The California Coastal Conservancy was awarded $1 million to help restore 438 acres of leveed grazing lands to a mosaic of open water, tidal channels, intertidal marsh, riparian woodland, and uplands. This project is part a larger effort being...
The California Coastal Conservancy was awarded $1 million to help acquire and permanently protect a 63-acre property in Santa Barbara County, California. This project will also result in the restoration of approximately 13 acres of coastal wetlands...
Service employees discuss wetland restoration project on Barren Island National Wildlife Refuge. The Restoration Project is part of a multi interagency and private organization partnership with the Baltimore Aquarium, The Fish and Wildlife Service,...
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A One- on- One Relationship with
Private Landowners
Partners for
Fish and Wildlife
Program
What is the Partners for
Fish and Wildlife Program?
Through voluntary agreements the Partners
program provides expert technical assistance
and cost- share...
Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge received funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to construct levees as part of the Walking Wetlands Restoration Project. The Walking Wetlands Restoration Project builds wetland...
Two local broadcast journalists capture video on the north shore of Campbell Lake outside Destin, Florida. The Gulf of Mexico is just beyond the large dunes on the other side of the lake from the cameras.
Fisheries management; Work of the Service; Habitat restoration;
The project to restore geomorphic form and function of creek on Sycan Marsh to accommodate year-round fish passage of Red band trout, bull trout, Klamath speckled dace and Native chub was funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
Jeremy Voeltz, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fishery biologist for the Arizona Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office, transports native Gila trout into 55-gallon drums that will flown up the Pinalenos Mountains to Frye Creek by helicopter as...
Funded by a Fish and Wildlife Service Tribal Wildlife Grant - Skokomish Tribal Members work to safely capture, collar and release Elk. Tribal Biologists Shane Miller, Scott Harris and Bethany Tropp completed this project in March of 2010. The USFWS...
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
The Evermann’s Rock Ptarmigan project is helping to restore natural biodiversity in the Aleutians. Fourteen subspecies of rock ptarmigan are found in North America with seven of the fourteen subspecies occurring in the Aleutians, and six of...
Work of Service; Personnel; Birds; Waterfowl; Goose; Geese; Wildlife refuges; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Aleutians; ARLIS; Alaska
Aleutian Canada Goose Project. Buldir Island. L-R: John Trapp, Vern Byrd (project leader), Dennis Woolington (also followed geese on their California wintering grounds)."
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...
