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Hackensack Meadowlands birds. Photo credit Gene Nieminen / USFWS
The Hackensack Meadowlands
and the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Meadowlands View. A wetlands in the Hackensack Meadowlands. Photograph by Gene Nieminen

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Meadowlands View Meadowlands View. A wetlands in the Hackensack Meadowlands. Photograph by Gene Nieminen
Impacts of Climate Change
A Power Point Presentation
USGS climate Change Northeast USA. Click on image to link to the US Fish and Wildlife Services FTP download site

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Impacts of Climate Change
on Hydrologic Regimes:
Implications for the
Northeastern U.S.

Program Directory at the
New Jersey Field Office

Endangered Species

Environmental Contaminants

Federal Activities / Projects
Partners for Fish and Wildlife

Bring Back the Natives

Coastal Program

Outreach

The Nature of Learning
 

Migratory Bird FAct Sheet, click to download the PDF, image of the Fact Sheet
Fact sheet on ways to help migratory birds

Web Links:
Your New Jersey community can help migratory birds - web page with actions you can take

 
Hunting Fact Sheet in Atlantic County, New jersey and state of New Jersey, 172KB PDF download
Information on
Hunting License,
License Agents, &
Duck Hunting In
Atlantic County, NJ
172KB PDF
Hunting and Fishing Licenses in New Jersey
 
  • Sightings of Wildlife
  • Injured Wildlife
  • Sick Wildlife
  • Dead Wildlife
 


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Link to PDF 1MB, COMMUNICATION TOWER AND ANTENNA CONSULTATION IN NEW JERSEY, Image of towers Gene Nieminen USFWS

 
 
 

 

 
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Friday May 2, 2008
 

Partners for Fish and Wildlife
"Partnership Project with NJ Audubon and Verizon "
Wins Governor's Excellence Award
 

Poster, click for PDF of poster

Poster ...687KB PDF:

On November 29, 2007, Verizon received the Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for a project they have pursued in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's New Jersey Field Office’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife program and the New Jersey Audubon Society. The Verizon Center, located a mile upstream of the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, is restoring 18 acres of uplands and 7 acres of  riparian habitat. Verizon has also publicized the merits of voluntary corporate land stewardship.

Verizon news release...
... .click to be redirected
Ducks Unlimited in
New Jersey
Names Eric Schrading Conservationist
of the Year for 2007
Ducks Unlimited in New Jersey named Eric Schrading the 2007 New Jersey Conservationist of the Year. article...324KB PDF..
duck unlimited heading from newsletter naming eric schrading conservationist of the year in new jersey
Help Make a Home for New Jersey's Fish and Wildlfe
An Article by Brian Marsh
NJ Municipalities Magazine link to article
The NJFO’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife program recently wrote an article for the New Jersey League of Municipalities Magazine. The article highlights how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can interact with municipalities across the State that want to create wildlife habitat. Many of the 6,500 acres of wetlands, 3,000 miles of grasslands and other uplands, and 50 miles of riparian and in-stream habitat the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program has restored since it’s New Jersey inception in 1991 have come from partnerships with municipalities. article...916KB PDF.
 
Environmental Education in America
Connecting People with Nature
Issue XIV of Field Notes provides articles and information
on a top priority of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
click here for the page to the
5MB web version
and the
Individual print version pages
Link to the page witht table of contents to downlad individual print qualty pages of the Environmental Education print quality, high quality PDfs of individual pages, image of cover, photo Art Webster USFWS
... download the 5MB web version ... Individual print quality PDFs
   
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Eric Davis Becomes the
New Jersey Field Office’s
New Supervisor
Eric Davis and staff at the New Jersey Field Office, photo Gene Nieminen USFWS
 
Eric Davis (black shirt) with some of the Field Office staff.
Photo: Gene Nieminen / USFWS
 

The New Jersey Field Office has a new Supervisor: Eric Davis took over the responsibilities of the position on September 17, 2007. He comes to us from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Virginia Field Office, where he was an Assistant Supervisor overseeing Endangered Species and Federal Activities. Since the retirement of Clifford G. Day in early March, the Field Office’s three Assistant Supervisors, John Staples, Timothy Kubiak, and Eric Schrading, have taken turns serving as Acting Supervisor, as well as Eric
and Diane Lynch from the Regional Office.
 
Eric was born and raised in Greensboro, NC and graduated with a BA in Biology from Duke University. Following an active duty tour as a Lieutenant in the Marine Corps, he graduated with an MS in Biology from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His thesis involved work on Schweinitz’s sunflower, a federally endangered species, and restoring the Piedmont prairie ecosystem. His first biology job was at Marine Corps Base Camp, Camp Lejeune, NC, where he worked (in civil service) on wetland permitting,
wetland mitigation banking, NEPA reviews, cultural resources, and endangered species.
 
Besides his work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Eric is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves and recently graduated from the Naval War College in Newport, RI with an MA in National Security. He is slated to assume command of 6th Motor Transportation Battalion,headquartered in Red Bank, NJ, in June 2008.

  
 
The Hackensack Meadowlands Initiative: Preliminary Conservation Planning DOCUMENT Prepared by: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide a foundation for enhancement and restoration Cover photo Gene Nieminen USFWS

The Hackensack Meadowlands Initiative:
Preliminary Conservation Planning

The Hackensack Meadowlands is the largest brackish estuarine complex in the New York – New Jersey Harbor Estuary and among the largest in the northeastern United States. The Meadowlands supports remarkable biodiversity. .... continued .....

The Hackensack Meadowlands Initiative: Preliminary Conservation Planning was prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide a foundation for enhancement and restoration of the Hackensack Meadowlands in Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey and to promote a vision for the Meadowlands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s vision includes:
(1) a more natural estuarine ecosystem with healthy fish and wildlife resources;
(2) a cleaner environment (progressive reduction in acute and chronic contaminant effects);
(3) diverse wetland and associated communities that sustain local and regional populations of native species, including federal trust fish and wildlife resources; and
(4) public commitment to and diverse social benefits from the Meadowlands. .... continued ....

The Hackensack Meadowlands Initiative:
Preliminary Conservation Planning
Prepared by:
New Jersey Field Office
March 2007
. . .click here to go to the page...

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Stories in the News at the New Jersey Field Office
As an Ecological Service’s Office, the New Jersey Field Office works to influence government and private activities that affect fish and wildlife resources. In carrying out the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s statutory obligations and mandates, the New Jersey Field Office works through a large community of conservation partnerships; we may lead, support, or act as a catalyst.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages the 100-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses 545 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resources offices, 81 ecological services field stations, 14 fish health and technology centers, 133 law enforcement offices, a National Forensics Laboratory and the National Conversation Training Center. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enforces federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign and Native American tribal governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Assistance program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
Last updated: May 2, 2008

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