Service ES Offices in Florida Donate nearly 1 1/2 Ton of Food to local Food Banks
August 31, 2012
Annie Dziergowski (left), Dawn Jennings (center) and Jerome Barksdale (right) from the Service's North Florida ES Office unload some of the 2,900 plus pounds of food donated to local food banks throughout Florida as part of the Department of the Interior's Feds Feed Families 2012 Campaign.
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Staff from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's ecological services offices (ESO) in Florida were active this summer giving back to the communities they serve.
Participating in the Department of the Interior's Feds Feed Families 2012 Campaign to aid local food banks/pantries and soup kitchens in providing for those in need, Service employees based out of offices in Panama City, Jacksonville, and Vero Beach combined forces to donate more than 2,900 pounds of food to these distribution points.
Dave Hankla, field supervisor for the North Florida ESO, noted the efforts are indicative of the kind of people working in the Service.
"The Service is staffed with the best people around. People with values and character," Hankla said. "People who care about others...about their communities."
Hankla added that while there were a lot of smiles among the staff in what was accomplished, "...the real winners will be those less fortunate...people that can't count on having even the most basic of necessities."
The North Florida Ecological Services Office serves 32 counties in north and north-central Florida.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries Service Propose to Simplify Review Process for Critical Habitat Proposals under the Endangered Species Act
August 23, 2012
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administrations Fisheries Service, the two Federal agencies responsible for administering the Endangered Species Act, are jointly proposing to simplify and clarify the process through which impact analyses are conducted for designations of critical habitat under the ESA. By improving the clarity and consistency of our regulations, the Services can continue to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the ESA.
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Service makes updated Skink Guidance Available
Sand skink.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has revised the conservation guidelines and survey protocol for the threatened sand skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) and blue-tailed mole skink (Eumeces egregius lividus). The updated information is available via the link below and on our Consultant/Landowner Tools reference page.
Skink Information
Eastern Indgio Snake
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The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's North Florida Ecological Services Office (NFESO) updated its Eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon corais couperi) protocols. The updated survey protocols provide consultants and landowners a project planning tool to improve the Service's review of permit applications and proposed land clearing activities for potential effects on the federally-threatened eastern indigo snake. The tool is applicable to the NFESFO geographic area of responsibility, which includes the following counties: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Flagler, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lafayette, Lake, Levy, Madison, Manatee, Marion, Nassau, Orange, Pasco, Pinellas, Putnam, St. Johns, Seminole, Sumter, Suwannee, Taylor, Union, and Volusia.
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