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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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Wild Mississippi

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In the newest mini-series, Wild Mississippi, viewers will get to see how the Mississippi river can both nurture and destroy. The show covers an entire year along the Mississippi, and shows the many challenges that the wildlife in the area deal with. Fishing With Alligator Snappers. Bobcat Prey.

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The Gas Station Bird

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When the photo was posted on social media, people immediately began making calls – to the local wildlife rehabilitation center, the state falconry club, and the wildlife division of the state wildlife agency. In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine.

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Case Closed: Double-crested Cormorants Have Their Day in Court

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Birds in the 24 states east of the Mississippi River are now protected from mass culls by a recent court ruling. The cormorants have long been targeted by those who fish—or who raise fish on farms—for depleting fish stocks. So the U.S. The ruling also only covers eastern states; it remains to be seen whether the U.S.

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Audubon’s Footsteps

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Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently. The plural of carp, for example, the fish and noun, is not carps but carp — that kind of stuff.) But the main attraction of the book, it must be said, is not Clavreul’s prose but his artistry in watercolor.

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. As a biologist working for the U.S.

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Justified and Ancient

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The five subspecies – Greater, Lesser, Mississippi, Florida, Cuban – show the genetic marks of what the species has had to do to survive. Featured image: a Mississippi Sandhill Crane egg begins to hatch, courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. I’ve never seen a crane dance.