The web site ( http://ars.fws.gov ) provides informational briefs on more than a years worth of activities and accomplishments of Service field offices in eight states of the Midwest. The site is updated daily, and provides a summary of on-the-ground activities of national wildlife refuges, fishery resources offices, national fish hatcheries, ecological services field offices and law enforcement offices. The website also contains a basic search engine that allows visitors to search through a years worth of summaries by entering key word, a state or a congressional district.
The site is a public information page of the Midwest Regions Accomplishment Reporting System, an online information system. The site also contains summaries of activities from the northeast and southwest regions of U.S., as well as links to other web sites operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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 Service manages the 94-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System which encompasses more than 535 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 70 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resource offices and 78 ecological services field stations. The agency 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 governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Aid program that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
For further information about programs and activities of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Great Lakes-Big Rivers Region, please visit our website at http://midwest.fws.gov
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