Right now, there’s a lot to celebrate at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in coastal Massachusetts. According to The Daily News of Newburyport:

With a symbolic ribbon cutting, refuge staff and regional U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service representatives celebrated the completion of the headquarters complex itself — a project that began in 1985 when the nonprofit [...]

What do Hurricane Isabel and pileated woodpeckers have in common? They both paid a visit to Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge.
The Virginian Pilot recently reported on the impact of dead loblolly pine trees at the refuge — trees that died because their “feet” sat in saltwater for too long after the saltwater [...]

Back on July 14, this blog reported on an incident where a refuge volunteer helped to catch two people who had violated the law at a national wildlife refuge. The blog post also pointed out that the International Association of Chiefs of Police reported that the Refuge System needs 845 full-time law enforcement officers to [...]

The Puffin Cam is now live at Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge off the coast of Maine. The cam provides views of puffins, terns, guillemots, razorbills, murres, eiders and beautiful ocean scenes from the island.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:

Seal Island lies 21 miles off the coast of Rockland. This 65-acre island was [...]

Region 2 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently handed out their EPA Environmental Quality Awards, and one of the awards went to Marie Springer, founder and president of the Friends of Wallkill River Refuge in Sussex, New Jersey.
According to the EPA’s award page:

Marie Springer is the founder and President of the Friends of [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association has issued an action alert regarding a threat to Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia.
Three years ago, a proposal to build a marina next to the Back Bay NWR near Virginia Beach, Virginia was rejected after hundreds of concerned citizens contacted officials and condemned the project. Now the [...]

The Boston Globe reports that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local officials are getting closer to an agreement concerning new mosquito control procedures at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts.
Parker River NWR is near Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was established in 1942 to provide feeding, resting, and nesting habitat for migratory birds. [...]

Speaking of Virginia refuges that are expanding their boundaries (see Feb. 9 post), in a recent article in the Virginia Pilot, the newspaper reported on a new 47-acre addition to Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in coastal Virginia. The new acreage will help create a buffer between the refuge and local development, and will also [...]

In this blog entry, I continue my series of posts about the refuges that were included in the “Refuges at Risk” report that was put out by the Defenders of Wildlife toward the end of last year.
Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge, which is located in the fast-developing area of eastern Virginia, was listed as [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that a white fungus may have contributed to the deaths of some 8,000-10,000 bats in upstate New York last year, and once again this year, biologists are seeing the fungus on hibernating bats in New York and Vermont.
The Indiana bat, which is an endangered species, is one of [...]