USFWS National Digital Library

- Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and Nansemond National Wildlife Refuge Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan
- Document;Wildlife refuges; Planning
- greatdismalswamp-final.pdf
- Documents
- Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and Nansemond National Wildlife Refuge Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan
- Document;Wildlife refuges; Planning
- greatdismalswamp06.pdf
- Documents
- American black bear
- Mammals; Wildlife refuges;
- American black bear at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
- Images
- Jericho Ditch
- Rivers and streams; Wildlife refuges;
- Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, VA.
- Images
- Smoke at Great Dismal Swamp
- Forest fires; Wildlife refuges;
- Smoke covers the treetops at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge during the Lateral West Fire, Suffolk, VA.
- Images
- Burn Over Burn
- Fires; Wildlife refuges;
- The Lateral West Fire at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge burns over the remnants of the 2008 South One Fire, Suffolk, VA.
- Images
- David Janes oral history transcript
- Biography; Employees (USFWS); Forestry; Military; Realty; Wetlands; Writing; Planning; Buildings, facilities and structures; Management; Youth; Biologists (USFWS);
- David Janes oral history interview as conducted by Dorothe Norton. Along with working at various refuges, David Janes worked out of the regional offices in Region 5 and Region 6. He retired in 1997 as a GS-12 Land Acquisition Planning Biologist...
- Documents
- Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
- Wildlife refuges;Wetlands
- Great Dismal Swamp NWR, Suffolk, Virgina and North Carolina Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is anything but dismal! Deciduous and coniferous forests with bald cypress, Atlantic white cedar, maples, oaks and sweet gum are teeming...
- Images
- Black Bears
- Mammals; Fires; Forest fires;
- A black bear and cub travel along the edge of the Lateral West Fire at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Suffolk, VA.
- Images
- Fire Whorl
- Forest fires;
- A fire whorl, part of the Lateral West Fire at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Suffolk, VA.
- Images
- Helicopter Dip
- Fire management; Forest fires;
- A helicopter dips into a water supply to help put out the Lateral West Wildlifire at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Suffolk, VA.
- Images
- Lateral West Forest Fire
- Forest fires;
- The Lateral West Forest Fire burns towards Corapeake Ditch at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Suffolk, VA.
- Images
- Hold the Line
- Forest fires; Fire management; Wildlife refuges;
- Firefighters work to hold the Lateral West Fire at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on the north side of Corapeake Road, Suffolk, VA.
- Images
- Helicopter Water Drop
- Fire management; Aircraft; Wildlife refuges;
- A K-Max Type 1 helicopter drops almost 1,000 gallons of water on the Lateral West Fire burning at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Suffolk, VA.
- Images