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39 News Releases found

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10/27/2009: Conservation Efforts to Proceed for Northern Idaho Ground Squirrel on ...

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 Kendra Womack, (208) 685-6951

 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has entered into a Safe Harbor Agreement (SHA) for the northern Idaho ground squirrel, a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
 
In the ten-year Agreement, Hixon Properties, Incorporated committed to working with the Service to provide conservation benefi...

10/27/2009: Young Whooping Cranes Will Learn Migration Route from their Elders

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Joan Garland, 608-381-1262
Dan Peterson, 608-565-4412

Young Whooping Cranes Will Learn Migration Route from their Elders

 
Nine young whooping cranes were released October 24 on central Wisconsin’s Necedah National Wildlife Refuge.  The cranes are part of the Direct Autumn Release (DAR)...

10/26/2009: Fish and Wildlife Service Awards $800,000 in Grants to Explore Cause, ...

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Contacts: Valerie Fellows, USFWS 703/358 2285
Pamela Baker-Masson, National Zoo 202/633 3084
At an event held in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo in Washington, DC, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced 6 grant awards totaling $800,000 going toward research efforts to explore the cause and control of ...
10/26/2009: Young Whooping Cranes Will Learn Migration Route from their Elders

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Joan Garland, 608-381-1262
Dan Peterson, 608-565-4412
Tom MacKenzie, 404/679-7291, 678/296-6400, Tom_MacKenzie@fws.gov

Nine young whooping cranes were released October 24 on central Wisconsin’s Necedah National Wildlife Refuge. The cranes are part of th...

10/23/2009: Ninth Group of Endangered Whooping Cranes Depart on Ultralight-guided ...

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Joan Garland, 608-381-1262
Dan Peterson, 608-565-4412

 

 

Ninth Group of Endangered Whooping Cranes Depart on Ultralight-guided Flight to Florida
10/23/2009: New Bay-Delta Fish and Wildlife Office Opens in Sacramento

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 Steve Martarano (916) 414-6571

SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced the creation of the Bay-Delta Fish and Wildlife Office (BDFWO). The new field office will focus on conservation issues related to the increasingly vital Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. 

“We face a future of many ...
10/22/2009: Youth Conservation Corps – An Experience to Last a Lifetime
Youth Conservation Corps – An Experience to Last a Lifetime

 

A collection of youth in the Midwest found that banding geese and wading in a river collecting ...

10/22/2009: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Polar Bear Critical Habitat

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Valerie Fellows (703)358-2285
Bruce Woods (907)786-3695

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced a proposal to designate critical habitat for the polar bear, and will open a 60-day public comment period on the measure. The critical habitat proposal identifies habitat in three separate areas or units: barrier island habitat, s...

10/22/2009: Ninth Group of Endangered Whooping Cranes Depart on Ultralight-guided ...

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Joan Garland, 608-381-1262
Dan Peterson, 608-565-4412
Tom MacKenzie, 404/679-7291, 678/296-6400, Tom_MacKenzie@fws.gov

Twenty young whooping cranes have begun their ultralight-led migration from central Wisconsin’s Necedah National Wildlife Refuge (NWR)...

10/21/2009: FWS Initiates Comprehensive Conservation Plan for Two Maui Nui Nationa...

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Glynnis Nakai,  (808) 875-1582
Barbara Maxfield,  (808) 792-9531 or  (808) 753-0440 cell

 Public invited to comment until November 20, 2009

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is initiating development of a comprehensive conservation plan for Ke?lia Pond and Kakahai‘a National Wildlife Refuges that wil...

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Last updated: October 23, 2009
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