Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS); Service patch;
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees move (known as 'crowding' juvenile Tule Fall Chinook salmon to the end of a raceway, or "pond," where the fish will enter an opened raceway gate, swim down a Hatchery channel, and then out the...
After being removed from a Hatchery raceway where they have spent the past few months, Tule Fall Chinook salmon pre-smolts swim down this channel, out the Hatchery intake pipe their parents entered six months ago, and enter the Columbia River.
The Crimson Pitcher Plant is a carnivorous plant with tall, pitcher-like leaves with red lines that produce nectar and in turn attract insects to fall into the tall, hollow tube that collects rainwater.
Monarch butterflies are among the few species of butterflies that migrate every year. They have a challenging journey. Every fall, thousands of monarch butterflies fly west to winter in California and Mexico. They cover the trees there with their...
Monarch butterflies are among the few species of butterflies that migrate every year. They have a challenging journey. Every fall, thousands of monarch butterflies fly west to winter in California and Mexico. They cover the trees there with their...
Rachel Carson NWR, Wells, Maine: Named for the renowned author of Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson Refuge consists of a series of estuarine habitats along the southeastern coast of Maine. Here one will find salt marshes...
Bond Swamp NWR, Round Oak, Georgia: Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge sits on the fall line that separates the piedmont plateau and the coastal plains.
Bombay Hook NWR, Smyrna, Delaware: The story of Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is a story of waterfowl--hundreds of thousands of ducks and geese arriving in the fall to rest and feed before heading further south or to winter over. The...
