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.

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One person's trash is another person's treasure

How dredged sediments can help rebuild drowning coastal marshes.

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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.

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2020 Federal Duck Stamp Contest Entries

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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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