The Alaska Wilderness League has posted a short but very powerful video that explains why it’s so important to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from energy development — especially after it’s now been revealed that oil industry spill plans are essentially worthless.
I urge you to click the full-screen setting on the player below so [...]

As this blog reported on August 6, the National Park Service recently recommended running a major two-state electrical line through portions of the newly minted Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Pennsylvania. The suggestions for running the line through different parts of the refuge were among a larger group of alternative routes proposed by the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, which is based in Delaware, is leading the wildlife response effort in the Gulf of Mexico for the BP oil spill. Tri-State has been on the Gulf Coast since the last week in April and is working with their West Coast colleagues, International Bird Rescue Research Center, and the U.S. [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association issued their first grant from a special fund set up to aid refuge Friends groups responding to the Gulf disaster. The grant went to the Friends of the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama. The $3,000 grant is for a project to stabilize the refuge’s sand dunes and attempt [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has published a “Frequently Asked Questions for People Interested in Volunteering to Help with Wildlife Oil Spill Response Activities.”
Additional documents related to the BP oil spill response can be found on the Unified Command for the BP Oil Spill website.
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National Wildlife Refuge System, BP oil spill

The San Antonio Express-News reports that oil found on McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge in Texas has tested positive at two labs as coming from the BP oil spill.

The vegetation found coated with oil Friday is mostly water hyacinths, which are freshwater plants that often end up in the gulf after several days of heavy rain.
Tim [...]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service senior biologist James Harris provides an interesting look at the types of oil spill booms being deployed to help reduce the impact of the BP oil spill on Gulf Coast national wildlife refuges.

Sea turtle eggs are being removed from nests by responders on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan calls for collecting about 70,000 turtle eggs in up to 800 nests buried in the sand across Florida’s Panhandle and Alabama beaches. The eggs will be relocated to an area [...]

This photo shows Jeff Phillips, Environmental Contaminants Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, rescuing a brown pelican from the Barataria Bay in Grand Isle, Louisiana. State and federal wildlife services pulled approximately 60 Brown Pelicans, in the last two days, covered in oil from the Barataria Bay area.
The USFWS reports that 561 of [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association praised the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for their decision to halt Louisiana’s dredging operations near Breton National Wildlife Refuge off Louisiana’s coast.
The state of Louisiana had been given permission to dredge sand for protective berms related to the state’s oil spill [...]