On September 11, 2001, Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge Manager Rich Guadagno was aboard hijacked United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, killing all aboard. Rich had just finished a visit with his family on the East Coast and was on his way back to Humboldt in California.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [...]

From June 19-21, more than 60 volunteers and approximately 10 personnel of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (from Sheldon and Hart Mountain refuges) teamed up to improve habitat for pronghorn antelope and other wildlife, as well as enhance the boundary of the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in northern Nevada.
Volunteers removed 10 miles of unnecessary [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking comments until June 30, 2009 regarding the creation of El Toro National Wildlife Refuge in Orange County, California. But not all is smooth with the creation of the refuge. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council:

In 2001, a portion of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air [...]

The Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting that Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada will finally open to the public for one day a week (8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays), thanks to volunteers who are pitching in at the understaffed refuge.
The Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge was established September 10, 1979 to secure [...]

On December 29, 2008, The Fresno Bee in California reported that a 10-year extension is being sought on an agreement that has allowed toxic water to flow through San Luis National Wildlife Refuge.
The San Luis NWR includes over 26,600 acres of wetlands, riparian forests, native grasslands and vernal pools. The refuge is a major wintering [...]

Earlier this week, the Gallup Independent reported on the release of the West-Wide Energy Corridor Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, which analyzes the environmental impacts of opening more than 6,112 miles of energy corridors on federal lands in 11 western states.
According to the Independent:
Federal agencies involved in designating the proposed West-Wide Energy Corridor have [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed altering the grazing program at Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, which encompasses 14,097 acres in southwestern Kern County, California, and is part of the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex: California Condor Recovery Program.
The Center for Biological Diversity is asking people to submit letters of support (via [...]

On August 8, supporters, staff and friends will be celebrating a century of conservation in the Klamath Basin. Today’s date is one hundred years to the day that Theodore Roosevelt established Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge by Executive Order.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lower Klamath NWR (on the California-Oregon border) was the [...]

The PolitickerCA is reporting that California Congressmen George Miller (D, CA-7), Pete Stark (D, CA-13), and Sam Farr (D, CA-17) are hoping to pass HR 6479, which would join seven California national wildlife refuges into the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex. The complex, which would extend from San Francisco to the Monterey Bay, [...]

The Associated Press reports that seven endangered California condors — about 20 percent of Southern California’s population — have been found with lead poisoning.
The birds were found about a month ago during trappings at Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, which is located in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley foothills of Kern County, California. One bird [...]

Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, which was established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt as the first refuge for migratory waterfowl and marsh birds, will be celebrating its Centennial Anniversary this year. The refuge, which covers almost 51,000 acres, is located in the Klamath Basin along a portion of the southern Oregon and northern [...]

On the community website Gather.com, community member Jennifer F. — whose parents have worked at various national parks — has posted a beautiful photo essay of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, which is located approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas in the Amargosa Valley of southern Nye County, Nevada.
Ash Meadows NWR was established [...]