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Links to Offices and Services in Minnesota
Ecological Services Twin Cities Ecological Services Field Office 612-725-3548
Law Enforcement Duluth Law Enforcement Office 218-720-5357 Minneapolis Airport Wildlife Inspection Office 612-726-6302 St. Paul Law Enforcement Office 612-778-8360
Other Programs/Offices
Federal Aid
Migratory Bird Conservation
North American Waterfowl Management Plan
Partners for Fish and Wildlife
Realty
Region 3 - Regional Office
Regional Sign Center
Other Information
State Capital
Travel Information
2000 Minnesota State Facts
- Employment: 411 people (182 in Twin Cities Regional Office and 229 at field stations)
National Wildlife Refuge Facts
- 12 National Wildlife Refuges totaling 206,993 acres
- In 2000, more than 1.8 million people visited Refuges and Wetland Districts in Minnesota to hunt, fish, participate in interpretive programs and view wildlife
Federal Aid to State Fish and Wildlife Programs
In 2000 Minnesota received:
- $9.0 million for sport fish restoration
Wildlife Restoration Act funds supported the acquisitions of land which provide critical habitat for a wide variety of species, including the state's largest population of Blanding's turtles. Listed as a threatened species in Minnesota, the turtles attract many wildlife watchers during the summer.
Endangered Mussel Recovery
Twin Cities Office, LaCrosse Fishery Resource Office and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin, are working to conserve listed mussel species threatened by non-native zebra mussels invading the Upper Mississippi River system. Emergency efforts are reestablishing populations of the Higgins' eye pearlymussel in areas not currently infested with zebra mussels. An interagency dive team will monitor the threat of zebra mussels to the native mussels of the St. Croix River, where the only known population of the winged mapleleaf mussel occurs. Service staff are also working on methods of rearing listed mussels at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery, and are working with the Corps in designing an investigation of possible means of controlling zebra mussels.
St. Louis River Partnership
The Twin Cities Field Office began a partnership with the St. Louis River Citizens Action Committee to advance natural resource conservation in the Lower St. Louis River (Duluth-Superior Harbor) and its watershed. The committee has initiated the development of a Lower St. Louis River Habitat Plan to coordinate conservation actions that will sustain the ecological integrity and function of the estuary.
E-Mail Us! R3 External Affairs
Phone: 612/713-5360
V/TTY: 800-657-3775[To Region 3 Home Page] [To USFWS Home Page]
Great Lakes - Big River Region
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1 Federal Drive
BHW Federal Building
Fort Snelling, MN 55111