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12/16/2002: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Places Temporary Buoys at Eleven Federa...

The Big Bend Manatee Sanctuary is a manatee sanctuary, containing approximately 12.08 ha (29.85 acres), at the Tampa Electric Company¡¡s Big Bend Electric Generating Station¡¡s discharge canal in Tampa Bay, Hillsborough County. The Port Sutton Manatee Sanctuary is a seasonal manatee sanctuary, encompassing approximately 1.1 ha (2.7 acres), at the warm water discharge of the Tampa Electric Company...

11/13/2002: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Dedicates Land to “Duck Cop”

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent Joe Oliveros has left a reputation and a legacy. To honor that legacy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today dedicated an 1,000-acre area east of Mer Rouge, LA to his memory. Commissioned as a Service Special Agent in 1981, Oliveros won the Guy Bradley Award in 1999, the highest recognition a wildlife law enforcement agent can receive. ...

10/16/2002: Sanibel Island Restoration Management Partnership Receives 2002 Coasta...

Florida’s Sanibel Island Restoration Management Partnership has received The 2002 Coastal America Partnership Award today at J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Sanibel. The Partnership includes The City of Sanibel, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who are working together to implement an innovative restoration plan to save Sanibel Is...

5/31/2002: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Appoints New Refuge Manager for Lake Wo...

A 22-year U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service veteran, Harold A. Morrow is the new refuge manager at Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge in DeLeon Springs, Florida. For the past 4 years, Morrow has served as Deputy Project Leader at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in St. Marks, Florida. In 1979, he began as a temporary Biological Aid at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri Valley, Iowa a...

3/5/2002: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Presents Awards for Outstanding Contrib...

New Orleans, LA: In New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 4, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) Southeast Regional Director Sam D. Hamilton presented Regional Director’s Conservation Awards to two people and an organization that are making exceptional contributions to wildlife conservation in the Southeast. Individual awards were given to Kathleen Paynter of the Friends of Lake Woodruff Na...

1/2/2002: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Designates Two Federal Refuges in Breva...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today extended federal protection to Barge Canal and Sykes Creek in Brevard County, Florida, establishing the two waterways as protected areas for the endangered Florida manatee. The Service will continue its close coordination with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission regarding the Commissionïs proposed manatee protection actions. "Slow" speed...

12/6/2001: U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE SELECTS MANAGER FOR NEW VIEQUES REFUGE

The Fish and Wildlife Service has selected Oscar Diaz as the first manager of Vieques National Wildlife Refuge in the Caribbean Islands. Since 1999, Diaz served as the Fish and Wildlife Conservationist at the largest U.S. Naval Station in the world, Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The Service manages the 94-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System that encompasses more than 535 nation...

10/31/2001: Third Revision to Florida Manatee Recovery Plan Completed

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today the completion of the revised recovery plan for the Florida subspecies of the West Indian manatee, an endangered species native to the coastal and intercostal waterways of the southeastern United States. This is the third revision of the recovery plan for Florida manatees. In this revision, the Service presents criteria for potential future recl...

8/13/2001: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Final Interim Strategy to Pro...

Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its final interim strategy for evaluating future watercraft access projects in Florida that may affect the endangered Florida manatee. The interim strategy incorporates Florida’s increased law enforcement efforts to minimize manatee-watercraft collisions, the most significant human-cause of manatee death and injury. The State has reassigned 23 l...

8/2/2001: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Protection Areas for West Indi...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will submit a proposed rule tomorrow to the Federal Register that would establish 16 Federal protection areas for the West Indian manatee, an endangered marine mammal that inhabits the coastal and inland waterways of the southeastern United States, in eight Florida counties. Recognizing the important role of its State and local partners, the Service will continu...

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