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Juneau Empire
February 20, 2018
Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks about oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during debates about the GOP tax cut on the floor of the U.S. Senate ... is asking the Alaska Legislature for permission to spend $10 million on seismic surveying in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Chron.com
February 17, 2018
Entergy Texas, Inc., the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and The Conservation Fund have teamed up to plant more than 45,000 trees at Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge, located 45 miles northeast of Houston, as part of a two-year initiative to restore 100 acres of bottomland hardwood forest.
AL.com
February 13, 2018
"We are so fortunate to have partners in conservation such as NFWF, The Conservation Fund, and the State of Alabama," said Jereme Phillips, Refuge Complex Manager with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Without their strong support, this project would have never happened. "Acquiring this propertyÃÂ ...
Today's News-Herald
February 4, 2018
Lake Havasu National Wildlife Refuge will be closed to boaters and visitors next week as the United States Department of Agriculture returns to put the ... its Feral Swine Eradication Plan alongside the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to eliminate feral swine at Lake Havasu National Wildlife Refuge.
WLRN
February 1, 2018
There are 562 national wildlife refuges in the U.S., an average of more than 10 per state. Popular visitor activities are hunting, fishing, wildlife observation, photography, interpretation and environmental education. National wildlife refuges are operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Most nationalÃÂ ...
Meadville Tribune
January 23, 2018
Woodcock Creek Lake and the Sugar Lake Division of the Erie National Wildlife Refuge were both closed. Woodcock Creek Lake, located in Woodcock Township about 7 miles north of Meadville, is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which built the dam that forms the lake in 1973. The ErieÃÂ ...
The Daily Nonpareil
December 31, 1999
Bald eagle numbers at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge typically peak in late winter as they congregate on the refuge before many move north in the spring. To take advantage of ... DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is located along U.S. Highway 30 between Missouri Valley and Blair, Nebraska. For moreÃÂ ...
Kenai Peninsula Online
December 31, 1999
On Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, we do a lot of management but it may not be readily apparent. Here's how resource management has evolved on the refuge over the past eight decades. When the refuge was first established as Kenai National Moose Range in 1941, moose populations were decliningÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 8, 2017
This week marks 57 years since Republican President Dwight Eisenhower first set aside what is now known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ... It was the kind of letter that gives us some hope that the party of Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt, who created our National Wildlife Refuge System, still has ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 8, 2017
The U.S Forest Service and Alaska Division of Forestry started running annual aerial surveys of damage caused by the beetle in the 1970s. ... The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge's response to the natural event is "mostly hands-off," Bowser said, aside from cutting down beetle-killed trees near roads and ...
Natural Resources Defense Council
December 8, 2017
Most Americans, including many congressional Republicans, are strongly opposed to oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. So why is it attached to the tax ... Up until its wee-hours passage last Saturday morning, the tax bill wasn't a sure thing in the U.S. Senate. Republican leaders, still ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
December 8, 2017
The expansion plans have stirred concern and opposition among conservationists, hunters, tribal groups and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages Desert National Wildlife Refuge. Refuge officials fear the loss of more public access and the possible impacts to bighorn sheep, desert tortoises ...
EcoWatch
December 8, 2017
The U.S. Senate has passed a Republican tax-reform package that contains a provision to authorize oil drilling on the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, placing the biological heart of one of our last pristine, untouched places in severe peril. "This vote to deface and pollute one of the nation's last ...
Port Clinton News Herald
December 7, 2017
OAK HARBOR - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking comment from the public on a draft Compatibility Determination to authorize Recreational Fishing at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, Metzger Marsh Unit. Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge is proposing to allow recreational fishing within the ...
CBC.ca
December 5, 2017
The tax bill approved by the U.S. Senate will open part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, something Alaska's lawmakers have tried to do for decades. The state's two senators were also able to get other perks for Alaska into the bill passed early Saturday. The measure included a tax ...
Smyrna Clayton Sun Times
November 30, 2017
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Zone Fire Staff, local fire departments and the Delaware Forest Service, will begin a landscape burning program at the refuge. This year's plan includes a total of nearly 600 acres of successional fields and ...
Hatch Magazine
November 30, 2017
While some of us become sportsmen seemingly by chance, the rest of us, and I include myself in this group, have no choice in the matter. It's who .... Of course, lesser guides probably wouldn't be working at the top of the world, floating ice-fed rivers through the wilds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
9NEWS.com
November 30, 2017
It stands for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which has been a 20 million acre, protected area since 1960. The issue of whether to allow drilling there has been hotly debated since the 1970's. It's part of the reason three people from Boulder and Estes Park got involved in a project there over the summer.
Politico
November 29, 2017
“I do think that putting ANWR in the budget reconciliation package hasn't drawn as much extremist opposition because it is completely overshadowed by tax reform, which is the center of the package,” said Chris Guith, senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Energy Institute.
Asbury Park Press
November 29, 2017
STAFFORD - A 42-year-old case involving two missing youths from a state school led FBI agents to search a remote part of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge Tuesday. FBI officials would not comment on what they termed an "investigative activity" off Mayetta Landing Road near the Barnegat ...
InsideClimate News
November 15, 2017
Lisa Murkowski's bill to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain is linked to the Senate Republican tax plan and could be approved .... They noted that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had described the coastal plain as containing the greatest wildlife diversity of any protected area ...
Center For American Progress
November 13, 2017
Flckr/Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceA muskox is seen in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ... A recently released Center for American Progress column, “Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 101,” summarizes the United States' more than 50-year history of protecting a place that is so remote, wild, ...
The Providence Journal
November 13, 2017
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service partnered with the non-profit The ... at the Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge around 9:30 Sunday morning, ...
Juneau Empire
November 13, 2017
This aerial photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska.
Kenai Peninsula Online
November 12, 2017
This aerial photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of ... Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling would generate $2 ... the most pristine areas of the United States and is home to polar bears, ...
RT
November 10, 2017
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been a source of conflict ... Bloomberg also disputes Murkowski's figure, reporting the US is ...
EcoWatch
November 8, 2017
... that "[f]racking is proof that God's got a good sense of humor and he loves us. ... Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, though his interest in Arctic drilling may ... habitat, including endangered species and several national wildlife refuges.
AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
November 8, 2017
... United States according to the Service's National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and ... Savannah National Wildlife Refuge: Expand migratory game bird hunting, ... National wildlife refuges provide vital habitat for thousands of ...
Orlando Sentinel
November 8, 2017
A bull caribou in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ... Buried within the U.S. House and Senate budget resolutions is a provision that would ...
The Parsons Advocate
November 7, 2017
On Friday, November 17, from 6 pm to 8 pm, Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge will hold an open house at the refuge visitor center ...
ABC2 News
November 6, 2017
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the largest refuges in the United States; it's about the size of South Carolina. Forty percent of its ...
PRI
November 5, 2017
Budget resolutions passed in the US House and Senate will likely lead to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's pristine coastal plain, ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 2, 2017
... out against the U.S. proposal to open a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, citing the feared impact on a caribou herd that migrates across the shared border. Canada's opposition, expressed by its embassy in an email to Roll Call, puts the United States' neighbor on the ...
InsideClimate News
October 20, 2017
Budget bills in both the U.S. House and Senate target a coastal section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in northern Alaska, for oil and gas drilling. ... development to one of the United States' last truly untouched areas.
Los Angeles Times
October 18, 2017
Today, U.S. oil production is nearing a record 10 million barrels a day, imports ... The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was established in Alaska's ... of a fossil fuel sector that is steadily losing market demand in the United States ...
Grist
October 16, 2017
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a 2018 budget resolution this week. ... Refuge in northeastern Alaska is the largest wildlife refuge in the United States.
Center For American Progress
October 10, 2017
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/APA herd of caribou roams the Arctic National ... Today, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is facing its largest ...
Seattle Times
December 31, 1999
Maria Cantwell vows to prevent opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling — a time-sensitive battle as Alaska Sen. .... looking back on meetings and markups like this and they are really going to be shaking their heads and asking what world was the United States Senate living in?,” lectured Sen.
The Olympian
December 31, 1999
U.S. Sen, Maria Cantwell is trying to block legislation that would make petroleum production a purpose of a 1.5-million-acre section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This area, part of the broader 19.6-million-acre refuge, is prized by Alaska's oil industry as prime for a major discovery. It also is ...
Savannah Morning News
September 15, 2017
... to the Theodore Roosevelt, the largest ship ever to call on the U.S. East ... Savannah National Wildlife Refuge from saltwater intrusion,” WickeÃÂ ...
Hub City Times
September 15, 2017
... revenues, and 300 national wildlife refuges have been created or expanded. ... Like I said, every hunter of migratory waterfowl in the U.S. is required ... The Horicon Marsh, Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, and the UpperÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
September 15, 2017
... in 2011 at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in Central New Mexico. ... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently killed an endangeredÃÂ ...
Cape Coral Daily Breeze
September 15, 2017
... Ding Darling, the National Wildlife Refuge week and awareness of what refuges are," J.N. ... Their blood helps us survive for blood thinners.".
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 15, 2017
Records from the U.S. side of the International Boundary and Water ... the United States and tracks trans-boundary spills — show another ... Imperial Beach, which stretches past the Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge toÃÂ ...
Kenai Peninsula Online
September 15, 2017
(Graphic courtesy Kenai National Wildlife Refuge) ... Currently, this exotic species is still expanding its range in the western U.S. and Canada.
International Falls Journal
September 15, 2017
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced a new report by the U.S. ... access to public lands across the United States,” said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. ... banned lead ammo and tackle on National Wildlife Refuge lands, ... of hunting and fishing opportunities at 10 national wildlife refuges,ÃÂ ...
MTPR
September 15, 2017
[clockwise from left] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services biologist Randy ... Bend National Wildlife Refuge to save North America's most endangeredÃÂ ...
Virginian-Pilot
September 15, 2017
... on flowers out in the marsh at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. ... but after going through her ID guide, she told us that she was pretty sureÃÂ ...
Hampshire Review
September 14, 2017
Youth crew work at Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge ... in the National Wildlife Refuge System, which is under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ... complex in West Virginia, and one of the highest in the United States.
The Scotsman
August 30, 2017
Former Us Interior Secretary Cecil D Andrus has died at the age of 85. ... forests and refuge areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
