Welcome
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has drafted a Compatibility
Determination (CD), consistent with provisions of the NWRS
Administration Act, as amended, for the monitoring and control
of clearwing grasshoppers within refuge boundaries. Treatments
on the refuge would be necessary to control outbreaks of grasshoppers
that would pose a potential threat to adjacent private lands.
The Service is adopting the APHIS Environmental Assessment for
satisfying National Environmental Policy Act requirements associated
with monitoring and treatments that would be conducted on refuge
lands. The comment period for the CD is February 10 through March
12, 2010. The draft CD and APHIS EA may be viewed at the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge website (www.fws.gov/malheur). Comments
can be sent to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 36391 Sodhouse
Lane, Princeton, OR 97721. Comments may also be submitted via
email to Jess_Wenick@fws.gov. For more information, call the Refuge
at (541) 493-2612.
The refuge will be
sponsoring a workshop about invasive carp at Malheur Refuge from
March 23-25, 2010 in Burns, Oregon. See the workshop
announcement for more details about this informative event.
The agenda
for the workshop and a registration
form are available for download from this site.
Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge was established on August 18, 1908 by President Theodore
Roosevelt as the Lake Malheur Bird Reservation. Roosevelt set aside
unclaimed lands encompassed by Malheur, Mud and Harney Lakes “as
a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.” The newly established
“Lake Malheur Bird Reservation” was the 19th of 51 wildlife refuges
created by Roosevelt during his tenure as president. At the time,
Malheur was the third refuge in Oregon and one of only six refuges
west of the Mississippi.
The Refuge
is located 30 miles south of Burns, Oregon in the southeast corner
of the state. The Refuge is open from dawn until dusk each day.
The Visitor Center at Refuge Headquarters is open during the winter
Monday through Thursday from 8:00 to 4:00. The Refuge Museum, located
at Headquarters, is open from dawn until dusk each day.
Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
36391
Sodhouse Lane
Princeton,
Oregon 97721
(541)
493-2612
