Endangered Species Bulletin articles from March 2007

Endangered Species Bulletin archives from March 2007

Fisheries and Habitat Conservation: our mission is to provide leadership in sustaining and enhancing fish, wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of the American people and to engage citizens in the shared stewardship of our nation's natural resources.
March 1, 2007... The Fish and Wildlife Service's Fisheries and Habitat Conservation (FHC) Program works in a multitude of ways to recover animals and plants listed under the Endangered Species Act and to restore populations of native species to avoid the need...

Species recovery through Habitat and Resource Conservation.
March 1, 2007... The Division of Habitat and Resource Conservation (HRC) is often the first Fish and Wildlife Service program engaged to prevent the decline of species so that they will not need Endangered Species Act protection. But if a species is listed, HRC...

Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance.(role of Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance Program in the restoration and maintenance of fish and wildlife resources in the United States)
March 1, 2007... The Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance (FWMA) Program plays a vital role in restoring and maintaining the Nation's fish and wildlife resources. It functions like a general practitioner in the medical field; its biologists monitor the...

Partnerships for shared stewardship.(Fish and Wildlife Service)
March 1, 2007... Two of the Fish and Wildlife Service's most popular and effective programs for voluntary, citizen and community-based conservation initiatives are the Partners for Fish and Wildlife and Coastal programs. They are a bridge to owners and managers...

The Environmental Contaminants Program.
March 1, 2007... The Fish and Wildlife Service has been studying the effects of contaminants on fish and wildlife since the agency's earliest days, but the Environmental Contaminants Program did not began to take form until the 1950s, when increasing awareness...

Clearing the water for mussels.(programs intended to improve water quality to save freshwater mussels)
March 1, 2007... In cooperation with our partners, the Fish and Wildlife Service's Environmental Contaminants Program provides the science needed to improve water quality for restoring freshwater mussels--our Nation's largest group of threatened and endangered...

The Lake Apopka agreement.(efforts to study the effects of the bird die-off to avian wildlife and restotration options in Lake Apopka, Florida)
March 1, 2007... From November 1998 through early April 1999, a bird die-off occurred on the north shore of Lake Apopka, Florida. The deaths occurred on former farmlands that had been purchased to reduce nutrient run-off into the lake by the St. Johns River...

Developing barriers to biological invasions.(programs intended to control unplanned introduction of non-native species)
March 1, 2007... The pathways used by non-native species are not always obvious. Many problematic species, diseases, and parasites have been transferred to new locations as undetected (and unplanned) hitchhikers. As many as 80 percent of endangered species may...

Alaskans are "pulling together".(program aimed to save the silver salmon by preventing purple loosestrife plant invasion)
March 1, 2007... When we hear about "invaders," we often imagine the danger these interlopers pose is obvious and immediate. However, newly introduced species may not become invasive for decades after they arrive. In 1993, biologist W.R. Courtenay warned that...

NFHS responds to an emerging conservation challenge.(National Fish Hatchery System's response to the implications of the fish disease called Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia)
March 1, 2007... A fish disease known as Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) is an emerging issue with important implications for people, commerce, recreation, and conservation. As is frequently the case, the National Fish Hatchery System's (NFHS) aquatic animal...