A Laysan albatross is stuck in debris on Eastern Island 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...
This Laysan albatross chick was only inches away from being covered by debris during the 2011 tsunami. The adult wasn't so lucky. A tsunami generated by a powerful earthquake off the coast of Japan struck the refuge at 11:36 PM on Thursday, March...
Celebrations; Ceremonies; Events; Work of the Service; Directors (USFWS);
Becky Hamilton, wife of the late Sam D. Hamilton, addresses the crowd at the renaming ceremony for the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. ) Speakers Cindy Dohner, Southeast Regional Director, Dan Ashe, Director, U.S. Fish and...
"FWS agent Frank Glaser with two sheefish caught thru the ice by Eskimos at Kotzebue in December, 1952. The larger fish weighed 40 lbs., 50" long, 27" girth. The smaller weighed 30 lbs., 48" long, 22" girth. This is a...
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands; Shipwrecks
The Cougar Ace, a 654-foot Singapore flagged car carrier, sailed from Japan on July 22 with a load of 4,813 cars. The vessel was traveling along a great circle route to two ports on the West Coast of Canada and the United States. The vessel...
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands; Shipwrecks;
The Cougar Ace, a 654-foot Singapore flagged car carrier, sailed from Japan on July 22 with a load of 4,813 cars. The vessel was traveling along a great circle route to two ports on the West Coast of Canada and the United States. The vessel...
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Shipwrecks; great circle route; work of the refuge
The Cougar Ace, a 654-foot Singapore flagged car carrier, sailed from Japan on July 22 with a load of 4,813 cars. The vessel was traveling along a great circle route to two ports on the West Coast of Canada and the United States. The vessel...
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands;
The Cougar Ace, a 654-foot Singapore flagged car carrier, sailed from Japan on July 22 with a load of 4,813 cars. The vessel was traveling along a great circle route to two ports on the West Coast of Canada and the United States. The vessel...
The dam breaching project was a joint project between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Virginia Department of Game and inland Fisheries, and several other entities. The breaching is expected to boost declining numbers of American shad, an...
Signage used for cooperative partnership project between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service West Virginia Field Office and Partners for Fish and Wildlife when they erected a bat gate at the entrance to Trout Cave located in Franklin, WV in order to...
Buildings, facilities and structures; Caves; Habitat conservation; Mammals; Endangered species;
Cooperative partnership project between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service West Virginia Field Office and Partners for Fish and Wildlife included erecting a bat gate to the entrance of Trout Cave located in Franklin, WV in order to protect the...
Cooperative partnership project between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service West Virginia Field Office and Partners for Fish and Wildlife included erecting a bat gate to the entrance of Trout Cave located in Franklin, WV in order to protect the...
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Fish and Wildlife Programs
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Species Status categories:
at- risk species — species of plants and animals that are
Federal candidate species and those that the Service
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