 |
 |
|||||||||||||||
Birds Fishing Grants Habitat Hunting Kids/Educators Offices Partnerships Permits Planning Species ABC Contaminants Contracts Endangered Species Federal Duck Stamp Fire Fisheries History Human Resources Images Information Quality Index International Affairs Jobs Law Enforcement Legislation Library News Policies Questions? Refuges Training Video Volunteers Wetlands |
Service Scientists Make Recommendation on Greater Sage-grouse |
QUESTIONS?
USFWS Customer Service Center 1-800-344-WILD  FWS Director S. Williams Hunting in ND, FWS Photo by Ryan Hagerty. How the Fish and Wildlife Service is Working with Hunters and Anglers Interior Secretary Announces Coastal Wetland Grants to Protect Wildlife and Habitat in 10 States News Release 2004 Duck Stamp Winner Announced News Release Learn more United States Reauthorizes North American Waterfowl Management Plan News Release FWS Cooperative Conservation News Landowners Receive Over $7 Million Under Private Stewardship Grant Program News Release(pdf) |
||||||||||||||
 |
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. News Release Learn More Funding Opportunities for Sage Grouse Conservation(pdf) |
|||||||||||||||
|
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. News Release Whooper Facts Video Footage |
 |
|||||||||||||||
|
Whooping Crane, credit Ryan Hagerty/USFWS |
||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||
Come See the Fall Migration of Snow Geese at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge |
||||||||||||||||
 |
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. Learn More Video Feature |
|||||||||||||||
|
Conserving
the |
||||||||||||||||
|
Snow
geese, credit Jamie Richie/USFWS |
||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||
First DVD Tour of America's National Wildlife Refuges Now Available |
||||||||||||||||
|
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." |
||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
