Features
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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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Videos Highlight Partner Efforts to Protect Oregon Spotted Frog
Check out these amazing videos about Oregon spotted frog, a federally threatened species, and how biologists and partners are working to protect its habitats in Washington and Oregon's Deschutes River Basin.
Video link: Protecting the Oregon Spotted Frog in Washington and Protecting Oregon Spotted Frog in the Deschutes River Basin
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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!
Conservation Highlight
Island Marble Butterfly CCAA Enrollment Open
News Release (8/6/19), Upcoming public meetings about CCAA enrollment (Sep. 5th on San Juan Island & Sep. 6th on Lopez Island), and Learn more about the CCAA for the Island Marble Butterfly
Major Resource Settlement in Port Gardner Bay
The USFWS and Port Gardner Bay Trustees announced they have reached a settlement with the Port of Everett and the U.S. Navy related to contamination of the Port Gardner Bay Area in Everett, Washington. The settlement was finalized on July 24th, 2019. The DOJ news release is available at www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees.
Documents for Review
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Documents for Review
Initiation of 5-Yr Status Reviews for 8 Species in WA
Federal Register Notice, Additional Information
Davis and Davis Farms Application
Federal Register Notice, Douglas County GCP, Environmental Assessment, Findings and Recommendations, FONSI, and Biological OpinionSafe Harbor Agreement for Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit
Safe Harbor Agreement, Environmental Assessment
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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