US Fish And Wildlife Service

US Fish and Wildlife Service in the United States

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Introduction to US Fish and Wildlife Service

United States Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior charged with the protection and restoration of migratory and endangered species of wildlife. A Bureau of Fisheries was created in 1871; a second agency, the Bureau of Biological Survey, was established in 1885. The two were consolidated (1940) into the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the role of the agency was expanded to include a large number of conservation, propagation, and regulatory activities.

The service oversees more than 500 national wildlife refuges and 150 waterfowl production areas that provide about 37.6 million hectares (about 93 million acres) of land for wildlife. It operates 70 fish hatcheries, 36 cooperative research units at universities, and several research laboratories. At the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center near Laurel, Maryland, small numbers of whooping crane, California condor, black-footed ferret, and other highly endangered species are kept for study, for restocking, and as a guard against the possibility of extinction. The center’s computerized bird-banding section compiles migration patterns and causes of bird mortality for the North American continent. This information, in combination with annual surveys by U.S. and Canadian biologists of the northern prairie waterfowl nesting grounds, is used to set duck-and goose-hunting regulations in U.S. treaties with Canada and Mexico to ensure protection of migratory waterfowl from their northern breeding grounds to their southern wintering areas.

The service distributes to state agencies funds from sporting-goods taxes for use in wildlife management and hunter safety education. Its law enforcement activities protect migratory birds, eagles, and marine mammals. The agency endeavors to restore to their native habitats all species threatened with extinction. It also supervises education and recreation programs and monitors the environment.” (1)

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Guide to US Fish and Wildlife Service

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