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 27, 2012 - 50 Years After Silent Spring: Cleaning Up Ohio’s Ashtabula River
September 25, 2012 - Diversity in America's Great Outdoors - Changing the Face of American Birding
September 21, 2012 - 50 Years After Silent Spring: Lessons Learned at Indiana’s Cane Ridge
September 21, 2012 - A Dam Success: The National Fish Passage Program Helps Restore Streams, While Benefitting People and Local Economies
September 19, 2012 - 50 Years After Silent Spring: Investigating the use of Herbicides in an Endangered Species Habitat
September 17, 2012 - Conservation Act Awards $2 Million to Conserve Wetlands in Missouri and Iowa