Aerial view of Louisiana refuges showing different types of wetland habitats within the area and with the shoreline and Gulf of Mexico at the upper right side of the image.
Bald cypress trees lining each side of canoe trails in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. For more information about this refuge visit http://www.fws.gov/okefenokee/ .
Regrowth after forest fire, showing charred trunks of trees with wildflowers and plants beginning to grow back. For more information about Kenai NWR visit http://alaska.fws.gov/nwr/kenai/index.htm.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge; Florida;invasive Plants control; non-native; Invasive species
SPRAYING MELALUKA PLANT. Foreign plants and animals that establish themselves in domestic ecosystems sometimes become highly invasive and aggressive - displacing or out competing beneficial native species. Here, a FWS biologist at Loxahatchee NWR...
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Glossary
Species Status categories:
at- risk species — species of plants and animals that are
Federal candidate species and those that the Service
has not identified as candidate species, but are facing
threat( s) and are potential...
