This is a brochure that describes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including a brief history of the Service as well as continuing work to help wildlife conservation.
Work of the Service; History; Recreation; Wildlife management
This is a report that describes various programs successfully implemented and various tasks completed, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Programs, Division of Federal Assistance. Articles include...
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...
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...
Videography; Aquatic animals; Fish management; Fishes; conservation science
Conservation in Action Series. Presented by author and ecologist Anders Halverson. February 27, 2013. “An Entirely Synthetic Fish” is the true story of the rainbow trout.
Sometimes vilified for their devastating effects on the native...
Sport Fishing; Rainbow Trout; Outdoors; Recreation; Family; Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
A four year old Alaska youth poses with his first fish. The 17 inch rainbow give him quite a time as it made several long runs, jumped a foot or more into the air many times and then dove for the bottom. The youngster still talks of the fish and...
Sport fishing; Chinook Salmon; King Salmon; Deshka River; Alaska Salmon; Fishing; Fisheries management; Jack Roberts; Recreation
Salmon fishing for kings, or also called chinook, on the Deshka River in southcentral Alaska. The Deshka is a tributary of the Susitna River. It can be reached by a one hour drive and a 15 minute boat ride, or a 30 minute plane ride from Anchorage....
Salmon; KIng Salmon; Chinook Salmon; Tyee; Blackmouth; Spring Salmon; Tule; Recreation; Sport Fishing; Deshka River
Recreational salmon fishing for kings, or also called chinook salmon, on the Deshka River in southcentral Alaska. The Deshka is a tributary of the Susitna River which runs to Cooks Inlet near Anchorage. It can be reached by driving one hour north...
Salmon; King Salmon; Chinook Salmon; Blackmouth; Tyee; Spring; Tule; Quinnat; Sport fishing; Salmon Identification; Recreation; Deshka River
Adult chinook , commonly called king salmon, have irregular spotting on the back and dorsal fins and on both lobes of the caudal or tail fin. These salmon also have a black pigment along the gum line giving them the name black or blackmouth in some...
Adults have black irregular spotting on the back and dorsal fins and on both lobes of the caudal or tail fin. King salmon also have a black pigment along the gum line giving them the name black or blackmouth salmon in some areas of the northwest.
Recreation; Sport fishing; Fishing; Alaska; Children In The Outdoors; Trout; Rainbow; Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
A youngster gleefully watches his first fish being netted, a fat 17 inch rainbow trout; as his father and grandfather celebrate with him. The family outing was on a small lake near the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Swan Lake Canoe System
