USFWS National Digital Library

- Biologist with salmon tracking device
- Work of the Service; Fisheries management; Personnel; Employees (USFWS); Radio telemetry
- Man holding radio sensor equipment for tracking tagged salmon.
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- Clearing the Way on the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge
- Work of the Service; Equipment; Employees (USFWS);
- The San Diego National Wildlife Refuge received 3 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants. One to build an energy efficient headquarters and visitor center, a second one to replace 2+ miles of boundary fencing, and a third to repair drainage...
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- Biologist Tranquilizes a Denning Black Bear
- Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS); Wildlife management; Tagging; Monitoring; Mammals; Boreal forests; Service patch
- Wildlife biologist Mark Bertram carefully injects tranquilizer into a denning black bear in order to collect data and attach a radio collar which was part of a black bear breeding, denning, and movement study on the Yukon Flats National Wildlife...
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- Technician weighs a male scoter
- Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS); Wildlife management; Tagging; Bird banding; Birds; Waterfowl; Aquatic environments;
- Biological Technician Laura Kennedy weighs a white-winged scoter drake during a scoter breeding ecology study at Scoter Camp Lake in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
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- Checking a grebe nest among the water lilies
- Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS); Wildlife management; Birds; Wildlife refuges; Waterfowl; Lakes;
- Biological technician Corey VanStratt checks a red-necked grebe nest on Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
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- Employee works on prescribed burn
- Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS); Prescribed burning;
- Dave Moran - Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge mops up a prescribed fire at National Key Deer Refuge.
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- Bogoslof Island
- Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS); Birds; Marine birds; Wildlife refuges;; Personnel;
- Bogoslof Island is an intermittent seabird monitoring site for the refuge.puffins
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- Air temperature and wind readings
- Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS);
- USFWS employee Elizabeth Labunski takes the air temperature and wind readings while on transect during the Prince William Sound Seabird and Sea Mammal Survey in Alaska.
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- Canada geese and banding
- Work of the Service; Birds; Waterfowl; Employees (USFWS); Personnel; Biologists (USFWS); History
- Black and white image of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel at Glacier Bay banding Canada Geese in net traps. Note: ARLIS
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- Aleutian Cackling Goose Survey Crew
- Work of the Service; Birds; Waterfowl; Brian Anderson Collection Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Employees (USFWS)
- http://alaska.fws.gov/media/acg.htm
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- Bird banding at Izembek Lagoon
- Work of the Service; Bird banding; Wildlife refuges; Personnel; Employees (USFWS)
- Three U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees systematically band birds. Netting used to capture birds stretches from shore into the lagoon.
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- Volunteers with USFWS Employee
- Wildlife restoration; Wildlife management; Wildlife refuges; Employees (USFWS); Volunteers; Trees; Habitat restoration; uniforms; service patch;
- Volunteers talk with a USFWS employee while planting trees on the Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge.
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- Service employee at work clearing a path.
- Wildlife refuges; Work of the Service; Logo; Employees (USFWS);
- Service employee using a leaf blower to clear a path at Big Muddy National Wildlife Refuge.
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- Water quality testing
- Wildlife refuges; Water management; Employees (USFWS); Volunteers;
- Forsythe volunteer and interns water quality testing at the Refuge
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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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- Refuge visitor
- Wildlife refuges; Visitor services; Employees (USFWS);
- A FWS employee converses with a refuge visitor
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- Refuge trail
- Wildlife refuges; Hiking; Recreation; Employees (USFWS);
- Opportunities to hike National Wildlife Refuge trails abound.
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- Native wire grass
- Wildlife refuges; Habitat restoration; Grasses; Employees (USFWS);
- An integral part of the habitat restoration process, native wire grass was planted in a newly thinned pine forest.
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- Carl Burger on the Kenai River
- Wildlife refuges; Fishes; Personnel; Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS)
- Carl Burger, fisheries biologist, listening to a signal emitted from a radio transmitter implanted in spawning salmon in the Kenai River. ARLIS
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- Forsythe intern at Little Beach
- Wildlife refuges; Employees (USFWS); Volunteers; Scenics; Coastal environments;
- Edwin B. Forsythe intern reflecting on her last day of shorebird surveys at Little Beach.
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