Aerial view of Louisiana refuges showing different types of wetland habitats within the area and with the shoreline and Gulf of Mexico at the upper right side of the image.
Jim Fuller, an employee of Alaska Maritme National Wildlife Refuge and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with a family of Aleutian Cackling geese (formerly known as Aleutian Canada Geese)
Many ships travel Great Circle Routes from Asia to the west coast of the US and back. Many of these ships have no tracking devices or oil-spill contingency plans, if they have no planned stops at US ports. When wrecks and groundings occur the risk...