The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey has a new Visitor Information Center, which just had its official opening on Saturday. The beautiful $1.2 million structure replaces a 28-year-old building, and it will be staffed by volunteers with the Friends of Forsythe.
The Forsythe NWR consists of more than 47,000 acres of southern [...]

At this time of year, many coastal refuges around the country are witnessing the return of their ospreys. Many ospreys in the U.S. spend their winters down south (in Central and South America) and return north for the breeding season.
This photo shows an osprey chick at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. Chicks [...]

Unfortunately the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia had a run of bad luck when 71 mph winds blew down part of their Eagle Cam nest and all three eggs were lost.
According to DelmarvaNow.com:

The disappointment of the fallen nest hit park ranger Sally Bowden like a brick when she opened the visitor center Saturday [...]

At last week’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region Biologists Conference, an interesting video was posted regarding the Common Tern and Roseate Tern restoration efforts at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge off Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has posted a wonderful video highlighting Rappahannock National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia.
Established in 1996, the goal of the refuge is to protect 20,000 acres of wetlands and associated uplands along the river and its major tributaries. As of September 2008, a total of 8,191 acres have been [...]

The endangered Delmarva fox squirrel is named for the location of its historic range on the Delmarva Peninsula, which includes Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and eastern Virginia (DEL-MAR-VA). The largest natural population of the Delmarva fox squirrel is located at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, although a growing population lives at Chincoteague [...]

Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge in West Virginia has announced an interpretive snowshoe walk on February 6, 2011 at 1 pm. Central Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative (CASRI) Coordinator Evan Burks will lead the walk, which will focus on restoration of the red spruce ecosystem.
The red spruce forest — which provides critical habitat for West Virginia [...]

The Friends of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge have been broadcasting images from a live Eagle Cam at a natural nest at the refuge since late 2004. Blackwater NWR is the largest refuge in Maryland and hosts the biggest breeding population of bald eagles on the East Coast north of Florida.
The Blackwater Eagle Cam nest has [...]

Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, Maryland holds a special place in the hearts of all who cherish wildlife, as it’s the nation’s only national wildlife refuge dedicated to wildlife research.
Established in 1936 by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the facility has a long track record of historically important work with environmental contaminants including [...]

The Friends of Blackwater NWR have posted a new video to their YouTube Channel that gives viewers a chance to hear and see the tens of thousands of migratory birds that are currently spending part of their winter at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, Maryland.
Blackwater NWR was established in 1933 as a refuge [...]

DelmarvaNow.com reports that Accomack County supervisors — on a 5 to 4 vote — have approved a request to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and National Park Service officials to use fencing or natural material on Assateague beach to try to trap sand.
The fencing is controversial because many believe it will actually cause the loss of [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Northeast Region posted this wonderful photo on their Flickr page showing one of the “shell trees” on Wild Beach at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge / Assateague Island National Seashore (NPS). Visitors like to decorate the remnants of trees, once in the marsh, but now overtaken by the beach as [...]