"Jamie Clark is an experienced career professional who has been involved on a daily basis with many of the major wildlife issues facing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She knows the Service well and will bring to the job energy, commitment, and an understanding of the Service and its major constituents. I am very pleased that the President has made Jamie his choice for Director."
Clark has served as the Services Assistant Director for Ecological Services since 1994. In this position she has been responsible for implementation of the Endangered Species Act nationwide and has overseen habitat restoration programs, wetlands protection, contaminants damage restoration programs, and other Service initiatives involving environmental protection. During her career with the Service, she has served as chief of the Division of Endangered Species and as Deputy Assistant Regional Director in the Southwest Region and as senior staff biologist. Before joining the Fish and Wildlife Service eight years ago, she served as Fish and Wildlife Administrator for the Department of the Army from 1988-89, and Natural/Cultural Resources Coordinator for the National Guard Bureau from 1984-88. She has also worked as a research biologist for the Army Medical Research Institute and a wildlife biologist for the National Institute for Urban Wildlife.
Clark received a Bachelor of Sciences in Wildlife Biology from Towson State University and a Master of Sciences in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Maryland. She and her husband, Jim, currently reside in Leesburg, Virginia.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency with responsibility for conserving, protecting, and enhancing fish and wildlife and their habitats. The Service manages 511 national wildlife refuges covering 92 million acres as well as 65 national fish hatcheries.
The agency also enforces Federal wildlife laws, manages migratory bird populations, stocks recreational fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat, administers the Endangered Species Act, and assists foreign governments in their conservation efforts. The Service oversees the Federal Aid program that funnels Federal excise taxes on angling and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies for fish and wildlife restoration programs.
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