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A New Look At Your National Wildlife Refuges


You can hunt on a refuge?

That’s the response National Wild Turkey Federation Director of Education Christine Rolka heard from some of her colleagues after returning from a course at the National Conservation Training Center, a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service training facility in Shepherdstown, WV. The training showcased ways to collaborate on the shared goals in Conserving the Future: Wildlife Refuges and the Next Generation and increasing opportunities to hunt, fish and recreate on refuges caught Rolka’s eye.  The National Wild Turkey Federation is now partnering with national wildlife refuges from across the country to educate their local chapters about the vast hunting opportunities on refuges.  Read more in the feature story: 

A New Look At Your National Wildlife Refuges

The NWTF and the Hunting, Fishing and Outdoor Recreation Implementation team are working closely to develop resources and foster these partnerships and look forward to introducing more of the public to the outdoors, especially hunting. Find out more in A New Look At Your National Wildlife Refuges, an article featured in the latest NWTF magazine Turkey Country.

Wilderness Vision – Carpe diem

Kodiak bear

Kodiak brown bear, Kodiak NWR, Alaska. (Image credit: James L. Cummins)

At the, “Conserving the Future,” US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Vision  Conference, I was inspired to hear Dewitt Jones’ presentation as he urged us all to embrace the words, “Carpe diem,” or “seize the day” every day of our lives.  Dewitt also talked about “Vision” and the importance of perspective as he retold a story his father passed on to him in childhood in which one individual considered himself a “stone chipper” and the other a “cathedral builder,” yet both were doing the same job.  Dewitt is right: Carpe diem combined with the right vision can truly result in mountains moving, and our task ahead as we work in conservation today is just that: we need to move mountains.  . . . And we need to, “move refuges”.

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Implementation Bound

Secretary Salazar

Secretary Salazar addresses FWS employees, partners, and Friends at the Conserving the Future Conference.

I’m conflicted. Which keynote speaker from today’s morning plenary at the Conserving the Future Conference did I like best?

National Geographic photographer Dewitt Jones provided truly inspiring words punctuated with the most beautiful images.   Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar took the stage and bravely took to task the U.S. House of Representatives budget, listing its drastic cuts to the federal conservation budget that would decimate so programs created to protect America’s natural resources.  

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The Youth’s Next Step

How will today's youth shape the future of conservation?

I don’t know about any of the other “youth” out there and members of the “next generation,” but I’m starting to feel some pressure.  After such an inspiring few days, full of amazing speakers and panelists, it is hard for me to walk away from this without wondering what my role will end up being in assisting the Refuge System make this Vision Document come to fruition.  Although I’m only two summers into my journey with refuges, I consider my 20 year-old-self a youth who has already been recruited and introduced to wildlife refuges.  So now I pause, think, and realize I have my work cut out for me.

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Old and New Ideas we can all Share

Evan Hirsche

Evan Hirsche, President of NWRA, was one of many inspiring speakers on Wednesday morning.

The theme of yesterday’s conference programs focused on partners, building constituencies and keeping the Refuge System relevant to a changing America.  In the morning lecture series we heard from speakers representing state wildlife agencies, the President of the NWRA, the young conservation leader Juan Martinez, from a group of schoolchildren, and from leaders in the National Wildlife Refuge System.

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