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Service Scientists Make Recommendation on Greater Sage-grouse

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FWS Director S. Williams Hunting in ND, FWS Photo by Ryan Hagerty.
FWS Director S. Williams Hunting in ND, FWS Photo by Ryan Hagerty.
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Interior Secretary Announces Coastal Wetland Grants to Protect Wildlife and Habitat in 10 States
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2004 Duck Stamp Winner Announced
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United States Reauthorizes North American Waterfowl Management Plan News Release
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Landowners Receive Over $7 Million Under Private Stewardship Grant Program
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Male sage-grouse, credit Rob Bannetts Based on an extensive review of scientific data and analysis, senior regional U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists have recommended that the Service not list the greater sage-grouse as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act across its range, Service Director Steve Williams announced today.
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Male sage-grouse, credit Rob Bannetts

Whooping Crane Population Reaches Record High

A record number of endangered whooping cranes have migrated for the winter to the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and the surrounding mid-coast region in Texas. The latest census flight on November 24 tallied 213 whooping cranes; 181 adults and 32 young who completed their first migration.
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Whooping Crane, credit Ryan Hagerty/USFWS

Come See the Fall Migration of Snow Geese at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge

Snow Geese, credit Jamie Richie/USFWS Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge comprises 15,978 acres, approximately four-fifths of which is tidal salt marsh. The refuge has one of the largest expanses of nearly unaltered tidal salt marsh in the mid-Atlantic region. It also includes 1,100 acres of impounded fresh water pools, brushy and timbered swamps, 1,100 acres of agricultural lands, and timbered and grassy upland. The general terrain is flat and less than ten feet above sea level.
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Snow geese, credit Jamie Richie/USFWS

First DVD Tour of America's National Wildlife Refuges Now Available

Image of the "America's Wildlest Places" DVD coverThe National Wildlife Refuge System may have just marked its 100th anniversary, but the sights and sounds of the world’s largest system of public lands for wildlife are as fresh as today’s latest technology with the release of the first DVD “armchair” tour of our Nation’s refuges.
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Our country's wildlife refuges are now yours with volume one in the series, "America's Wildest Places/A Video Tour of Eight National Wildlife Refuges."
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