I began my position as an Urban Refuge Intern with Patuxent Research Refuge in September of 2012, just as the school year was beginning.  This being an off-refuge position, I spent the majority of my time in […]

“It all depends on the moon,” she replied, when I asked her about the best time to cast out into the surf at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge.  Today was about exploration– of the refuge, of our equipment, […]

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With spring upon us, the Conserving the Future vision teams continue to work hard pumping out draft products!  The Interpretation and Environmental Education (I&EE) implementation team has been busy drafting two […]

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 […]

The Urban Wildlife Refuge Initiative Implementation Team is looking for suggestions on a name designation for the National Wildlife Refuge System’s new urban presence initiative and need YOUR vote! The goal is to […]

This post is from the January/February issue of Refuge Update

Conserving the Future concepts are getting real.

As spring and fall dates for some finalized plans draw near, many implementation teams are […]

Two words keep coming up as the nine Conserving the Future implementation teams plan for a new tomorrow: communications and partnerships.

We’re wildly successful and notably lacking in each. How’s that […]

I returned to my childhood neighborhood this week for a few days with family.  For me, such trips are always mixed.  I love spending time with my mother, catching up, and my little sister with her unbelievably […]

By Jim Kurth, Chief, National Wildlife Refuge System

National wildlife refuges offer worlds to be explored.

Spanning more than 150 million acres, more than 550 units and 38 Wetland Management Districts, the […]

The Scientific Excellence Implementation Team has been taking  steps toward  Conserving the Future: Wildlife Refuges and the Next Generation that “we are committed to a culture of scientific excellence, adhering […]

 

 

 

 

 
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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. Hundreds of refuges – rural refuges as well as urban refuges –…[Read more]

We Get By With a Little Help from our Friends…   Actually, it’s more than just a little help. In fact, in 2011 alone, almost 42,000 volunteers contributed over 1.5 million hours of time to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That’s why it was crucial to have two recommendations in the Conserving the Future : Wildlife Refuges and the [...]

As we look forward at how to strategically grow the National Wildlife Refuge System, we cannot ignore the many Service programs that build support and partnerships that benefit our National Wildlife Refuges.  One of those programs is the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (Partners) .  The program was born in western Minnesota through the…[Read more]

One year ago a conference in Madison, WI, literally changed my life — and I know I’m not the only one. Last summer I was on a two-month detail in Fort Collins, CO, working for Mark Chase in the newly minted Natural Resource Program Center. Coming from the Wildlife and Sport Fish program, this was my first [...]

By: Marcia Pradines When I was in middle school, I remember starting what we called an environmental club. I was pleasantly surprised when over eighty students came to the inaugural meeting.  We did simple little things as expressions of our ecological conscious. I fall squarely within Generation X, so this was years before sustainability was a…[Read more]