The U.S. Department of Interior announced the first donation of land for the new Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge in southern Florida.
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As part of President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today accepted the first donation of land in south-central Florida to officially establish the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge [...]

The Thief River Falls Times reports that Maggie Anderson has retired as manager of the Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota after 16 years as manager and after 38 years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
According to the article, prior to her time at Agassiz NWR, she was refuge manager at Petit Manan NWR [...]

On Capitol Hill these days there seems to be a fever that is pushing politicians to call for more and more budget cuts — often without even knowing the impact of the cuts — and that has led land agencies to look for other forms of funding, such as raising entrance fees.
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge [...]

The Washington Post reports that both the House and Senate have approved a bill that will rename the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. Hamilton was director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when he died of a sudden heart attack in early 2010 while [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released the draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and it includes action alternatives that support recommending Wilderness areas for Congressional consideration.
If the USFWS receives a strong enough response, this could be the first time that the Service could recommend Wilderness protection for [...]

From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced the selection of James (Jim) Kurth as the agency’s Chief for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Kurth, a 32-year veteran of the Refuge System, has served as the Service’s Deputy Chief for the Refuge System since 1999.
As Chief, Kurth [...]

For the past 18 months, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been working on formulating a 10-year blueprint for the future of the National Wildlife Refuge System — a process which culminated in the “Conserving the Future” conference in Wisconsin back in July.
Entitled Conserving the Future: Wildlife Refuges and the Next Generation, the Service’s [...]

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a special semipostal stamp to benefit elephants, rhinoceros, tigers, great apes, and marine turtles under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s “Wildlife Without Borders” Multinational Species Conservation Funds.
Only the fourth of its kind, this stamp is now available in post offices nationwide and will remain on sale for at [...]

Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, which is located on the southern end of Assateague Island in Virginia and which is part of a popular beach community, is in the process of writing their Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP), which is required of each refuge in the nation.
The difference for Chincoteague is that some of the CCP [...]

Shore News Today published a profile of Brian Braudis, the new refuge manager at Cape May National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey.
Although Braudis is new to the job, he already has nice things to say about the Friends of Cape May:

Braudis expressed appreciation to The Friends of Cape May National Wildlife Refuge for its devotion [...]

The new director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently made some of his first public comments since assuming his new position. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Director Dan Ashe, who was attending the Outdoor Writers Association of America Conference at Snowbird, expressed concerns over the budget cutting proposals put forth by House [...]

The Wisconsin State Journal proudly proclaimed in its paper that the National Wildlife Refuge System will be holding its “Vision Conference” in Madison, Wisconsin this coming week.

Hundreds of professional and citizen conservationists will be in Madison next week to help finalize a new vision for the country’s 553 national wildlife refuges.
The refuge system holds a [...]