Adults; Children; Connecting people with nature; Education; Education outreach; Environmental education; Interpretation; Leisure activities; Public access; Recreation; Vegetation; Visitor services; Wildlife refuges; Work of the Service; Youth;
Students express themselves like a bear with a big growl for the camera.
Adults; Children; Connecting people with nature; Education; Education outreach; Environmental education; Interpretation; Leisure activities; Public access; Recreation; Vegetation; Visitor services; Wildlife refuges; Work of the Service; Youth; Fire...
Students prepare to handle the fire hose, just like a refuge firefighter.
Adults; Children; Connecting people with nature; Education; Education outreach; Environmental education; Interpretation; Leisure activities; Public access; Recreation; Teens; Vegetation; Visitor services; Wildlife refuges; Work of the Service;...
This boy is uncertain but happy to be this close to an alligator head, that doesn't bite.
The Pribilof Report 1949. "Kayaks on hillside at village on Nunivak. Seal skins are stretched over frames like the one in the foreground made from driftwood. "
VISITORS TO CHINCOTEAGUE. Recreational activities vary with each refuge and with the seasons. Visitors, like these to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, one of the most heavily visited refuges in the system, check with the refuge manager to...
Plants; Invasive species; Habitat restoration; Training; Vegetation; Work of the Service;
A student enrolled in WLD2139 Invasive Plant Management, a course offered at the USFWS National Conservation Training Center removes jetbead, an invasive exotic shrub from Asia most likely spread from landscape plantings. Notice the leaves are...
Floods; Natural disasters; Wildlife refuges; Buildings, facilities and structures;
Visitor facilities like this observation deck at Pintail Point on the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge near Paris, Tennessee were swamped by floodwaters.
Lake Woodruff NWR; Florida; Environmental education; FWS Employees (USFWS)
LAKE WOODRUFF NWR, FLORIDA,REFUGE MANAGER WITH KIDS. Recreation and education are important functions of the Refuge System. Refuge employees frequently work with school groups, like this one visiting Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge in...
AMNWR; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Birds rehabilitation; Rats; Biology; Islands; Invasive species; Work of the Refuge
December 1997 "Shipwreck Response Kits like this are stored in strategic locations along Alaska's coast so that the refuge and cooperators can quickly deploy traps and poison to prevent rats from coming ashore from sinking or grounded...
Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge; Resource management; habitat management; fire management
PRESCRIBED BURN AT LOWER KLAMATH NWR, OREGON. The increasing complexities that impact fire management requires higher levels of technical expertise and qualification in both prescribed fire and suppression operations. Refuges, like Lower Klamath...
Georgia; Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge; Resource management
BROMELIAD, OKEFENOKEE NWR. Employees at national wildlife refuges work to maintain and preserve lands which provide virtually every type of habitat needed for the survival of fish and wildlife. Southern refuges, like Georgia's Okefenokee,...
Small chunky heron with short legs. Back and sides of adult's neck are deep chestnut; green on upperparts is mixed with blue-gray; center of throat and neck is white. Greenish-black crown feathers, are sometimes raised to form shaggy crest. ...
One of several rivers that pass under the Dalton Highway, these rivers are gateways for invasive plants to move down the river system into refuges like the Kanuti, and Koyukuk NWR; Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge; KNWR; Recreation; Tourism;...
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...
