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1999 NEWS RELEASES
December 14, 1999
Reforestation Partnership with
Illinova Corporation Will Bring 50 Million Trees to the Lower Mississippi
River Valley
December 8, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Selects North Carolina Native to Head Field Office in Raleigh
December 3, 1999
Theodore Roosevelt IV to Talk on
Restoring the Lower Mississippi
December 3, 1999
Theodore Roosevelt IV to "Collar"
Bear
November 30, 1999
Killing of Threatened Eastern Indigo
Snake Highlights Need for Endangered Species Education
November 24, 1999
U.S. Marines To Help Babbitt Blow Up Dam
November 18, 1999
Revision of Critical Habitat for
Endangered Beach Mouse Subspecies May Be Warranted, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service Finds
November 17, 1999
North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty
to Trafficking Venus Flytraps
November 17, 1999
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Selects New Manager for Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge
November 4, 1999
Sea Turtles Tagged with Satellite
Transmitters
November 3, 1999
Fish Experts Develop Strategies
to Slow Decline of Southeastern Imperiled Fish Populations
October 22, 1999
Decline in Southeastern Fish Populations
is Subject of Public/Private Workshop
October 19, 1999
Notice of Availability of a Technical/Agency
Draft Recovery Plan for Seven Freshwater Mussels
October 14, 1999
Cabo Rojo Salt Flats Become Part
of National Wildlife Refuge
October 8, 1999
Celebrate Wildlife During National
Wildlife Refuge Week October 10-16, 1999
October 7, 1999
Open House for the Ten Thousand
Islands National Wildlife Refuge Plan
September 30, 1999
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Awards Three Arkansas Employees
September 16, 1999
Fish and Wildlife Service Seeks
Comments on Proposed Refuge Use Policy "Compatibility Determinations"
to Involve Public
September 9, 1999
Public Invited to Sept 13, Nashville
Meeting on Proposal to Delist Bald Eagle
September 8, 1999
Manatees' Future Heating
Up - Power Companies, Manatee Researchers, and Environmental Managers
Meet to Discuss Manatee Winter Habitat
September 2, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Appoints New Georgia Field Supervisor
September 2, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Selects New Manager for National Key Deer Refuge
August 20, 1999
The Peregrine Falcon is Back! Babbitt
Announces Removal of World's Fastest Bird From Endangered Species List
August 20, 1999
Media Advisory
Babbitt: Birds Bounce Back From Brink
Interior Secretary To Mark Endangered Species Act ‘Trifecta'
Trend with possible final delisting of Peregrine Falcon, just weeks after
proposals to delist Aleutian Canada Goose and Bald Eagle
August 19, 1999
Draft Revised Recovery Plan for
Heller's Blazing Star (Liatris Helleri) Porter Available for Review
August 19, 1999
Manatees to be Released on August
19
August 17, 1999
Service Proposes to List Golden
Sedge as Endangered Species
August 16, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Loses Great Patriot and Conservationist, Tom Atkeson
August 8, 1999
Restored Wetlands Will Be Returned
to Pinellas County as Part of Settlement for Tampa Bay Oil Spill
July 28, 1999
Hunting and Fishing Opportunities
Abound on National Wildlife Refuges in Louisiana
July 16, 1999
A Record 5300 Acres Reforested
in Mississippi Delta Near Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge
July 2, 1999
The Bald Eagle is Back! President
Clinton Announce proposal to Remove our National Symbol from Endangered
Species List
June 30, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Appoints New Project Leader for St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge
June 24, 1999
Questions and Answers
Proposed Listing of the Alabama Sturgeon
June 24, 1999
Statement from Mitch King, Geographic
Assistant Regional Director
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Atlanta
June 24, 1999
Statement from Paul Hartfield,
Endangered Species Biologist
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Atlanta
June 23, 1999
Statement from Sam Hamilton, Regional
Director
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Atlanta
June 22, 1999
Public Invited to hearing on Proposed
Listing of Alabama Sturgeon
June 7, 1999
Major Environmental Contamination
Case Concludes
June 4, 1999
Changes in Baiting Regulations
Support Wetlands Management
May 28, 1999
Private/Public Partners Gather
in Atlanta to Address Decline in Reptiles and Amphibians
May 28, 1999
16 Mussels and a Snail will be
Reintroduced in Joint State and Federal Effort to Restore Mussel Shoals
May 24, 1999
Chattahoochee Forest National
Fish Hatchery to Host Youth, Senior Fishing Events
May 20, 1999
Expansion Proposed for
Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge
May 20, 1999
Efforts to Rescue Manatee
Thwarted Again
May 17, 1999
Cindy Dohner Named Program
Assistant Regional Director for Fish & Wildlife Service's Ecological
Services
May 19, 1999
Manatee Protection Efforts
Intensified Throughout Florida
May 13, 1999
Former Fish and Wildlife
Service Biologist Inducted Into National Fish Culture Hall of Fame
May 13, 1999
Georgia Private Landowners
Awarded Grants of $130,000 to Fund Habitat Restoration Across the State
May 12, 1999
Public Invited to Pond
Creek National Wildlife Refuge Plan Discussion
May 7, 1999
Site of
U.S. Open a Hole-in-One for the Endangered Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
April 30, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Special Agent Honored by U.S. Department of Justice
April 30, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Honors Science Students
April 28, 1999
U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service is Helping to Reforest the Delta With More Than Half
a Million Seedlings to Restore Wetlands
April 27, 1999
New Project Leader for
Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge
April 1, 1999
Flatwoods Salamander Receives
Endangered Species Act Protection
April 1, 1999
Georgia's Coastal Islands
Provide Winter Habitat for Great Lakes' Most Endangerd Bird - Piping Plovers
March 23, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Proposes Endangered Status for Alabama Sturgeon
March 22, 1999
Fish and Wildlife Service
Completes Plan to Expand Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
March 17, 1999
Rare Caribbean Plant is
Added to Federal List of Endangered Species
March 14, 1999
America's First Refuge,
pelican island, Celebrates 96th Anniversary; Acquires Additional 38 Acres
of Land
March 10, 1999
Retired Florida Refuge
Manager Receives Distinguished Service Award from President Clinton, Secretary
Babbitt
March 1, 1999
New Project Leader for
Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
February 21, 1999
Organochlorines are preliminary
cause of death in birds and fish near Lake Apopka, Florida
February 19, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Withdraws From Savannah Harbor Deepening Stakeholder Group
February 18, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Approves International paper's Red-cockaded Woodpecker habitat
Conservation Plan
February 11, 1999
Two National Wildlife
Refuges Receive $150,000 Reforestation Grant
February 11, 1999
International Paper to
Enhance Red-cockaded Woodpecker Habitat with Innovative Conservation Plan
February 9, 1999
U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Investigating Wildlife Deaths at Lake Apopka, Florida
January 19, 1999
New Manager Appointed to Head North
Carolina's Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge
January 19, 1999
Right-of-Way Permit for
Natural Gas Pipeline to Cross Wheeler Refuge Approved
January 14, 1999
The Nature Conservancy
of Louisiana Completes it's Largest Financial Acquisition of an Important
Conservation Area with the Purchase of 4,750 Acres from Plum Creek Timber
Company
January 11, 1999
Federal Court Upholds
Federal Authority to Regulate "Taking" of Red Wolves
January 11, 1999
$1 Million Settlement
by U.S. Fish & Wildlife at Vertac Superfund Site Net Monies to Restore
Arkansas Resources
January 11, 1999
Manatee Law Enforcement
January 11, 1999
USFWS Law Enforcement
Agents Conduct Weapons Requalification at the Piedmont National Wildlife
Refuge
January 5, 1999
Expansion Proposed for
Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge
January 5, 1999
Fish and Wildlife Service
Moves to Establish Lake Houma Unit in Southern Louisiana
January 4, 1999
Legal Agreement will Prevent
Flooding of Endangered Florida Grasshopper Sparrow Habitat
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