Midwest Region
Conserving the Nature of America

Conserving The Nature of America
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The Midwest Region is committed to expanding partnerships, offering innovative opportunities to enhance the Region, promoting healthy fish and wildlife trust species populations and habitats to support them and providing the public with quality hunting, fishing, wildlife watching, and other wildlife-dependent recreational opportunities on Service lands.

 

Regional Programs and Offices:

  • 54 National Wildlife Refuges
  • 12 Wetland Management Districts
  • More than 300,000 acres in waterfowl
    production areas
  • 6 National Fish Hatcheries
  • 6 Fishery Resources Offices
  • 2 Sea Lamprey Control Stations
  • 8 Private Lands Offices
  • 9 Ecological Services offices
  • 18 Law Enforcement offices

Midwest Highlights

Frank Stone

Frank Stone, A FWS Family Story

Frank Stone grew up surrounded by skyscrapers and pavement - a city boy born and raised in Los Angeles.  But his father had a passion for the outdoors, and would take Frank camping, hunting and fishing.

"I'm the prodigy of a family that just liked to get outside" he said. "I recall I got my first rifle for my seventh birthday - a 22-rifle single shot."

Frank accredits his interest in conservation to his family, but also to the generation he grew up with on the West coast. As a teenager in the 1960s, Frank was immersed in an unprecedented conservation movement. "It was a time when more and more kids were becoming attuned to natural resources," he said.

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Wisconsin DNR Secretary Matt Frank (left) and Midwest Regional Director Tom Melius joined staff from Horicon National Wildlife Refuge and the Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area for an airboat tour of Horicon Marsh on Monday. Oct. 19. The tour highlighted the cooperation between state and federal agencies to manage largest freshwater cattail marsh in the nation.

Wisconsin DNR Secretary Matt Frank (left) and Midwest Regional Director Tom Melius joined staff from Horicon National Wildlife Refuge and the Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area for an airboat tour of Horicon Marsh on Monday. Oct. 19. The tour highlighted the cooperation between state and federal agencies to manage largest freshwater cattail marsh in the nation.

More information at: http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Horicon/

Recent News Releases

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November 05, 2009 - Ultralight Migration Leads 20 Endangered Whooping Cranes over the Skies of Illinois

November 05, 2009 - Building A Career through Experience

November 05, 2009 - Unveiling the Stories

November 04, 2009 - Morris Wetland Management District Going Green

November 02, 2009 - Energy Company, Migrating Birds Find Common Ground in Indiana

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Disabled Hunters

Father and son, Barry and Jason Hite, are happy to be out enjoying the Rice Lake disabled deer hunt with Regional Director Tom Melius.

Photo courtesy of Walt H. Sauerbrei.

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Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar views a map of Desoto NWR as he and Visitor Services Manager Sue McDonald discuss the refuge's history and the formation of DeSoto Lake. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo)

 

  
Last updated: October 27, 2009