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Notice of 2017 Funding Availability
Do you want to help restore habitats and recover listed species in Washington? The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Fiscal Year 2017 Notice of Funding Availability for our Restoration and Recovery programs in Washington State is now open. Learn more
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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
Comment Period Extended on Proposed Alternatives for North Cascades Grizzly Restoration
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service have extended the public comment period regarding the proposed alternatives for the restoration of grizzly bears to the North Cascades Ecosystem by 45 days, through April 28, 2017.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Review Status of Marbled Murrelet
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Pacific Region is initiating 5-year reviews of 138 species protected under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). Included in the review is the marbled murrelet.
Read the News Release and Federal Register Notice
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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 AssessmentThe 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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