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...
A juvenile black-crowned night heron standing on tree limb. At sunset, when most herons are flying toward their roosting places, the black-crowned herons are leaving the trees where they have spent the day scattering over the marshes to feed. By...
Angling and boating images provided by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF). Funding for these images was provided by a grant from the National Outreach and Communication (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 15.653)...
Angling and boating images provided by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF). Funding for these images was provided by a grant from the National Outreach and Communication (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 15.653)...
Boating; Children; Fishing; Recreation; Aquatic environments; connecting people with nature; youth;
Angling and boating images provided by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF). Funding for these images was provided by a grant from the National Outreach and Communication (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 15.653)...
Boating; Children; Fishing; Recreation; Aquatic environments; connecting people with nature; youth;
Angling and boating images provided by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF). Funding for these images was provided by a grant from the National Outreach and Communication (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 15.653)...
Boating; Children; Fishing; Recreation; Aquatic environments; connecting people with nature; youth;
Angling and boating images provided by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF). Funding for these images was provided by a grant from the National Outreach and Communication (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 15.653)...
Angling and boating images provided by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF). Funding for these images was provided by a grant from the National Outreach and Communication (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 15.653)...
Angling and boating images provided by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF). Funding for these images was provided by a grant from the National Outreach and Communication (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 15.653)...
buffalo;ungulates; Resource management; Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge; Nebraska
MOVING BUFFALO AT FORT NIOBRARA REFUGE. Grazing is an effective management tool that can benefit a variety of species when it is properly applied. It may also be used in wetland habitats to open choked vegetation and restore plant vigor. Even at...
Buildings, facilities and structures; Wildlife refuges;
The Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge, was established in 1974 and protects a diverse community of animals and plants, many of which are either threatened or endangered. This island refuge was once the site of the former United States Army Fort...
Connecting people with nature; Work of the Service;
Mike Rowe, the popular host of the Discovery Channel series "Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe," donned a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cap when he waded into Arthur R. Marshall National Wildlife Refuge in April 2010.
A gray wolf fitted with a radio collar is released into the wild. The gray wolf or Canis lupus, often known simply as the wolf, is the largest extant wild member of the Canidae family. Though once abundant over much of Eurasia, North Africa and...
Events; Shorebirds; Education; Environmental education; Connecting people with nature;
Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival was started in 1993, when several concerned citizens decided that education was the key to protecting habitat important to migrating shorebirds.
Fire Management; History; Refuge; Employees (USFWS); black and white
10-28-1948 Ernest J. Greenwalt, Manager of the Wichita Wildlife Refuge near Cache, Oklahoma, stands beside the refuge fire-jeep while using the portable radio to contact personnel at refuge headquarters. These radios proved themselves invaluable...
The Russian River joins the Kenai River near Cooper Landing, Alaska. The area is one of the most heavily visited in the state when the red (sockeye) salmon are running.
Found "no where else on earth" --The spring-loving centaury, Centaurium namophilum, is considered to be endemic to the Ash Meadows area (meaning it is definitely found within the refuge borders but also in adjacent federal and private...
An image of a white flower among red rock. Western North Dakota is the easternmost limit of the range of the beautiful gumbo lily. The plant occurs in nearly all of our western states.
This short, tufted plant is a nearly stemless perennial from...
A white flower among gray rocks.An image of a white flower among red rock. Western North Dakota is the easternmost limit of the range of the beautiful gumbo lily. The plant occurs in nearly all of our western states.
This short, tufted plant is...
