USFWS National Digital Library

- Mark Madison speaks with Amy Vedder, author, conservation biologist with The Wilderness Society
- Environmental education; Mammals; Management; Proposed Threatened; Podcast; Public Lecture;
- When Bill Weber and Amy Vedder arrived in Rwanda to study mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey, the gorilla population was teetering toward extinction. Poaching was rampant, but it was loss of habitat that most endangered the gorillas. Weber and...
- Audio
- Great ape conservation fund
- Endangered species; Mammals;Population control; Statistics; Tropical environments; International affairs
- This is a fact sheet explaining the Great Ape Conservation Fund. It describes the various factors leading to the perilous situation they face, as well as the projects the Fund has designed to help ease the situation.
- Documents
- Ira and Clara Gabrielson oral history transcript
- History; Biography; Agriculture; Biologists (USFWS); Automobiles; Birds; Historic sites; Indigenous populations; Photography; Relocation; Transportation; Native Americans; Directors (USFWS); Work of the Service;
- Oral history interview with Ira Gabrielson and Clara Gabrielson was also present. Dave Marshall was the interviewer. Nickname: "Gabe"
- Documents
- Ten years of Pittman-Robertson wildlife restoration 1938 to 1948
- Wildlife management; Fisheries management; Game management; Grants;
- Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937, now referred to as The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 669-669k), provides federal assistance to the 50 States, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern...
- Documents