Pelican Island NWR; Florida;refuge centennial; History
Paul Kroegel (1864 - 1948) wore a deceptively high hat, carried a menacing 10-gauge shotgun, and interpreted the boundaries of newly-created Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge loosely in a one-man effort to save the brown pelican from...
Clarence Rhode (d.1958) served as supervisor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s aircraft division in Alaska following his World War II tenure as a bush pilot. Becoming the agency’s regional director in 1948, Rhode remained a bush pilot at...
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...
Wildlife refuges; Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge; Fisheries management; Work of Service; Personnel; ARLIS; Alaska
Karluk Investigations - 1948. Karluk Lake, Kodiak, Alaska. Collecting water samples for quantitative chemical analysis and collection of plankton for quantitative and qualitative tests. Richard F. Shuman on the right.