Air Quality

Edwin B. Forsythe NWR - Brigantine Wilderness

Alaska Maritime NWR - Simeonof Wilderness

Mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Air Quality Program is to:

Protect and enhance air quality in support of ecosystem management in the National Wildlife Refuge System, in an effort to create a Refuge System free of impacts from human-caused air pollution and promote biological integrity, diversity, and environmental health of the system.

What is being done about the Air Quality?

Protecting air quality, and resources sensitive to air quality, in the National Wildlife Refuge System is a complex task that includes: active research and monitoring about the amount and effects of pollution in FWS areas; advocacy for pollution controls when they are likely to affect FWS refuge areas; and ensuring there is an active advocate of clean healthy air across the National Wildlife Refuge System. Find out more about who the Branch of Air Quality. more>>

Learn More About:

Air Quality in Refuges Findout how air quality is affecting the Class I refuge areas. Learn more>>	Basics Discover the basics of air quality. Learn more>>	Monitoring Monitoring data are essential to learning about FWS air quality. Learn more>>
Regional Haze FWS Regional Haze Efforts for the Individual States. Learn more>>	Smoke Management Find out how FWS is protecting refuges from smoke management. Learn more>>	Oil and Gas MOU Oil and Gas Memorandum of Understanding addressing Air Quality Learn more>>
Permitting FWS Role in Clean Air Act Permitting Learn more>>	FLAG Report Guidance for assessing impacts of air pollution on protected areas. Learn more>>	Laws and Policy Law and Policies that protect the National Wildlife Refuges' Air Learn more>>