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 [...]

KETV in Omaha has posted a video report on the major changes occurring at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, which is near Omaha, Nebraska and has been closed since a levee breech resulted in massive flooding at the refuge.
DeSoto NWR, which won’t likely reopen until spring of 2012, saw $3 million of damage and an end [...]

The Friends of Seney National Wildlife Refuge in Michigan have a wonderful Flickr account that you can visit for charming photos such as this one — showing a piping plover chick in the process of being banded at the refuge.

KCAUtv.com in Sioux City, Iowa has posted video of flood waters entering DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa.

In less than 24 hours, the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley, Iowa has been overwhelmed by the Missouri River.
All this fast flooding is due to a secondary levee breach nearby. The main levee did not protect [...]

The Midland Daily News reports that Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge in central Michigan has been having a hard time getting its Wildlife Drive open.
First there were late-nesting bald eagles along the road, then April floods, then a flood control levee that washed out, causing substantial damage.

“Several hundred acres (of the federal refuge) went [...]

The Star-Times in Wisconsin is reporting that Necedah National Wildlife Refuge will no longer be the Wisconsin home of Operation Migration, which uses ultralight aircraft to train migrating endangered whooping cranes.
Richard King, NNWR biologist, said that recent completion of the 10-year plan by Operation Migration has led to the ultralight-led chick training being held elsewhere [...]

Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge is located in northwestern Missouri. The 7,415-acre refuge was established in 1935 as a resting, feeding, and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife. Early March is a great time to view snow geese at Squaw Creek NWR, which hosts upwards of 500,000 of the geese, as seen in [...]

Seney National Wildlife Refuge in northern Michigan was established in 1935 for the protection of migratory birds and other wildlife. Today the refuge is comprised of a rich mosaic of marshes, swamps, bogs, grasslands, and forests that incorporates over 95,000 acres, making it one of the largest refuges east of the Mississippi.
Seney NWR provides habitat [...]

Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge is located on 50,000 acres in southeastern Indiana — land that was the location of the Jefferson Proving Ground (JPG). JPG was established by the Army in 1940 as an ordnance testing installation and closed in 1995. Beginning in 1996, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service managed the wildlife [...]

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 [...]

StarTribune.com recently reported on efforts to expand the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge at a time when buying land is difficult for most.
In the late 1990s, plans to add a fourth runway to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport led to a settlement whereby the Minnesota Valley Trust was created to manage a one-time, $26 million [...]

Triblocal.com reports that the Sierra Club is supporting the creation of Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring a national wildlife refuge to the Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison-Rockford metropolitan area,” said Jack Darin, director of the Illinois Chapter. “Over 12 million people would have easy access to the refuge [...]