This month, four endangered whooping crane chicks hatched in the wild at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin. It has been a banner year for the cranes at Necedah, with 20 pairs of the endangered birds nesting at the…
Celebrating Migratory Birds
Ever since President Theodore Roosevelt established the very first national wildife refuge in 1903 to protect pelicans at Pelican Island, Florida, refuges have been critical to birds. From hundreds of thousands of neotropical migrant songbirds that rest and feed at…
Conserving the Future: The Next Steps
Although the Conserving the Future: Wildlife Refuges and the Next Generation vision process continues on into July 2011, this Earth Day (April 22) marked the closing of the 60-day public comment period for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s draft…
Refuges Need YOU on Earth Day: Helping is as Easy as 1-2-3!
“A Billion Acts of Green” is the theme of Earth Day 2011, but in the spirit of thinking globally, but acting locally, we’re only asking for you to do three simple things to celebrate the 41st annual Earth Day on…
The Need for Diversity in our National Wildlife Refuges
It’s now official: America is an increasingly diverse nation, a melting pot with people from a large variety of ethnic backgrounds gathered under one roof. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, which in late March released details about America’s ethnic…
