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Jones, Kitchen and Nielsen and
Three Service Programs are Honored at Department's 63d Awards
Convocation |
Three Fish and Wildlife Service
employees and three Service programs were honored May 4 for
outstanding contributions to the mission and goals of the Department
of the Interior at the 63d Departmental honor Awards
Convocation.
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Two Fish and Wildlife Service
Executives Receive Top Awards at Interior Department
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Director Marshall Jones and Mamie Parker Assistant Director of
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Deputy Director
Marshall Jones and Assistant Director for Fisheries and Habitat
Conservation Mamie Parker received Executive Leadership Awards from
Acting Interior Secretary Lynn Scarlett.
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New Approach to Fish Habitat
Conservation Launched |
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Secretary Lynn Scarlett and Department of Commerce Secretary
Carlos Gutierrez signed the National Fish Habitat Action Plan,
credit Tami A Heilemann |
Acting Interior
Secretary Lynn Scarlett and Department of Commerce Secretary Carlos
Gutierrez signed the National Fish Habitat Action Plan at a special
ceremony on the Potomac River. This plan will foster new national
and local grassroots-driven partnership efforts to protect, restore
and enhance key watersheds. The Plan is based on a consolidation of
the best scientific expertise on fisheries and habitat management.
To date, the action plan has more than 450 organizational
supporters, from small local watershed groups and fishing clubs to
international conservation organizations, federal agencies, angling
industries and academia.
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Acting Secretary Announces Fish
Passage Projects in 26 States |
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Secretary Lynn Scarlett announced fish passage projects for
2006 at Pennypack Creek, in Pennsylvania. Photo © Trout
Unlimited |
Acting Department of the Interior Secretary Lynn Scarlett
announced April 22 that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a
variety of partners
will spend more than $8 million in 2006 to
remove or bypass barriers to fish passage in 26 states.
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Missouri Youth Wins Federal
Junior Duck Stamp Competition |
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| "Morning Swim," an
acrylic painting by 15 year-old Rebekah Nastav, is this year's
Junior Duck Stamp Contest winner.
| A redhead duck will be
featured on the 2006-2007 Junior Duck Stamp. The design for the new
stamp, painted by 15 year-old Rebekah Nastav of Amoret, Missouri,
was chosen by a panel of judges on April 20 at the Federal Junior
Duck Stamp Design Contest held in Washington, D.C.
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USDA, DOI and HHS Expand
Screening for Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza in Migratory
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| Avian Influenza
testing at Izembek NWR, credit
USFWS |
Secretary of
Agriculture Mike Johanns, Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton
and Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt today
moved to further ensure the protection of people, domestic poultry
and wild birds by unveiling an enhanced national framework for early
detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild migratory
birds in the United States. This readiness plan and system builds
on, significantly expands and unifies ongoing efforts among federal,
state, regional and local wildlife agencies.
USGS
Avian Flu Page
News
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Avian Flu
Strategic Plan
Fact
Sheet I — Preparation
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Sheet II — Screening
Avian
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