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Newest National Wildlife Refuge Starts in NY’s Hudson Valley

January 20, 2017 — cfergus

By Allison Dunne, WAMC/Northeast Public Radio

Federal, state and local officials gathered Wednesday in Dutchess County to mark the establishment of the nation’s newest wildlife refuge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s first land acquisition for the six-state refuge is a 144-acre preserve donated by The Nature Conservancy.

Great Thicket Wildlife Refuge Gets Its Start in New York

January 19, 2017 — cfergus

Dover, NY – Federal, state and local officials gathered today in Dover, New York, to mark the establishment of the Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s first land acquisition for the six-state refuge, the 144-acre Nellie Hill Preserve donated by The Nature Conservancy.

More Quail, Pheasant Habitat Coming to Iowa

January 18, 2017 — cfergus

By Ron Swoboda for Wallace’s Farmer

John Whitaker, USDA Farm Service Agency state executive director, announced January 3 the addition of 115,000 acres that can be enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in Iowa for critical wildlife and water quality efforts. This is in addition to the 5,423 acres of CRP Grasslands announced in December.

Young Forest on the Way in Indiana

January 06, 2017 — cfergus

Terra Haute Tribune Star

A new forest wildlife habitat program will distribute almost $1 million in federal funding to private landowners in southern Indiana for the development of young forests.

Mineland to Young Forest in PA

January 05, 2017 — cfergus

From Pennsylvania Game News

HUNTINGTON COUNTY – Even 20 acres of rejuvenated young forest can help local wildlife in a big way. That's the goal behind restoring an old strip-mined area on State Game Lands 121, managed by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in southcentral Pennsylvania.

Winter Ticks a Threat to Vermont Moose

January 02, 2017 — cfergus

By Lawrence Pyne for the Burlington Free Press

A tiny blood-sucking parasite is proving to be a big threat to moose, but just how big a bite winter ticks are having in Vermont no one really knows. That’s something state wildlife officials hope to change starting this winter, when Vermont will join a “capture-and-collar” moose mortality study that New Hampshire and Maine began in 2014.

Audubon Report Finds CT Birds Need Humans’ Help

December 27, 2016 — cfergus

By Angela Carella, Stamford Advocate

STAMFORD — Winter officially started last week, when people tend to take pity on birds and set up feeders to help them survive the biting cold.

Birds in the state could use an abundance of human compassion.

USFWS to Quadruple Size of Silvio Conte Wildlife Refuge

December 26, 2016 — cfergus

By Mike Polhamus, Vermont Digger

A national wildlife refuge with around 26,000 acres in northern Vermont’s Essex County could expand dramatically over the coming decades, according to a long-range plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now in its final stages.

Rutgers Student's Crowd-Source Campaign to Fund Woodcock Research

December 21, 2016 — cfergus

NEWARK, NJ: What happens when birds breed in old industrial sites? Kathleen Farley, a Ph.D. candidate in biology at Rutgers-Newark, has begun a study of the American woodcock, a shorebird adapted to living in wooded uplands, after finding numbers of these birds breeding on post-industrial sites in New Jersey.

Timbering in OH State Forests Vital to Wildlife, Economy

December 12, 2016 — cfergus

By Mark Jones, from the Cincinnati Enquirer

Regarding “It’s time to stop logging in state’s forests” (letters, Nov. 21): I consider myself an avid environmental activist in addition to being an enthusiastic bird watcher and hunter. Logging Ohio’s state forests is vital for wildlife and the “life enriching benefits” of being outdoors.

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