Features
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Meet Our AmeriCorps Service Members
AmeriCorps members Jawad Frangieh and Ruthie Aldrich are serving as Conservation Educators/Scientists. Their service includes developing science curriculum and planning field trips for 800 second graders in North Thurston School District. As part of their service, they also organize and lead outreach events in the community, including the Prairie Bioblitz at Wolf Haven International.
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Mazama pocket gopher screening protocol
The Service is announcing a Mazama pocket gopher screening protocol for local jurisdictions in the range of the listed subspecies in Pierce and Thurston Counties.
MPG Dear Interested Party letter and screening protocol checklist
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Environmental Contaminants Program in WA Story Maps
Do you want to learn about the work being done to plan and respond to pollution? Click on one of the following Story Map links to learn more about where we work, the work that we do, and our shared consequences with the environment.
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Pre-spawn Mortality Research Progresses
Ken King, biological science technician with USFWS, and partners continue to explore pre-spawn mortality in western Washington. To learn more about stormwater impacts and potential solutions to Coho Pre-Spawn Mortality, please watch The Nature Conservancy video made in partnership with the Puget Sound Stormwater Science Team.
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Connecting Young Fly Fishers with Nature
Every summer, the Olympia Council of Trout Unlimited—one of our office’s 2017 Connecting People with Nature grantees—partners with several other northwest Washington fishing groups to hold the NW Youth Conservation and Fly Fishing Academy. Experience the adventures of the academy and its young campers in this vibrant Story Map!
Recent News
Service Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Wind Facility
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comment as part of the development of an Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed wind energy project in Lewis and Thurston counties. The Service will hold two open house meetings where members of the public will have an opportunity to learn more and to submit written comments and information.
News Release and meeting information
Recent News
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Service Seeks Comments on Draft Habitat Conservation Plan for Development in Thurston County
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is seeking public review and comment on a draft Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) describing the potential effects of issuing a proposed Incidental Take Permit for construction of a single family residence on 5 acres in Thurston County, Washington. Species covered in the plan include the Yelm Pocket Gopher (Thomomys mazama yelmensis).
The Joint Base Lewis-McChord Sentinel Landscape
Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) supports military training while also hosting 90% of the remaining prairie habitat in the South Puget Sound. Through the Sentinel Landscapes Partnership, the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, and Defense work with a variety of partners to promote working lands, protect wildlife species and habitat, and ensure military readiness at the base.
The Hyporheic Zone
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Video Reveals Little Known World of Riverbeds
Not all that you see when you look at a river is above ground. There is a hidden world that exists beneath the bottom, in the vast network of interconnected spaces between the pebbles that make up the streambed. Scientists call this the hyporheic zone. The hyporheic zone is a place where water flowing in the stream channel percolates down into the streambed, mixes with groundwater, and reemerges to join the surface water somewhere downstream. The hyporheic zone is important because it helps to cool, filter, and cleanse the stream water, and also because strange, vital things are living there.
Watch “The Secret Life of Rivers,” a short video introduction to the world of the hyporheic zone.
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