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unusual facts about United States Fish and Wildlife Service


Reed Island Creek

The National Wetlands Inventory performed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service have documented three wetlands along Sulphur Spring Branch.


Beluga caviar

The Beluga sturgeon is currently considered to be critically endangered, causing the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to ban in 2005 the importation of Beluga caviar which originated in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea basin.

Bradley Moore Davis

He held a position at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. (1897–1905) and at the Bureau of Fisheries.

Criterion Wind Project

A lawsuit was filed in December 2010 against the Criterion Wind Project alleging that the project must obtain an Incidental Take Permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for any Indiana bats killed or injured by the turbine blades.

Gary Sherrer

Sherrer oversaw the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's efforts to protect the Lesser Prairie Chicken, which avoided the need to place the animal under the protections of the Endangered Species Act by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard

The Navy is also transferring property at the shipyard to other government agencies such as Fish and Wildlife Service refuge, a Forest Service office building, an Army Reserve Center, a Coast Guard communications facility, and a Department of Education school.

Potentilla robbinsiana

The awareness program and repopulation efforts were successful in a large part due to a unique partnership between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Appalachian Mountain Club, the U.S. Forest Service, and the New England Wild Flower Society.

Rattlesnake Mountain Public Access Act

Therefore, public access to the site is currently being evaluated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in compliance with section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.

Resource Ordering Status System

Participating agencies include many state fire suppression organizations such as CAL FIRE, and federal entities such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, National Information Technology Center, and the United States Forest Service.

Rosemont Copper

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service, State Historic Preservation Office, Army Corps of Engineers, and the Forest Service Southwestern Regional Office are still completing their analysis.

Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve

These conservation lands are owned by the Maine Department of Conservation (533 acres), United States Fish and Wildlife Service/Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge (1,428 acres), Town of Wells (249 acres), and Wells Reserve Management Authority (40 acres).


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