According to the Port Clinton News Herald, the beautiful new visitor center at the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, which lies along the southern edge of Lake Erie in Ohio, has won an award for energy efficiency from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Ottawa Wildlife Refuge visitor center received the Energy Department’s award for Sustainable Design [...]

Red Orbit News recently reported on a story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the struggles to restore the endangered whooping crane.
First, the good news:

A record six pairs of whooping cranes have been seen incubating eggs this month on Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, ground zero in the effort to reintroduce the rarest of all the [...]

Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, which is a 9500-acre refuge just south of Saginaw, Michigan, will be unveiling an enhanced 7.5-mile Wildlife Drive loop that will offer visitors a more intimate look at the refuge.
The road, which will open in late 2009 or early 2010, was funded by the federal government. According to the Saginaw News: [...]

The Fond du Lac Reporter in southeastern Wisconsin is reporting that the Horicon Marsh Systems Advocates — an environmental advocacy group — has pledged to closely monitor the wind farm that will soon be built at least two miles from Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.
The HMS Advocates have been fighting the wind farm project [...]

The Detroit Lakes Tribune published a nice editorial letter on October 30 that sums up the joy that many volunteers feel when offering their time to a national wildlife refuge. The person who wrote the letter volunteers at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge, in the glacial lake country of northwestern Minnesota. Tarmarac was established in 1938 [...]

In the last few months, two natural disasters have hit several national wildlife refuges hard. The August flooding in the Midwest has had a costly impact on the Upper Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The Associated Press reports:
Days of flash flooding in August along the Minnesota-Wisconsin line left parts of the refuge scarred and [...]