Jim Fuller, an employee of Alaska Maritme National Wildlife Refuge and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with a family of Aleutian Cackling geese (formerly known as Aleutian Canada Geese)
AMNWR biologists worked over an extended period to recover the population of aleutian Cackling goose from endangered to its delisting in 2001. This album pictures the landscape, some of the hardships and activities of these hardy biologists
AMNWR; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Aleutian Island Unit; Steller's Sea Lions; Marine mammals; Wildlife viewing; Endangered species species
Alaska Maritme NWR biologists utilized 3 border collies trained by Rob Lewis of Corvallis Oregon in their recovery effort of Aleutian Cackling geese populations which were listed as endangered in 1973, upgraded to threatened in 1991, and...
Wildlife refuges; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Aleutians; Species; Animals; Birds; Waterfowl; Work of Service; Goose; Geese; ARLIS; Personnel; Alaska
Buldir Island, Aleutian Islands NWR. "Capturing wild Aleutian Canada Geese to band and measure for identification of birds away from their last nesting stronghold. Dave Spencer, then Alaska Refuge Supervisor, shown holding gosling on sea...
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands;
2006 This camp is an administrative camp for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is not for public use. Located north and west of Atka Island, Kasatochi is part of the Andreanof Island Group of the Aleutian Islands. This wind-swept island in the...
ALASKA MARITIME NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; AMNWR; Birds; birding; Aleutian Islands; Aleutians; habitat; Islands; Coastal environments; grouse; ptarmigan; restoration; biodiversity; bioprojects; Near Islands; work of the refuge
2005 Attu Island is part of the Near Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It is the last stronghold of Evermann's Rock Ptarmigan, which were decimated from other islands in the group by non-native foxes. Ptarmigan from this osland...
Rat Island in the western Aleutians got infested with rats in 1780 when a Japanese sailing ship went aground. It may have been an important seabird colony, but little bird life now exists. Rats in large numbers still persist on Rat Island by ...
