article thumbnail

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

10,000 Birds

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.

Fish 143
article thumbnail

Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

10,000 Birds

I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.

Wildlife 185
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Requiem for a Bat: Mysterious Bat Deaths in the Rockies

10,000 Birds

Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. But that is supposedly still well east of us, having only been detected in Missouri this spring. Leaving it there did not seem like a good option. Animal Control was on the way.

Bats 135
article thumbnail

The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

10,000 Birds

Shouldn’t I be much more worried about people in a catastrophe the size of the F5 that hit Joplin, Missouri? Kelly Preheim was talking about the large numbers of Snowy Owls on the nearby National Wildlife Refuge. They did the right thing. In fact, Eagle Optics did more than they initially suggested they would.

article thumbnail

On Ducks and Geese

Animal Person

Reading Deb's post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny 's request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese of Ballwin, Missouri from mass extermination reminded me how much I miss the wildlife at the neighborhood we lived in from 2002-early 2005. Not to be confused with Little Girl, of course. And a dead end.

Geese 100
article thumbnail

Why Did the Prairie Chicken Cross the State?

10,000 Birds

112 got, this radio transmitter nevertheless tells scientists at the Missouri Department of Conservation where this Greater Prairie Chicken is. . That could, in turn bolster efforts to boost population numbers in places like Missouri, where Greater Prairie Chickens barely register in the triple digits. This map shows Bird No.

Chickens 194
article thumbnail

Collaborative list – December 2018

10,000 Birds

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Tuttle Marsh Wildlife Area. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

2018 113