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While social distancing, get closer to nature
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People depend on the land as much as the land depends on them. Meet modern-day stewards
working with nature to make a home for people and wildlife.
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Restoring our rivers improves wildlife habitat, increases recreational opportunities and helps protect communities. Credit: Ryan Hagerty/USFWS
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Building a stronger coast after Hurricane Sandy
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A bat with White-nose Syndrome Photo: USFWS

Service Announces Winner of National Prize Challenge to Defeat Bat-Killing Fungus


November 10, 2020 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has pronounced a team of six researchers from Oregon State University and the University of California, Santa Cruz as the winners of a national prize challenge to combat white-nose syndrome (WNS), a lethal wildlife disease that has killed millions of bats in North America and pushed some native bat species to the brink of extinction.


News Release


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Adult saltmarsh sparrow perched in shrubs at the edge of the marsh. Photo by Peter Paton.

One person's trash is another person's treasure


How dredged sediments can help rebuild drowning coastal marshes.


Story


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2021-2022 Federal Duck Stamp, featuring a single lesser scaup drake painted by Delaware artist Richard Clifton. Credit: © USFWS

Delaware Artist Richard Clifton Wins 2020 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest


After two days of competition, Richard Clifton of Milford, Delaware, emerged as the winner of the 2020 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with his painting of a single lesser scaup drake. The announcement was made via live stream at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia. Clifton’s acrylic painting will be made into the 2021-2022 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, or Duck Stamp. Since 1934, sales of this stamp have raised more than $1 billion to protect over six million acres of wetlands habitat on national wildlife refuges around the nation.


News release

2020 Federal Duck Stamp Contest Entries

Learn more about the Duck Stamp


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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Matt Whitbeck. Credit: Steve Droter

Wetland Warrior: Service biologist Matt Whitbeck honored for leadership in climate adaptation


Matthew Whitbeck, supervisory wildlife biologist for the Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refuge Complex, is the recipient of a 2020 Climate Adaptation Leadership Award for Natural Resources, given by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. He was honored at the organization’s annual meeting, held virtually on September 9.


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Award nomination video


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