The Albuquerque Journal reports that Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) had an earmark in the omnibus spending bill in Congress that would have provided $1 million for land acquisition at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge near Socorro, New Mexico. Republicans — who had put millions of dollars of their own earmarks in the bill — suddenly [...]

The National Park Service published an announcement in the Federal Register on December 14 saying that Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia and Florida is on their tentative list for nomination as a possible World Heritage Site. The public has thirty days to comment on all the nominees, which include both cultural sites (such as [...]

NWCN.com in Washington State has posted a wonderful video of the new tidal boardwalk at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, near Olympia, Washington.
The $2.7 million boardwalk is going to be a birders’ paradise:

Refuge managers say bird watchers are already reporting sightings of species they’ve never seen before at this site and the boardwalk isn’t even [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that the Michael Dunn property in Derby, Vermont is now part of the National Wildlife Refuge System. The 458-acre parcel, on the shore of Lake Memphremagog along the state’s border with Canada, was donated to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service according to the terms of [...]

The Washington Post reports that the presidential commission investigating the BP oil spill response found that the sand berms built off the Louisiana coast did little to stop the oil.
Despite intense pressure from Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) and other state officials demanding that the berms be built, the commission said scientists who predicted [...]

2 Florida Panthers Killed by Vehicles in 2 Days

Vermont property now a part of the National Wildlife Refuge System

North Beach restoration project at Archie Carr NWR nears completion, for now

Cold kills record number of manatees

Hoosier Environmental Council honors manager for land work

Joe Duggan: Photographing a snow goose squall at Squaw Creek NWR

Aleutian geese take refuge [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association announced on their Facebook page last week that NWRA President Evan Hirsche recently visited Southwest Airlines Headquarters at Love Field in Texas, where he was presented with a check for $100,000 in support of ongoing Gulf oil response efforts. Southwest Airlines continues to be a wonderful supporter of the National [...]

April 14, 2010 marked the 75th anniversary of “Black Sunday” — the day in 1935 when the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl era swept across the Central Plains, darkening skies as far east as Chicago and Washington, DC. This largely man–made disaster, resulting from unsound farming practices aggravated by drought, displaced hundreds of [...]

On December 10, the “Today Show” featured an interesting segment about the manatees at Three Sisters Springs in Florida. As this blog reported on July 29, The Conservation Fund, the National Wildlife Refuge Association, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service completed a major conservation agreement earlier this year that resulted in the protection of [...]

Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge and Management Area is located in southwestern Indiana within the historically important north-south flyway of the Wabash River Basin. Established in 1994, as the 502nd national wildlife refuge in the country, the refuge currently contains just over 6,000 acres.
The refuge has been in the news lately because of a proposed [...]

Many steps ahead before Fish and Wildlife Service establishes refuge

Obama Offshore Oil Plan Fails to Protect Fragile Arctic,
Polar Bears From Drilling

Florence archery hunter bags fossil of aquatic reptile

Saving America’s Last Great Wilderness

Fifty Years of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Alaska Oil Spill Fears Ease As Freighter Nears Harbor

George Mouk, “father” of Black Bayou Lake NWR, [...]

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. No refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System is as well known — and as vigorously fought over — as the Arctic Refuge.
While much is written about the Arctic NWR, much bad information continues to circulate. Many in the media get [...]