The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, in partnership with the Gulf Response Involvement Team, is looking for over 400 volunteers to help with a 2-week long marsh restoration project within Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
Volunteers are needed to plant over 5,000 plugs of smooth and marshhay cordgrass per day [...]

Today’s image shows members of the Youth Conservation Corps removing invasive water chestnuts from Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.
Water chestnut is an aggressive invasive aquatic plant from Asia. One acre of water chestnut can produce enough seeds to cover 100 acres the following year. Their long spines are sharp enough to [...]

As we hear news that the first oil has reached the shores of Breton National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana, the National Wildlife Refuge Association has announced that they have established a Gulf oil spill relief fund and volunteer registry:

The National Wildlife Refuge Association, which works with tens of thousands of volunteers across the country in [...]

The National Wildlife Refuge Association has shared an update regarding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that could affect 20 national wildlife refuges before the disaster is over.
According to the NWRA:
The refuges facing imminent contamination are Breton and Delta National Wildlife Refuges off the coast of Louisiana and by this weekend Bon Secour in [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has published a new guide for creating sustainable collaborations between refuge Friends groups and refuge staff. The publication is titled “Soaring to New Heights” and is available on the USFWS website.
Topics include:
Friends & National Wildlife Refuges: The Value of Collaboration
A Solid Collaboration
Strategic Thinking
A Well-Managed Organization
Understand FWS Systems & Nonprofit [...]

The Kapio Newspress recently reported on a group of 17 students who visited Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on the Big Island and learned about the refuge while also restoring native plants.

Blaine Shimabukuro, 22, went on the trip for the second time. He said that after last year’s trip in November, the ecology club [...]

The Scranton Times Tribune recently reviewed a new book titled “Ecotourists Save the World: The Environmental Volunteer’s Guide to More Than 300 International Adventures to Conserve, Preserve, and Rehabilitate Wildlife and Habitats.”
The book is by Pamela K. Brodowsky and the National Wildlife Federation, and it covers over 300 sites around the world where tourists can [...]

Shore News Today recently published an article on New Jersey’s Friends of Cape May National Wildlife Refuge, which are celebrating their one-year anniversary of supporting the refuge.

“Increasing public awareness of the importance of the Refuge to migratory birds and other wildlife is essential to its protection,” explained New Jersey Audubon Society biologist Christina Frank, who [...]

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System and the National Conservation Training Center, and National Wildlife Refuge Association, is accepting applications from organizations interested in applying for a Nature of Learning grant. The Nature of Learning is the FWS 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.

Tags:
national wildlife refuge, Florida Panther [...]

The Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges have been awarded the “2010 Friends Group of the Year” award.
From the National Wildlife Refuge Association announcement:

The Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges will receive the Friends Group of the Year Award. Alaska is home to some of the largest and wildest refuges in the country. Some refuges, [...]

Zeeger de Wilde of the Chesapeake Marshlands NWR Complex in Maryland has been awarded the 2010 “Volunteer of the Year” award.
From the National Wildlife Refuge Association announcement:

Zeeger de Wilde will receive the Volunteer of the Year Award for his unwavering support and commitment to the volunteering on wildlife refuges and at the Chesapeake Marshlands National [...]