Local media sources in Oklahoma report that a suspicious fire has destroyed a new administrative building at Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oklahoma. The building was about 35% complete, and according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the refuge had been waiting 10 years to get the building, which would have included [...]

In the Summer 2010 edition of the “Friends Forward” newsletter (pg. 4), Claire Goad, the president of the Friends of Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in New York, states that the new visitor center and administrative complex at Wertheim NWR will feature a 5000-image, floor-to-ceiling photo mosaic of an osprey — a very popular raptor at [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued their Summer 2010 issue of “Friends Forward”.
Read this latest issue to find out more about all the exciting programs and initiatives that volunteers are undertaking to help the USFWS in their work on national wildlife refuges around the country.
 

The Pocono Record reports that the National Park Service has recommended running a major two-state electrical line through portions of the newly minted Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Pennsylvania.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved the Cherry Valley NWR in 2008 and recognized it as a unique area worthy of protection:

Cherry Valley National Wildlife [...]

It’s a tough world out there for piping plover chicks. These diminutive and well-camouflaged birds are sometimes trampled by beach goers, eaten by dogs, or found crushed in the wheel tracks of beach vehicles.
The adults create a nest scrape that is a depression in the sand somewhere on the high beach close to the [...]

The Nevada Appeal reports that refuge managers want wild horses at Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada — animals they describe as “exotic invasive species” — to be gone within five years.

The refuge was established decades ago to protect species including pronghorn antelope. But, according to Paul Steblein, project leader at the refuge, wild horses [...]

N.C. lawmaker’s bill proposes to expand size of Corolla herd

Sheriff’s Department Conducts Transient Sweep at San Diego NWR

In the Middle of Nowhere, Snooping on Sea Turtles

Bald Eagle Comeback Pressures Coastal Seabirds

Boats restricted near shoreline of refuge on Narrow River

Marine National Monument Declaired a World Heritage Site

Lawsuit Filed to Stop 677-mile Ruby Pipeline and [...]

Entertainer Jimmy Buffett and Dragonfly Boatworks in Vero Beach, Florida have donated a boat specially designed to navigate the shallow waters and marshes of the Gulf Coast to retrieve oil-soaked wildlife. The vessel was given to the Friends of the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, the non-profit citizens’ support group for Bon Secour National Wildlife [...]