Pelican Island NWR; Florida;refuge centennial; History
Paul Kroegel (1864 - 1948) wore a deceptively high hat, carried a menacing 10-gauge shotgun, and interpreted the boundaries of newly-created Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge loosely in a one-man effort to save the brown pelican from...
Converting recently purchased orange groves into productive wildlife habitat for the birds of Pelican Island. Looking south toward Pelican Island from the barrier island.
The dam breaching project was a joint project between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Virginia Department of Game and inland Fisheries, and several other entities. The breaching is expected to boost declining numbers of American shad, an...
Thousands of caribou from two different herds depend on habitats within the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge. Local people, in turn, depend on moose and caribou as a high quality source of food. A seal observation tower is visible in the...
Biiologist Sheila Eyler from the FWS Maryland Fisheries Resouce Office, Annapolis, MD is tagging a female horseshoe crab on Bowers Beach, Delaware. The male and female horseshoe crabs come up during high tides, couple together, and spawn on the...