The West Oakland, CA, post office as it is today, left, and as the author imagines it with a rooftop refuge. (D.C. Carr/USFWS)
As South Bronx eco-entrepreneur Majora Carter was explaining her block-by-block green-the-ghetto philosophy …
First Impressions of a National Wildlife Refuge
Eleven AmeriCorps NCCC (National Community Civilian Corps) members spent eight weeks this summer at J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge in north-central North Dakota working on prescribed burns and environmental conservation projects. The 18-to-24-year-old members, who come from all over …
“Staff Rides” Provide Great Training
This past June at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge (CMR) in Montana, I took our fire crew on a “staff ride,” a training technique that is relatively new to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The field-trip-technique is a …
25th Anniversary of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program
Mission: To efficiently achieve voluntary habitat restoration on private lands, through financial and technical assistance, for the benefit of federal trust species.
The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (Program) was officially established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service …
Let’s Connect Locally With College Students
As Conserving the Future implementation teams consider how to attract larger audiences to national wildlife refuges and the mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I recommend those teams encourage individual refuges to connect directly with undergraduate college students.…
