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• Home of FWS is Home to NCTC Eagles

  
  
  The home of the Fish and Wildlife Service is also home to a pair of American bald eagles who return to NCTC each year to nest. The season’s first egg appeared on February 5th.
  
  -- published -- February, 10 2011
  -- photo credit -- Robert Owens/USFWS
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• 140 Years of Fisheries Work Continues at NCTC

  
  
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service traces its lineage back to February 9, 1871 when the precursor to today’s Federal fisheries program was established.
  
  -- published -- February, 9 2011
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• Monthly Consults Keep NCTC Training Sharp

  
  
  NCTC trains the students, but who trains the trainers? Instruction at the National Conservation Training Center is enhanced by a “community of interested practitioners” made up of NCTC staff.
  
  -- published -- February, 2 2011
  -- photo credit -- Dave Medaris/USFWS
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• NCTC Graphics Chief, the “Mzungu in Mugumu,” Returns from Africa

  
  
  A first timer’s encounters in the wilds of rural Tanzania, Africa, have been chronicled in an impressionistic and humorous account by NCTC’s graphic design chief: "The Mzungu in Mugumu."
  
  -- published -- January, 28 2011
  -- photo credit -- Richard DeVries/USFWS
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• “Big Stink” Raised at NCTC; Public “Airing” Scheduled for February 9

  
  
  The brown marmorated stink bug, an uninvited visitor from Asia, will be the focus of a public lecture by Dr. Tracy Leskey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on February 9th.
  
  -- published -- January, 26 2011
  -- photo credit -- U.S. Department of Agriculture
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• NCTC and National Park Service Mourn Friend and Colleague David Larsen

  
  
  David Larsen, a gifted interpreter with the National Park Service and inspiration to many throughout the Department of the Interior, died on January 17 at the age of 50.
  
  -- published -- January, 24 2011
  -- photo credit -- Mike Watson/National Park Service
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• Arctic’s Many Values Explored at NCTC Conference

  
  
  The biological richness of the Arctic was the theme for the third and final day of the National Conservation Training Center’s 50th anniversary commemoration for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
  
  -- published -- January, 22 2011
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• President Carter, Attendees Laud Arctic in Wintery Shepherdstown

  
  
  Former President Jimmy Carter celebrated the 50th anniversary of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during the first of a 3-day symposium at the National Conservation Training Center on Tuesday.
  
  -- published -- January, 18 2011
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• Climate Assessment Tool Precedes New NCTC Training

  
  
  A new assessment tool is available to help determine how global climate change will affect fish, wildlife, and plants.
  
  -- published -- January, 17 2011
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• Youth/Nature Film to Premiere at NCTC in Spring

  
  Robert Owens
  How to get the increasingly “plugged in” generation of young people electrified by nature and the out-of-doors gets a cinematic exploration with the premiere of a new film by an NCTC colleague.
  
  -- published -- January, 12 2011
  -- photo credit -- David Cooper
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• Gulf Oil Spill Responders Recognized at NCTC

  
  
  Shepherdstown-area employees of the National Conservation Training Center who served during the Gulf oil spill disaster in 2010 were recognized this week in a ceremony of appreciation at NCTC.
  
  -- published -- January, 5 2011
  -- photo credit -- Steve Hillebrand/USFWS Retired
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• 2010 Caps a Busy Year for USFWS Youth Initiative at NCTC

  
  
  The National Conservation Training Center spearheaded the inaugural year of the Interior Department’s “Youth in the Great Outdoors” initiative in 2010.
  
  -- published -- December, 21 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• NCTC Uncovers Holiday Recipes from Conservation’s Premier Writer

  
  
  Nothing says “Season’s Greetings!” like a festive holiday platter of succulent marinated eel, delectable codfish balls, and perky “angels on horseback” (bacon-shrouded oysters on skewers).
  
  -- published -- December, 15 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• No Recession on Giving Reported at NCTC

  
  
  Federal employees at the National Conservation Training Center have committed nearly $20,000 to the Combined Federal Campaign of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
  
  -- published -- December, 13 2010
  -- photo credit -- OPM.gov
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• “State of NCTC” Address Caps Busy Year

  
  
  From the “greening” of its Shepherdstown campus to internal reorganizations, 2010 will go down in the record books as a busy year in the history of the National Conservation Training Center.
  
  -- published -- December, 9 2010
  -- photo credit -- Todd Harless
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• Issue #2 of Wildlife Journal Appears – Birds, Wetlands, Predators

  
  
  The second issue of the new online Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management debuts this week with a range of technical papers on bats, bluegill, and bobcats in diverse locations.
  
  -- published -- December, 7 2010
  -- photo credit -- Phil Westcott/USFWS
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• NCTC Makes Scarce Bull Trout Photos Available – No Bull!

  
  
  The efforts of a National Geographic photographer, Region 6’s bull trout coordinator, and USFWS’s National Digital Library have made photos of one of nature’s most highly-prized fish species available.
  
  -- published -- November, 30 2010
  -- photo credit -- Joel Sartore/National Geographic Stock with Wade Fredenberg
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• NCTC Releases Land Management Assessment for Public Comment

  
  
  The National Conservation Training Center will become more wooded, host fewer invasive plants and insects, and risk less chance of a wildfire under a proposed environmental assessment.
  
  -- published -- November, 23 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• NCTC Duo Spices Up On-Air Supervisory Training

  
  Don Tollefson/Janelle Quinn
  Regis, Kelly, and Oprah, move over! The dynamic NCTC afternoon broadcast team of Don Tollefson and Janelle Quinn just aired its sixth episode of "The Supervisory Update".
  
  -- published -- November, 17 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• NCTC Partner Carhart Center Offers Online Wilderness Session

  
  
  Among Federal lands, "wilderness" is special … requiring unique ways of managing those rare places defined by the U.S. Congress "where man is a visitor who does not remain."
  
  -- published -- November, 16 2010
  -- photo credit -- Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
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• New Scientific Literature Tools Available to Scientists

  
  
  NCTC's Conservation Library now provides all Fish and Wildlife Service employees with online access to the "Web of Knowledge" suite of online research tools.
  
  -- published -- November, 12 2010
  -- photo credit -- Jenny Peterson
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• Voters Unanimous: Conservation Film Festival a Winner

  
  
  The eighth annual American Conservation Film Festival, where the outdoor world’s best on celluloid come out to play, debuts in Shepherdstown November 4 for a 4-day local run.
  
  -- published -- November, 4 2010
  -- photo credit -- ACFF
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• Inspiration for Training Center Honored Simply at NCTC

  
  
  Dr. Robert E. Putz – known simply as "Bob" in his wide circle of colleagues and friends – was honored at the National Conservation Training Center with a pair of white rocking chairs on November 1.
  
  -- published -- November, 3 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• NCTC Open House Draws 2,000+

  
  
  Beautiful October weekend weather drew more than 2,000 visitors to the campus of the National Conservation Training Center October 23 for the facility’s 13th open house.
  
  -- published -- November, 2 2010
  -- photo credit -- Rachel Molenda/USFWS
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• Two Young Biologists Memorialized at NCTC

  
  
  Two of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's young biologists were remembered in Shepherdstown on October 28 as their names were added to the ranks of the agency's "Fallen Comrades Wall" at NCTC.
  
  -- published -- November, 1 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• Berkeley County Students "Take Note" with NCTC Support

  
  
  The fifth in a series of shipments of used vinyl notebooks left NCTC, headed to Berkeley County’s Musselman Middle School to benefit local students as NCTC continues its recycling outreach.
  
  -- published -- November, 1 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• Arctic Photos Slated for NCTC in January

  
  
  A travelling exhibition of landscape photographs of the Arctic will come to NCTC in January as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
  
  -- published -- October, 27 2010
  -- photo credit -- Jeff Jones - Copyright 2010 Jeff Jones
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• Visitors Expected to Flock to NCTC's 13th Open House

  
  
  A full range of wildlife-oriented programs and family activities under the theme "Flock to NCTC's Open House... It's for the Birds" will be offered on Saturday October 23.
  
  -- published -- October, 23 2010
  -- photo credit -- Steve Hillebrand/USFWS Retired
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• Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times Profile NCTC's Obesity Fight

  
  
  "Take up to seven days a week in the out-of-doors for extreme lassitude, excessive weight gain, and debilitative nature-deficit disorder."
  
  -- published -- October, 19 2010
  -- photo credit -- Steve Hillebrand/USFWS Retired
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• Open Season Through November for SkillSoft Courses

  
  
  Fish and Wildlife Service employees and their volunteers, contractors, and partners have until November 30 to register for access to SkillSoft's 2,400 online courses.
  
  -- published -- October, 18 2010
  -- photo credit -- Dave Medaris/USFWS
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• NCTC Graphics Chief Called to Africa

  
  
  Richard DeVries, NCTC's graphics chief, will travel to Tanzania later this month as a consultant to that country's Ikona Wildlife Management Area.
  
  -- published -- October, 18 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• "Shocking" Course Posted Online by NCTC

  
  
  Biologists are buzzing about the addition of a popular new course to NCTC's growing repertoire of online training sessions that extend the reach of the Shepherdstown-based training campus.
  
  -- published -- October, 18 2010
  -- photo credit -- Electrofishing
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• Conservation Leaders Gather at NCTC to Address Climate Change

  
  
  The Conservation Leadership Forum again brought more than 50 Federal, state, academic, and non-profit sector experts together at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC).
  
  -- published -- October, 8 2010
  -- photo credit -- Todd Harless
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• Paving to Cause Temporary NCTC Road Closings

  
  
  Repaving of the primary roads into and through the NCTC campus will cause some temporary road closures on the training center campus in October and November.
  
  -- published -- October, 6 2010
  -- photo credit -- Greg McCleaf/USFWS
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• NCTC Netting Course Sounds Like "A Blast"

  
  
  The temporary sounds of cannon and rocket blasts on the NCTC campus this week signified one of the training center's most explosive courses of the year.
  
  -- published -- September, 29 2010
  -- photo credit -- Cara Schildtknecht
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• Fish and Wildlife Named Top Training Agency Among 12 Interior Bureaus

  
  
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scored first of all 12 Department of the Interior bureaus in the caliber of its training and development programs, according to the 2010 "Best Places to Work in the Federal Government" poll of government employees.
  
  -- published -- September, 20 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• NCTC Assists Byrd Center on Senator's Papers

  
  
  The mammoth task of organizing and chronicling the public papers of Senator Robert Byrd got a temporary assist this month from the National Conservation Training Center.
  
  -- published -- September, 20 2010
  -- photo credit -- Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Shepherd University
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• NCTC Unveils New Online Oil Spill Training

  
  
  The Gulf of Mexico well that caused the Nation's worst oil spill is capped and the number of Fish and Wildlife Service personnel deployed is winding down.
  
  -- published -- September, 16 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• NCTC Reminds Employees About "Sense of Wonder" Recognition

  
  Rachel Carson
  Fish and Wildlife Service employees who have created visionary programs to acquaint the public with stewardship of natural resources are eligible for nomination for this year's "The Sense of Wonder" recognition program.
  
  -- published -- August, 30 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• "Drop-Ins" (Not "Drop-Outs") Invited to NCTC Web Seminars

  
  
  Can't make it to Shepherdstown for a class at the National Conservation Training Center? Agency employees and members of the public are invited to "drop in" for a growing roster of Web-based seminars called "Webinars" that will bring you the latest thinking on some of the Nation's most cutting-edge conservation issues today.
  
  -- published -- August, 29 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• Recovery Act Dollars Kicking in at NCTC

  
  
  The appearance of a sign in August on Shepherd Grade Road at the entrance to the National Conservation Training Center signifies that eight energy efficiency projects are kicking in locally under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
  
  -- published -- August, 28 2010
  -- photo credit -- Jenny Peterson
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• Web-Based Learning Course Marks 10 Years of Continued Success

  
  Joette Borzik
  An online tutorial program developed by the National Conservation Training Center a decade ago has proven so successful that Federal and state agencies are still asking for it, foreshadowing NCTC's current move into increased use of broadcast and computer-based delivery of courses.
  
  -- published -- August, 27 2010
  -- photo credit -- Jenny Peterson
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• Mowing Policy Brings More Birds to NCTC Campus

  
  
  The appearance of a flock of more than 100 American goldfinches last week underscores the hope that the training center's recent cutback in mowing may be benefiting migratory songbirds that pass through the 532-acre campus.
  
  -- published -- August, 26 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty
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• NCTC Calls for More Theses, Dissertations in "Paper Chase"

  
  
  An effort by NCTC and the Fish and Wildlife Service's heritage committee has yielded more than 200 works of scholarship in the past 3 years, but archivists are calling for more contributions to NCTC's research repository.
  
  -- published -- August, 25 2010
  -- photo credit -- Andy White
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• NCTC Assists at Scouting Jamboree, 100th Anniversary of Gathering

  
  
  Continuing its support of efforts to connect young people with nature, staff from the National Conservation Training Center joined other volunteers from around the Fish and Wildlife Service as 45,000 Boy Scouts convened at the National Scout Jamboree during the 100th anniversary of scouting in America.
  
  -- published -- August, 18 2010
  -- photo credit -- Blaine Eckberg/USFWS
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• New Chiefs – Both Avid Mountain Climbers -- Appointed in Two NCTC Divisions

  
  Steve Chase/Chris Horsch
  The education outreach and production divisions of the National Conservation Training Center receive new chiefs this month, both of them avid outdoorsmen.
  
  -- published -- August, 17 2010
  -- photo credit -- Aimee Chase (left) / Kevin Sloan/USFWS (right)
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• Deer Hunt to Resume at NCTC in October

  
  
  An expanded package of deer hunting opportunities will be offered to the public again this fall on the grounds of the National Conservation Training Center, according to NCTC land manager Phil Pannill.
  
  -- published -- July, 26 2010
  -- photo credit -- Steve Hillebrand/USFWS Retired
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• Rare Art Donated to Service Archive at NCTC

  
  
  A collection of more than 3,000 pieces of wildlife art from some of the most noted artists of the 20th Century has been donated to the agency's historical archive at NCTC.
  
  -- published -- July, 23 2010
  -- photo credit -- Rachel Molenda/USFWS
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• Three NCTCers Returning, Others Departing for Gulf Oil Spill

  
  
  Employees from the National Conservation Training Center in West Virginia continue to rotate to two satellite training sites for service during the Gulf oil spill.
  
  -- published -- July, 14 2010
  -- photo credit -- Chris Horsch
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• Student Congress Ends on Creative Note

  
  
  Concluding a week in which 100 of the Nation's top high school and rising college students heard from several top environmental thinkers, teams of young people illustrate what they learned at the second annual Student Climate and Conservation Congress at the National Conservation Training Center last week.
  
  -- published -- July, 12 2010
  -- photo credit -- Todd Harless
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• Conservation Futurists Challenge Young Thinkers at NCTC Gathering

  
  Dr. Mitch Joachim
  While debates about global climate change continue, the conversation has moved far into the future among 100 of the top high school students attending the second annual Student Climate and Conservation Congress, most of whom agree that the reality of climate change will force drastic shifts in how we live.
  
  -- published -- July, 8 2010
  -- photo credit -- Cara Schildtknecht
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• Oceanographer Sylvia Earle Tells Students "Jump Into Your Dreams"

  
  Dr. Sylvia Earle
  For the past 100 years, the ocean has faced many threats: litter, toxic waste, rising sea levels, and, most recently, oil ... again.
  
  -- published -- July, 8 2010
  -- photo credit -- Cara Schildtknecht
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• NCTC Bids Adieu to Morgan City, Moves Closer to Oil Spill

  
  
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's first training and deployment center during the Gulf oil spill is moving even closer to the center of activity after a month when Louisiana's Morgan City High School served as a temporary base for wildlife response trainers from the National Conservation Training Center.
  
  -- published -- July, 6 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• Byrd Legacy Remembered at NCTC

  
  
  Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning at the entrance to the National Conservation Training Center in remembrance of West Virginia Senator Robert C. Byrd, patron of the Shepherdstown environmental facility, who died today at age 92.
  
  -- published -- June, 28 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• Alaska Law Enforcement Work Depicted by NCTC Artist

  
  
  The varied law enforcement duties of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the 1.6-million square miles of Alaska have been depicted by an NCTC artist in a new oil painting that will be used for a new wall-sized, color poster in that state.
  
  -- published -- June, 24 2010
  -- photo credit -- Rachel Molenda
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• NCTC Eagles Score Six Awards in National Judging

  
  Robert Owens
  A film documenting the life and nesting of American bald eagles on the campus of the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown has earned six awards in a national judging program for video productions.
  
  -- published -- June, 24 2010
  -- photo credit -- Todd Harless/USFWS
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• NCTC Deploys to Gulf, Creates Training Centers in Two Oil-Hit States

  
  
  The National Conservation Training Center temporarily has established mini-training centers in Louisiana and Alabama to handle the influx of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees and our partners from around the Nation who are expected to continue arriving in the region in response to the continuing Gulf oil spill.
  
  -- published -- June, 24 2010
  -- photo credit -- Greg Thompson/USFWS
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• Pair of Scientific Publications Launched with NCTC Help

  
  
  Two online scientific publications -- one brand-new, the other whose genesis stretches back to the Benjamin Harrison administration in the late 1800s -- premiere this week after a boost by NCTC's Conservation Library and its chief librarian, Anne Post Roy.
  
  -- published -- June, 21 2010
  -- photo credit -- Phil Westcott/USFWS
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• NCTC Videographers, Four Presidents Collaborate on South Dakota Shoot

  
  
  Two local videographers traversed South Dakota's lofty Mount Rushmore in a unique experiment to produce a three-dimensional laser scan recording of the colossal images of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt.
  
  -- published -- June, 7 2010
  -- photo credit -- David Cooper/USFWS
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• NCTC Earns "Green Seal" Certification

  
  
  Green Seal, a national, non-profit certifier of products and institutions that meet standards of environmental responsibility has given the National Conservation Training Center its certification that the Shepherdstown facility meets its environmental standards for lodging properties.
  
  -- published -- June, 7 2010
  -- photo credit -- Green Seal
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• Service Historian Madison to Introduce E.O. Wilson in Pittsburgh

  
  E. O. Wilson
  World-renowned entomologist and biological theorist Dr. E.O. Wilson will be introduced to the academic and conservation community of Pittsburgh by Fish and Wildlife Service historian Dr. Mark Madison, as the Rachel Carson Homestead celebrates United Nations World Environment Day on May 27.
  
  -- published -- May, 25 2010
  -- photo credit -- Courtesy W.W. Norton & Company
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• Rare Roosevelt Footage Opens Century-old Window on Vulnerable Gulf Refuges

  
  
  The national wildlife refuge at "ground zero" in the continuing Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been considered so vital to colonial nesting birds that a former U.S. president sailed and landed there for a personal, first-hand inspection in 1915.
  
  -- published -- May, 24 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• "Best and Brightest" Return to NCTC for Youth Congress in June

  
  
  Over 100 of the top student environmental leaders from around the Nation will gather again at NCTC June 26-July 1 for the second Student Climate and Conservation Congress.
  
  -- published -- May, 24 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• NCTC Hosts Awards for Area Federal Employees

  
  EPFEA Presenter Mike Causey
  The Eastern Panhandle Federal Executive Association recognized employees from 22 Federal agencies in the region who have made outstanding contributions to the workplace and the community when it held its 2010 distinguished service awards program at the National Conservation Training Center on May 19.
  
  -- published -- May, 20 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• NCTC Readers "Skype" with Boston Author, Panda Chronicler

  
  
  A Shepherdstown book discussion group used "Skype" video conferencing technology to talk to the Boston author of a recent conservation history of the first capture of China's giant panda, courtesy of the National Conservation Training Center's conservation library.
  
  -- published -- May, 20 2010
  -- photo credit -- Anne Roy/USFWS
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• Distance Learning Branch Created to Bolster NCTC's Electronic Training

  
  
  With a goal of delivering several hundred training classes, seminars, and self-paced education by electronic means, the National Conservation Training Center has formed an expanded and higher-profile distance learning and knowledge management branch to complement its traditional classroom-based training program.
  
  -- published -- May, 18 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• NCTC "Hits the Rails" in Search of Train Memorabilia

  
  
  Whether any vestiges of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's railroading past remain to be discovered is a question that has perplexed agency historians and archivists for decades.
  
  -- published -- May, 13 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• NCTC Begins LEED Certification Year

  
  
  A 1-year process to measure and reduce the National Conservation Training Center's environmental impact began May 1 as part of the facility's effort to become certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" standards.
  
  -- published -- May, 13 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• NCTC Adopts New Logo

  
  
  The National Conservation Training Center has a new look! A representational logo for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Shepherdstown training facility has been created to bring a unified, consist image for NCTC.
  
  -- published -- May, 3 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• NCTC Hits the Road, Uses Montana Case for Video Teaching

  
  
  One of the most progressive efforts in the country to provide habitat linkage and safe passage for wildlife across highways drew the photographic interest of the National Conservation Training Center to the wilds of western Montana in April.
  
  -- published -- April, 30 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• Donna Brewer To Become NCTC's Climate Change Coordinator

  
  Donna Brewer
  Donna Brewer, curriculum manager for conservation policy and planning at the National Conservation Training Center, will become NCTC's new climate change coordinator on May 8.
  
  -- published -- April, 29 2010
  -- photo credit -- Jenny Peterson
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• Lone Eagle Expected to Fledge in Late June

  
  
  The single eagle chick produced by the pair of nesting American bald eagles on the campus of the National Conservation Training Center is expected to fly from the nest by late June.
  
  -- published -- April, 26 2010
  -- photo credit -- Bald Eagle
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• PollinatorLIVE Electronic Field Trip Set for May 12

  
  
  A series of live, interactive Webcasts exploring the role of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in producing the food that we eat and the health of our flowering plants will be offered May 12.
  
  -- published -- April, 21 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• Carcass Digester Demonstrated at NCTC Science Lab

  
  
  What to do with that manatee or whale carcass stranded on a beach? Don't toss it out -- go green, by recycling it with a mechanical biodigester!
  
  -- published -- April, 21 2010
  -- photo credit -- Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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• NCTC Patron Jessie Hendrix Honored with Oil Painting

  
  Jessie Hendrix
  The woman whose search for a higher and better use for her Jefferson County, West Virginia, farm will be honored in April with the hanging of an oil painting in her memory.
  
  -- published -- March, 23 2010
  -- photo credit -- Gregory R. Staley
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• Local Admin Professionals to Gather at NCTC April 21

  
  
  They're the people who make conservation and public service succeed, because they're the people who handle the details. And nearly 200 administrative professionals from the local commuting area.
  
  -- published -- March, 22 2010
  -- photo credit -- Steve Hillebrand/USFWS Retired
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• Campus Exhibit to Focus on Children, Literature through History

  
  
  The role that literature has played in acquainting children with their environment, from the Victorian era through the iPod generation, will be the focus of a new exhibit staged by the National Conservation Training Center's Conservation Library.
  
  -- published -- March, 22 2010
  -- photo credit -- Steve Hillebrand/USFWS
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• NCTC Lottery to Select 12 Youths for Summer Jobs

  
  
  A dozen enterprising young people will get the chance to work at the Nation's foremost center for conservation education this summer as NCTC invites applications from 15- to 18-year-olds to join the Youth Conservation Corps.
  
  -- published -- March, 5 2010
  -- photo credit -- NCTC Youth Conservation Corps
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• First Three Eagle Eggs Apparently Fail in Snow; Another Egg Suspected

  
  
  Three bald eagle eggs in the nest on the campus of the National Conservation Training Center apparently failed this winter, caused by two back-to-back snowfalls that left record, 40-inch deposits of snow in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.
  
  -- published -- March, 4 2010
  -- photo credit -- Eagle's Nest Covered with Snow
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• Winter's Effects to be Felt at NCTC Until June

  
  
  Repair work in NCTC's entry building (behind the registration desk) from damage caused by a burst water line in January will begin this spring, but won't be finished until June.
  
  -- published -- March, 4 2010
  -- photo credit -- Todd Harless
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• Winter Impressions Captured by Volunteer Photographer

  
  
  NCTC volunteer photographer Dr. Alvin Freund, a retired pediatrician who practiced in Miami but who now lives in Shepherdstown, has been wandering the NCTC campus the past few weeks in the midst of two record snowstorms.
  
  -- published -- March, 1 2010
  -- photo credit -- Dr. Alvin Freund/USFWS Volunteer
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• NCTC Mourns Death of Fish and Wildlife Service Director Sam Hamilton

  
  Sam Hamilton
  The death of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Sam Hamilton on February 20 in Colorado is being mourned in Shepherdstown at the National Conservation Training Center, where Hamilton was a frequent visitor and speaker at training classes and national workshops.
  
  -- published -- February, 22 2010
  -- photo credit -- USFWS
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• NCTC Eagles Featured in State Magazine

  
  
  NCTC's nesting pair of American bald eagles is featured in the March 2010 issue of "Wonderful West Virginia," the Mountain State's monthly color magazine.
  
  -- published -- February, 18 2010
  -- photo credit -- Wonderful West Virginia Magazine
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