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Thirty-five
thousand acres of wetland and tallgrass prairie habitat
in Minnesota has become the
nation’s
newest National Wildlife Refuge as a result of action taken
today by Interior Secretary Gale Norton and U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service Director Steve Williams, moving forward
the largest tallgrass prairie and wetland restoration project
in history. The new Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge,
located near Crookston, in northwest Minnesota’s Polk
County, will become a major waterfowl breeding and nesting
area.
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Gray
wolves in the eastern United States have recovered to the
point where they can be proposed for removal from the list
of threatened and endangered species.
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Wolves
Service
Releases Final Recovery Plan for Higgins Eye Pearlymussel,
a freshwater mussel found in the Upper Mississippi River
and its major tributaries.
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the revised Recovery Plan
Service Seeks Public Input on Draft Environmental Assessment
for Implementing Chronic Wasting Disease Management Plan
at Leopold Wetland Management District
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Three
Midwestern mussels are included in the latest list of
candidates for Federally Endangered and Threatened status.
They include
the sheepnose, rayed bean and spectaclecase.
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The
North American Wetlands Conservation Council in March approved
nearly $500,000 in funding for small grants to fund 13
wetland restoration projects in the Midwest, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service announced. Small grants are awarded
once a year, with a maximum of $2 million available each
year for the program nationwide. Small grants may receive
funding up to $50,000 dollars, and a 1:1 non-federal match
by partners is required.
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The
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service will provide $21 million—or
50 percent of this year’s Migratory Bird Conservation
Fund—to waterfowl production area program within
the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture to support wetland and
grassland acquisition in the Prairie Pothole Region, a
mosaic of prairie wetlands from Montana through North and
South Dakota into Minnesota and Iowa.
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State
fish and wildlife agencies in the Midwest will share more
than $93 million in excise taxes paid by America's hunters,
anglers and boaters to support fish and wildlife conservation
and education programs.
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