Family-Outdoors

The USFWS is wanting to lead by example when building new facilities. In that light, they are proud of the new facility they have built at Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa.  It received the 2016 Federal Energy and Water Management Award. It also has the virtue of being attractive. Relatively commonsense approached were used to achieve the results mentioned, such as conserving water using only native plants that thrive without watering (seems like a no-brainer at a USFWS facility) and solar power with LED lighting. These are but a couple of examples of the approaches and technologies utilized. Read more about this at https://goo.gl/y4Y9xx. The USFWS is trying to encourage endangered species recovery by maximizing use of federal money through Endangered Species Act Grant Program.  This year about $45 million will have been paid out in grants to twenty states.  One example is the states of Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin will receive $1 million under...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to remove the gray wolf (Canis lupus) from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The proposal comes not long after the recovery and delisting of the gray wolf in the western Gray wolf. Credit: Gary Kramer / USFWS Great Lakes states and Northern Rockies as a result of three decades of successful management actions undertaken by federal, state and local partners. However, the Service is also proposing to maintain protection and expand recovery efforts for the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) in the Southwest, where it remains endangered. The proposal includes the Service’s comprehensive review which determined that the current listing for gray wolf, developed 35 years ago, erroneously included large geographical areas outside the species’ historical range. In addition, the review found that the current gray wolf listing does not reasonably represent the range of the only remaining popu...