Midwest Highlights
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:
- 54 National Wildlife Refuges
- 12 Wetland Management Districts
- More than 300,000 acres in waterfowl
production areas - 6 National Fish Hatcheries
- 6 Fishery Resources Offices
- 2 Sea Lamprey Control Stations
- 8 Private Lands Offices
- 9 Ecological Services offices
- 18 Law Enforcement offices
Recent News Releases
September 14, 2012 - 50 Years After Silent Spring: Minnesota’s St. Louis River Showcases Environmental Success and Challenge
September 14, 2012 - Dr. Gwen White selected as Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers LCC Science Coordinator
September 12, 2012 - 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring: Reversing the Ecological Impacts of Missouri’s Mining Legacy
September 07, 2012 - 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring: Wisconsin’s Fox River
September 05, 2012 - 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring: A Legacy Continues in Michigan for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Environmental Contaminants Program
August 29, 2012 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks public input to conserve endangered species in the Midwest while encouraging clean energy