What benefits do inspectors earn?
Wildlife inspectors enjoy all the
benefits of Federal employment,
including a generous retirement
plan with substantial investment
opportunities. Inspectors earn 13 to
26 days of annual leave each year
depending on...
This yellow flower is threatened. The primary threat to the survival of white-haired goldenrod is the many visitors to rockshelters in the Red River Gorge area each year. In 1989, approximately 260,000 people visited the Red River Gorge Geological...
A combination of photos taken at a photo point at Florida Panther NWR. The photos are panoramic and cover a 360 degree view from a monitoring point. These photos range from pre-burn to 2 year post burn.
The USFWS Coastal Program in Puget Sound, Washington has worked over the last six years to collect derelict fishing gear. They have recovered 3,600 partial gillnets, averaging 7,000 square feet each, which has eliminated the needless deaths of more...
Bird bones found from the USFWS Puget Sound Coastal Program's Derelict Fishing Gear Project. The USFWS Coastal Program in Puget Sound, Washington has worked over the last six years to collect derelict fishing gear. They have recovered 3,600...
Bird bones found from the USFWS Puget Sound Coastal Program's Derelict Fishing Gear Project. The USFWS Coastal Program in Puget Sound, Washington has worked over the last six years to collect derelict fishing gear. They have recovered 3,600...
The Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is south of Sacramento in the northern reaches of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Fish and Wildlife Service staff and partners have been working to restore historic wetland communities and enhance...
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. These tiny seedlings...
Birdwatching; Estuarine environments; Wetlands; Youth; Connecting people with nature; Wildlife refuges; Children;
A young birder gazes out over a marsh area on the Humboldt National Wildlife Refuge. Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge is located on Humboldt Bay on the northwest California coast. The refuge has two main purposes: to protect and enhance...
This dock was partially paid for by a Boating Infrastructure Grant [BIG] in 2008. Similar grants are awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service each year.
Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is host to the largest remaining colony of albatross in the world. The colony can include more than 500,000 nests on a given year. This image shows typical nest density in areas without the invasive plant,...
This Laysan albatross chick survived being washed over at Midway Atoll during a tsunami generated by a powerful earthquake off the coast of Japan struck the refuge at 11:36 PM on Thursday, March 10th and continued for the next few hours. On March...
The chicks and adults got washed up into big piles of dead vegetation after a tsunami generated by a powerful earthquake off the coast of Japan struck the refuge at 11:36 PM on Thursday, March 10th and continued for the next few hours. On March 15,...
This Bonin petrel was half buried in sand after a tsunami generated by a powerful earthquake off the coast of Japan struck the refuge at 11:36 PM on Thursday, March 10th and continued for the next few hours. On March 15, FWS released an official...
Albatross adult and two chicks uncovered alive in the tsunami aftermath. The tsunami generated by a powerful earthquake off the coast of Japan struck the refuge at 11:36 PM on Thursday, March 10th and continued for the next few hours. On March 15,...