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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
Winter Wildfires Burn on Refuges
February 7, 2012
 Since Christmas Day, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fire crews have responded to more than a dozen new wildfires on national wildlife refuges in the Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, California, and along the Gulf Coast. At least one fire in each of these regions has burned on a refuge located close to homes. To head off wildfires before they strike, refuge firefighters in 20 states have ignited more than 100 controlled burns this winter. The burns are designed to thin flammable vegetation and protect wildlife habitat during drier-than-normal conditions. A wildfire still smoldering after 9 months at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge could flare up as dry conditions continue. Photo Caption: Wildfires have burned this winter on refuges in California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Credit: USFWS
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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
Wildlife Refuges Showcase Nature’s Courtship Rituals
February 7, 2012
 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s national wildlife refuges are great places to see or hear species wooing their mates in spring with noisy and colorful shows. For example, the male Attwater’s prairie chicken does a jig and makes a “booming” sound by filling orange air sacks on the sides of its neck. This spectacle is popular with visitors every March and April at the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, established to protect habitat for the critically endangered bird. Photo Caption: An endangered Attwater's prairie chicken.
Credit: George Lavendowski
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
Operation Warfighter: A Great Match for a Vet and the FWS
February 3, 2012
 Adam Conger of the Patuxent Research Refuge wasn’t working in the outdoors he loves Friday. Instead the veteran of the Iraq war was representing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior as part of an event to showcase President Obama’s Plan to Put Veterans Back to Work. Part of the President’s plan is to a Veterans Job Corps conservation program that will put up to 20,000 veterans back to work over the next five years protecting and rebuilding America. The Service has made a strong commitment to returning veterans, joining programs like Operation Warfighter, sponsored by the Department of Defense. Operation Warfighter helped Conger get where he is today, and it has been a great match. Conger says, “You do what you like to do,” and it is clear he has found something that he likes. Photo Caption: President Obama shakes hands with veteran Adam Conger of the Patuxent Research Refuge.
Credit: Tami A Heilemann / DOI
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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation:
Service Welcomes Inaugural Class of Diversity Change Agents
February 3, 2012
 As part of its commitment to diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has graduated its first Diversity Change Agent Training Class, who will serve as mentors and advocates for workforce diversity. The training seminar was first developed and instituted by the Department of the Interior in 2010 to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace through employee engagement, cultural competency initiatives, training and development, and recruitment and retention across all bureaus.
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