AMNWR biologists worked over an extended period to recover the population of aleutian Cackling goose from endangered to its delisting in 2001. This album pictures the landscape, some of the hardships and activities of these hardy biologists
ALASKA MARITIME NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; AMNWR; Birds; birding; Marine birds ; rats; habitat; Coastal environments; biology. Rat prevention
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Jeff Williams and Art Sowls at a high point on Rat Island in the Aleutians Photo taken Sept. 2001 by Gred Howald
AMNWR; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Bering Sea Unit; Stewardship Camp; Biology; Birds; Birding; Research; Pribilofs; St. Matthew; Alaska
Students in Environmental Education Stewardship Camp asst AMNWR Biologist ARt Sowls with a Least Auklet to see if it has brood patches. St. Matthew Island, Pribilofs, 1984
Biologist Dean Kildaw's work for Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge included weighing and banding Red-legged Kittiwakes. These images are from St. George Island in the Pribilofs of Alaska's Bering Sea.
Alaska Maritme NWR biologists utilized 3 border collies trained by Rob Lewis of Corvallis Oregon in their recovery effort of Aleutian Cackling geese populations which were listed as endangered in 1973, upgraded to threatened in 1991, and...
Prevention program designed to catch rats that get off boats before they can start breeding and become established on the Pribilof Islands. Photo taken June 1996
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands;
2006 This camp is an administrative camp for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is not for public use. Located north and west of Atka Island, Kasatochi is part of the Andreanof Island Group of the Aleutian Islands. This wind-swept island in the...
ALASKA MARITIME NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; AMNWR; Birds; birding; Aleutian Islands; Aleutians; habitat; Islands; Coastal environments; grouse; ptarmigan; restoration; biodiversity; bioprojects; Near Islands; work of the refuge
2005 Attu Island is part of the Near Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It is the last stronghold of Evermann's Rock Ptarmigan, which were decimated from other islands in the group by non-native foxes. Ptarmigan from this osland...
ALASKA MARITIME NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; AMNWR; Birds; birding Aleutian Islands; Aleutians; habitat; Islands; Coastal environments; grouse; ptarmigan; restoration; biodiversity; bioprojects; Near Islands; work of the refuge
The Evermann’s Rock Ptarmigan project is helping to restore natural biodiversity in the Aleutians. Fourteen subspecies of rock ptarmigan are found in North America with seven of the fourteen subspecies occurring in the Aleutians, and six of...
