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Interior Funding in Economic Recovery Act Would Create 100,000 Jobs
February 10 2009
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Senator Benjamin Cardin and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Congressman John Sarbanes visited Patuxent Research Refuge and Wildlife Research Center in Maryland to highlight the job creation and conservation benefits of President Obama’s economic recovery plan, which is currently before Congress. The investments in the Department of the Interior that are included in the President’s plan would create an estimated 100,000 jobs over the next two years

Congressman John Sarbanes, Senator Benjamin Cardin, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today visited Patuxent Research Refuge and Wildlife Research Center in Maryland. [Photo Credit: Tami Heilemann, DOI-NBC]

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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation

This Valentine’s Day Fall in Love with Nature
February 6, 2009
Valentine’s Day is a perfect time to fall in love with nature. Go outside to experience the excitement of a majestic bald eagle or the thrill of a bright red cardinal, whether in your own backyard or at one of America’s national wildlife refuges. There is a national wildlife refuge or fish hatchery just an hour’s drive from most major metropolitan areas, and all offer inviting portals to the natural world.

Northern Cardinal Credit: USFWS

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Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation

National Fish Hatchery Invites Children into the Wild
February 5, 2009
Elementary school students are exploring, playing and learning on their own terms on a 20 acre wetland on the grounds of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Genoa National Fish Hatchery in Wisconsin. Through an interview and photos, hatchery staffer Jenny Walker-Bailey shares her experiences on how a National Fish Hatchery that raises endangered native fish and mussels is also helping to connect children with nature.

A student, in nature, at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery. Credit: Jenny Walker-Bailey / USFWS

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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources

Salazar Promotes Economic Benefits of Conservation Investments in Visit to Rocky Mountain Arsenal
February 3, 2009
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, accompanied by regional Service leadership and staff, toured the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Denver, Colorado on Friday, January 30, to get a first-hand look at one of the nation's premier urban wildlife refuges and learn more about planned conservation projects at the refuge and throughout Colorado that would boost the nation's economy.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar with regional Service leadership and staff at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Tami Heileimann/DOI

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Protecting Our Nation's Wildlife Resources
Service, State Investigators Expose Striped Bass Trafficking
February 2, 2009
A cooperative undercover investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Maryland Natural Resources Police and Virginia Marine Police has secured Federal charges against five commercial fishermen, a fish wholesale business, its owner and an employee for illegally harvesting and selling hundreds of thousands of pounds of striped bass.

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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
Ultralight-Led Whooping Cranes Reach Florida
January 22, 2009
Seven of 14 ultra-light led migrating whooping cranes arrived at Florida’s St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on Saturday, January 17 after traveling more than 1,200 miles from their summer grounds at Necedah NWR in Wisconsin. Half of the flock is expected to remain at St. Marks NWR for the winter.

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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Assigned Jurisdiction over New National Marine Monuments
January 21, 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been given responsibility for overall management of three new marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean.

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Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
Service Releases Interim Update on Status of Greater Sage Grouse
January 16, 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is making available an interim update reflecting the Service’s ongoing synthesis of the biological information currently available regarding the status of the Greater sage-grouse.

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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
Nestucca Bay NWR Gains Ground Under Plan to Purchase Western Lands
January 14, 2009
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer announced today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is among four Federal land-management agencies in the process of acquiring 12 pieces of property in seven Western states with $4.7 million from a special land conservation fund.

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Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
Service Removes Gray Wolf Populations from Endangered Species List
January 14, 2009
Deputy Secretary of the Interior Lynn Scarlett announced today the removal of the western Great Lakes population and portions of the northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolves from protection under the Endangered Species Act.

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