scholarly journals Accuracy of aging ducks in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Parts Collection Survey

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron T. Pearse ◽  
Douglas H. Johnson ◽  
Kenneth D. Richkus ◽  
Frank C. Rohwer ◽  
Robert R. Cox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
The U.S

THE PORT BOLIVAR, TEXAS OIL SPILL—A CASE HISTORY OF OILED BIRD SURVIVAL1

1983 ◽  
Vol 1983 (1) ◽  
pp. 521-523
Author(s):  
Allan J. Mueller ◽  
Carlos H. Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rate ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Aythya Affinis ◽  
Lesser Scaup ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Local Use ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT On March 9, 1982 oil from an unknown offshore source began to wash ashore near Port Bolivar, Texas. Beach cleanup was coordinated between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, and local authorities. Oiled sand was removed from the beach and stockpiled for local use in road construction. Oiled lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) appeared on the beach almost as soon as the oil did. The Fish and Wildlife Service coordinated volunteer efforts at capturing and cleaning the scaup. A total of 37 birds were captured, with 19 brids being taken in one night outing. Oiled bird cleaning began on March 10 and was completed on March 12. Procedures followed those described by Williams.3 Five scaup were washed three times, 31 washed twice, and one washed once. Thirty-five scaup were released on March 15 and two on April 27. No birds died during cleaning and the survival rate of the released birds is estimated to be 89 to 97 percent. Three factors were responsible for this successful oiled bird cleanup: advance preparation in the stockpiling of supplies and the training of volunteers; the availability of an adequate cleanup station; and the cooperation of volunteers and government agencies.

Conserving Conservation: Field Notes from an Animal Archive

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Madison
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Training Center ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The U.S

In 1997 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) opened a museum, archive, and history office at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. FWS staff have tried simultaneously to chronicle the history of the agency in an education program and a new archive/museum. Working with artifacts from the history of wildlife biology has reinforced the connections between conserving creatures and conserving history. Both the history of the FWS and the value in sharing this history are slowly coming into focus.

Invasive Asian Carps in North America

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Grass Carp ◽  
Silver Carp ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Bighead Carp ◽  
Commercial Fish ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Asian Carps ◽  
The U.S

<em>Abstract</em>.—Numerous natural resource agency and media reports have alleged that Asian carps were introduced into the wild through escapes from commercial fish farms. This chapter traces the chronology associated with importations of Asian carps to North America and discusses the likeliest pathways of their introduction to the wild. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first imported an Asian carp species, grass carp <em>Ctenopharyngodon idella</em>, in 1963. Since then, state and federal agencies, universities, and private fish farmers have interacted to import Asian carps, to develop production technologies, and to promote their use in both public and private sectors in a number of different states. These importations and stocking, whether in confinement or, in the case of the grass carp, sometimes in open waters, were purposeful and legal. Asian carps were introduced to take advantage of their unique food preferences (planktivory by silver carp <em>Hypophthalmichthys molitrix </em>and bighead carp <em>H. nobilis</em>, herbivory by grass carp, and molluscivory by black carp <em>Mylopharyngodon piceus</em>). The first known accidental release of diploid grass carp was in 1966 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Stuttgart, Arkansas. Other early reports of grass carp in the wild were from waters in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Grass carp were reported from the wild in 1970, 2 years before the first private hatchery received grass carp. By 1972, grass carp had been stocked in open water systems in 16 different states. Silver carp and bighead carp were first imported purposely by a commercial fish producer in Arkansas in 1973. All silver and bighead carps were transferred to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission by March 1974 where they first successfully spawned silver carp and bighead carp later that year. The first report of silver carp in the wild was in Arizona in 1972, although strong evidence suggests that this may have been a misidentification, followed by reports in Arkansas in the wild in 1975. The Arkansas report occurred 2 years before bighead carp and silver carp were returned to private hatcheries for commercial production. By 1977, silver carp and bighead carp had been introduced to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, and Tennessee. Research and stockings of silver carp and bighead carp were conducted by at least six state and federal agencies and three universities in seven states in the 1970s and 1980s. Public-sector agencies, which were successful in encouraging development and use of Asian carps that today are in commercial trade, are the likeliest pathways for the earliest escapes of grass carp, silver carp, and bighead carp.

scholarly journals The Orang-Utan in North Borneo

Oryx ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Stott ◽  
C. Jackson Selsor
Keyword(s):  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Pongo Pygmaeus ◽  
Suitable Habitat ◽  
The North ◽  
North Borneo ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Orang Utan

In October, 1959, Karl W. Kenyon, Research Biologist of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the writers, spent three weeks in North Borneo observing wild primates. During this brief period, we questioned both European and native residents of the Colony on the relative abundance of orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in various sectors, and we carefully recorded such indications as we ourselves noted. Although our own encounters with wild orang-utans were limited, we saw numerous nests, many of recent construction. The results of our inquiries and observations were encouraging enough for us to conclude that the orang in North Borneo is, for the present, in no danger of extinction and that it survives in moderate numbers wherever suitable habitat exists. This in itself should offer sufficient inducement to afford every possible sort of protection to the North Bornean survivors of a species that, elsewhere within its comparatively limited range, is becoming scarce or has already disappeared altogether.

scholarly journals Predator Control and Predator-Prey Relationships

Oryx ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-143
Author(s):  
Ira N. Gabrielson
Keyword(s):  
Predator Control ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
Growing Mass ◽  
The U.S

In the last twenty years, many careful studies of predation and predator-prey relationships have been carried on by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, by various state conservation departments, and by private individuals and universities. Many of these studies have been carefully planned to work with as many factors as possible under control. In many of them, control areas were established for comparative purposes. As a result, there is a growing mass of information on predation based on something more than opinion or conclusions drawn from isolated observations.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Response Activities Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

1991 ◽  
Vol 1991 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-245
Author(s):  
Jill Parker
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Bald Eagle ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Exxon Valdez ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
Nesting Sites ◽  
Response Team ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT In nonfederalized oil spill responses (in which the spillers assume responsibility), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior is responsible for advising the Regional Response Team and the federal on-scene coordinator on the protection of fish and wildlife resources, overseeing the rehabilitation of wildlife resources, and assessing the extent of environmental damage. The Exxon Valdez spill, in March 1989, required a major effort by the service, due to the amount of oil spilled, the large area affected, the environmental sensitivity of the area and its wildlife, and the spill's impacts on National Wildlife Refuge lands. The service's response began within 24 hours of the spill, and continued until fall 1990. Wildlife surveys were conducted by aircraft and boat throughout the spring and summer of 1989, and in the summer of 1990. Live oiled birds and sea otters were rescued and, when possible, rehabilitated and relocated; dead ones were collected for study, and to protect scavengers from ingesting oil. Service personnel also monitored shoreline cleanup efforts in bald eagle nesting sites. Further response work is anticipated in the 1991 season. The Service is updating its National and Regional Oil Spill Contingency Plans to take account of the lessons learned in this major response.

scholarly journals Assessing environmental contaminant threats to lands and biota managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Coyle ◽  
Craig Moore ◽  
R. Sky Bristol ◽  
Mary G. Henry ◽  
Tim Hall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Contaminant ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
The U.S
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