Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) continues to cast a long and profound shadow in American conservation circles, and nowhere more significant than among the men and women of the National Wildlife Refuge System, where he has become something of a...
Wildlife refuges; Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge; Villages; ARLIS; Alaska
The Pribilof Report 1949. "Native Alaskan cemetery, where the Kuksokwim River was undermining the caskets and plunging the corpses into the stream just above the city water supply intake."
Wildlife refuges; Villages; Buildings, facilities and structures; History
The Pribilof Report 1949. Theater and roadhouse, Northern Commercial Company's Bethel Theater has movie poster posted on front of building "Beyond Glory," a 1948 movie. Bethel is the town where the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge...
This is where it all began (although in this 1950 view, sign craftsmen were off by a day) – Florida’s Pelican Island, the first of more than 538 national wildlife refuges, which grew from a tiny, 4 -acre island on the Atlantic Coast used as a...
Zebra mussels can attach themselves to boats and thereby inadvertantly be transferred to different waterways where they spread. Important for boaters in infected areas to be sure to carefully clean their boat hulls/rudders, etc to prevent the...
Wildlife refuges; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Buildings, facilities and structures; Alaska
The Pribilof Report 1949. St. Paul, Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Government house where U.S. FWS official in charge of both St. Paul and St. George Islands resides.
David Warnberg with a nice pink salmon caught in Alexander Creek, Alaska. The pink is also known as the Humpy. You can see where this salmon gets the nickname when you look at this large male specimen. The pink is an aggressive fish and is known...
The black wolf here is melanistic, meaning that it has black pigments in the fur rather than the regular gray/grey that one usually sees. The extreme opposite of this would be the white/albino where there is an absence of pigment throughout.;...
Piping plover walks on New Jersey beach. The piping plover is a small, stocky, sandy-colored bird resembling a sandpiper. The adult has yellow-orange legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black ring around the base of its...
This Piping Plover walking on the beach.
The piping plover is a small, stocky, sandy-colored bird resembling a sandpiper. The adult has yellow-orange legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black ring around the base of its...
Piping plover walking on a New Jersey beach. The piping plover is a small, stocky, sandy-colored bird resembling a sandpiper. The adult has yellow-orange legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black ring around the base of...
This Piping Plover on the beach.
The piping plover is a small, stocky, sandy-colored bird resembling a sandpiper. The adult has yellow-orange legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black ring around the base of its neck....
Two Piping Plovers on the beach feeding. The piping plover is a small, stocky, sandy-colored bird resembling a sandpiper. The adult has yellow-orange legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black ring around the base of its...
History; Endangered species; Birds; Birds of prey; Perching birds; Photography;
A condor perching on a dead snag above its nesting site near Los Angeles. "The old pine where the condor perched had fallen to decay. An automobile road now curves up the mountain above Eaton Canyon. The condor family pictured in these pages...
Trash is sometimes dumped on national wildlife refuges. Here is an example of where people have dumped household refuse at a refuge. This requires additional resources to clean up an haul away these materials.
