The job of director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service involved more than just wildlife in the territorial days of our 49th state, Alaska. Albert M. Day, the agency’s director between 1946 and 1953 (second from left), investigated the living...
Ohio River NWR; West Virginia; timber; Forests preservation; Resource management
Northeastern refuges include wetland, upland, and coastal habitats that are managed to benefit wildlife species. For example, the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge in West Virginia harbors virgin sycamores and silver maple woods, home...
Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge;Florida; Endangered species; Reptiles;Resource management; beach; night
FWS biologist tags an endangered Loggerhead Turtle. The Atlantic Loggerheads were listed as threatened on July 28, 1978. Their populations declined due to incidental capture in shrimp trawls, loss of habitat due to coastal development, artificial...
Bond Swamp NWR, Round Oak, Georgia: Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge sits on the fall line that separates the piedmont plateau and the coastal plains.
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...
