History; Wildlife refuges; Water management; Employees (USFWS);
Tom Woods, Manager of the refuge, examining water outlet, which
supplies fresh water for the refuge. Due to the generosity of
Ding Darling, former chief of the former Bureau of Biological
Survey, this water oulet was installed. A moment of quiet
reflection on the northern reaches of the Mississippi River, as
Bureau of Biological Survey chief Ira Gabrielson (1889-1977)
casts a line off a vessel of the Upper Mississippi River
National Wildlife and Fish Refuge during a 1937... Environmental
Defense, a nonprofit organization, was the key in reaching out
to Long and provided funding for biologists to conduct
population surveys for the toad on his property. Long is helping
Environmental Defense and the Service promote... “ Conservation
districts have long advocated that natural resources
conservation must come from voluntary, incentive- based
approaches. For species conservation, it is clear that success
lies in flexible tools and incentives that promo