFWS biologists have conducted waterfowl surveys in North America for more than 50 years, making it the longest-running wildlife survey in the world. In 2009, they surveyed more than two million square miles of habitat. The video report describes biologists' findings as they surveyed the northern United States and Canada.
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Senate Confirmation Hearing for Nominee Sam D. Hamilton
July 22, 2009
At 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 22, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a full committee hearing on the confirmation of Sam D. Hamilton as the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Hamilton was introduced by Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi. After presenting a brief introductory statement, Hamilton responded to questions posed by members of the committee that ranged from invasive species control to scientific integrity. If confirmed as director, Hamilton will lead the approximately 7,500 employees working at Service facilities across the nation.
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| Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi (L), Sam Hamilton (M)
and his wife Becky Hamilton (R). Credit: LaVonda Walton/USFWS
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Protecting the Nation's Wildlife
Investigation Exposes Commercial Lobster Poaching, Illegal Fishing
July 21, 2009
All six members of a group that illegally harvested large quantities of spiny lobster from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge have been successfully prosecuted in Miami; one member of the group was also convicted for large-scale commercial fishing in Dry Tortugas National Park. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agents teamed with NOAA-Fisheries agents, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers, National Park Service rangers, and Service refuge officers to conduct the investigation.
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| Spiny lobster, Florida Keys. Credit: NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
Federal Land Manager of the Year
July 17, 2009
Congratulations to Scott Glup, project leader at Litchfield Wetland Management District in Minnesota, selected as the 2009 Federal Land Manager of the Year.
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Protecting the Nation's Wildlife
Secretary Salazar Announces Renewed Commitment, Expanded Programs to Eliminate Pythons from Everglades
July 17, 2009
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced today that the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in partnership with the State of Florida and other stakeholders, are renewing their commitment and expanding existing programs to eliminate Burmese pythons from the Everglades.
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Protecting the Nation's Wildlife
Interior Department Seeks Withdrawal of 2008 Critical Habitat Designation for the Northern Spotted Owl
July 16, 2009
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Department will ask a Federal District Court to vacate the Fish and Wildlife Service's 2008 revision of designated critical habitat for the northern spotted owl and order a thorough review of the owl's recovery plan. Secretary Salazar cited a report by Interior's Inspector General, who determined the decision-making process for the owl's recovery plan, which informed the critical habitat revision, was potentially jeopardized by improper political influence. News Release
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Aquatic Species: National Fish Habitat Action Plan and Trust Species
Fisheries Friends Groups Embrace National Partnership
July 16, 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service joined with Fisheries Friends Groups in the official establishment of a National Fisheries Friends Partnership (NFFP). From across the United States, representatives of Fisheries Friends Groups gathered this past spring in the nation’s capital to formalize this new partnership.
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| Student holding a sturgeon at the La Crosse National Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office.
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Protecting the Nation's Wildlife
Safe Harbor Agreement Protects Northern Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet
July 15, 2009
Port Blakely Tree Farms in Washington state will manage more than 45,000 acres of private timberland for the northern spotted owl and the marbled murrelet. The Safe Harbor Agreement is the first of its kind for these species and celebrates a partnership between a timber producer, and state and federal natural resource agencies.
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Birdwatchers No Featherweights in Contributions to Economy
July 15, 2009
A new report released today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows one of every five Americans watches birds, and in doing so, birdwatchers contributed $36 billion to the U.S. economy in 2006, the most recent year for which economic data are available. The report shows that total participation in birdwatching is strong at 48 million, and remaining at a steady 20 percent of the U.S. population since 1996.
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| Birders seek their quarry at William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
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Protecting the Nation's Wildlife
Service Investigation of PacifiCorp Secures Improved Safeguards for Eagles
July 13, 2009
PacifiCorp, one of the largest electric utilities in the West, has pleaded guilty to 34 Federal charges involving the electrocution of golden eagles and other protected migratory birds. The company was ordered to pay a $510,000 fine and $900,000 in restitution and must spend $9.1 million over the next five years to make its power network in Wyoming "bird friendly."
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Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
Five Foreign Bird Species from South America Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection
July 7 2009
Five species of birds from Colombia and Ecuador are proposed for protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule published in today's Federal Register.
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Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Releases 90-Day Finding on 14 Species of Parrots Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection
July 7, 2009
Twelve species of parrots ranging in location from Latin America and the Caribbean to Indonesia will undergo an in-depth status review following receipt of a petition to protect 14 species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was published in today's Federal Register.
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Protecting the Nation's Wildlife
2009 Waterfowl Survey Indicates Increase In Many Duck Species
July 2, 2009
The preliminary estimate of total ducks from the 2009 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey was 42 million, which is 13 percent greater than last year’s estimate and 25 percent greater than the 1955-2008 average, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today.
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| Blue-winged teal drake. Credit: Dave Manke/USFWS
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Endangered Species Act Protections to be Reinstated for Western Great Lakes Gray Wolves
June 29, 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit challenging its 2009 rule removing Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the Western Great Lakes.
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Public Meetings Scheduled on Coastal Barrier Resources System Pilot Project Units
June 29, 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will conduct several virtual town hall meetings, July 14-15, 2009, on the recently submitted Report to Congress: John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Digital Mapping Pilot Project.
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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
Got Summer Plans? There’s Lots Doing on National Wildlife Refuges!
June 24, 2009
Want to try something wild this summer? You don’t have to go far or spend a bundle to do it. National wildlife refuges are teeming with out-of-the-ordinary seasonal events.
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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
Wild Angles - News from the National Wildlife Refuge System
June 24, 2009
In North Carolina, 41 red wolf pups born in the wild this spring gave biologists a big reason to celebrate.
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
New Video Highlights Wildlife Without Borders Program
June 23, 2009
At a briefing held on Capitol Hill on June 22nd, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Wildlife Without Borders program and partner conservation organizations debuted a video showing how the Service is working with partners in the Latin American and Caribbean region to create a new generation of conservation professionals.
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Get the Buzz on National Pollinator Week!
June 22, 2009
Celebrate National Pollinator Week, June 22-28! View the new video of Service staff and volunteers planting a Demonstration Pollinator Garden at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, which provides planting tips for your garden.
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