The National Wildlife Refuge Association seeks a full-time Regional Partnership Specialist to work in South Florida in collaboration with Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge’s Urban Program.
National Wildlife Refuge Association Supports House Reconciliation Language That Would Reverse Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling Program
The Natural Resources Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives passed their portion of the budget reconciliation package that is being drafted in both chambers of Congress. The committee’s bill included a repeal of the oil and gas leasing program on the Arctic National WIldlife Refuge in Alaska and a buy-back of the existing leases. This language will now be included in the full reconciliation bill and voted on by the full House of Representatives.
National Wildlife Refuge Association Announces Staffing Updates
"Red Wolves' Last Stronghold" Released
A Generation Of Seabirds Was Wiped Out By A Drone In Southern California. Scientists Fear Endangered Birds Could Be Next
A few miles from the border of Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge, which is home to several species of critically endangered birds, an unauthorized drone crashed into another part of the coastal marsh and provoked thousands of nesting Elegant terns to abandon more than 1,000 eggs, none of which are viable.
Naturalist Phillip Pollock, Celebrates National Award with St. Marks Friends Group
Pronghorn Appreciate Fencing Project At Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Oil Lease Sales Halted For Now In Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The Biden Administration announced the suspension of oil drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Trump Administration finalized these leases on January 19, 2021, the day before inauguration. The National Wildlife Refuge Association is thrilled with this decision: the Arctic Refuge is one of the largest tracts of untouched wilderness and most ecologically diverse areas in the United States and should not be destroyed in exchange for the pittance received from the January lease sale.
Proposed Baltimore-D.C. maglev bad for region’s natural resources
The proposed Super-Conducting Magnetic Levitation railway is a very bad idea for all of our natural resources. Instead of handing over the last remaining federally conserved land between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore to a private corporation, we should be focusing on restoring and building on our natural areas, which provide wildlife habitat, clean water and lands for hiking, hunting and wildlife watching.
Shaaron Netherton and Jose Witt Named Advocates of the Year by the National Wildlife Refuge Association
The National Wildlife Refuge Association announced that Shaaron Netherton, Jose Witt and the Friends of Nevada Wilderness are the 2021 National Wildlife Refuge System Advocates of the Year. They are being honored for their efforts to develop support for protecting the Desert National Wildlife Refuge (DNWR) in Nevada. Mr. Witt and Ms. Netherton worked tirelessly to engage and inspire a diversity of people and organizations to support the Refuge, which generated 32,000 public comments that were submitted to the Air Force, opposing the expansion of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), which encompasses over 2.9 million acres of federal land that has been withdrawn from public use and reserved for military use by the U.S. Air Force.