Features
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Port Gardner Bay Draft Restoration Plan Available
The Port Gardner Bay Trustee Council, officials responsible for restoring injured natural resources from hazardous substance releases into the Port Gardner Bay area, invite the public to comment on Port Gardner Bay Draft Damage Assessment Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment.
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WDFW Programmatic CCAA for Fisher Approved!!!
Landowners are signing up now!! Participants in the fisher CCAA will help implement specific conservation measures supporting the State's efforts to reestablish the fisher in western Washington. Click HERE for more information.
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Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit Scratches Out a Living
Sagebrush habitat can look pretty barren of life at first glance, but this unique ecosystem supports all kinds of life. Endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits are just one of the interesting animals that call sagebrush habitat home. Learn more
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Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnerships
With 80% of Americans living in cities, how do we connect urban America with our wild places, such as national wildlife refuges? Learn more about the Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership program. Watch the Video on YouTube
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Project Restores the Qwuloot to a Former Time
In 2015, the Qwuloot Estuary was reconnected to tidal waters for the first time in nearly 100 years- an important first step in restoring valuable estuarine habitat. Read more
Recent News
Service Confirms Critical Habitat for Marbled Murrelet in Washington, Oregon and California
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) confirmed that marbled murrelet critical habitat currently designated in Washington, Oregon and California meets the statutory definition of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Critical habitat identifies specific areas within the geographic range of an ESA-listed species that are essential for its long-term survival.
Current Activities
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Critical Habitat for Oregon Spotted Frog Designated in Washington and Oregon
Critical habitat is defined by the Endangered Species Act as areas vital to the long-term survival of listed species. Today’s designation reflects the latest science and information from several public comment periods.
Oregon Spotted Frog Species Page
The Hanford Site
The Hanford Site is 375,000 acres of sagebrush and grassland habitat along the Columbia River. Home to a retired federal nuclear production facility, the site is being cleaned up and the reactors dismantled. Our Eastern Washington Field Office is working with stakeholders to assess impacts caused by releases of hazardous substances in an effort to compensate the public.
Learn more about the Hanford Natural Resource Damage AssessmentStormwater Studies
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Hopeful Solutions to Threats from Stormwater
"If you build it they will come." This was the approach used to help promote salmon restoration in the Pacific Northwest. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked with a variety of partners to remove fish barriers and find ways of addressing many other issues that get in the way of having healthy stream corridors.These efforts successfully restored physical habitat, allowing salmon to once again inhabit the streams in and around urban areas of Puget Sound.
Check out "Solving Stormwater", a short video summarizing the long-term study that yielded down-to-earth solutions to this significant problem for people, wildlife and the ecosystems on which all Puget Sound residents depend.
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