Alaskan Alpine Treks has posted a wonderful video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Sit back and enjoy the photographic splendor. And someone please send this to Representatives John Boehner and Michele Bachmann. It will save them another plane trip to the refuge looking for wildlife.
 

The Friends of Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina posted a wonderful video on their Facebook page of red wolves howling. These wolves reside at an enclosure at the Sewee Visitor and Environmental Education Center located at the refuge. Visit the Friends’ Facebook page to watch the video and enjoy the impressive howling.
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John Klavitter, the acting manager of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge has spent almost 9 years on Midway Island. In this video clip, he takes a closer look inside one of the Midway albatross chicks that has been killed by plastic garbage from the ocean.
 

Tylar Greene is a senior at George Washington University studying journalism and geography, and she was also a city-girl-turned-conservation-intern at Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge in New Hampshire/Maine.
In this video, Tylar explains how she overcame her fear of new things during her internship experience at the refuge, and she relates how supportive the refuge staff [...]

Arkansas Educational Television Network has posted a nice video on YouTube featuring a canoe trip through Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. Cache River is well known for being the site of a possible ivory-billed woodpecker sighting a few years back — a species thought to be extinct. The video features some historical footage [...]

As this blog reported on July 27 and July 28, there has been an ongoing controversy at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware about saltwater intrusion into a series of freshwater marshes that for decades have been maintained using water-control devices to keep freshwater in and saltwater out.
Adding to the controversy is the fact [...]

The Alaska Wilderness League has posted a short but very powerful video that explains why it’s so important to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from energy development — especially after it’s now been revealed that oil industry spill plans are essentially worthless.
I urge you to click the full-screen setting on the player below so [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just posted a video about the problem of sea level rise at Bulls Island, which is a barrier island at Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina. Over the past several years, staff at Bulls Island have seen the beach disappear before their eyes at an alarming rate, [...]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service senior biologist James Harris provides an interesting look at the types of oil spill booms being deployed to help reduce the impact of the BP oil spill on Gulf Coast national wildlife refuges.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has posted an interesting video that looks at the impact of climate change on the National Wildlife Refuge System and what biologists and refuge managers are doing to prepare for the challenges of a changing environment.

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National Wildlife Refuge System, climate change, US Fish and Wildlife Service

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of perhaps the most famous refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System — the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And for all those in the media and on the Internet who keep getting the name wrong after all these decades: It’s not Alaska National Wildlife Refuge — [...]

WGCU Public Media has posted an entertaining video about Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. In the video, you can see the habitat and wildlife diversity that the refuge offers, and also meet a member of the staff and two volunteers who talk about the importance of protecting the refuge.

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national wildlife refuge, Florida Panther [...]