This is a handbook describing the framework for strategic habitat conservation that enables the efficient conservation of wildlife populations through habitat management. It provides details on applying the technical elements of SHC; biological...
Brochure about careers with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. To accomplish its mission, the Service employs many of the country’s best biologists, wildlife managers, engineers, realty specialists, educators, law enforcement agents, and others...
When a species is proposed for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act (Act), we must consider whether there are areas of habitat we believe are essential to the species’ conservation. Those areas may be...
Endangered species; Congressional operations; Policies; Population control; Wildlife management; Wildlife restoration; Work of the Service;
This is the Endangered Species Act of 1973 as ammended through 1988-11-23. The act seeks to conserve endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife and plants.
Endangered species; Fisheries management; Fishes; Fishing; Overfishing; Population control; Work of the Service; History
This is a description of the inception, history and continuing work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Fisheries Program. It explains briefly what the program is doing to help remove overfished species from the endangered species list.
Endangered species; Habitat conservation; Policies; Work of the Service; Human impacts;
This is a fact sheet describing the requirements of federal agencies under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act to ensure their activities in no way adversely affect any endangered or threatened species, or any species proposed for the...
Endangered species; International affairs; Partnerships; Wildlife management; Wildlife restoration;
This is an overview of what Canada and the United States are doing together in order to help protect species the two countries deem as endangered. A description of the background of this partnership is given, followed by ten examples of individual...
This is a overview of bats in America that are in danger of becoming extinct. Each of the seven species listed has a brief description of its habitat and the ways it benefits humans. The document also gives suggestions on what can be done to help...
This is a status assessment of the Eastern massassauga in North America. It includes biological information on the species, distribution status information and detailed status figures.
First recovery plan approved 12/7/1981. First revision approved June 1987. Second revision approved: 3/13/1995. The Florida panther is the last subspecies of Puma still surviving in the eastern United States. Historically occurring throughout the...
Environmental education; Mammals; Management; Proposed Threatened; Podcast; Public Lecture;
When Bill Weber and Amy Vedder arrived in Rwanda to study mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey, the gorilla population was teetering toward extinction. Poaching was rampant, but it was loss of habitat that most endangered the gorillas. Weber and...
Fire management; Fires; Invasive species; Policies; Prescribed burning
This is a handbook describing the correlation between fire management and the introduction of invasive species. It offers procedures for fire managers to follow in order to prevent the spread of invasive species as an unintended result of fire...
The National Survey of Fishing,
Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated
Recreation (Survey) has been
conducted since 1955 and is one of
the oldest and most comprehensive
continuing recreation surveys. The
Survey collects information on the
number...
