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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Service and The Conservation Fund Renew National Support for Go Zero®
September 28, 2010
 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Conservation Fund today announced the renewal of a national agreement using private donations to plant native trees on public lands to benefit wildlife and help fight climate change. The agreement, which renews on October 1, will ensure that all 552 National Wildlife Refuges can continue to participate in the Fund’s Go Zero® program. Photo Caption: The Service, Conservation Fund and Go Zero® donors celebrate restoration of native forestland at Marais des Cygnes NWR, Kansas. Credit: Jean LeMunyon Photography
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Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
African Penguin Receives Endangered Species Act Protection
September 28, 2010
 A species of penguin from Africa is now protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973, following the publication of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service final listing determination in today’s Federal Register. The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), a species native to Namibia and South Africa, has been listed as endangered. Photo Caption: African penguin. Credit: Wikipedia Commons
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Protecting the Nation's Resources
Artifact Theft and Trafficking Disrupted in South Dakota
September 28, 2010
 A recent investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service secured guilty pleas from five individuals involved in the unlawful collection, sale, and/or purchase of Native American and other artifacts stolen from archaeological sites on public lands administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers along the Missouri River in South Dakota. The defendants, who pleaded guilty to Federal felony and misdemeanor violations of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, forfeited over 13,000 archaeological artifacts and fossils as part of their sentences; penalties assessed in the case also included $30,000 in criminal fines and prison terms for two individuals.
Photo Caption: The Service recovered these and thousands of other archaelogical artifacts during this investigation. Credit: USFWS
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About the Archeological Resources Protection Act
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Climate Change
Service Releases Final Climate Strategy
September 27, 2010
 As part of the Department of the Interior’s commitment to building a coordinated strategy to respond to the impacts of climate change on the nation’s natural resources, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today releases its final strategic plan that will guide the agency’s efforts to respond to the unprecedented threat posed by global warming. Photo Caption: Polar bear with young. Credit:Susanne Miller / USFWS
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Conservation in Action
FWS Climate Change Web Site
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Improved Wetlands Mapper Tool Now Available
September 27, 2010
 The next generation of the Service's Wetlands Mapper allows you to use a fast, interactive map, similar to Google Earth, to easily zoom in on geographic locations and access National Wetlands Inventory data. Photo Caption: Thumbnail shot of the Wetlands Mapper Tool. Credit: USFWS
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Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
Gunnison Sage-Grouse to be Designated a Candidate for Endangered Species Protection
September 27, 2010
 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it has determined that the Gunnison sage-grouse, a bird species found only in southwestern Colorado and extreme southeastern Utah, warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act, but that proposing the species for protection is precluded by the need to address other higher priority species. Photo Caption: Greater sage-grouse. Credit: Dave Menke / USFWS
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Salazar Participates in National Public Lands Day Project at Big Branch Marsh NWR
September 27, 2010
 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar participated on September 25 in a marsh restoration project at Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana, as part of the annual National Public Lands Day. Salazar was one of more than 600 volunteers who participated in the two-week project at Big Branch to plant more than 70,000 marsh plants in the open mud flats located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Photo Caption: Secretary Salazar plants marsh grass at Big Branch Marsh NWR. Credit: Tami Heilemann / DOI
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 Youth Employment in the Southwest Region
FFS #R2NA, R2ND, R2NE, R2NF
Where: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuges in Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas
What’s Happening: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support youth employment through the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program, the Student Conservation Association (SCA), the Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP), and the Student Career Experience Program (SCEP). In the Southwest Region, young employees are completing trainings, environmental studies and research, conservation work, and construction projects.
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