Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge; Florida; Environmental education;Wildlife refuges
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: CHILDREN BEFORE A WETLAND AT LAKE WOODRUFF NWR. Recreation and education are important functions of the Refuge System. This environmental education program at Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge in Florida is one of...
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
This vessel is the Alcyone of the Cousteau Society. Built around 1985, the ship utilizes "turbo sails" to harness the wind as part of its innovative propulsion system. Image location is Prince William Sound. This ship was involved in...
Employees (USFWS); Law enforcement; Oil production; Petroleum industry; Work of the Service; Uniforms;
Previously entitled; "OIL WELL CHECKING ON A REFUGE." The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 authorizes oil and gas leasing on refuge lands withdrawn from the public domain. In 1994, 35 units of the Refuge System, reported active gas.
Klamath National Wildlife Refuge; California; Resource management; Prescribed burning
Many of the refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge system use prescribed fire to achieve desired habitat conditions. Fire is often used to replace the naturally occurring wildfires that once played a major role in the development and maintenance...
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) continues to cast a long and profound shadow in American conservation circles, and nowhere more significant than among the men and women of the National Wildlife Refuge System, where he has become something of a...
Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge; Maryland; Law enforcement; Resource management
EASTERN NECK NWR HUNTER CHECK IN. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official checks in a hunter at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland. The 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act gives priority to certain...
Castle Rock a 14-acre island located less than 2 miles off the coast of Crescent City, California. A part of the National Wildlife Refuge System, Castle Rock is the second largest seabird breeding colony along the California coast, hosting more...
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, north of Corpus Christi, Texas, is one of the National Wildlife Refuge System’s premier units, in large part because of the role it has played in the recovery of the endangered whooping crane, a 5-foot-tall white...
Work of the Service; Wilderness Areas; Wildlife refuges; Togiak National Wildlife Refuge; Togiak Gallery
Togiak Refuge has the second largest contiguous Wilderness Area in the National Wildlife Refuge System with 2.3 million acres set aside in the Togiak Wilderness.
Buildings, facilities and structures; Recreation; Hunting; Fishing; Snowmobiling
Building a cabin in sub-arctic Alaska. The cabin foundation is put into place with a block and tackle in the interior of Alaska. The usual mode of transportation to these off-road system structures is snowmobile, or, more commonly called, snow...
National Conservation Training Center; West Virginia; NCTC
This GIS class learns how to use GPS receiver in the field. A geographic information system (GIS) is a versatile computer tool that can assist in natural resource conservation planning and decision making for a community, region, watershed, or...
One of several rivers that pass under the Dalton Highway, these rivers are gateways for invasive plants to move down the river system into refuges like the Kanuti, and Koyukuk NWR; Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge; KNWR; Recreation; Tourism;...
