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 [...]
Scientists will be rescuing sea turtle nests and eggs in the Gulf of Mexico to protect them from the BP oil spill. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is calling the plan the “Sea Turtle Late-Term Nest Collection and Hatchling Release Plan”. Eggs, mostly of endangered loggerhead sea turtles, will be taken to Florida [...]
For threatened wildlife in Gulf, it may be too little too late. BP will be liable for billions of dollars of damage to compensate for wildlife killed from the oil spill, according to the article, “Oil spill: How much is a pelican worth?”. “What concerns us most is the animals we can’t see,” Rowan Gould, acting [...]
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 [...]
A reward is being offered in a bald eagle shooting. Michigan natural resources officials are looking for help to solve the fatal shooting of a mature bald eagle in Otsego County in northeast lower Michigan, according to the article “Reward offered in bald eagle shooting“ in the Traverse City Record Eagle. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources [...]
