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National Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife Management

For millennia, America's wildlife thrived in natural surroundings stretching across millions of acres. Areas that in recent times have been reduced to a fraction of their original size—but are still crucial to the survival of wild species—require active, consistent, research-based management. The National Wildlife Refuge System oversees the world's most comprehensive wildlife management programs, combining biological research and monitoring with strategic habitat management. In Alaska for example, brown bears are fitted with global positioning system collars to track their movement. The FWS builds secure floating nests on the California coast to attract and protect rare light-footed clapper rails during breeding and nesting season. Periodic burning, grazing, or harvesting of grasslands stimulates plant growth providing food and cover for elk, endangered Attwater prairie chickens, and waterfowl alike.

Sometimes the best management system is making sure nothing is done at all. Within the National Wildlife Refuge System, 21 million acres of wilderness—an area larger than the states of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and New Jersey combined—allow species as diverse as Florida panthers and barren-ground caribou to survive in undisturbed surroundings.


The above interim text is taken from: http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/
boundaries/a_nwrs.html


 

Introducing the Wildlife Management section of our website

This educational section of the website will contain annotated collections of photos and short articles that illustrate the work by staff and volunteers in the wildlife management work on the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge. Additional features will be added over the year, but we begin with the work of wood duck banding that you can link to below.

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Wood Duck

Wood Duck Banding Slide Show


 

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