Fish and Wildlife Service
BOYNTON BEACH, FL - MAY 01: Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell (L) , speaks with Larry Willliams, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's field supervisor for its South Florida Ecological Services office, as she vists the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in the Florida Everglades on May 1, 2013 in Boynton Beach, Florida. In addition to an airboat ride through the area, Secretary Jewell received briefings on restoration issues including water flow, water quality, endangered species and invasive species.
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US allows Wis. hunter to import rare rhino trophy
are too old to reproduce to be shot each year, the service said.The rhino that Reinke shot was 34 years old. The Fish and Wildlife Service says the rhino typically lives 30 to 35 years, grows to about 10 to 12 feet long and weighs between 1,800 and 3,000 pounds."The Read more »
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Alaska ferries lose nature experts to budget cuts
items that do not affect core functions.Naturalists, who are hired and paid by the U.S. Forest Service or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , make about $22,000 a season. The state provides them free room and board on the ferry, which costs about $5,000 per Read more »
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Rocky Barker: Otter's peppergrass victory will wilt in sun
threatened species list, but these two threats are now more tied to the effects of changing climate. What the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined is that when it's wet and there are more "slick spots," the number of plants rise. When it's dry, and the 2:02 AM from Boise Basin District Read more »
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Duck stamp revenue, grants aim at saving wildlife habitat
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday announced more than $25 million in federal grants and Federal Duck Stamp revenue "to protect, restore or enhance thousands of acres of wildlife habitat in the United States and Mexico for the benefit of shared migratory from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Read more »
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Work done at ex-brownfield site on Detroit River
completed on a former industrial site along the Detroit River, officials announced Saturday. Wayne County, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and others have been working for nearly a decade on the restoration of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge from Crain's Detroit Business Read more »
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Unusual Offshore Octopods: The See-Through "Glass" Octopus [Video]
octopus courtesy of R. Larsen/Fish and Wildlife Service/R. Harbison, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/YouTube Rather than camouflaging like most known octopus species, the Vitreledonella richardi has taken this alternative approach to hide from potential from Scientific American Read more »
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No Fine If Wind Farm Kills Endangered Condors — Fish and Wildlife Service
even those that flout the law repeatedly. “What it boils down to is this: If you electrocute an eagle, that is bad, but if you chop it to pieces, that is OK,” said Tim Eicher, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enforcement agent based in Cody. from GlobalWarming.org Read more »
