This is good news for kids looking for jobs in this challenging economic environment. Ths U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering summer environmental jobs for kids. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the country’s 553 National Wildlife Refuges, hopes to hire more than 2,000 young people this year, as it did in [...]
The Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama is currently 2,997 acres. I’m a big advocate for land preservation and am very happy to hear that this refuge could expand to eventually more than 200,000 acres - that’s 312 square miles! A proposal (once on page, scroll down) by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would allow [...]
The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is the new home for a dozen birds rescued in Louisiana, victims of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In the article, “Birds rescued from oil released into safety of Merritt Island refuge“, Dorn Whitmore, supervisory park ranger, said, “It was a feel-good moment. We’ve seen the images [...]
I’m excited to learn about the proposed Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Wisconsin and northeast Illinois. I travel around this beautiful area when I visit one of my favorite places, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The proposed Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge will be located between Milwaukee and Chicago. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, if a refuge [...]
