USFWS National Digital Library

- Environmental Education
- Youth; Environmental education;
- A group of children play the life cycle game at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge located in Virginia.
- Images
- Girls look at snails
- Youth; Wildlife refuges; Connecting people with nature; Children;
- Two young girls look into a bag of snails they caught with nets in the water at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge located in Virginia.
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- Water Control
- Wildlife refuges; Water management; Employees (USFWS); uniforms; service patch; history;
- A female U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Employee checks the water at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge located in Virginia.
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- Watching snow geese
- Recreation; Birdwatching; Wildlife refuges; Wildlife viewing;
- Woman at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge wildlife viewing area with birding scope to observe snow geese.
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- Chincoteague Morning
- Scenics; Scenics; Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge; Wildlife refuges; Virginia
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- Biking at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
- Recreation; Wildlife refuges
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- You can't catch me!
- Children; Connecting people with nature; Coastal environments; Recreation;
- Young boy runs from the surf.
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- Buckets of sand
- Children; Connecting people with nature; Coastal environments; Recreation;
- Young boy prepares to build a sand castle at the beach.
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- Fish on!
- Children; Connecting people with nature; Coastal environments; Recreation; Fishing;
- Young boy and girl enjoy a day of fishing at the beach.
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- Reel 'em in!
- Children; Connecting people with nature; Coastal environments; Recreation; Fishing;
- Young boy reels in his catch.
- Images
- Great Blue heron
- Birds; Wading birds;
- Great blue heron perches on nesting box in wetland area at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.
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- Mixed flock of waterfowl fly at Chinocoteague
- Birds;Migratory Birds; Wetlands; Waterfowl; Scenics;
- A mixed flock of ducks and geese fly from a wetland area at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.
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- Great egret catches fish
- Birds; Wading birds; Wildlife refuges;
- Great egret catches fish at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. Resource links:http://www.fws.gov/northeast/chinco/introduction.htm
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- Great egret preening
- Birds; Wading birds;
- Gret egret preening at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. Resource links:http://www.fws.gov/northeast/chinco/introduction.htm
- Images
- Sunset at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
- Birds; Scenics; Migratory birds; Wildlife Refuges;
- Orange clouds and a bright yellow setting sun with silhouetted flying waterfowl and trees.
- Images
- Cigar Daisey oral history transcript
- History; Biography; Aquatic birds; Aquatic environments; Aquatic animals; Birds; Coastal environments; Fishes; Fishing; Hunting; Islands; Shorebirds; Trapping; Wetlands; Art
- Oral history interview with Cigar Daisey with Dave Hall as interviewer. [On page 5, two additional men arrive and join conversation. They are not identified. I have called them MAN who sounds older, and MAN 2, who sounds younger. They are from...
- Documents
- Conserving the future: wildlife refuges and the next generation
- Wildlife refuges; Planning; Management
- For the past 18 months, the National Wildlife Refuge System has worked to create a vision that will guide the management of the Refuge System during the next decade and beyond. Conserving the Future is built on the foundation and inspiration of...
- Documents
- Aluag Nye oral history transcript
- History; Wildlife refuges; Birds; Raptors
- Oral history interview with Aluag Nye. The interviewer is unidentified.
- Documents
- Status report for the National Wetlands Inventory Program: 2009
- Document; Wetlands;
- nwi_status_2009.pdf
- Documents
- 2000 Volunteer Report Volunteers conserve and interpret fish and wildlife and their habitat for present and future generations
- Document
- Volunteer2000.pdf
- Documents