USFWS National Digital Library

- Monitoring burned area
- Biologist monitors vegetation regrowth in a Prescribed burning area.
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- FWS Employee Bands Neotropical Migratory Bird
- Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge; Louisiana; Migratory birds Birds; Bird banding; neotropical migrant
- A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist bands a neotropical migratory bird at Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana. Some species of neotropical migrants, so named because they nest in North America and winter in the tropical...
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- FWS Biologist Sifting Sediments For Contaminant Analysis
- environmental issues;Employees (USFWS)
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- Young girls, parents, and volunteers,fishing at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge
- Recreation; Volunteers; Fishing;
- Image taken with: Nikon CoolPix990 digital camera; Youth
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- Rainbow Trout in Hand at Gechiak Creek
- Freshwater Fishes; Fishes; Fishes; Recreation; Sport Fishing; Wildlife refuges; Togiak National Wildlife Refuge; Togiak Gallery
- Wildlife Biologist Rob MacDonald holding Rainbow Trout. Resident fish such as the Rainbow Trout draw anglers from around the world to Southwest Alaska. Catch-and-release fishing is encouraged to conserve these fish and is required in some areas.
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- WOE78 Area Urban youth enjoy fishing opportunities provided by FWS at Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge
- Recreation; Fishing; Environmental education;
- Photo taken with: Nikon CoolPix990 digital camera; Electronic Image; Cash Lake; WOE78
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- WOE175 Pilot-Biologist Capture Trumpeter Swan for Banding
- Wildlife management; Research; Sampling;
- WOE175; Banding; Waterfowl Population Survey; Pilot; Biologist; Waterfowl Management
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- FWS Employee Examines California Least Tern Remains
- Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge; California; Birds; Shorebirds; Endangered species
- FWS biologist examines a dead California least tern at its nest on Seal Beach in California. The interior population of least tern was listed as endangered in 1985. Populations along the East and West coasts are not endangered. The interior...
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- FWS Employees spawn threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout
- Fishes; Fisheries management; fishes; Lahontan National Fishes Hatchery; Nevada; Wildlife management; electronic
- Nikon Cool Pix990 digital camera (3.34 megapixels) with a San Disk
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- FWS Employee with Chinook Salmon
- Leavenworth NFH; Washington; Fishes;
- A fisheries biologist at Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery in Washington displays a mature spring Chinook salmon which has migrated upstream to spawn. The Service operates 12 National Fish Hatcheries in Washington which raise several species of...
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- Biologist tracking Louisiana black bear
- Research; Endangered species; Tracks and tracking; Biologists (USFWS); Service patch; Work of the Service; Personnel; Monitoring
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee uses monitoring device to track black bear.
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- Hall Island seabird plot and USFWS biologist Art Sowls
- ALASKA MARITIME NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; AMNWR; Birds; birding; Marine birds; cliff nesters; Bering Sea; habitat; Coastal environments; Work of the Refuge
- 2002
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- Loon Necropsy
- contaminants;ecological services;FWS Employees (USFWS); New Jersey; Resource management
- Fish and Wildlife Service biologist conducts necropsy examination on dead loon to determine cause of death. Loons are often effected by lead poisoning and pesticides.
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- 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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- Jimmy Carter at Kodiak Refuge Visitors Center
- Wildlife refuges; Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge; Visitor Center
- Pictured are, from left to right: Tony Chatto, Fishery Biologist/Pilot; Bill Pyle, Supervisory Wildlife Biologist; Cinda Childers, Office Automation Clerk; Gerri Castonguay, Administrative Technician (Office Automation); Elizabeth Pattinson,...
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- Scheer Cliffs along the road to Jones Hole NFH
- Mountains; utah; Scenics; Scenics; Jones Hole National Fishes Hatchery; electronic
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- Fly Fishing in Dry Run Creek, Arkansas
- Electronic; Recreation; Fishing; Arkansas;
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- WOE156 Bird Banding, Waterfowl Survey
- Waterfowl; Aircraft; Bird banding; Aquatic environments; Wildlife management; Sampling; Monitoring; Surveying
- Survey; Pilot; Biologist; WOE156;
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- Setting Trap for Delmarva Fox Squirrel
- FWS Employees (USFWS); Endangered species; Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge; Maryland
- A FWS biologist is setting a trap to tag the endangered Delmarva Fox Squirrel. This large, slate grey tree squirrel has an unusually full, fluffy tail and white belly. Once found throughout the Delmarva Penninsula, remnant populations of the...
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- Red Cockaded Woodpecker Nest Box
- FWS Employees (USFWS); Birds; Endangered species; Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge; Georgia
- Management of the Red Cockaded Woodpecker is a perfect example of federal and private landowners working together to save an endangered species. Here a biologist is installing nesting boxes that encourage nestings in prime woodpecker habitat.
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